150 Finalists of ‘Halikut’ Program

After 12 intense weeks of learning, 249 pages of Likutei Sichos were memorized, and 150 Bochurim will be invited to the first Halikut Siyum where they will be tested and take part in competitions on the full sefer of Cheilek Chof Likkutei Sichos.

The Halikut program an unprecedented program, with Bochurim in many Yeshivas across the US learning and reviewing the Sichos in all their free time.

“The Mivtzah caused a tremendous Koch in the Rebbe’s sichos,” says Rabbi Zalman Oster of Mesivta Lubavitch Toronto, who describes bochurim “sitting in the dining room discussing the sichos.”

Rabbi C. a father of a Halikut participant, told the organizers that “My son came home very excited that he had succeeded in learning the Sichos so fluently. He wakes up every morning at 6 AM to Chazer the Sichos.”

The series of tests, the last of which took place on Wednesday, will culminate in a final test in New York for those who passed all three tests in their Yeshivas.

Halikut is a program of Vaad Hatmimim under the direction of Rabbi Tzvi Hirsh Altein.

The tests have now been marked and the finalists are now being announced:

Baltimore
Efraim Kahn
Menachem Mendel Wolfman
Ezriel Laber
Menachem Mendel Denberg
Sholom Dovber Friedman
Yosef Yitzchak Stolik
Yosef Silverman
Yosef Cohen
Schneur Zalman Schapiro
Menachem Mendel Binyominson
Mordechai Rosensweig
David Davidoff
Mendel Slonim
Mendel Roth
Schneur Zalman Pewsner
Meir Lazaroff
Levi Katz
Dovid Dworkin
Sholom Bluming

Chicago
Isaac Mintz
Sholom Smith
Yisroel Binyominson
Ari Baron
Schneur Pink
Dovid Gopin
Shmuel Dalfin
Menachem Korf
Yosef Jacobs
Levi Willhelm
Gedalya Hertz
Yehuda Leib Schneiderman
Dovid Lifschitz
Mendy Rubenstein

Detroit
Levi Kalmenson
Ari Sassonkin
Yehoshua Shmotkin
Leibel Shemtov
Hendel Liberow
Yehuda Polter
Motty Slonim
Mendel Bakman
Menachem Mendel Oirechman
Tzemach Kesselman
Yisroel Polter
Chaim Amzalak
Berel Shmotkin
Levi Yitzchak Greenberg
Yisroel Huminer
Boruch Shemtov
Shmuel Morozow
Sholom Bronstein
Levi Spalter
Levi Huminer
Arik Deren

Los Angeles Mesivta

Kasriel Lezak
Yossi Bistritzky
Mendel Berkowitz
Asher Trestman
Dovid Seewald
Avremi Sapo
Yisroel Gurary
Chaim Meir Bukiet
Matti Baitelman

Los Angeles Zal
Yosef Yitzchak Feigin
Moshe Pinchas Sheinberger
Yosef Rodal
Tzvi Oster
Tzemach Smith
Yitzchak Polter
Mottel Marcus
Avi Baitalman
Michael Lipsker
Mendel Toller
Sholom Posner
Menachem Mendel Cunin
Mendel Ravnoy
Menachem Mendel Backman
Shmuel Forer
Shmuel Sulami
Nissi Lepkivker
Leib Morozow
Levi Harlig
Yossi Gottlieb
Muli Berger
Naftali Hertz Gurarie
Navo Shneider

Miami
Avraham Neklen
Dan Kulman
Chaim Kudan

Morristown
Meir Kesselman
Levi Shemtov
Mendel Zaklikowsky
Meir Sassonkin
Shmulik Brook
Zalman Gurevitz
Mendel Greenberg
Berel Danow
Schneur Deren
Avraham Yaffe
Mendel Serebransky
Sholom Dovber Zirkind
Schneur Kaplan
Yossi Spalter

Oholei Torah Mesivta
Tzemach Shanowitz
Menachem Mendel Schapiro
Meir Blezinsky
Yechiel Vogel
Sholom Dovber Liberow
Avraham Sarkin
Mendel Lazarov
Menachem Mendel Paltiel
Avraham Mordechai Lesches
Mendel Okunov
Yakov Naftali Rotenberg
Tzvi Barber
Chaim Yeshayahu Plotkin

Toronto Mesivta
Shmuli Bernstein
Yossi Hertz
Michael Zingarenka
Mordechai Wenger
Menachem Mendel Greenberg
Menachem Mendel Minkowitz
Menachem Mendel Halperin
Menachem Mendel Korol
Reuven Breninson
Simcha Wenger
Yehoshua Slavin
Menachem Mendel Hertzel
Yossi Kogan
Zalman Eisenbach

Toronto Zal
Sholom Dovber Rivkin
Menachem Mendel Heidingsfeld
Schneur Yarmuv
Moshe Kesler
Levi Engel
Ari Block
Ahron Markar
Menachem Leib Dray
Uziel Rubashkin
Menachem Wagner
Yosef Yitzchak Dalfin
Binyomin Wolowik
Ahron Leib Tzukernig
Boruch Schneur Kalmenson