Shechita in America Part II The life and History of Rav Yaakov Yosef 12 24 2023

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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.

Good morning all. Okay, a few a few disclaimers. A few disclaimers before we start. Disclaimer number one is that a lot of the kyus that I'm going to read as part of the are in Yiddish and I'm not great at Yiddish. So bear with me. We we'll try to get through it together. Second disclaimer is that the actual shil that binds the story with the shil that I want to discuss is not like a direct linear line. It's they're cousins. we'll we'll we'll work our way through. Um we'll we'll work our way through. Um okay, so we ended off last week discussing the almost like the of the saying that if if the American if the small community of American doesn't get their act together then you know it's going to unravel completely. Now sadly his words were proven to be absolutely true and between the years of 196 uh 1860 when he wrote those those words until 1886 when the person the hero of today's of today's year arrives hero of today's of today's year arrives in America the in America went downhill precipitously. Um, basically uh the way it it seems by the time of Yakabisf, the first and only chief rabbi in the history of New York City arrives to New York in 1886, there was 15 in New York City all ran by Yakasha Jews, by German Jews who were not at all from and pushed their like slave masters. It was freezing cold. It was brutal. The environment was

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1. 0:00Good morning all. Okay, a few a few disclaimers. A few disclaimers before we start. Disclaimer…
2. 2:32know blocks of wood and pieces of metal and a little piece of fence and etc.…
3. 5:41in 40 new to oversee and to run in New York City and they were trained…
4. 8:48Now the the one of the main shilus that was addressed that he addressed right away…
5. 11:52is even so says the what's the is when it's when it's if you take a…
6. 14:58that's when the knife is these cases with a read let's say take a read that's…
7. 18:03head. So was holding like the that the knife underneath on bottom and the head on…
8. 21:05know in compared to the weineberg pen now I don't know exactly when this transition happened…
9. 24:12fight it is what it is in England we have to fight for if they force…
10. 27:35he goes he goes into the weeds a little bit with the and how the is…

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