Megillas Antiochos The Megilla we used to lein on Channuka 12 28 2024

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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.

Okay. So, in honor of of Kaneka, I want to talk about Kaneka in something that at a previous time in Cladisville's history was a very prevalent minig something that had a lot of impact, but something that over time has dissipated to the point where where most people don't even know of its existence, but it's actually it's played a central role in telling the story of Kaneka throughout the deris. And what I'm talking about is is a book called McGillis McGillis which is uh kind of a a migill similar to let's migill that retells the entire story of the nash and the bdash in great detail and with many of the madrashim and the kazal that we've been accustomed to you know as children growing up knowing the source material comes from there but it's something that has permeated very deeply into the fabric of of you know of our consciousness of the way remembershan But the book itself is no longer read that often certainly not in any formal that often certainly not in any formal fashion you know in bis during as as we'll discuss and and you know practically not at all. So I wanted to talk about the migant you know how it came on the scene when it burned brightest and when it faded away and I think that that a interesting nuda to to highlight is is the tufa the specific tufa during kaiso's history that it burned brightest. So, let me just explain uh you know uh a little bit of a roundabout way to get there. In 1957,

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