Heartbreaking Sacrifice and Steadfast Commitment Jewish Soldiers 01 01 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.

Okay, so this is a continuation of sorts in our in our army related topic selection. We're going to start like segueing away from actual army dinim to more weapon dinim. Like the halachas of gun ownership and carrying a gun on Shabbos and women carrying guns and bringing a gun into shul. I think there's a lot of a lot of gun ownership shailos that could be discussed. There's a lot of gun ownership today that wasn't always before. Today it's much more common to own a gun. So, you know, could you bring your gun to seder? These are all These are all very weighty shailos. So, Sanya, let's let's just start like this. I We We've been talking about that army shailos. Now, I just want to reset the table with army shailos as follows. We We kept mentioning that back in the day, throughout Jewish history, Jewish soldiers was very very uncommon. It mostly had to do with prejudice. The the goyisha authorities, be they Catholic or or Muslims, they didn't want Jewish uh infidels or, you know, uh the you know, deicides in their army, and they didn't allow Jews. Now, there was an interesting thing. There was a

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1. 0:00Okay, so this is a continuation of sorts in our in our army related topic selection.…
2. 2:08your battles. Now, at some point, I think it was King Louis the 14th of France…
3. 4:39other guy and didn't return it, it got damaged. Like a whole shaila in the Ravi…
4. 7:12asafsam yachad b'kar b'kar kasrani, holech aleihem Adoneinu Rabbi Chaskel Landau v'dibber aleihem b'tanchema. After they…
5. 9:17it's a very beautiful If I could read the Yiddish, it would be much more beautiful.…
6. 11:51He says you have to stay close that's the answer. Now he says but what's the…
7. 14:22as exactly the same as the Cantonist army as the Tsar's army and you're as from…
8. 16:28talking about we're not we're not here. Yeah if you see someone who's sitting two seats…
9. 19:06them away from their parents at 11 9 10 11 12 years old putting them in…
10. 21:36pretty revolutionary idea. And then the place came I'm paraphrasing and and someone could argue to…

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