| Wednesday |
Elul 15 |
5703 |
| Torah lessons: |
Chumash: Tavo, Revi'i with Rashi. |
| Tehillim: 77-78. Also 43-45. |
| Tanya: But it is (p. 465) ...and metaphor. (p. 469). |
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The founding of Yeshivat Tomchei T'mimim was on Sunday, Elul 15, 5657 (1897).
The beginning of studies in Talmud and Chassidus was on Wednesday, Elul 18, 5657 (1897).
On Simchat-Torah-eve, 5659 (1898), after hakafot, my father proclaimed: The name of the Yeshiva is Tomchei T'mimim, and the students who study and conduct themselves in its spirit are to be called t'mimim.