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Today's daf is
and we are about 20 lines from the
bottom of
we're in the middle of a
words
aeroy.
So bar hashem we've made it to the final
daf of perk elutraus a peric that feels
more like a maka
and we're in the middle of discussing
the simonym of the kosher fish. Now as
it relates to raid and tuml and
controversy and pmic that's very much
going to be the topic of today's raid
but up until that point we have another
fest daf. So keeping it super high
level, what makes a fish kosher? It's a
Mishna. It's based on any fish that has
snapper vikases, fins and scales
respectively are kosher fish. In the
event that the fish does not have
snapper or cascases, then the fish is
not going to be kosher. The Gmorra said
that the truth is anytime a fish has
cascer.
If it has snapper, you'd still have to
check to see whether it has cascases or
not. Which means that from a practical
standpoint, all you need to do to
determine whether a fish is kosher or
not kosher is see if it has cascases. If
it has scales, if it does, you know, it
has snapper, it's kosher. If it doesn't,
then obviously it not going to be
kosher. If that's the case, the garra
said, "Why then do we even talk about
the snapper?" And the garra gave a
shocking answer.
It's simply to make Tyra even bigger and
more beautiful than it already is. And
therefore, we add another simmon even
though in theory it's not something that
seems to be serving any practical uh
purpose. Now, as it relates to the first
part of today's daf, which will
naturally segue into the next part of
today's daf, we need to become familiar
with a few not so tucked away because
it's together with all the in the second
part of that talk about the
of the kosher.
The puss says that the following is
something that one is allowed to eat as
it relates to animals that live in sea.
as it relates to fish.
Any fish that has snapper and
those are the fish that you're
those are fish that you're not going to
be allowed to eat. So, it's pretty
straightforward. One says you're allowed
to eat the fish that have snapper and
kases. The other PK says you not let it
eat the fish that don't have snapper and
says the very end of yesterday's d which
was the first part of the ba that we're
in the middle of said
the first is an
second is [snorts] which mentions
it's talking about
what it is that you're not allowed to
eat. The part of the bry that we're up
to now is going to discuss
a dick in the PK says
the is very specific where in the water
these fish were found that if they have
snappes you're allowed to eat them and
if they don't have snapping you're not
allowed to eat them. They were found by
in the seas and in the streams. Next
says the same thing.
It sounds a little bit like what would
be if somebody found fish
and it wasn't
it was in a body of water otherwise it
couldn't live but it wasn't a yam or a
per se. What would be the there? In
fact, what's going to emerge from the
ensuing discussion is that all bodies of
water can be divided into four
categories. We have the yamim and the
now what's unique about is these are
natural sources of water and the water
flows. We're then going to have a
category that is going to be flowing
water but at the same time it's not yim
and it's not per se. what the and the
Garra is going to refer to as
it's not but it's eerily similar to then
we're going to have these
are ditches pits they're in the ground
where there could be bodies of water but
the is the water over there is not
flowing and then finally
in the event that somebody has a kali
and there's water inside that's very
different than the yam and all of this
is going to be discussed in the gamar in
terms of understanding
whether fish that's found in those other
places do they need to conform and
comply with the
then but in the event if it's
or maybe in the event that it wasn't
found so it doesn't meet this very
specific criteria that the talks about
maybe in that instance it's not going to
be okay now the truth is this may come
as a little bit of aesh for a few
reasons
I'm going to give it away. So, spoiler
alert. If you don't want to know the
ending before we go through the gamar in
real time, don't listen. But here's the
the punchline of the suga. What's going
to emerge is that in the event there is
a body of water
and it doesn't conform to yim and
is any fish that naturally germinate
from that body of water is going to be
mutter to eat. Even if it doesn't ask.
