The 1848 Plague and Rabbi Yisroel’s Extraordinary Psak 09 28 2025

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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.

in VNA in 1848 there was a a raging epidemic of the calora plague. Now epidemics in in uh Kai Israel's long and storied history have been uh very deadly events um obviously for for forever. what we, you know, recently endured of COVID was nothing pales by comparison to the the incredible ep epidemics, you know, ep epidemics and destruction that that suffered through um obviously since the suffered through um obviously since the times of the Mishna the Mishna and Tinus and the second perk writes that if there's de if there's a epidemic and people are dying so we're this is a and there's obviously a lot that's been said about the plagues pigs and and and now in 1848 the Kalera plague was raging through VNA. Um and it was killing many many people and uh how exactly to deal with it and how to stay safe was something that was getting better over time but they still had not perfected time but they still had not perfected and they became a big sh as Yum Kipper was approaching of that year. What should be the posture of the the in regards to fasting? Obviously, someone who's ill um and would be you know be endangered by fasting is really that he's not to fast in but the question became as to what should be the the policy the posture the public posture for the entire at large. Now salant of the the famous founder of the Muslim movement was a man with iron

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