Eating on Ta’anit Bechorot After a Women’s Siyum Masechet
QUESTION
PARIS, FRANCE
Kvod Ha-Rav,
I teach Gmara (Psachim) to a group of women. We plan to make a siyum that we would like to set Erev Pesach. Can the men who will attend consider this siyum as ‘סיום בכורות’ (the siyum of the firstborn) instead of fasting ?
ANSWER
Yes. Women making a siyum on learning equally warrants a seudat mitzvah.