Recap: Speeches At the Siyum Hashas

MetLife siyum recap:

Rabbi  Chaim Dovid Zweibel: Our only hope during this turbulent time is to hold onto the Daf hasefina the Blatt Gemara he than gave over a message from R' Shlomo Yehuda Rechnitz:
 You don't have to give money to be a tomech Torah the mere fact that you are sitting here braving the cold rejoicing with the masaymei hashas is hachzokas hatorah he said   the gematria תומכיה is סיום הש''ס both equal to 481.


Harav Malkiel Kotler: Spoke in English  Klal Yisrael learned shas all of us were enriched by this shas even though not all of us finished it. When a yid learns a masechta the Torah is written on his neshama how much greater is this simcha when so many people finished shas. Torah is blossoming and growing all over the world so many talmidei chachomim that are learning torah mitoch hadechak, We are expressing a simcha that torah is our life this gathering is a tremendous kavod hatorah we should see the continuation of torah in yeshivos, kollelim, lomdei daf yomi and share in the simchas HaTorah.

R' Leibish Lish: A round of applause to Shimon Yehuda Brodsky 10 year old child from Yeshiva Bais Hatorah in Lakewood who was undergoing surgeries and treatments but never gave up on learning maseches Brachos not skipping a day he made a siyum on the entire maseches Brachos.

Novominsk Rebbe: Klal Yisrael is alive despite all the persecution through the ages even now in America we are reminded that anti semitisim is on the rise. The secret of our survival is the Torah Hakedosha. The mesaymim are joined by the tallmidei hayeshivos and chavrei Hakolelim, those who cant keep up with daf yomi but are kovea itim all came to give an expression to hHashem we rejoice with your torah and mitzvos forever.
 The rebbe than spoke directly to the Israeli government leadership. You too were meant to be part of the am hatorah but you must remember that Yerushalayim was  not meant to be NY or Paris or Hong kong, it is the residence of the shechiana hakedosha do not violate the comfort of the shechina. See that you care for EY as HKBH cares for it by allowing its neshama to flourish. Come back to the bais medrash of our day understand the meaning of this great mitzva, consider the support of yeshivos and kollelim as a zechus.

Rav Yissochor Frand: The Brisker Rav said the time of a siyum of one masechta is an es Ratzon can we begin to fathom what a siyum hashas is of thousands of yissin finishing shas. The emotions we should feel is to have a sense of gratitude how far weve come in the last 75 years since churban europe to part of this vast olam haTorah that should lead us to a sense of gratitude to hkbh who built the olam hatorah. The nazis ym''s  had a hatred for the talmud they gave frum Jews the title of Talmud Lerers and decreed no exit visas should be accepted they proclaimed the lerners and teachers of the talmud have the power to  rebuild judaism in America. They  were 100% correct and  YOU are those talmud  lehrers and Talmudishe yidden. Finishing shas begins with 1 blatt The Torah has kept us all these years, לולי תורתך שעשועי

Rav Nosson Sherman Learned the last mishna in shas with masmidei hasiyum  Held a small Barrel and Said a mashal from the Vilna Gaon a Barrel that has a hole will lose everything לא מצא הקדוש ברוך הוא כלי מחזיק ברכה לישראל אלא השלום the barrel is all the tens of thousands of yidden gathered,

Rav Aaron Shiff: Spoke in Yiddish
 Daf Hayomi symbolizes the unity of klal yisrael with the torah, Rav Meir shapiro forsaw what the gemara in the end of Sotah says that the torah will keep us through the ages and bikvasa demeshicha.  said a story of Reb Dovid Weiss a who suffers from ALS was approached by his doctor from Colombia hospital a secular Jew who said i have everything in life, successful family, money homes anything I want but have no happiness and  feel an emptiness  yet you are like a dead person you can't live  much yet everyday you have a happiness  how do you have such happiness,  he said i don't have wealth or health but i have the daf yomi that gives me life and happiness if you didnt taste it you cant understand it. How happy should we be after all these blatt gemara this is true simchas hachaim  We all gather together on their festival when the omos haolam  celebrate by wasting time, we are here giving kavod hatorah to thousands of Yidden who are finishing shas this keeps us as a nation.

