QUESTION

Midwest, USA

Is it permissible to make a siyum for Ta’anit Bechorot where I, as the rabbi, learn a masekhet and hold a live Zoom with the bechorot, but no one is in the same place–so there would be no actual communal seudah, rather people would all have food separately. A Kof K article mentioned Rav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach ZT”L as permitting one to listen in to a siyum over a telephone in extenuating circumstances, but not being able to see the source inside I would imagine he means listening in to a full siyum with people and a seudah happening, though