So for example, what's referred to as
sheray. Now you have to know if
sheramayim is fish or not fish. You know
don't do this without asking your local
rabbi. But the keeping it on a dio level
in the event that there's a kali and the
kali has water and this fish that didn't
come from a y or a but it germinated
from the shabi which scientifically you
have to understand and define a little
bit better. But again keeping this on a
level in the event that you have that
type of or maybe that type of fish. So
the is it's going to be mut you'll be
allowed to eat it even if it doesn't
have a snapper of gases. The same is
true in the event that the fish comes
from. Again if it came from a and then
it eventually ended up in
that situation of course it's not going
to be okay. But assuming it germinated
from the
then it's also going to be fine. If it
came from the
and that's similar to the and that the
terror says the only time you're allowed
to eat it is if it has a snap of the
cascuses. If it doesn't have a snappes
it's not okay. Either way that is the
masa. How we get to the masa it's a
little bit of a tricky bry up. We've had
a few of these recently. And on that
note,
it says in the
first of the mentioned earlier says,
"Why do you need those words?" Now, what
do you mean? Don't you have to know that
you're allowed to eat it? Yes. But look
at the end of the it says.
So why do you have to tell it to me
twice in the beginning of the and at the
end of the and kasha is the first time
it's mentioned. Why is it mentioned? Now
what's the obvious question on the
garasha? You're asking why it mentioned
it the first time. The kasha should be
why it mentioned it the second time. The
answer is going to be because we're not
going to have a good answer as to why it
mentioned it the second time. We'll have
a good answer of why it would have
mentioned the first time. So if the
first time is extra then we have a
little bit of mahal. So we're assuming
it's the first one that's extra and
knowing that already the
why did we mention it that first time?
cuz I would have thought
you find in this there's a to eat fish
that don't have the snapperes.
Not only is there a heter mentioned
once, there's a heter mentioned twice.
The one time that it's mentioned, it's
mentioned mafurish, which means
explicitly. The second time is it's
mentioned a little bit more implicitly,
but there's two
Just like the one that's mentioned,
we'll see what this all means later is
regarding meaning any fish or that
germinate in
that's going to be
and therefore I know that the one that's
mentioned where it's not so what exactly
the is but I know based on the one
that's mafurish is referring to so the
one that's also caim. So I know from
that any
fish that come from even if it doesn't
have a snapper is going to be well if
that's the case mean how do I know the
rabbit
and how do I know that the same would be
true in the event that there's
I'm allowed to be bend down and drink
and I have to be worried that maybe
there's some there's some there's some
fish over there I know it's going to be
mut because just like male is not
included in this is so to that shouldn't
include in the as well that's why the
said
that's extra and it's coming to be
an exclusion right that's an oxymoron
it's coming to be and what's that just
like is excluded from this doesn't have
to have so as it relates to the that's
in the
same is going to be true says the
okay so this is the
pretty cryptic. The question was it says
doesn't it say to read in the end of the
p the answer is here's the fast forward
to the end of the part of the what we
need it's coming to
that any fish that's found in that are
in
you can be
you don't have to be worried about all
these problems that maybe you're going
to end up eating a [ __ ] that doesn't
have snapifices you may end up in an
issue why would I need a murk because
although there is hectic
But that hat I know was only talking
about not
how do I know that
says where does this hat even come from?
I don't see anything about if there's a
head to the camel it's going to be okay
says the gar. Again, we know this cuz we
already spoiled this part of the
and then what does it say
the is clear that these conditions that
you have to have talking about what that
talking about in the event that the
water was and we learned from there that
it's over
where if it has to eat it and if not not
but as it relates to
even if it doesn't have it's going to be
Okay says the I hear the it says so you
want to tell me the only time there's a
snap ofases is if it's not for example
even if it doesn't have it's going to be
okay says the I like the I don't know if
I'm so convinced about the conclusion
why don't we make the carrot
[laughter] maybe the way you have to
make the is that the only time you're
ever allowed to eat fish even if it has
is only if
But in the event that it's maybe the is
that even if it has it's not going to be
okay.
