My apologies to Reb Peretz Chein - some 7 years in the making...

I'm not sure Shliach Reb Peretz Chein even remembers; but I know other long-time readers do. I know because one several of you brought it to my attention. Then we criticized him for running a marathon in his shlichus town, something he did to ostensibly show his college students that he too cares about his personal well being. Then he realized that if running a marathon constitutes him breaking his own personal barriers - those that can and should be broken, not those that shouldn't - then imagine what finishing shas would do for him! So four years he set out to do just that, and finished it on the occasion of his son Mendel's Bar Mitzvah. And to top it all off, he made the siyum on an old (Slavitter?) Shas that his zeide brought with him from Russia some 40 years ago. So if we're "brave" enough to criticize him we can surely find the time to congratulate him on the momentous occasions of the siyum haShas and the son's Bar Mitzvah. Retroactively we can also say that his intentions back in '07 were pure and just.

 Mazel Tov!

ליובאוויטש מכבד מונקאטש

MUNKACH (1)

RMT (left) at the B"M

A תשורה published by the Shliach in Ungvar and the Carpathians, Reb Mendel Teichman, in honor of the Munkatcher Bar Mitzva. Teichman -  fin an Ungarisher Oopshtam -  maintains a very close relationship with some of the Rabbonim that are the Rabbonim/Rebbes of those towns (in name only.) Most notably the Munkatcher Rov, who helps Teichman in many ways. The תשורה was distributed to every person in attendance at the שמחה.