The Gadol HaDor Fights Back – The War Against Torah, Part II 07 17 2026

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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.

I guess we started with uh discussing Bali. We we kind of I guess ended up discussing Rakiva which is you know an appropriate place to end up. Now I wanted to go into Rakiva a little bit in more detail today. We're going to take the scenic route and I have angle that I want to that I want to come to. I don't know that it is definitive of Rakiva. I think it's a fool's errand to try to define Rakiva. Anything to define is is essentially limiting in some way. So it's not really what I'm trying to do, it's not really what I'm trying to do, but it's it's a maybe now I found this on I just want to show you this. Um is is uh quoted a tremendous amount of times throughout meaning just it goes without saying everybody knows who is. I'm just like let's try to build this up from the ground up. is quoted in Mishnayas 336 times in TFA 324 times in in Gumar 1860 times in 835 times times is another 200 times midash which means like etc is another 500 times and which is not even what Raika is like famous for is another 1820 times soak is truly truly the the dominant figure in in the Satan he's dominant figure in the he's the not the god is the is the legend of the that's really what he is um now I'll show you just such an interesting way interesting about this there's a safer a

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1. 0:00I guess we started with uh discussing Bali. We we kind of I guess ended up…
2. 4:08we're talking about. It's more the framing of this as like this was used. This is…
3. 8:18how and how and how to look and it was attractive to people. It was written…
4. 12:21few corners saw where what did he say? >> Oh. Oh, one second. Yeah. So is…
5. 16:25Mal also did something else that's fascinating. He wrote a called which is two volumes. It's…
6. 20:33what everyone knows what everyone you do you don't need me to say that Raka was…
7. 24:44last all of Rakiva's teaching was in the last quadrant in the in the last third…
8. 28:52is is fascinating because already you see it could always get worse. He says, "If you…
9. 32:56the terms of his imprisonment and the terms of his sentence were being prosecuted by Tis…
10. 37:05meaning I'm not which we know these these famous words say my whole life I waited…

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