Are “Moroccan Esrogim” Really Esrogim 10 09 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.

Good. So uh we spoke previously about the various different zonim so to speak the different lines of estraim and the sim that the piskim you know establish you know to to judge the kashus of an estreg and how to know when an es comes from a blended tree versus a pure estrig and etc. And we said that we'd revisit some of the you know more practical uh examples of how this plays out in so I examples of how this plays out in so I thought today I'd revisit the the suga of the Moroccan. Now uh what's interesting is as follows. Morocco had till the 1950s after the formation of the state of Israel when all the Arab countries in the Middle East purged themselves of their Jews and made their countries almost Judin reign had it had the largest I believe single population of sphartic jewelry in the world. Morocco I believe had five or 600,000 Jews living there. I could be off with these numbers but as I look the rank up it had a tremendous Jewish rank up it had a tremendous Jewish community at Sur. It also has a tremendous amount of longstandingness to it. The Kahila in in Morocco, the Jewish Kila Morocco in its all all its different forms. Some of the mountain Jews from who lived in the Atlas Mountains, some of the desert Jews, the city dwellers, you know, from Marrakesh and and and and etc. There's many many different kahilas of Jews that lived throughout uh Morocco. Um and they've been there for a very very long time. the Rambam Kaidua uh during his travels

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