A Good Death & Why Does It Matter 06 26 2025

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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.

I really want to want to start with the story. There's a banter story. If you didn't hear it, it's a great story. If you heard it, it's still a great story. You just know it already. Um they say over a story by Ryan Cutler. The way the story is best told is that in in 1986 when a limousine with uh two beefy Italian men pulls up outside yeshiva writes, "But I can't the story." And uh they ask for the rishiva. Comes out. They say, "No, the rashiva should be older than this. It should be an old man." I said, "No, no, the old man's gone, but tell me what you need, and maybe the younger, the son, could do it for you." Um, and they say, "We we're sent here on behalf of Joseph Banano. He's the head of the Banano crime family, one of the famous mobsters, and he needs a blessing from from the So, like, what's this about?" So he says when when when our father was was younger uh in the 1940s and there were some students who were stuck in Italy during the World War II and it was suggested that my father would be able to help them get out of Italy and your rabbi had a meeting with my father and he you know through his passionate words he convinced my father that it's worth getting involved and my father asked for a blessing and your rabbi blessed him and he told him that he should have long life and he should die peacefully on his bed and uh now he was involved in some sort of uh altercation. He was shot and he's in critical condition and we need to reup the blessing. He's only you know 70. He's not uh and told him that power

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1. 0:00I really want to want to start with the story. There's a banter story. If you…
2. 2:35to happen and the earth will open up and swallow you up then everybody will know…
3. 5:10say it means like a nice mis good mis now there's many different things that are…
4. 7:52meaning among someh some in particular that they're foram to go to. Now where does this…
5. 11:10hugger meaning didn't invent this idea >> what did he say? So the whole story is…
6. 13:48this um thing. So a whole safer whole fat safer not in defense but in defense…
7. 16:30of people I just do an internal decapitation I don't actually cut people open so the…
8. 19:43that makes a discrepancy between how a person dies is clearly saying a major call it…
9. 22:20going to talk about the talk about it again you see another of the particulars of…
10. 25:00which are all brutal deaths. He drowned in a river or he fell into the water…

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