Bring Kids to Siyum Celebrations

We should make big celebrations for finishing Torah tractates in the Nine Days leading to Tishah B’Av, with many people including children (not only “children” in knowledge; also literal small children)!

This is similar to the custom to bring firstborns who are children to the Siyum celebration on Erev Pesach. That Siyum is a preparation for the Redemption of Pesach. The Siyum celebrations in the Nine Days leading to Tishah B’Av (which is always on the same day of the week as the first day of Pesach of each year) are a preparation for the Redemption through Moshiach, when there will be wonders, like when we left Egypt!

(See talk of the Lubavitcher Rebbe King Moshiach Shlita, Mattos-Masei 5751 (1991))