The Massacre That Rewrote Halacha 07 08 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.

spires worms and magensa m and we spoke about various uh influences on our hagum that come from that area in that time and we mentioned that the most enduring legacy was the legacy of which made it to mamish the core curriculum of any and everybody says it. We talk about different customs fighting about it. Now this week I wanted to move on and along this very happy vein that we're talking about and move on to which is uh the unititzki massacres in 1648 and 1649. Um they have to do with with and what we they have to do with with and what we discussed and I'll I'll show you how. Now most of this is blood and gore. Um yeah, enjoy enjoy your dinner. Um okay so I just want to start with a shuven there's a a ink is a sim that's dedicated to the collection of a lot of like what you would call random tanim like tanim that we don't really adhere to anymore like tanim of you know different days that that kind of fell away the shar over that kind of fell away the shar over there and the brahiv too brings as follows I want to read you what it says I'll start with because he's the earlier one then we'll move on to He says as follows. Um also during the year of 1648 two great kahas were destroyed on that day. We'll see what that day is. Um is a minute to fast on the 20th of which is this Friday. this Friday the 20th

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1. 0:30spires worms and magensa m and we spoke about various uh influences on our hagum that…
2. 3:32way till the 1800s the chuva writes that in his days it's begun to get and…
3. 7:08Everyone in all the France and the Rine which is Germany were on themselves to make…
4. 10:45between the Polish nobles and all the surfs, you know, all living throughout the Polish kingdom…
5. 14:24to kill each Jew by hand. You know what I'm saying? You have to kill each…
6. 18:39from war and he knows what what wartime is like, you know, the fog of war…
7. 21:54to defend himself. The Sha wrote back. The Taz wrote again and and you know they…
8. 25:29the you know in the shadow of now why is the day that the the chose…
9. 29:06through everything. Meaning as the the Kazaks went through ultimately culminating in massacring you know 100,000…
10. 32:40them to compose a calendar um they lost track of their sheep and much of their…

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