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Were the Early Rebbes Great Talmidei Chachamim 05 26 2026

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Rabbi Yoel Plutchok

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Okay, I'm going to start with a little quote. Really the topic that I a few things coincided for me that made me want to talk about this. I uh has just published chuis volume two tour is a Hungarian al you know very close with etc and in there in back of that they just published there's a chuva about which is force-fed geese which is fagra which I think is a topic we should I we should talk about at some point I think should talk about at some point I think it's a lot of different customs it's a fancy food we should we should probably revisit it but in there the chuv is about an edict that the bas made sask was the r of dinev he's the great-grandfather of mach and dinev and and many other rabbis um he made an edict in the town of dinev which is in Poland I believe I could be I'm wrong but I think Poland where where he said that they should not eat any of these hen any of these geese that are stuffed you don't eat the livers of the geese no fagra and the is writing to ask him does

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  2. 2:04about which early rebs were famed for their you knowicition and not I'm not saying that
  3. 4:51early rabbis still today is a famous reb which is a big is you had his
  4. 7:24nothing to do with saying it saying it every day something for every day and there's
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  6. 12:35cheerleader. I don't care if you like him or not. I don't have to convince you
  7. 15:07learning. That's the that's what he says. So he he he gives and takes in the
  8. 17:47even from mean you're telling me we don't have I don't have his so we als
  9. 20:20they thought they found the shortcut to Asia really they made to America so it was
  10. 22:57leave over any on you know lemon on regular on regular but there is some different

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