Fiery protest & Evolving Psakim The Saga Of Ethiopian Jews Part 2 01 26 2025

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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.

who they who the whole country thinks they are and how their Jews how their Jews may have come to think who they are. Now this week I want to talk about a little bit more the teeth of the discussion of like the actual fight between the piskim about the status of Ethiopian Jews. But even before that I just want to talk about one of the more let's call it mainstream versions of how the Ethiopian Jews came to be. Now I just want to be mocked like this. If you will stop a uh sociologist uh you know someone who studies people a guy a secular sociologist and ask him are the secular sociologist and ask him are the Jews from Ethiopia Jews and and how did they land there? The answer you will most likely be given is no they are not Jews and they decided that they were Jewish a few hundred years ago 5 600 years ago or maybe a little longer they decided that they're Jewish and they don't have any real origin story or proof to their Judaism. Now keep that in mind because that's going to play a role in some of the place discussion. But if you were to ask a a sociologist, that's what he would tell you. Additionally, there's a uh so so so what is the story that's the most likely one that they

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