Are Beis Yaakovs Asur — Feminism in Halacha, Part 1 10 19 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 said I'm going to talk about uh our besakov's assurer. Um, our modern basakov's assurer. I plan on I plan to talk about that. Let's just give a a little introduction. Um, really the isim etc. But let's give a draft of an introduction. Now uh there every every uh like real critical change or foundation of something has what's called like a foundational myth where like all sorts of legends and stories are rolled up into one person into one are rolled up into one person into one time. Like the amount of stories about George Washington exactly a foundational myth. Now there's a lot of foundational myths that have to do with Byakov. Obviously um you know the storyline basically is that Sar heard a speech in Vienna right before World War I and based on that she decided to open the Bako movement. Now it's obviously a little more complex than that and I want to just give the background to to the time the era and explain how a a nice Blea girl who went to public school opened the Byakov movement that's probably the most movement that's probably the most successful innovation in the in the recent era in Kisro. So now what's interesting is that in Galitzia was controlled by Galitzia by the time of World War World War I had eight or 900,000 Jews living in it primarily orthodox Jews primarily from Jews cedisha Jews that's who lived in Galitia so it was a tremendous tremendous kibbut of of from Jews in Galitia now Galitzia was controlled by by the Austrohungarian Empire who had a big drive to correct

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