RABBI WEIN ON THE DAF YOMI PROJECT AND SIYUM

During the upcoming month, there will be worldwide commemorations and programs marking the conclusion of the almost seven-and-a-half-year cycle of studying one page each day of the Babylonian Talmud. The originator of this program was the famed Rabbi Meir Shapiro, a leader of Polish Orthodox Jewry in the interwar years of the twentieth century. Rabbi Shapiro was a member of the Polish Parliament and the leader of the Agudat Yisrael party, who represented the interests of the Polish Orthodox Jewish community.