The Ropshitzers Secret! Nail Cutting in Halacha & Kabbala 01 31 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.

Um, okay, as follows. Um, the Let me start, yeah, yeah. Let me start like this. Let me start like this. By amongst the early Chassidic Rabbis, there were some Rabbis who had like a a joyous, almost jocular disposition. They were always happy, freilich, sometimes even making jokes. Some of them were very, very, very serious, extremely intense, extremely intense Rabbis. And in the courts where there was a very, very intense Rebba, there sometimes was a batchen, like a part of the court, there was a court part of the court, there was a court jester, someone to keep the Rebba, you know, to keep everything in a in a good mood. Lemashal, by Reb Baruch of Medzhybizh, who was like a famous a famous Rebba who who was very, very strict and exacting and was never one to make jokes. So, he had someone called Hershele Ostropolyer who was part of his court who would make jokes and and keep the keep the atmosphere, you know, light. Uh, supposedly, Hershele Ostropolyer once took it too far and the Chassidim beat him up, maybe he even died from it. A lot of different legends. Recently,

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1. 0:00Um, okay, as follows. Um, the Let me start, yeah, yeah. Let me start like this.…
2. 1:32and they were always like a little funny. So, it once happened that uh, a Chassid…
3. 3:35Rishonim. There's no Gemara that says it. The Halakha paskens that if you look in the…
4. 5:37"Prepare me to go to the olam ha'emes, to to, you know, a makom kavod, the…
5. 7:09every single week. The doesn't say if it's an every week thing it's not every week…
6. 9:11part of the nail that's on the the the the the flesh bed of the finger…
7. 11:12chelek gimmel. Vayasha Vayam, Rabbi Akiva Eiger Hillel has a tshuvas about this, where he goes…
8. 12:43tefillah, then Mincha then cutting the nails. He says you notice the Ari put tefillah first.…
9. 14:46everyone has such a hard time understanding what Chazal say that it's dangerous. Just because you…
10. 16:46out from this thing. Now, there is one other one There's a few more Nekudus that…

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