Prague 1693 The tragic story of Shimon Abelles 06 16 2024

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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, in today's shir I want to discuss something that that essentially is like a nisbach. It's an addendum to the to the topics that we've been discussing in the past within and with the powers of bezden and their punishments. Now we've we've built up a concept of like the greater good theory like where we're where not all situations are equal and not all are equal and really it depends what brings out the biggest and what makes the most sense and and based on that you know the sense and and based on that you know the the parameters of could change. Now, as an addendum to that discussion, I want to talk about uh uh a tragic story that happened in Prague and uh the the the Shiloh that ostensibly comes out of that story. So now just by by way of introduction, we one time spoke about this in the past and and this just lays the groundwork before I tell you the story that happened in Prague. So uh we spoke a year ago about the the riots in York. probably remembers the riots in York. I'll just remembers the riots in York. I'll just say over the Russia praam again in in the year 1190 in the city of York following the coronation of King Richard the Lionheart there was a riot at Prum against the Jews. They were all held up in in Clifford's Tower, I think it was called the castle. And uh there was a mass suicide, well really a mass homicide first and then suicide of of the Yidden who killed their own children in order that they shouldn't fall into the hands of the marauding mob and be forced to convert to to Catholicism and then they took their own lives to

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2. 2:41is one of the and it's a a person should sacrifice his life. The question is…
3. 5:57parent or a rebi or a rv should should uh should put the children to death…
4. 9:02part I think everybody agrees happened. Now what happened after that is the tricky part. At…
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6. 15:08committed no serious crimes at all possibly no aus at all the seems to be that…
7. 17:41accomplished in order to have been. So says the Garra that uh clearly it's not going…
8. 20:47it would look terrible says everyone would say what is this this is brutal this is…
9. 23:56learn for example. And that's what is saying. And then in that case clearly there would…
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