Nittel Nacht It’s history and varying minhagim 12 24 2024

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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, fine. So, we we um get some quiet here. >> We said we're going to talk about the meaning of the minhagim of so um the minimum of so let's proceed as follows. I just I want to I want to um lead with a story. I I once heard a story someone went to ask the briskar about voting in the andar told him that is it's you know somewhere in the middle that's describ so when you look through the the literature on you'll find some who make it mamesh the biggest you know Indian mitzvah there are some people who mameish say it's terrible it's the worst. Stay away from it. And then a lot of people in the middle who it's it's a minig. It's an alto and ma we um we adhere to it on some level. So yeah. So let's so so let's break it down yeah. So let's so so let's break it down a little bit. So I think the first question everyone always wants to know about is when did it start? Because for for us for most people today for the most part it's a I guess meaning every different cris but it's more or less. So question is where did it start? So it it certainly started before it's not a it's an earlier meaning and we have some some earlier sources even in the bring it down for example the

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