Are There Any Real Kohanim in Persia 06 08 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 want to talk about something uh internal internal uh politics a little bit. We're going to we're going to blow the lid on a little internal uh uh politics fight. Um, and that's as follows. It rather is no shame. Everyone knows this in every in regards to the ofanim there's always major sh one of the most recent big big and you know amongst and you know amongst in America was about you know it's something that traditionally it it comes up you know now and again big fights now as a as a as a funny introduction I saw a sh once in one of about a who someone who who maintained he was a cayenne extensively he was a cayenne who came from the former Soviet Union and he said my name is Cohen and I want to starting he had become and they were trying to research his family lineage to see if he was a cayenne or not and he sat down with a bzdon and the not and he sat down with a bzdon and the bezdon asked him could you tell us anything about your family's minagen now keep in mind this is a family that wasn't from for several generations they had been in the former Soviet Union not from at all and they were looking for something that they could hang their hat on to prove that this man was a cayenne and he says I remember that my grandfather told me that in his house when he was a kid, every Arab Yamiff of of the Yamim, his his wife would buy his grandfather, the great-grandmother would buy the great-grandfather a new pair of pants and it was a big s in the house. It was like a everyone knew Tati was

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1. 0:08Okay, good morning. Um, I want to talk about something uh internal internal uh politics a…
2. 2:43and he was able to to starting there are these type of shas about ascertaining who's…
3. 5:51Persia my my my during childbirth my wife was was almost going to die and I…
4. 8:24the persian persian thing you So makes a real and then we'll go to the to…
5. 11:27more he brings ras that mubber could already be called kind of a done deal since…
6. 13:59the would sit the ram says most of what was busy with on a day-to-day basis…
7. 17:08and after him the and the and others all passing like him that that um are…
8. 19:46Harimm and and uh and noir I described the interesting I I spent chavas to Shabas…
9. 22:58this has nothing to do with persians. Now by Persians is there's this extra layer is…
10. 25:32rabbis that we're quoting he himself was of Persian stock his father was was from Persia…

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