A discussion on the history, significance, and cultural role of the esrog in Jewish tradition.
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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.
hi everyone welcome to season four of this Farm chatter podcast on this episode of the podcast I was joined by three different guests um to discuss the new book called be fruitful the erogan Jewish art culture and history I was first joined by Professor Joshua toplitzky uh who is the editor one of the editors of this volume and we discussed the book generally as well as his chapter that he wrote In the book which is chapter 10 the estager risk re reward and ridicule I was then joined by Professor Deb Kaplan who co-authored Professor Deb Kaplan who co-authored chapter 7 with Professor Edward Fram which is titled the four species in premodern Europe views from east and west and finally I was joined by Dr Zev LF to discuss his chapter which is chapter 14 the Etro trade in the new world which was authored together with Professor Jonathan sarna so these uh this it's one podcast episode but it's going to be you know the in a row so it's first Professor tuski then Professor Kaplan then Dr ell so it was recorded separately and I put them together so just wanted to get here in the beginning and say that and as well
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