Haman’s Jewish Grandchildren! — The Shocking Twist of Purim History 03 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.

sidebar historical episode that um, in my mind is connected to this. I could be wrong. If it's not, then uh, I apologize in advance. Um there's a uh during the the mid600s like 1670ish the government of Vienna which was the Austrohungarian Empire um evicted all the Jews from from the a from the whole Austrohungarian Empire from the Holy Roman Empire they called themselves. Um very few Jews were allowed to stay behind. Um you had to have like some sort of major connections to be able to stay behind and and be in Vienna. One of stay behind and and be in Vienna. One of the Jews who was able to stay behind was a person by the name of Schmalenheimer. I don't believe he was a Tom Kafam. I think he was a Pashench. He was a simple person. Um he was a big big Ver. He was a tremendous veh. And he got special permission from King Leopold to stay behind in Vienna after the Jews were expelled. And he was like a early Dmus of like a of an Askin like a real a real Askin. He was able to help Jews. What did he say? >> Yeah. He was able to help Jews in all sorts of very dire predicaments. Um his main claim to fame was that he financed

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