Don't even have such a thought enter
your mind because look at the next says
and what is the end of the it says over
there right you're not eat when the
Torah talks about the fish that you're
not allowed to eat. says if it doesn't
have and it's beyond what do you see
from there it's clear
it's
but if it's you're not going to have the
even if you don't have it it's going to
be okay even though from the first the
is maybe a little bit murky I can go
both ways but from the second it's
pretty clear and that is that
that's where you have the of if it
doesn't have gases So you say if it's
not
it sounds like you wouldn't have the
which means the in the first is the same
exact and that is
it's
when you need the snap of the to be able
to eat it but if it's beum even if it
didn't have the snap of the casces it's
going to be okay the bottom line is
that what do you see from
You see clearly from the words that
if however was you wouldn't have this
you wouldn't have this
but I only know right I only know what
about
that was the I telling you the words
that's a it's a to
that this of meetings not the is true
not only for
not
and also not in the
but asks another
why don't we say
that when it says in the beginning of
the
says so that first word is
that's right this is only true if it's
And
and we should say means only what's in
the and if that's the case it should be
in the it should be that only if the
fish was in the is there of
says but if it's in the then already so
what's the kasha it's like a double
kasha thear's kasha is why do I need a
to tell me that the mind that's in the
is excluded I know it's excluded without
the fromal. Oh, and by the way, I think
the should not only be for it should be
even for right. Again, we gave it away.
We know is not included in the
that you're telling me that without
I would only know to be why why is this
not a and it should be only true I mean
it sounds like a solid it should only be
true for which would mean not it would
mean not
it would even mean not [laughter] but
why do I need to be in the mirror here.
I should know that. So the says because
it's not a you know what it is it's
actually a
how so because it says the word a second
time it says
the second mention of
it's a cloud
says before we even get involved in the
cloud says this is not a cloud
the two clouds are right next to each
other right
and then it says
is the second cl. What's the
clu? That's not
said incorrect.
Right from
they used to say
every time you find two claws that are
next to each other.
You could take the mean is the same as a
cloud.
You can dash into a cloud. The bottom
line is this is not a
okay so explain meaning how would that
play itself out does the work for us
what's the rule so you always
just like the
is talking about water that flows the
water flows so we're going to be anytime
the water flows my what are we going to
Even though it's not but the water flows
from there and therefore we're going to
be
what are we going to be might what's
going to be excluded
that's going to be and that's why
are going to be you want to know why
it's going to be it's going to be based
on the clock now if you hit the pause
button now for a second you'd scratch
your head one second we said that is
because not because of the
Hold that thought says the
but why wouldn't you say that the way
you da is that the prat is mafurish
that's water that naturally is algabi
so too we'll include in it any that's
naturally
and if that's the case
then maybe the only thing we should
is
says the in other words how do you know
from the cloud to cloud to bear
is maybe the only thing you should be is
what's the
vers is not what's the water flows how
do you know that's the scope of the
maybe the ka is anything that's in the
ground as opposed to if it's in the ki
then [laughter] is you would have an
isar not a hat there's the punch line
and this is where the whole gamar comes
together in kane
Then what do I need for if I care? That
was the whole punch line of the
coming
depending if you're a glass half empty,
glass half full, right? We're dealing
with water here. But either way, the
point is
let's do a little bit of a soma because
again this was a very nuanced gimar.
What the Gar is saying is the P that
talks about the fish begins by saying
and it concludes by saying the first
mention of is and the question is why do
we even mention it? What emerges from
the maso
of the gumar is cuz in this pik as much
as we're laying down the law of the sea
as it relates to when fish are kosher
and fish are not kosher and the rule is
if it has snapases it's kosher and if it
doesn't have snapases it's not going to
be kosher but the also mentions that
this is true this for fish and theim and
the tolo that are found we found in the
yam
which opens up the window to assume that
maybe it's not always going to be true
and that's why I need the words
to teach me that if the water was
and that's where you found these in that
instance even if it doesn't have assets
it's still going to be okay right that
was the initial bry what emerged after
further review is the way this developed
was as follows that really in the cloud
because
and then it says again
and then it says it's a cloud which said
they said is the same as a cloud. What
you have over here is a cloud.
