Answer: The Shulchan Aruch (OC 551:9) writes that one must
not eat meat or drink wine during the nine days. The Rema (OC 551:10)
adds that if one has a seudas mitzva during this time then one may
partake of wine and meat as such celebrations are incomplete without them. This
includes Shabbos meals, a bris
seuda, a pidyon haben, or a siyum.
The Elya Rabba (551:26) and Mishna Berura (551:73) add that one must not
change one’s pace of learning to ensure that they finish their learning during
the nine days so as to make a siyum then. Additionally, one
should only make a siyum then if they would have done so during a
regular week, and only invite people who they would have otherwise invited.
Likewise, the Aruch Hashulchan (OC 551:28) strongly disapproved of
postponing one’s siyum to coincide with the nine days in order to
eat meat, though writes that if one was learning something (extra) and planning
on making the siyum then, that is commendable.
R’ Ovadia Yosef (Yechave Daas 1:40) writes that while there are poskim
that take a more lenient stance, one should not rely on this, and one must not
either delay or rush one’s learning to make a siyum then.
The Mishna Berura
(551:75) writes that anyone who would normally be invited to one’s siyum
may participate and eat meat, too, though one should not invite extra people.
In
conclusion, one should not specifically plan to finish one’s learning during
the nine days in order so they can eat meat during the siyum.
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