My Translation and Re-Publication of Bavli Hullin: Keeping My Siyyum Hadran Promise to the Talmud

On April 1, 1973 in Rabbi Soloveitchik’s Talmud shiur at Yeshiva University we completed learning the first chapter of Talmud Bavli Tractate Hullin. The Rav gave a dvar Torah at the Siyyum. He explained the meaning of the recitation of the hadran alakh, the prayer that promised upon the completion of learning a Talmud chapter or Tractate that we would return to study you – speaking to the text – again.

I kept the promise. Between 1992 and 1994 as a professor of Jewish Studies at the University of Minnesota I directed my research to the study of this chapter and the remaining eleven chapters of the tractate.

Read More: @ tzvee.blogspot.com

Readers found more information by searching for:

• hadran alakh (3)
• bavli hullin (2)
• Hullin (2)
• hadran at end of talmud chapter (1)
• hadran siyyum (1)
• Tractate Hullin in English online (1)

You might also like:

• Is the Hullin Scroll the Oldest Talmud Manuscript Ever Recovered?
• Star Tribune: From Minnesota Will Go Forth the E-Books
• 8 — Down: Historian Joyce
• The Adin Steinsaltz Talmud and the Global Day of Learning
• Talmud Film Footnote Wins Award at Cannes