The Talking Fish Story, Hoax, or Miracle 04 22 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. So, last week we were talking a little bit about boycotting expensive food. I don't know who was here. You weren't here. You weren't here. But we're talking about boycotting expensive food. We mentioned the chuva from the not the who came before >> very invested in [snorts] >> who was who was uh who was talking about boycotting fish mongers who raised the prices and um he brought Rya from a mission in Cresus a Gumar and Cryus that were allowed to do that. That was the we were allowed to do that. That was the we discussed now as like a like a what do you call like a asterisk in that we said that in the base hill the safer base hill it's brought down that eating fish on chabas is and therefore you can't be in eating fish on chabas no matter what even if it's very expensive you have to make sure to eat fish so we mentioned that maybe we should go down that rabbit hole a little bit of the Indian of eating fish on chabas um and and uh discuss it a little bit so now there's a lot of different ways to come at this um about like the significance of fish on chabas and etc. So, and we'll try we'll try one way. I don't know. We'll see how try one way. I don't know. We'll see how it goes. Now, the truth is that eating fish on Shabas really the it's it's an interesting thing. The the inning of Shabas brings down as follows. He says it's written with the fish at all three sudas. Um now the real interesting thing is that the shabas on the shabas says as follows. It says

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