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an auxiliary room, since we had sold
out the 500 tickets we could have in
Staff Writer
the main room," said Sheldon
Mandelbaum, a member of Agudas
n Sept. 28, 600 men, women
Yisroel-Mogen Abraham, the local
and children gathered at
sponsoring synagogue. "It's the first
Southfield's Radisson Plaza
time that we had the satellite hook-up
Hotel to celebrate the 10th
here in Detroit."
Siyum HaShas of Daf Yomi.
The Daf Yomi program
They were part of an esti-
The A uxillary
was
started in 1923 by Rabbi
mated 70,000 around North
Room at the
Meir
Shapiro of Lublin,
America who gathered to cele-
Rad isson.
Poland, at the First
brate. The Detroiters watched
International Congress of
the proceedings, via satellite
Agudath Israel in Vienna, Austria. It
hookup, at New York's Madison
was designed so that the study of the
Square Garden and the Nassau
Talmud would be uniform among
County Coliseum, where some
Jews worldwide.
40,000 Jews celebrated the comple-
During the musical interlude that
tion of the reading of the Talmud.
took place, the audience at Madison
There were 36 satellite hook-up
Square Garden started dancing. The I\
venues worldwide.
dancing carried over to other cities,
The Daf Yomi is a study program
including Detroit.
of the Talmud where the participants
Most of the event consisted of
study one page per day. Sunday's pro-
speeches from rabbis from around
gram was the culmination of the
country. Rabbi Avrohom Pam, one of
study that has lasted 2,711 days, or
the heads of yeshiva in Philadelphia,
seven-and-a-half years.
read the last page.
"On Thursday, we needed to open

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