From the Sultan’s Courts to Today A Mamzer, a Shifcha, and the Secret Halachic Solution 11 28 202

What’s said in this shiur

The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Yoel Plutchok’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

So last week we spoke about um Mamim we spoke about the the terrible predicament that one who's a mam finds himself in we spoke about the raanim's um throughout the chuv throughout the certain like type of like attitude to try to minimize mamas you know an actual we spoke about sometimes the tragic reality that somebody is a there's nothing to do about it and then all that's left is to rely on there's you know only god could resolve the the real cases. So it's this the the real cases. So it's this balance, the constant balance between the attempt to minimize cases and that there are times that there's nothing to do about it and there's reality right you got to deal with reality now in the cases where you have to deal with reality there is one potential out one potential way to fix that's a very uh interesting mahal that exists and that's what I want to discuss today I want to open with a sh that the has init Zion, this is a chuva that's written in 1965. I want to read you the Shila and 1965. I want to read you the Shila and then we'll open up this we'll open this up all the way as follows. He says he says this is a RV who's a R in inach after the war. So, not before the war. It says as follows we have in our city close to a minion of 10 because of the major disruption in family structure throughout the war and family structure throughout the war and communist and communism fine and then many several instances of impurity developed. The young men didn't check properly about their spouses. They took women that they chose right after, you know, liberation in 1945.

Jump to a moment

1. 0:00So last week we spoke about um Mamim we spoke about the the terrible predicament that…
2. 2:37these these you know messed up. We have a graduating class, a high school graduating class.…
3. 5:10know up front says to do this or this is in case it happened the brings…
4. 7:48to marry a kadesha. Now kadesha implies it's some sort of like pagam and kadusha. It's…
5. 10:53so now now let's talk stories a little bit in every the if you charter if…
6. 13:27this the what do you call it's a it's a chuva from here that says as…
7. 16:05slaves in it. from when did it >> I don't know it's it's like a very…
8. 19:08slaves?" And they're super mid about it. He says there in in Turkish law, he he…
9. 21:39world countries don't have slaves anymore. There's no slaves anymore. So what's to do now in…
10. 24:13you take a boat out pass the the nautical line of every country international waters there's…

Every second of this shiur plays inside Lehallel — a filtered YouTube library where each video was reviewed against one written standard before it could appear. No ads, no comments, no autoplay into anything unapproved.