Q. If I were to finish a Masechta, I might make a siyum. If I were to review that Masechta, I might make a siyum again.
What if I were to review the Masechta while I was still learning it? For example, if every day I reviewed the previous day's Daf, the previous week's Daf, the Daf of the previous month, and of three months prior, and of the Daf of the previous year; could I make a siyum every time I finished a review? Considering that next week will be a month since the Siyum HaShas, if I had followed this regimen during the last cycle, could I make another Siyum HaShas in a week from now?
A. There are a number of sources for celebrating a Siyum at the end of learning a complete Mesechta (Talmud Shabbos 118b, Bava Basra 121a, Midrash Shir Hashirim 1, Midrash Koheles Rabo 1), it would seem from all of them that it does not make a difference how many times or when you have learned the same Mesechta, when you finish you rejoice at the end of the mitzvah with a Siyum.
Shem Mishmuel (parshas Miketz), sees in every Leil Shabbos meal, a Siyum Seuda, celebrating the end of the creation of the world, even if we do commemorate so every single week. Moreover, Responsa Shem Mishimon (O.H. 2:4) considers the Melave Malka Seuda as a Siyum for all the feasts and the mitzvois of Shabbos.
A well-known story of Rav Zelig Reuben Bengis Zt"l describes how this extreme masmid would every some months rejoice with a Siyum Hashas. On one occasion, he repeated the Siyum only days after the last one, and his friends were wondering how could he have ever finished the whole Shas in such a short period of time. He explained that this was a separate Siyum, he achieved concurrently by using all spare minutes during his day over the years.
Horav Shlomo Miller's Shlit"a opinion is that indeed you can make a Siyum every time you finish reviewing, and it would count as a Seudas Mitzva on the nine days too.
Rabbi A. Bartfeld as revised by Horav Shlomo Miller Shlit"a
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