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Outdated Medicine or Ancient Secrets 06 28 2026

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Rabbi Yoel Plutchok

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Okay, welcome back. Um so so we're we're of late we were discussing the topic of various medical issues and and uh you know different related suggest we started with pandemics we worked our way through we ended up discussing the Rambam who in Peric of brings an entire collection a wide ranging collection of of medical advice and procedure and guidance and we discussed the various different days in discussed the various different days in as to how to look at those those that the brings in are they to be looked at as the like as in are they to be looked at as the Ra doctor as in practical advice and maybe maybe outdated um and what's the exact context and we mentioned that the malim in a chuva that he quotes in inal seems to be referring to theam very very conclusively and saying that it's just in the parac over there and he shows a in the parac over there and he shows a whole collection of of various you know of the Raman's pronouncements that are steers to the Gimarus but later on the album later on as he when he was older he put a contress called Ali Lufa which is coincidentally published in the back of the new edition of and and uh and over there he he uh he um finds sources and exact you know structure for where the ram is coming from what the ra means to include for particularly for the Ra some of them very creative you know

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  1. 0:00Okay, welcome back. Um so so we're we're of late we were discussing the topic of
  2. 2:35preventative and and proper hygiene that a person should should uh, you know, do in order
  3. 5:41to make in any case let's get to the question of discussing the science in particular
  4. 8:56it the brought down says like this is all the different incantations that are taught in
  5. 11:39ultimately fall into the trap of being instead of taking the benefit of this one. Now,
  6. 14:45able to record the they were also able to record all the medical stuff as needed.
  7. 17:52included in the gum they mean it to be you know also through or through the
  8. 20:29and nobody does any of these things and no one is or tries to do these
  9. 23:32the various sources if you're looking for more of this information but that's says it now
  10. 26:36And it's very specific. It's case specific and you need to know you know what what

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