A Torah shiur given by Rabbi Mendel Kessin on August 23, 2015.
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you on. Huh? Yeah. Well, what's interesting is that Araf Shabas hookas is known as a day of poronius. I don't know if you know that. Really? Yeah. It's brought down in the moan of Rome. Why? Because in 1242, a long time ago, it was the famous burning 24 wagon. So that's when the shops were burned. Yeah. It wasn't to do with the shots. But the problem was what was burnt isn't printed stuff. It was was burnt isn't printed stuff. It was before printing. All the incredible manuscripts. We don't have them anymore. What they did is they gathered. It was in Paris. Louis the 9th. I mean, what he did was incredible. So he gathered and it all started that's a whole history but he burnt there was a decree in Paris all 42 they burnt the shas they burnt was we showed them to they just threw it into the pile them to they just threw it into the pile and and everybody was stunned I mean it was a murder tragedy for Kisville because there was no printing there was no other editions of these things you burn the original. Who knows what was lost in that? So then I I I read that. So they had no idea. So somebody asked a uh you know what is this? So they said it was Yeah. But they didn't say what ex why Yeah. But they didn't say what ex why was you know and so on. And it happened Shabas. It's not even a date. It's a paras which is shabas shabas. It's amazing. And so they they ask and it says you know it was funny. Yeah. So many suspect uh that was because of
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