It would have been to say that we're
going to be anything that's similar to
included in that would be that's really
similar because the water flows like the
additionally included
where even though it doesn't flow but
it's
the only thing we would have been but
now that it says
that's a to
or to redefine exactly how I'm going to
view
the cloud and what we say is that the is
only
the but as it relates to the that's like
the that's going to be hence at the end
of the day we call
that it's going to be that it's not
included it's excluded from the
either way says the gimmar
well but we just mentioned Now was one
version of how we come to this that as
it relates to
or fish that's
is going to be okay.
They learned this a little bit
differently. They said it says
it says it twice. This is not a this is
not a
what this is is. Now we know throughout
there's a tan whether we dion what seems
like a and a prat as or whether we dian
as a what's the difference between
so
the rule is
I'm sorry
if you
is the equivalent of
So it's
when you have you have even more than
everything
only one thing that's the only thing
that we're going to said that the way
you learn this over here thems
but rather it's in the mahal of
how Oh,
the second time.
So if you have everything my what are
you going to be
then eat
what are you going to bear?
So you want to know why is going to be
according to it's because they held it
was and
what's the one what's the most obvious
thing to bear
what's obvious that's not the most
obvious thing to be most obvious is
if you're being everything with the
exception of one thing you should
include in the
memar
says
But I'm
because it says
so that's how I know to go ahead and I
have to be
or
another thing right and what's the other
thing I'm going to be the other thing
I'm going to be is the
and the says the
how do I know that we're being the and
we're being
Right. Why are we assuming that
is less similar to the
maybe
that are less similar? So says
the reason I'm being
because they're all in one place.
They're
right in one area in one location like
the
as opposed to
which are not they flow and as a result
they're more similar to the reo that's
why I'm going to be whereas I'm going to
be so
held the same thing that the previous
that if you have water and there's fish
there there's over there again it's posh
What's the
is if it's snap of a cascus it's okay if
there's no snap of it's not going to be
okay
as it relates to
same thing as it relates to
there even if it doesn't have it's going
to be kosher and certainly if it's going
to be the same thing how they got there
was a little bit different the t of the
first riser got there through the
methodology of clawat the tana
of the got it through the methodology of
but at the end of the day they ended up
sort of uh they ended up sort of in the
same place and that is there's going to
be no
said that even though there's a cloud
according to the first and there's
according to
at the same time we needed some
assistance in order to get to where we
got by having the extra words as because
based on the cloud alone I would only
know to and based on the mid I only know
to be it's because I also have I add
those extra words that's how I know that
we're going to be in the and what are we
going to be
one obvious that and that is holds
we always make such a big deal about
this he's
one time you know he cli
So what's going on over here? I mean
it's not it's yeshiva. But it'd be hard
to believe that in Raish's yeshiva they
didn't follow the of
says what's the it's because it's not a
regular cloud. This is a cloud and even
holds that if you have a clu that's a
ready reboot. So when do I hold cloud?
That's if it's your traditional cloud
but to the extent that it's a cloud
but again this is all semantics because
at the end of the day
everybody ended up in the same place
just one postcript before uh we get to
the latter part of the daf and that is
that if you go back to the beginning of
the
said it says
as if there were two
of some type of fish that even though it
doesn't have
mentioned in one time it was mafurish
the other time it was just like the
mafurish one is only at least that's
what you would think without
based on the cloud made so the one that
is the same way. Now what are the two uh
so it's obvious it's the two that
mention
and
it's clearly those two but the wants to
know which is the one and which is the
one
says
which we spoke a lot about this in the
beginning of the Ra you find a lot of
plea buzz and we don't know who said
what because who's rav
and ra they're both the right-hand men
of raash and that's why so so many times
in just like we don't know sometimes who
said what because they always come
together
and falls into this category but either
way
once said
the first that says says
that's the one that's
going to be as opposed to the next
that's the one that's where it's not the
other ones are just the opposite
explains
the one that said why would he say
that's the one that's
tell you
he said because what do you mean go back
to The
original bride said that seems to be the
from
that
is telling you what you're allowed to
eat. If it's
and it's
then it has to have gases. But it sounds
like if it's not it doesn't have to have
snapas. So this is the one that's
telling you what you're allowed to eat
and it's telling you you can eat
something that's although if it's has to
have so this is where it's
if it's not
if even if it doesn't have right sounds
uh clear again why would this be the one
that says the other one says the other
but this is the one that says my time
that said why did he say that
because you remember the earlier said
that how do I know in this that what the
is saying is that when it comes to even
if it doesn't have maybe even if it has
maybe it's
the only time you're allowed to eat it
is if it's a and b if it's not could be
it's two criteria but if it doesn't have
excuse
or if it's not
at all then I can never read it. So what
was the answer to that? The answer to
that was is I knew from the next that
it's not that way. So being that this
second P was really mala on the first P.
