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A King and Queen Debate Lamb Chops & Goat Meat

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Rabbi YY Jacobson

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passed away in 2011 came from a city called viritsky in czechoslovakia near munkach and then arrived in auschwitz together with her family just prior to schwes of tufshandala in her parents were immediately murdered she survived some of the few survivors of viritsky which is near munkach which is near munkach many of her relatives studied with the famous men she survived to become a matriarch of a great jewish family with a lot of children grandchildren and great-grandchildren whom she gleaned much knockers from and a rabbitson of a world-famous jewish educator as well as one of uh on her own became a acclaimed nursing home administrator cited by new york state for her honorable state for her honorable ethics i want to thank her family her children for this dedication and contribution and tahinish masatsura so i want to explore with you today a story it's one of those very peculiar enigmatic and seemingly absurd tales tales that are recorded in gemara in talmud at least at first glance it seems extremely difficult to understand and we want to try to uh unravel at bazer hashem the story is recorded in gemara and talmud in two places one is in page 57 and the second is intracted crisis chris is page 28 which is the end of the track date in each of the two times that the story is recorded there's a few other details even though basically the story is identical in both places but together we have a full picture the story that the gemara tells us that we're going to focus on today is it starts off malka or malkasa havayasvi the king and the queen were sitting which king and which queen they were both from the dynasty of the kashminoi

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