Kitniyos Napoleon‘s Court and the attempts to thwart the minhag 03 23 2025

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Yoel Plutchok’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

Okay, good morning. Um, I want to start talking about kitas a little bit. Now, anyone who's Ashkenazi knows they don't eat kits and pes I think for the I shouldn't say all but some. Some do, some don't. It's a it's a shila. Um, now I want to start discussing it like this. In in uh 1807 Napoleon conquered the a lot big parts of Germany he conquered and he designated a small part of Germany and called it the kingdom of Westfilia. It called it the kingdom of Westfilia. It does not exist anymore. The kingdom was it existed I think from 1807 till maybe 1813. It's a six or sevenyear reign. Now of this kingdom he appointed his youngest brother Jerome Bonapart. King Jerome Bonapart of Australia who was a short-lived king. After that he had all sorts of other odd jobs in the French government. Eventually he gets exiled. He has actually long Jerome Bonapart and he lives all the way like into the 1840s or 50s. He's around for a long time. Um or 50s. He's around for a long time. Um but now one of the experiments that Napoleon tried to do with the kingdom of Australia was he made a Jewish consist called the French pronunciation is different. I apologize. He made a a consist for the Jews. And basically it was like a a leader who was not a RV a leader who was just an askin. so to speak. Underneath him there was a bezdon like whose job it was to enforce the halas for the Jews and underneath him there was some moras on him. And he formed this whole like Jewish council I

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