The Ultimate Title Who Is a Kadosh Part 1 07 28 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.

people killed in the Holocaust or people killed in terror attacks or the like are considered kadeshim. Now obviously it's a it's a bit of a triggering question and it's a loaded question and it needs to be dealt with delicately which we'll we'll try to do. We're going to try to do but let's let's go through a little bit. Now I just want to start off like this and I don't mean this disrespectfully at all. I mean this with totally respectfully. the word, the term kadesh, the title called kadesh is kind of a social construct. I'll tell you what I mean. There isn't a kazal that what I mean. There isn't a kazal that says kadesh um x y and z if so and so happened right there isn't a that says after something happened they called him kadesh. There isn't there that referred to asadesh there that referred to as kadeshim you know kadesh and kadesh >> so right my point is just it's a bit of a social contract that means it's a term that became to be used to describe someone who dies was called a kadesh alicia was called a kadesh in the in the um um referred to as kadesh um it's it's just a term in the in different ways but it's not like there's a set designated thing that makes someone a kadesh All the chas which are later chas which are more recent chists that try to figure out like where why kadesh what does it mean where does it start they like point there at different garist we have some time we'll try to get into some of them that try to bring like different makers for kadesh but the truth is that there is no gar that says it it's a term that started during probably

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1. 0:30people killed in the Holocaust or people killed in terror attacks or the like are considered…
2. 2:33qualifies as killed is I guess where this million-dollar question will lie who's called now I…
3. 5:11spoke softly and calmly the way he always spoke Even the tone of voice didn't change…
4. 7:23right this is very easy to understand now I want to read you a chuva from…
5. 10:01in 1945 shortly after the Holocaust. They felt that the British and they were they rightfully…
6. 12:34kadesh. I'm just using this as as the goalpost just to open up the goalpost for…
7. 14:51the Nazis displayed a tremendous premeditation and care to rates on the Yiddish of the Yido.…
8. 17:25every time there's a terrorist attack in Israel, I remember obviously the Tree of Life massacre,…
9. 19:27added. Now if you look over there because it's added after there's not one there's three…
10. 22:02The next one is already a level of commitment. You're being is Jews who are already…

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