Rav Chaim Kanievsky: A Live siyum hashas transmitted from the home of Harav Chaim Kanievsky shlita. The moetzes psak is not to answer amen to the Kadish recited by Rav Chaim since the transmission is delayed, Rav Chaim gave a Bracha to all those finishing shas they should be zoche to understand it.
Rav Reuven Finstein shlita read a letter from Rav Chaim Kanievsky how chasuv it is when Balei batim who are kovea itim finish masectas and shas this is a great simcha in shamayim. He continued with his own personal bracha that everyone should keep trying to reach an understanding of kol haTorah kulah,
Rabbi Shlomo Farhi pays tribute to R' Mendy Rosenberg an ALS patient who can only communicate with his eyes and finishes the daf daily 7 and a half years ago he waas at the 12th siyum and today he has finished shas,

Harav Shmuel Kamenetzky: Thanked HaRav Dovid Feinstein for giving him the opportunity to be mesayem since he gave it up and gave me this zechus to make the siyum  A siyum is a haschala from the beginning we are starting a new begining we should be zoche to learn torah for many years again and again

During music after the hadran the video streamed to other siyumim taking place around the world from Israeli soldiers to a siyum in Lublin, Poland, Barclays Center and other locations.

HaRav Ahron Feldman: The first mishna of מאמתי is the beginning of the first seder in shas, Zeraim that deals with laws of produce of the fields which  portion  you your give to kohanim leviim and the poor and of Masechta Brachos that deals with the blessings we say before we partake in our food the question is that this mishna makes no mention of any of these halachos but talks about the laws of krias shema and why was this mishna chosen to be placed at the head of Shas?Seder Zeraim says the earth is not ours but Hashem's we first have to give away to those who hashem designated it too Masechtes Brachos says that the world is not ours. Krias shema says that our lives are not ours and belongs to hashem our lives and possesions we have to give up therefore this mishna is the logical beginning of Seder Zeraim masechte brachos. Shas is the blue print of our lives and shema tells us to live by this blue print. Shema is followed by the next parsha vehaya im shom Hashems will is for us to study Torah. This gathering probably the biggest since the churban bayis,  is a recognition of what totah means its an expression of the words ki heim chayeinu torah is the life blood of the Jewish people. Without the learning of Torah and its support we can not survive.

Harav Uren Reich:  This weeks parsha Yosef was still alive od yosef Chai  he sent a message through the agalos it was a remez to Yaakov avinu that yosef was still spiritually alive as to the same way he was prior to going to mitzrayim. The Remez of Eglah Arufa was that being alone puts you in great jeopardy but when a person is melava you and accompanies him its symbolically as if hes accompanied all the way.   Yosef sent a message to Yaakov that he  accompanied him all the way through not physically but spiritually. Yaakov gave Yosef the strength to refuse they were miles apart physically but spiritually there was a connection despite being in the house of potifar. Yes im firmly in mitzrayim but you are accompanying me all the way. the message that yosef sent was to uplift him and he was succesful in giving yaakov a new life. Yaakov new that Yosef was the first who went through galus but wont be the last he said the pasuk of Hamalach hagoel should bless all the generations that come after Menashe and ephraim but they should be called in my name bnei yisrael they will be llike fish who swim in water so too klal yisrael will be together with Yaakov throughout the generations there should be a multitude of yiddin who are engaged in the world bekerev Haaretz but have the capacity to make torah part of their lives. The thoudsands that are here today are sending the same message we are clinging to the torah in all circumstances. In the last 7 and a half years there have been many milestones and siyumim there are gedolei torah and amcha bais yisrael yiddin whose wives and children are all part of a lifestyle of Veyidgu  Larov we are not only hear to rejoice with the milestones and achievements of the past but to make commitments for the future more kvias itim latorah more consistency concentration anf focus so we can truly say yaakov Avinu Lo Mes.  Like fish in water who jump for every drop  we should realize the preciousness of every word of Torah.

The tefillah of ahava Rabbah we say every morning before krias shema,  we are all ahava rabbah yiddin and we should spend a few extra seconds focusing by saying this tefillah. Let us cherish the last few minutes to commit to further intesity of limud hatorah more shiurim more concentration and more kavana by ahava rabba and we will be zoche to vehaishiv lev avos albanim velev Banim Al avosam.

Rabbi Yoel Gold:  Spoke about a gift of Daf Yomi every parent should give to their children by starting the next cycle.