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The Fight over Chassidishe shechita 02 23 2025

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Rabbi Yoel Plutchok

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Um, we're going to talk this week about Hasidic Shchita. Now, what Hasidic Shchita means today and what Hasidic Shchita meant 200 years ago seems very different. I I met someone a few days ago and I I told him I was going to talk about Hasidic Shchita. So, he sent me a video of a Chabad rabbi from somewhere in the world being asked, you know, what's the meaning of the Babaji Shchita? Why is the Babaji Shchita so important? And the rabbi told him that it's obvious that that Hasidic him that it's obvious that that Hasidic Shchita is about personal credentials. It's about making sure that the person who's the Shochet is in your own personal conduct is appropriate. And if learning Hasidus is what's mezakeh the person on the highest level, so it's important to be someone who learns Hasidus. And if Hasidus of Chabad is the most important Hasidus, then it has to be someone who's a rank and Hasidus of Chabad to be a Babaji Shochet. Now, I looked around a little and I think that he's he's right. I think he's right. I think that Hasidic Shchita today really just means that you lead your life on the level of personal

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  1. 0:02Um, we're going to talk this week about Hasidic Shchita. Now, what Hasidic Shchita means today
  2. 2:35of the bulletins in the kokayra is it's also to eat from Hasidic shita. The exact
  3. 5:39it's a mishna. The mishna says if you waited meaning you stopped the slicing motion for
  4. 8:42surface of the cutting of the cutting surface, "Shaychin bo lechol ha'am lechol ha'am lechol ha'am."
  5. 11:43this." He put on his boots and his coat, got into his wagon, and he drove
  6. 14:46melutashin. That's what they were called, the sakin melutash. In Yiddish they were called the shlaye
  7. 17:48needing a rather master, but trust me it didn't mean though you. It didn't mean like
  8. 20:49Today everyone's knives are the same in regards to to chalika and to to chod. Now,
  9. 23:53from this now he's rather referring to this is a true one from the bone whose
  10. 26:54says "Look, yes, I shall live a modern man as you make an altar. I'm not

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