simplesense

Gadolhadorah I presume and hope you were speaking about girls, because had you meant boys as well, every word of yours would be contrary to Shulchan Aruch Siman Alef of Even Haezer

Either way the mods should hurry up with their work. By the time they post the comments the article is long old news and no one reads it anymore.

Simple. Chassidim don’t feel Agudah represents them and they didn’t feel the Siyum was meant for them. I know many Chasidish people that finished Shas and did not attend Metlife. Kal Vechoimer for those that did not finish Shas. How many Lakewood people would attend a siyum made by the OU? Therefore when offered with a nice alternative they grabbed it. Even Belz, which is officially fully part of the Agudah, did not feel the Siyum was meant for them.
And proof of this, is by looking at the difference between Metlife’s program and Dirshu’s. Without going into any specifics, it’s obvious that Metlife wasn’t catered for the Chasidish crowd, while Dirshu was. Meir G says that isn’t true since the speakers were majority Litvish by Dirshu. However Chasidim have absolutely no problem with Litvish speakers, while the Metlife was a step further. And I don’t mean problem in the literal sense, only regarding whether it catered to them or not. That’s all besides the point that there was no mainstream Chasidish speech at Metlife. R’ Aharon Shiff was bought in as the Rav of Antwerp and Noviminsker Rebbbe isn’t mainstream. Again, not that Chas Veshalom anyone has a problem with any of the speakers, they just felt “Men maint nisht mich.”
It became similar to Israel where there is a separate siyum for the Chassidim and a separate one for the Litvak’s.

I don’t think it has anything to do with the fact that more Chasidim do Dirshu, if it’s even true…

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Very well put BMG. However your name sort of gives away your biases on the matter 🙂 (not that I disagree with your point chv”sh)

I’m not on vacation, just “awaiting moderation”. The interesting part is that the Coffee room is active. Different mods?

Yup

Apparently they wanted to do it early but pushed it off due to pressure from Agudah. Anyway it sure makes more sense to do it a few weeks later then a few days earlier, before anyone actually finished! They were all dancing that they finished, then went back to learning Nidah…

“Definitely promoting the private boxes and the special level of access you get if you pay excessive amounts for seats is a turn-off as well.”
Turns you off? You’r a Socialist? Wake up and smell the roses. THAT’S LIFE!