In Defense Of The Gemorah 05 04 2025

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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.

any case. Okay. So, I wanted to I was thinking first to talk tonight really about something related to Saras because the para but then I came across punk on Wednesday. I came across such an interesting mus. I had I had not known about this. This is new information for me. Um and it's related to Makus to what we're learning and it's fascinating. I want to I want to share it a little bit but I just want to give some background information. This is a little bit history storytelling and then we'll get to the to the actual Jews living in Christian countries in Jews living in Christian countries in the you know 1000s 1100s 1200s 1300s etc. as the Christian church became more and more powerful and more and more dominant in Jews lives and that's where I think almost everybody at this table comes from that included Spain it included France it included Germany um as the church the Catholic church became more dominant they paid a lot of attention to what does the church hold about Judaism that became a big need for them what does the church visav the the Jews what does the church think about the Jews and we know some of like the

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1. 0:00any case. Okay. So, I wanted to I was thinking first to talk tonight really about…
2. 2:05let's call it physical redifist and in the church there's a lot of today they taken…
3. 4:41Talmud. Oh, no. He asked them, "Do you believe in in uh in the virgin birth?"…
4. 7:17little sense in a realistic way. And these garumars were becoming known to to the Catholic…
5. 9:53get punished this is a den now the stukim who lived in the times of the…
6. 12:24becomes a very very famous sheets um by the name of Barak Spinosa. I don't know…
7. 14:58meaning of whatever that would be included in the that they don't get. But of course…
8. 17:33That's really what he says. He's like, "I I'm respectful. I like it's creative. It's Kishmach.…
9. 20:06These lied and they're going to be punished for lying. They did something wrong. But obviously…
10. 22:38out to every lawyer, every judge, every possible contact to see what you could do to…

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