In honor of the 11th day of the Hebrew month of Nissan, the anniversary of the birth of the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, of righteous memory, Chabad-Lubavitch students across the globe studied an entire tractate of the Talmud and memorized its text.
The tractate, Bava Basra, which is currently being taught in Chabad yeshivas, consists of 352 pages.
Yehoshua Heshel Mishulovin, a student in Montreal, Canada, and the son of Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries in Los Angeles, Calif., took on the additional challenge of memorizing the tractate's super-commentaries of Rashi and Tosafot.
Chief Rabbi of Montreal Yonason Binyomin Weiss, who rigorously tested Mishulovin for some 45 minutes, remarked that he "should stand up for such a boy and show him the proper respect." ...
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