Typhus Epidemic — A Shailah with No Easy Answer 04 26 2026

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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.

Good morning. Good morning everybody. Say so uh two uh two weeks ago already we spoke about Saras um if it's contagious if it's not contagious and and etc. And I thought to spin off into series about contagious diseases and contagion blal and epidemics and what did he say? >> Oh yeah and whatever. Everyone, every one of us uh for better or for worse unfortunately has lived through a proper epidemic. You know what I'm saying? Up till recently these were shilists that till recently these were shilists that seemed very obscure. Now everyone's lived through a proper epidemic in their life. So a lot of these shists we have uh preconceived notions and some personal experience. So I want to go into that a little bit. Now I think I'm going to start with with one particular epidemic and it's a shila. It's an epidemic that that started 100 years ago and it's a sh that animated some of the biggest minds in Israel for that for the 100 years since then. Meaning many Israel whether they were actually asked this shil to them or whether they were just you to them or whether they were just you know kings later on it animated them they like to talk about the shila. Now, just to give the background in in the early 1900s, like in 19 I think 16 or 17, they're they really in 1909, they discovered how to test for typhus. Everyone's heard of typhus, right? It's a like a it's a terrible disease. Today, it's come out non-existent in the world, but everyone's heard of typhus in context of World War I, World War II. In 1909, uh doctors discovered how to test for typhus, and that's the earliest like records, recorded records of typhus existing in in in Europe. Now uh German

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