American Indians & the Aseres HaShevatim The Kashrus Story of the Turkey 11 26 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. Um, uh, spoiler alert. Spoiler alert. Turkey is mutter. You're allowed to eat turkey. I'm not going to talk about the Thanksgiving element, but no, that's not my department. I'm staying in my lane. Turkey is kosher. That's a spoiler alert. Okay. Now, uh, so here's the suga of turkey being kosher. So, first I want to tell you a very strange story. And, uh, keep it in mind. It will come it'll come back around. In uh in6004 there was a person his name was Manash. there was a person his name was Manash. He was born in6004. He lived in Holland. He was a child of a converso family. He was raised as a as a Catholic. His family had come from Spain. A few years earlier they had ran away. They had converted to Catholicism. He was raised as a Catholic in in uh possibly he was even born in Spain and then moved to Holland. He was raised as a Catholic. His Catholic name was Manuel Diaz. His last name. I'm not even going to try. But he had a he was a regular uh Catholic name. At a certain point he became more well acquainted with his Jewish background and he became Baluva Jewish background and he became Baluva and he became farm and manro ends up opening a printing house in Holland and he writes and publishes his own swarm and swarm of others and uh he's a big thinker a philosopher a thinker a cabalist a little bit and he has some very interesting ideas now in in uh the new world on this side of the Atlantic you know North America and South America was colonized by by all the great European powers by the Spanish, the Portuguese, the Dutch, the English, even

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1. 0:02Okay. Um, uh, spoiler alert. Spoiler alert. Turkey is mutter. You're allowed to eat turkey. I'm…
2. 3:06These are not I'm not making these up. These are things that people said back in…
3. 6:14it. in and he writes about the origin story of the and how these tribes might…
4. 9:18kosher to which the comments and the says as follows. It says it says uh um…
5. 12:22that even if you don't know the but you know that it has a you're allowed…
6. 15:29world bird that has no mess. Let's just say it how it is. It has no…
7. 18:34the misa the rationale for eating it what's the misa that had to so I want…
8. 21:36a very interesting thing. He says as follows. He says I saw he says the bird…
9. 25:02it's the commanderb quoting the who's saying and this is probably a true story that there…
10. 28:08um Fine. He says the of the turkey bird that we eat and is writing that…

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