Keeping Secrets The Cherem of Rabbeinu Gershom 02 08 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, good morning. Yeah. Okay, good morning. Um, this might become a series, it might not become a series. I'm not really sure yet, but we ended off last before mid-winter. We discussing uh some of the rabbin, some of like the rabbis. I'm thinking about maybe going into a little more detail into takis. Um I want to start with one that's like not a famous one like I mean it's famous but it's not like one that that everyone's talked about a little bit off the beaten track and then we'll see if we want to if if this develops into something more. if if this develops into something more. um in this there's there's legends like in Slabatka for example and I don't these are stories that are said over the mashel that cutler is famous learned in Slabatka by the alter and he had a sister who was a mathematician who maybe was not so religious you know was very muskilik and he was a yasum and she would write him letters constantly like you know a mother figure of sorts and I think in her letters she would try to encourage him to be a little more open-minded and to maybe think about broadening his horizons and leave Shiva

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1. 0:04Okay, good morning. Yeah. Okay, good morning. Um, this might become a series, it might not…
2. 2:36about early hcala or etc and uh There was a guy who the way they would…
3. 5:38legend that his son Rabu Araim was either kidnapped as a kid or forced to forced…
4. 8:40rare and were a thing of great value and it was like a major leverage piece…
5. 11:44later dar and they certainly don't expire. Put that be that as it may the world…
6. 14:49he didn't go and re tell over said to the authorities he wasn't a mic he…
7. 17:24personal from one person to another is is already a form of lash because revealing a…
8. 20:32what type of secrets to share there's about people who didn't tell over secrets you know…
9. 23:38that's that's the same problem. Now the kanis from Gazi he has a few different chu…
10. 26:40understand in my position as a there are people who tell me their secrets and they…

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