Israel Matzav

We will return to you

Tomorrow morning, God willing, for the thirty-something consecutive year (I'd rather not say precisely how many), I am making a celebration for completing a tractate of Talmud on the eve of Pesach. I am a firstborn son, and on the eve of Passover, all firstborn sons must fast unless they participate in a seduath mitzva (a meal that is itself a mitzva). Traditionally, this is accomplished by completing a tractate of Talmud, and tomorrow morning, I get to do it again, God willing. One of my sons will God willing also finish a tractate....

At the end of the siyum (which is that it's called in Hebrew), we say the Hadran - We will return to you, because one never truly finishes learning any tractate of Talmud. Each tractate is deep and has much more to glean from it.

Here's the Shira Chadasha choir (yes, I know, two nights in a row) with Hadran - We will return to you.

Let's go to the videotape.

Labels: Hadran, overnight music video, Shira Chadasha Boys Choir

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 3:38 AM