So that's the one that mean the first
one is but the second one is where it's
how exactly you supposed to read the
first but either way says the what's
that hold that is
only the first
it was only because of in the second
that the is only true
if it's not it's now I know that the
first when it says that you [snorts]
have to have
it means because if it's not I'm allowed
to eat it if even if it doesn't have the
second was on the first P that's why
it's the second P that's considered a
first again from the first P alone there
would have been two ways to make the of
as opposed to either
it's always or it's always right the P
just tells you
What if it's
so always even if it doesn't have always
even if it has
talking about is and it makes the same
dick. So there I know the is only a so I
know already the
is only true.
So if that's the case must be that it's
mut it's
even if it doesn't have
which means that when the first p told
me the or with regards to
it was coming to exclude not that it's
always us that it's always so again
there's two ways to look at it which is
why
and
and looked at it in these two uh
conflicting ways. Either the first one
is mafurish because that's the one
that's talking about or the second one
that is mafurish because that's the one
that teaches me how to learn the puzz
[laughter]
but being that I don't see it murish in
the pik without having to come on to the
second puzz that gives new muck to learn
that the second pik
is really going to be the one that
either way this concludes the longer
harder more complicated part of today's
daf the second part of the doaf
really can go as quickly as we can talk.
select.
Now let's just meditate for one second
on this that we just said
and that is if somebody has a body of
water and inside this body of water
there's some aer maybe even a fish that
somehow germinated there from the water
is there's no eat it doesn't have to be
kosher not kosher no gases
it's going to be it's even true based on
the that's going to be okay based on
that I'm going to tell you something.
Beer sometimes would be wormy back in
the day. And there was an understanding
that the worms that were found inside
the beer germinated from the beer
itself. And if that's the case, it's the
equivalent of
that's right because the beer doesn't uh
come from the sea. It comes from the
keg. Uh right, the bang or wherever it
comes from. But the bottom line is
that's where it originates from. And if
that's the case, really it should be
mut. So if somebody wanted to go and
just drink beer without sifting it and
making sure that these worms were not
there, as long as you know it came in
bay from the beer, that in of itself
would be okay. So with that, but there's
one thing you better be sensitive to,
and that is
because even though these worms are
kosher, but let's be honest, I'd rather
not have the worms, right? So therefore,
if somebody's going to go ahead and he's
going to want to sift them out, and he's
doing it in the evening. So old school,
you don't have Gishmaka strainer. So
what they do is they would take like
twigs, they would put it on top of their
beer uh mug, and now you're pouring from
the cask on top of it, and you're hoping
that all the worms end up staying on
top. He says, "Don't do that at night
cuz
I'm concerned that the beer has worms
and the worms are going to crawl a
little bit on top of the twigs on top of
this uh proverbial sifter
and they're going to fall into the
and now you're going to have a problem
cuz as much as it's true that these
schwatzum are okay if they're naturally
from the beer, but the minute it starts
creaking a little bit on dry land or
even on top of these twigs, now you're
going to have an issue." And if that's
the case, don't do this. If this are
you're worried about, you're telling me
that even though the is going to be
multip
issue, well, if that's the case, but
then even when the beer is in the kay,
why you not concerned,
maybe this tas was somehow able to get
out of the beer. It crawled on the walls
of your beer mug or of the keg
and then it fell back in. And why is
that not an issue? says how revisit it's
inside the mug in the b in the barrel
then already that's that's considered
that it didn't leave its natural habitat
and as a result that doesn't make it a
if it's on top of these twigs even
though it's part of the beer pouring
process that's already considered
external that's when you have an issue
says how do I know
that what that in the event that the
sherets is pish but it's within its
natural habit that it's going to be okay
says we learned
sounds familiar that was the previous
price that we just spent the first half
hour on and that is how do you know that
in the event that somebody wants to bend
down and just drink water from you could
do it I there might be uh things that
you're not allowed to eat there it's
fine it says
why you not worry that maybe one of
these little creatures went to the wall
of the
crawled a little bit and fell back in.
