Petition away the siyyum hashas

There is a weird fight going on in Elad.

The city had put together a siyyum hashas for the daf yomi cycle that just concluded. The event was scheduled for this evening.

Some people in town are upset that the event was planned for a time when the weather is bad, with cold and rain.

Now, if it were me and the event was not to my liking, even just due to poor weather conditions, I simply would not go. Or maybe I would go and grumble, but at most I would not go. Maybe I would even laugh it off that the city planned such an event with little forethought - in an outdoor venue on a cold evening in wet weather. OK. Stupider things have been done, and if I don't like it, I don't have to participate.

That is not enough for some people.

A group in Elad has started a petition against the siyyum hashas event. They are claiming the show cannot go on, because of the weather. The mayor, on the other hand, is saying that no rain is scheduled for that time of day, according to the meteorologists, and for the entire afternoon leading up to it, so the show will go on. One of the parents of children from a talmud torah planning to attend complained that if the litvishe rabbonim are not going, why should the children bother going in the cold and rain?
source: Kikar

1. you dont want to go, don't go. You dont want your children to go, don't send them.
2. I thought the siyyum hashas is to celebrate with the people who learned through the daf cycle and to honor them and the torah. I did not realize it is only a worthwhile event if specifically the litvishe rabbonim are involved.
3. it seems womehwat disrespectful to complain that the Litvishe gedolim wont be there so we shouldnt even have the event! Are no other rabbonim and gedolim worthy? An event is only worth having if the Litvishe gedolim grace it with their presence? This sounds like some sort of avoda zara but ok. Still, if you dont want to go, don't go, even if it is just because your favorite rabbi is not there - but why should the event be canceled entirely because of that? Should other people not be given the opportunity to participate with the gedolim that they respect?

I don't know, or care, if the event will happen or not. Sometimes people just can't let things be, and if it is not perfect and exactly the way I want it, nobody else can have it either.

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