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). | |
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.