And if that's the case, it should be
awesome because
you have to say because that's natural
habitat. And just like it's natural for
these creatures to be on the walls of
the same is true for the beer and as
well it's not going to be an issue.
I have a from a to support you.
that even though you have here something
that naturally grows inside the beer but
to the extent that it goes on top of
this se at that point it's going to be
an issue. So if it's on top of these
twigs you're going to have problem don't
do it night because you won't know if it
happened. So what's the
says
it's coming to certain types of nats
that [snorts] used to grow inside the
wine. And what's the
in the that you go ahead and you strain
them, right? So the is if you sift them
out, it's going to be and it's learned
from
now. It's only a problem if you sift it.
because they naturally come from the
wine. So what's the problem if you
sifted it because now we're ready with
sogra
I'm worried about
him
not beer wine which is of course
here too naturally if there's something
there I'm not so concerned about it but
the minute it crawls a little bit that's
when I would have initially
talk to you. So on the topic of
again what's this idea that if you have
something that grows naturally in a body
of water in a beverage as we'll see in a
minute even in a fruit. So it's it's
going to be okay. However, if it's
then already it it knocks it out and
makes it a problem
as relates to this vegetable
that became wormy and it became wormy
while the was attached to the ground
is it's going to be a problem. Why?
Because this worm walks inside the kish
is attached to the ground. So even
though it comes from the but the is part
of the and if it's part of the it's
going to be right the same even though
you have the the worm from the beer and
the knat from the wine here you have the
worm and the but the minute it's
it's giving took it to such an extreme
he said even though it's in the but if
the are attached to the ground that's
already says I think I have a
says
it's coming to me certain types of nats
that are inside lentils.
Additionally, the which is another type
of sher that's inside chickpeas.
[laughter]
Well, the words that are sometimes found
inside dates and figs. The point is all
these things are going to be why they
cuz they're not. So if they're naturally
from these places it's okay but another
and we learn from
that if you have a that's in the root of
the it's going to be an you have a ste
what's going on over here are the inside
the fruit kosher or not kosher
isn't it reasonable to assume that
they're both talking about they're
inside the berry
where it says it's where was attached to
the ground. Oh, it's attached to the
ground. So now it's
if it's not attached then it's going to
be but the bottom line is
says
they're both talking about where they
were attached cuz being attached then of
itself is not an issue. If you're
walking in the kishos just because the k
is attached is not going to be a
problem.
one is talking about where you found the
tas in the py then it's mut even if it's
attached the one that says that it's
going to be a problem is when it was
walking in the actual elong the elon is
different in the attached to maybe not
but in the elong that for sure was an
issue
what does means the root you're talking
about the actual tree
you see clearly
that this has nothing to do with fact
discusses is this a right because it
sounds like it might be a it sounds like
the only time it's going to be a problem
if it's
if however it's in the fruit and the
fruit is attached then maybe it won't be
an issue
the following question he said what
would be if there was a that naturally
grew inside a fruit which again we
[clears throat] see is not really
awesome if it showed It's not for sure
it's going to be. What if it was pier?
It came out of the fruit and the minute
it came out of the fruit before it was
able to walk the proverbial dalis boom
it plit.
What is
what would be
if part of the came out but part of it
didn't come out?
What would be if it came
it didn't even touch the ground before
it touched the ground? At that point
somebody went ahead and ate it. What
would be the in all these cases take
away? A similar question.
