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An Apostate’s Teshuvah 04 29 2025

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Rabbi Yoel Plutchok

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It's going to be kind of a continuation from last week. So last week we we um we laid the groundwork of the different um mahal and chuva from different this week I want to talk about a a specific case where there's much more discussion about the different chuva and that's um a mishum now someone converting to a different religion was was very very rare people did all sorts of ais and you could become a m on a lot of different counts. You could have become a mum, a mastros, a m of a shabas. You can become a mmer on a lot of different counts. And there's many different types of mum that a person could become. You could become a mafaya. And there's there's and and all of those things needed chuva. But but they were just a needed chuva the way a needed chuva. Later on about a thousand years ago give or take is when it started becoming an issue of people switching religions. People would become mishum and change to a different religion. They would you know get baptized was was the the most popular one and they would change religions. Now maybe a tiny bit earlier called it. Now the the first one to write very strongly to lay down the the had a look at a mashid. Someone who who converts another religion had a look at him in Yadus is Rabbin Gashin. There's a chuva in it's it's in the Mami Rutenberg doesn't his own chas. It's in the Mami

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  1. 0:01It's going to be kind of a continuation from last week. So last week we we…
  2. 2:39not considered any was not considered zary anymore. It's as if he's a brand new person.…
  3. 5:52admitted it that was the chuva and so the retells this this story of with a…
  4. 8:31three times a day. He shouldn't wash or meat or drink wine for these amount of…
  5. 11:49that he calls the he says that we we do like when would the the culmination…
  6. 14:52it's not your you just you let him die where he is. So now the brings…
  7. 17:32it was a much bigger population of people who became uh Christians Catholics at at one…
  8. 20:41story there was a there was a professor his name was Dr. Jacob da Jacob Dhan…
  9. 23:19and he wrote about his chuva Odyssey and he writes I'm standing there in the room…
  10. 26:32he says with with I've served and fore is my song the only thing that I'm…

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