MEGILLAS HITLER and the hunt for Amalek 03 02 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.

Yeah. >> Okay. Morning. >> You ready? >> Okay. Um I want to talk about the it's it's nowad I want to talk about the mitzvah of Malik. Um in that context now I want to start like this. In 1942, the Allied forces under the general Dwight Eisenhower launched something called Operation Torch where they conquered Algeria, Torch where they conquered Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco from the Vichi, the Nazi aligned Vichi Vichi regime and brought it back to to allied control. Now once they did that it was presumed by the Jews who lived in Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco that that would lead to you know a big hatal for them. They would no longer be subjected to the Nazis persecutions or the Vishied Nazis persecutions and they celebrated they made a big sim of themselves. It was around Pum time. around Pum time. We don't know who wrote it but there's a few copies of it left over in the world. It's a collector's item now. They wrote something called McGillis Hitler. Now it was a little premature because it was in 1942 and you know it really wasn't the right time for McGillis Hitler quite yet but in 1942 they wrote something called the McGillis Hitler and many many people in those cahilis glued McGillis Hitler to the McGillis Esther like following the McGillis Esther and when they finished reading McGillis Esther they went straight into reading Miguel McGillis Hitler and it ended it was very similar in a certain sense like it ended

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2. 2:35to me is that sometimes the gym called themselves this. In 1944 on the 11th anniversary…
3. 5:41they win some sort of titular victory over though far from annihilating because the continues and…
4. 8:48sends his king yv to go root out to lead like a a rooting out a…
5. 11:53until finally they they figure out some sort of uh some sort of you know power…
6. 14:54because they have already been totally dispersed. Their name is gone from the world. The as…
7. 18:04old was estranged from his father, estranged from his parents. He was not really living at…
8. 21:09aken when they were ready to give him and ask they they could carve this piece…
9. 24:16to say to be heard it's the and to to to give to to be honest…
10. 27:29of genealogy from all over the globe and you'll go and you'll you'll you'll deal with…

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