A Rosh Hashanah Bidding War 09 21 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.

Okay, good morning. Um, I I want to talk about a little bit of a confusing in the mat. It's about alias and I just want to start with two uh slightly humorous stories. I can't vouch for for the authenticity of either of them. It's possible none of them happened, but they're both cute. Um, back in the day there was something called a millionaire's shoo. Today we have it only unofficially. We don't officially have it. Back then there were shoos that were named like the every shul was from a certain group of business people and there was a millionaire shul. There was a few of them. Uh, I actually saw the nativ professor mayor Berlin writing about a millionaire shul. He describes it. He says it's a sh where either every person there is either a millionaire or behaves like he's a millionaire. So you know he's just interesting. So there was a millionaire shul in Russia in St. Petersburg. Habira, you know, with the with the with the seat of government and all the oligarchs of the Russian, you know, populace were sitting there for and there was many many Jewish oligarchs. A lot of them weren't religious at all. some were and they were sitting there was and the gab got up and he's making a bidding war for and everybody's bidding and totally totally fry irreligious baronss are bidding and someone goes over to you know baron I don't know whatever Valinsky and asks him why are you bidding you're not even religious you don't care about this at all what does this mean to you he says you don't understand Baron Ginsburg over there who was religious Baron Ginsburg is a famous tish that's a Baron Ginsburg He's a he has a great eye. He's a very good businessman. If he's bidding for something, I want it. So he's and

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1. 0:04Okay, good morning. Um, I I want to talk about a little bit of a confusing…
2. 1:41the bidding war continues. Now that's that's one anecdote. Second story again that I can't vouch…
3. 3:18it's not true in any case this is just the ideas now there's a m that…
4. 4:53it's better to buy a mitzvah than to get a mitzvah for free. This is the…
5. 6:26Why? So the explain because everybody thinks that he's a little bit better than the cayenne.…
6. 8:26minogum swarm like the minhagim and klesner and yaspa and whatever all the different early ashknazi…
7. 9:58the whole year that was the mig now later on it got too hectic they had…
8. 11:32if you make a bidding war and now you have 45 people participating in alias so…
9. 13:08to come to rash so rash let's go through some of these reasons all the reasons…
10. 14:44where you don't do selling on itself try to buy an aliyah before which means they…

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