Kaptzin Pasha: the Sly Vizier

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Lazer Brody’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

[music] Good evening from the land of Israel. This is Laser Brody with another episode of Rabbi Nman's Tales. We're learning the smaller tales now. Tonight we're going to learn the tale the capsen patcha. Caps and Pasha would translate the slice slice sultan. It's Rabbi Nakman. It gives us an allegory about a Turkish sultan and it's really the template of our history from the beginning of time since Abraham and Nimrod. We'll soon see this. Okay. And as in all the short tales we're going to learn after this tale bizm segment of Liquitan Torah 154 where Rabbi Dakman elaborates on this particular tale elaborates himself. Uh so once there was a Jew in the court of the Sultan of Turkey whom the Sultan loved very much and he esteemed more highly than all the other ministers of state. Every day he used to call this Jewish adviser, the minister of palace and to spend time with him alone. Well, the ministers of state were very jealous of the Jew and they tried to think of all types of ways to discredit him in the eyes of the Sultan and to ruin him completely. Well, among the ministers was a certain Pasha. Pasha is not like a nobleman, a minister, a nobleman. And known as Capsen Pasha. He hated the Jew more than all other ministers did. But he tried to make the Jew think that he loved him. He

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1. 0:06[music] Good evening from the land of Israel. This is Laser Brody with another episode of…
2. 3:43out of the sultan's mouth." So the Jew is therefore decided, said the the Pasha to…
3. 7:20what's it Hashem King David says that the Lord of Israel neither sleeps nor sbers in…
4. 10:54this is the the melody that Hashem has saved him. So the Pasha was burned. The…
5. 14:30was more esteemed than any other minister in the eyes of the sultan more than all…
6. 18:08is able to receive it is less it's lessened it's dimmer than in the darkness when…
7. 21:43child birth uh and she's a point of great danger. It's very dangerous giving child birth.…
8. 25:21what Reb Laser spoke about. I'm going to have a scar on my soul. Heaven forbid.…
9. 28:54Up to then the whole world was a world of idolatry, a world of pantheism was…
10. 32:25everyone should have the name of Hashem upon them. They'll fear them. And we can see…

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