Q. If you learned together (a tractate of the Talmud) with a group but now are on vacation somewhere else, can you join (the siyum fleishig banquet during the nine days) via telephone?

A. Horav Shlomo Milller’s Shlit”a ruled that if you learned the whole tractate you can join the siyum via telephone. However, if you did not study, you can’t just dial – a- siyum. Similar opinions are to be found in other Poiskim (Mekadesh Ysroel, Pesach 256, et al.)

Rabbi A. Bartfeld as advised by Horav Shlomo Miller Shlit”a