The day of festivities marked the completion of the 27th cycle of learning Maimonides’ code, which the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, of righteous memory, instituted in 1984.
A group of American college students and recent graduates earned the distinction of being among the first people in the world to celebrate this year’s completion of the study of the Mishneh Torah, the foundational Jewish law code authored by medieval sage and philosopher Moses Maimonides.