Queen Victoria’s Deadly Legacy The Bris Milah Mystery 06 30 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.

Okay. So last time we were discussing uh the the Indian of the medical and scientific but in particularly medical knowledge expressed in kazal. So I I ended off we mentioned that there's a a longtickle in the nishram from professor Dr. say for Abraham in Simal where he's and he brings many many examples of Kazal's you know in something that's medical you know in something that's medical long before the actual medical world internalized this information. Now there's many examples that he brings and some of them are from Gimarus and some of them are from from other memoral mash etc. But there's one in particular that I want to like uh zoom in on zoom in on and and and focus on a little bit and that is hemophilia. Now this is a fascinating thing. Hemophilia is a disease that was only diagnosed I think only like discovered or like codified in the mid 1800s is hemophilia A and the mid 1800s is hemophilia A and hemophilia B. And basically what it is is is that um the person who's afflicted with hemophilia his his blood is lacking the ability to coagulate and to clot properly and therefore even like minor injuries or whatever it is could lead to it could be very very detrimental for him because uh uh he could bleed out. It causes internal bleeding, external bleeding. It's a it's a severe um ailment. It's a hereditary ailment. Now there's something fascinating about hemophilia is that it's a recessive

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1. 0:00Okay. So last time we were discussing uh the the Indian of the medical and scientific…
2. 2:33she had a son uh I forgot his name now the the Duke of something who…
3. 5:39there was a story with four sisters in the first sister one had a son who…
4. 8:11modern science did not know for probably 100 00 years or 1700 years after this was…
5. 11:17it seems like it is and it's it's way ahead of the curve and way ahead…
6. 13:56push off the and when the child gets better you do you do give this child…
7. 17:00hemophilia which is a genetic disorder which is incurable. And then there are other more temporary…
8. 19:40modern medical uh you know the modern medical uh knowledge of it. Another one for example…
9. 22:46it's it's relevant to to you know uh p the to the discussions of of veriology…
10. 25:27found that that 22% of women who are pregnant and have abortions have the abortions before…

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