Was Christopher Columbus Jewish? B'ezras Hashem Let's Find Out!!

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

All right, okay. Welcome back. So, a week ago, May 28th, I have it in my WhatsApp here, we got a text in the WhatsApp group here over here, and the question was like this. He said it was a question from Elio. He said, "I notice a lot of people say Be Ezras Hashem or Be Ezras Hashem. When I was a kid, I only ever heard it Imirtas Hashem. Do you have any interesting little Torah tidbits about that?" So, that was the question that was um that was the question that was asked a couple weeks ago. >> [snorts] >> So, I'm on this broader chat, it's called the Kissufim Breslov chat, and called the Kissufim Breslov chat, and there's like over a 300 people on that chat, and I posted this very question on that chat, and it got it got a lot of buzz, got a lot of movement, people were interested in it. Um people were fascinated by it. And it it led to somewhat of a broader discussion about Christopher Columbus and about these terminologies in general, and I just want to share with you a couple of those findings. So, I'm going to begin with Christopher Columbus, and then we're going to go into the terms Imirtas Hashem and Be

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