The Scary Tzava’ah of Rabbi Yehudah HaChasid 03 06 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.

We're going to talk about um it is like kind of a cousin to what we've been talking about about names and probably we'll end up circling back for another one or two little quick hits. We can't uh you know can't get enough but I want to talk a little bit and I want to like frame it in this manner. Let's start with a bit of an introduction. There's um there's a there's a safer called it's a book it was printed in many it's a book it was printed in many different versions in Yiddish in Kesh um it's a book of stories and now is father just to give you a frame of reference we're talking about is born in around 1150 give or take a long time ago like 900 years ago he dies let's say in 1317 1320 that time bar. So his father's right before him. So that's the time we're talking about like in the 1100s the 1100s and um there's a book it's a s called and it's 35 stories of incredible that involve and that involve shadim and some of like wildest stories and I brought it here but a different time maybe we'll sample the stories like some of the wildest stories and it actually is the invention of a genre of gadelum stories that I think still is very much in existence today. It's the first like story book about a gul that was based on mim stories. The idea of writing a book about like the mim that auded.

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