For over 30 years NCFJE (www.ncfje.org) has organized live siyumim for each of the nine days on the radio.
This year there will be a live video of these siyumim as well, which will be broadcasted via www.Jewish.TV, Chabad.org’s audio and video site.
The siyumim can be viewed live online at 7:00 pm (every day of the week except Friday and Motzei Shabbos, when it airs at 2:45 pm and 10:15 pm respectively).
“When Av begins, we diminish [our] rejoicing” (Talmud, Taanit 26b).
On the 1st of Av, “The Three Weeks” mourning period over the destruction of the Holy Temple–which began 13 days earlier on Tammuz 17–enters an intensified stage.
During “The Nine Days” from Av 1st to the Ninth of Av, a heightened degree of mourning is observed, including abstention from meat and wine, music, bathing for pleasure, and other joyous and enjoyable activities. (The particular mourning customs vary from community to community, so consult a competent Halachic authority for details).
Consumption of meat and wine is permitted on Shabbat, or at a Seudat Mitzvah (obligatory festive meal celebrating the fulfillment of a mitzvah) such as a Bris (circumcision), or a “Siyum” celebrating the completion of a course of Torah study (i.e., a complete Talmudic tractate).
The Lubavitcher Rebbe initiated the custom of conducting or participating in a Siyum on each of the Nine Days (even if one does not avail oneself of the dispensation to eat meat).
Citing the verse (Isaiah 1:27) “Zion shall be redeemed with mishpat [Torah] and its returnees with Tzedakah,” the Rebbe urged that we increase in Torah study (particularly the study of the laws of the Holy Temple) and charity during this period.
– Chabad.org
i cant eat chicken? if i listen to a siyum live on the internet can i eat meat? what do women have with this injunction about meat?
what if cold cuts is all i have in my fridge to eat?
if i do listen to a siyum how long off a time window do i have to eat meat?
Chabad.org’s ticker is very cute but doesn’t really help one fulfill the Rebbe’s instruction. It would be nice if COL would post the video of the actual siyum which can be found in the archive page. (Since today they are embeddable)
did the rebebe institue the siyum for both men and women or just men?
so if we hear this siyum can we eat meat?
in 770 there is syium after every minian in the rebbes minian’ and Live @ 770live.com
Until 15th of Av
except on Shabbos and until Av 10 after midday
Not until after tisha b’av
can we eat meat