This year, Dirshu’s famed Daf HaYomi B’Halacha schedule coincides with Sukkos. As the program progresses through the final chelek of Mishnah Berurah towards completing its first seven-year cycle and its major siyum next spring, the program is providentially learning the halachos of Sukkos…on Sukkos! The hanhala of Dirshu felt that bein hazemanim would be an optimum time to afford bachurim the opportunity to learn the important halachos of hilchos yeshivas Sukkah, the laws of sitting in the Sukkah, while simultaneously giving structure to the daily learning during bein hazemanim. The program provides shiurim on the halachos by prominent gedolim and poskim and offers the bachurim the chance to take tests and experience the success of accountable yedias haTorah similar to that being experienced by tens of thousands of lomdei Dirshu the world over each month.
The “Kinyan Sukkah” program is running in America and Eretz Yisroel. Dirshu has published special Mishnah Berurah booklets containing the entire seder halimud and schedule encompassing siman 639-642.
Thousands have joined the Daf Yomi program and it has earned the haskamos of Roshei Yeshiva in America and Eretz Yisrael.
Rav Reuven Feinstein, Rosh Yeshiva of the Yeshiva of Staten Island writes, “Immediately following the holy day of Yom Kippur is bein hazemanim, where the talmidei hayeshivos leave the walls of the yeshiva’s beis medrash…It is possible [if care is not taken] to lose all of the wonderful acquisitions of the yemei ratzon, before they even return for the winter zman. For this reason…the distinguished menahelim of Dirshu…[have] stepped into the breach.”
Rav Aryeh Malkiel Kotler, Rosh Yeshiva of Beth Medrash Govoha of Lakewood; Rav Elya Ber Wachtfogel, Rosh Yeshiva of South Fallsburg; and Rav Shlomo Feivel Schustal, Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshiva Neos Yaakov, co-signed a letter hailing Dirshu and its “special program for yeshivos gedolos and mesivtos for learning halacha l’maaseh during bein hazemanim.
Shiurim are thus being given by leading roshei yeshiva, poskim and rabbonim on the first day of bein hazemanim, 11 Tishrei/October 5 in 15 communities in the United States and Canada. In Eretz Yisroel, thousands have joined the Bein Hazemanim Sukkos program. At the end of bein hazemanim, a test will be held and, as in all of Dirshu’s programs, there will be rewards for excellent scores.
Powerful letters of approbation for the Sukkos Bein Hazemanim Daf HaYomi B’Halacha L’Bachurim program were also written by Rav Aharon Feldman, Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshiva Ner Yisrael, Baltimore; Rav Dovid Olefsky, Rosh Yeshiva Mesivta Beis Yisroel, Ger, and Rav Moshe Heinemann, shlita, Rav of the Agudas Yisroel of Baltimore.
By Chaim Gold
