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Rav Eli Stefansky Shares a Remarkable Story

5.1K views · Mar 24, 2026

Naftali Kempeh

Rav Eli Stefansky shares a remarkable story from his Daf Yomi shiur (Menachos 71).

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I had the privilege and the honor to to give a fair for Shas then. And these are I don't know I don't know how many people you can see in the video probably maybe I don't know 70 80 who knows how many people that they know Shas cold cold cold cold. One of them I'm I'll point out in the video is Reb Nachman Mendel Fenster. He he learns in our college and he's the top of the top. He's unbelievable. I call him the Belzer you know the whole thing. know the whole thing. So questions that I asked and you'll see it in the video I asked them so what tree produces fruit but only the male version of the tree and not the female version which is the opposite of typical you know typically the female produces over here it's the male. What tree? So right away they start screaming this what they all knew the answer and they start if you listen closely you'll hear them screaming different daf and one guy screams out

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  1. 0:00I had the privilege and the honor to to give a fair for Shas then. And…
  2. 0:30know the whole thing. So questions that I asked and you'll see it in the video…
  3. 1:01And then I say okay who knows and he says the Tosefos in Menachos daf in…
  4. 1:45This guy is one of the geniuses the big genius. That's a genius. He quoted okay…
  5. 2:16little stick and he says so here's Tosefos let me just show you the Tosefos. It's…
  6. 2:47And then he says all the way at the end he says and it's it's highlighted…
  7. 3:17Here this is what he quoted. Yisrael degeil Olam decholim shebiyericho misaviv. Okay I think no…

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