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Shovavim! When Did It Start and What Does it Mean 01 14 2025

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Rabbi Yoel Plutchok

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I feel like this is a a common introduction already. I'm going to talk about something that isn't brought down in the Rambam. It's a ministral which I think is right in our wheelhouse. That's what we like to explore. So, um I'm going to start with that. I not sure. Okay, fine. So I I want to talk about uh the some of the minimum of everyone's familiar the six the first six paras of shamis are the stick of and six paras of shamis are the stick of and this various about it I think what became very well known and very famous is the after that the mubim's you know cookim and the specific aisim for and the school of the the the school says man, but I don't just want to uh be of the a little bit and and maybe just start from the beginning a little. Now, I'm I'm going to I'm going to take a side trip going to I'm going to take a side trip to get here just cuz I think it's interesting and worth sharing and we'll we'll circle back around to how this connects to. So So as follows, I think everybody's familiar that in the early 1800s there were the Napoleonic wars in Europe, right? Napoleon rose to power in France in 1800 and there was a series of the Napoleonic wars where one after the other he launched different campaigns against different part of parts of Europe and the world bal and he was uh

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  2. 3:05interesting full of his uh his and successes and uh and um six years later he
  3. 6:42got it out of the way did it properly was the first one at the table
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  7. 20:59and they made up many so in that say which I don't think I don't think
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  9. 28:12At the end of the is something that's good for people to pay attention to. It
  10. 31:52yesu stuff it says a story as follows that there was two three tano were sitting

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