Readying the mundane for holiness! Final preparations at Wells Fargo Arena for the Adirei HaTorah Maamad this evening.
Wells Fargo Arena doesn’t usually have cups for netilas yodayim, but tonight is different…
Kashrus of a higher standard at Adirei…
Tens of thousands of sandwiches, snacks and drinks for the Adirei faithful.
While back at Wells Fargo, Adirei faithful stream in to the arena…
Musician Meir Adler with some final tune-ups for this evening’s musical portion…
While Yanky Daskal warms up…
…a guest makes music of his own as he awaits…
…And Yanky Daskal, who will be singing through the night, holds his Rashi K’Pshuto close, making the most of the few moments of pre-event downtime… #TrueMusic
A song composed by R’ Eli Teitelbaum and Yisroel Lamm, the moving tune setting the tone…
The Skulener Rebbe’s niggun, sung by Bentzi Stein.
Meilich Braunstein performing this Yossi Green beauty, first recorded by Avrumi Flam some 25 years ago as Mimkomcha, but still uplifting in its newer iteration.
Mincha gets underway at the Adirei HaTorah Maamad…
Rav Efrem Goldberg brings his Boca Raton energy and chein as he greets Rav Aryeh Malkiel Kotler at the Adirei event.
Video remarks from the Novominsk rosh yeshiva, Rav Yosef Mermelstein, opens the evening.
Rav Aryeh Malkiel Kotler seen shortly before the start of the Adirei HaTorah event.
Rav Chaim Ginsburg leading the recital of Tehillim.
This lesser known Reb Bentzion Shenker classic appropriately opens the evening…
The four roshei yeshiva of BMG accompany the special guest, Rav Moshe Hillel Hirsch, into the arena.
25,000 on their feet for kavod haTorah!
Wells Fargo pumping with the energy and passion of kavod haTorah…
BMG CEO R’ Yosef Heinemann reflects on the three years of the Adirei HaTorah initiative, speaking of the unique zechus to undertake this campaign on behalf of those upholding the world with their Torah.
A packed arena singing Yomim as Rav Aryeh Malkiel Kotler approaches the podium.
Rav Aryeh Malkiel Kotler addressing the Adirei HaTorah Maamad.
A portion of a special video shown depicting the transmission of Torah over the decades…
Chazu, chazu, bonai chavivai!
The music stopped….but the singing didn’t! The crowd singing of the glory of talmidei chachomim…
Singing in honor of the esteemed guest, the Slabodka rosh yeshiva, Rav Moshe Hillel Hirsch.
Even those in Eretz Yisroel are amazed at what they witness in Lakewood! -Rav Moshe Hillel Hirsch
The crowd erupts on welcoming Maran Hagaon Rav Shmuel Kamenetsky.
A plea for Him to open the gates and shower His nation with goodness….
…a nation whose desire is to learn, to teach and to serve Him with love!
The crowd breaks out in singing Yomim for Rav Yisroel Neuman, who takes the podium to make a siyum on Bavli and Yerushalmi learned by the yungeleit, but the rosh yeshiva waves it off, the masmid of the generation also among the humblest.
Rav Yisroel, choked up, every word accompanied by a tear, the rosh yeshiva’s connection to the Gemara palpable
The arena shaking to its foundations as the siyum on Bavli and Yerushalmi is celebrated.
Rav Ephraim Wachsman addressing the Maamad Adirei HaTorah.
Proclaiming His Kingship, the call of thousands at Adirei HaTorah led by Rav Yeruchem Olshin.
…and an evening of chizuk and hisorerus comes to a close with the call of “Borchu es Hashem hamevorach,” led by Rav Dovid Schustal.
