With Dr. Zev Eleff discussing the history of the Purim Shpiel (in America)

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The opening of this shiur, in SeforimChatter with Nachi Weinstein’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

edition of the Swarm chatter podcast on this episode of the podcast I'm going to be joined once again by Dr ell who is president of grass college and we'll be discussing the history of the POR pmro something that listeners may be familiar with in general or from Yeshiva from the Yeshiva days so thank you Dr Ella for joining me once again yeah thanks for having me you know P comes in all shapes and sizes the whole ensemble just the porm RV a oneman show uh I've been fascinating topic ever since I wrote the Ida Crown Jewish Academy parmel uh back Ida Crown Jewish Academy parmel uh back in I guess 2002 or 2003 um and the notion of it and the impact and why it it's there push back against it to to me it's one of the most fascinating elements of the Yeshiva curriculum so let's just in brief explain what a p feels we said a bunch of things there I don't know if people let's let's assume maybe they don't know what is a perm Spiel a perm R and then we get into the history so you know I I think it's been translated in many ways bottom line it's a Lampoon it is an bottom line it's a Lampoon it is an opportunity in a very discreet very specific am amount of time to allow the inmates to run the Asylum whether it be a perra that's where we'll talk about the it begins in Earnest in theer is the great architect of the modern-day perm Spiel some people date the perm Spiel back to 13 14 15th centuries uh where Jews in Spain and France mimicking a culture of

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