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Nearly 100,000 attendees are expected to arrive at MetLife stadium on Wednesday for the highly anticipated Siyum HaShas event.
As Jews around the world celebrate the momentous Siyum HaShas, VIN News will be broadcasting regular updates to our readers. Due to the frequency of updates, the most convenient way to follow the event will be through our WhatsApp groups.
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The celebration marks the completion of the daily reading and study of one page of Talmud from the 2,711 set. The cycle takes about seven and a half years to finish.
“The New Jersey State Police along with our local, state, and federal law enforcement partners will be on hand to ensure a safe and secure environment for all attendees, workers, and responders for the duration of the event,” said state police spokesman Sgt. Lawrence Peele.
“Our staff and the New Jersey State Police are going to great lengths to ensure everyone’s safety,” said Agudath Israel of America spokeswoman Shira Davidovits. “Security has been a top priority.”
The Siyum will of course be an unrivaled experience of kavod hatorah and inspiration. An anticipated 300,000+ participants will participate across dozens of cities and countries around the world. It will once again be historic.
As hard as it is to fathom, The Siyum will be so much more than just an event. The Siyum, per the directive of the Gedolei Yisroel is and will continue to be about a resurgence of Ki Heim Chayeinu – Torah’s primacy in our daily lives.
With around 93,000 seats at MetLife, the additional 19,000 seats at Barclays will bring the number of participants to an unprecedented 111,000 Jews gathering at the same moment in New York to celebrate the finishing of the Talmud.
The live attendance pales in comparison to the many hundreds of thousands of global viewers who are participating via live stream.
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Beautiful Event! Kiddush hashem!
Thank you VIN for the live coverage. Tizku lemitzvos.
Saw an airline jet fly over the stadium a few minutes ago. Very surprising, with all the security, that there wouldn’t be a no fly zone near/over MetLife stadium.
Jack this isn’t the white house, this is just a group of cult members gathering for a cool aid drinking ceremony. Lol
An Absolute Stunner! I can’t believe I didn’t have the שׂכל to be there live.
This was an amazing event. That almost 100,000 turned out lekavod ha Torah is a Kiddush Hashem of enormous proportions.
A few things stuck out to me:
(1) The behavior of the crowd was exemplary. Usually the stadium is very rowdy when full. No doubt helped by copious drinking. (There were many closed beer stands that operate when the stadium is in use, but all closed today.) Everyone here was well behaved, polite and acted the way God fearing Jews should act.
(2) During the silent shemoneh esreh of Mincha, the stadium was absolutely silent. You could hear a pin drop. I don’t think you could get 95,000 people together for a different event and have complete silence for five minutes.
(3) When 95,000 people answered Amend Yehei Shmei Rabbah to Kaddish and Kadosh Kadosh Kadosh in kedusha, that was awe-inspiring.
On my way back now, sitting on the bus back to Port Authority. Was a very nice gathering and Siyum. It was quite cold though. Mazel tov to all the misaymim.
I spotted a few Lubavitchers putting on tefillin with yidden at the siyum that didn’t
I was disappointed to not see women and families in most of the videos and photos. It paints the frum community in a poor light, with just men, like a gay convention.