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The Power Of One - One man. One legacy. One siyum
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👉https://alldaf.org/shas All Daf started with a single, anonymous donation. In 2017, the OU approached Stephen Neuwirth a”h with the idea of a digital platform for learning Shas. Steve fell in love with the idea and sponsored the development of All Daf. His only stipulation? The content should be top-quality and allow learners to gain background in everything related to the daf. His only condition? 100% anonymity. Steve a”h, Shalom ben Peretz, tragically passed away at the age of 60, following a short, severe illness. As a tribute, a thank you, and an ilui neshama, we are arranging a siyum hashas for his first yahrtzeit, on the eve of January 2, 2024/22 Teves 5784.
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Steve newworth is one of the finest
people I met in my entire
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life what struck me always was his
really profound
humility and as I got to know him more
you know his commitment to the community
and it was with such extraordinary and
Lous Steve being the person that he was
as humble as he was did not want anybody
to know that he was the benefactor of
this app Steve lived life
of he had given us a tremendous
tremendous gift of support in order to
to achieve that Vision in order to
arrive at a fulfillment of that vision
and the way he spoke and delivered that
and the way he interacted was with such
refinement Steve who as I met him and I
spoke to him did not strike me as a
person that was very excitable was a
mild mannered very nice person
particularly when it came to rabbis the
type of respect that he showed to rabbis
but even in that personality he showed a
lot of excitement and showed that this
is something that he felt was something
that he wanted to devote his life to and
devote his resources
to this program olda I think it was many
people lives transformative in terms of
their ability to study the do it would
not have happened except for Steve newth
right now over 65,000 active people have
the app and there's over 11,000 people a
day using it that exceeded all of our
goals all of our
expectations in that sense there was
incredible hot and it may be a function
because it was Steve's humility I I
remember many conversations where he
spoke about tus he was so anxious that
not only should we be learning the gamar
and the Rashi but we should be learning
tus he was very excited about us
having in his in the various Community
around the country actually barem around
the world and one of our first human
indeed were in New relle in his
community and he felt so honored these
were things that showed who was this
person Steve was the benefactor of olda
from the other people have reached out
to us that they love the olda platform
perhaps we could create something for
paraa which we've done perhaps we could
create something for mishas which we've
done all par all mishna these are
projects that have directly come out of
the olda platform all of us at the OU
have a regular experience of
encountering people who stop us and
thank us and tell us their story their
story of the Revival or the
strengthening of their engagement with
Torah study
through Steve's gift through alaf
through Al paria through Al mishna the
world should know that there was a
person who lived amongst us who wasn't a
rabbi and wasn't a prominent individual
that everybody knew his
name but Dre big and did big and that
everybody everybody has that opportunity
to dream big and accomplish
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