A technology savvy 21 year-old Lubavitcher bochur was behind the live broadcast of the Siyum Hashas at MetLife stadium, viewed and hailed by tens of thousands.

By COLlive reporter

It was a Lubavitcher bochur in the crowd of 93,000 at last week's Siyum Hashas celebration at MetLife Stadium that helped thousands around the world witness the historic event.

When 21-year-old Cleveland native JJ Eleff heard that organizers were not providing a live feed from the massive event to mark the completion of the Daf Yomi learning, he decided to stream it for coworkers and friends at the Dan's Deals forum.

Eleff, who learned in Chabad's Yeshiva Schools of Pittsburgh and in Ohr Elchanan Chabad in Los Angeles before studying for smicha in Chovevei Torah in Crown Heights this year, used his phone and the help of UStream.com to provide a live video feed.

To his surprise, the amateur feed soon had tens of thousands watching from around the world, including thousands from COLlive.com.

It was an ironic twist that at an event which had few Chabad attendees, that a Lubavitcher was the one who provided the live stream for those who could not join, although, as Eleff pointed out "Chabad has been doing live feeds from events for 20+ years already," he told COLlive.

"I never expected anything like this," the technology savvy bochur told VIN News. "It was just one small act of kindness I was doing for a few friends and in the end thousands of people benefitted from it. You never know the power of one act of chesed. This whole thing is just so humbling when I realize how each of us has the potential to affect the lives of others."