What would be if the worm came out of
the fruit and never walked on the
ground, but it took a little bit of a
stroll on the rooftop of the fig, right?
It's war, the date, right? It's walking
on top of this date. What would be the
over there?
Or what would be if it didn't leave the
actual fruit and walk on top of the
fruit, but it walked on the roof of the
seed. So, it was inside the seed. It
comes out of a seed and it's all inside
the fruit and it's walking on top of the
the seed of the fruit. What would be the
luck in those case again? Is this
tomorrow? What would it be if there were
two tomorrow next to each other and
somehow it made like a tunnel? It was
able to get from one tomorrow to the
other tomorrow.
All these we're going to have to wait
for
said. So if it's probably
right
you find
says cooki are certain worms that were
found inside the liver and the lungs of
the animal. These things are going to be
awesome my time. What's the reason?
Because the animal must have swallowed
it. That's how it got there. And if it
came so that would be an issue said if
they really came
they should be in the digestive tract
why they in the liver why they in the
lungs they're in the wrong place and uh
Raashi therefore said
that I don't think they came from
somewhere else they must have naturally
germinated again whatever that means in
the liver or in the lungs and as a
result they're actually going to be say
that raid didn't
He said it's my timely cuz I believe it
never came from it's not it's and being
that over here he saidashi he's not
going to ask he's going to support it's
obvious
you should have found it
and being that it wasn't must be and if
that's the case it's going to be so
what's
so after two versions of sounds like
should be really my time and what's the
reason
because it could be it really came from
outside I why is it not in the the mug
somewhere cuz maybe it came direct the
nostrils I wouldn't you know wouldn't
the animal know the animal should have
sneezed it out or something maybe that
while he was sleeping the bottom line is
as a result is you still have to be
it's going to be awesome
So what are these? So Rashi says these
are that are found between the skin and
the flesh of the animal. So they they
skin the animal all of a sudden they
found these worms
the if you find the same guys inside the
fish
it's going to be
in fact
Ravina told his mother.
So he knew that sometimes these were
found inside the fish. He also knew it
was kosher, but he was a little
squeamish. Was Ravino. So Ravina tells
his mother, he says, "Do me a favor.
Grind them well. I just don't want to
see them." Yeah, they taste fine. I'm
okay with them being in the recipe, but
I'd rather you turn them into some sort
of thing that I'm not able to see. Told
his mother, bottom line is this was
something he was okay with.
I don't understand. And you're telling
me that this these that are in the fish
are going to be doesn't the
[laughter]
you see the ones in the which we
mentioned.
So what's the difference between the
between the fish told it's not
the way becomes
it becomes
being that the doesn't help for it.
For that reason, it's going to be
related to fish.
Fish don't need
therefore these when they grow, it's not
going to be an issue. Here's the point.
These
and the
grew naturally in the behem and in the
fish respectively. As a result, it's not
included in this because is only if it's
therefore naturally speaking this should
be okay stating that when it comes to
the bus is another reason it's problem
you know why because everything natural
to the need so if this is part of the
you still need and there's no mucker to
say that therefore remains
fish don't require you just have to make
sure it's not a
it's not a and it's for that reason this
is something that is going to be
another. So the says
talk about different
you're not allowed to eat these things.
So this
referring to the snake also to eat the
rabbit
you're not let the worm right. from the
snake to the worm and everything in
between
to a scorpion.
The word coil is
it's coming to mean the first coil was
on
the second coil is
anything that is even similar to the
that's the centipede in English
if it's similar or if it's similar to
similar take a look at the what those
two things are and if it's similar what
does it like similar Ben similar but
either way this is something that the
talk about and what's the bottom line
before we see this very very last
and make so before this last
what emerged really from today's d I
think is a very big kadesh very very big
if someone never learned this is going
to be a little surprising and that is
there are certain fish worms
that you're allowed to eat there's an
idea that a sheret that naturally grows
in a body of water that's not
either it comes from a or it comes from
it's okay there is no laws of
you let it bend over to and just drink
from it I who knows what in the world
you're going to end up drinking it's
fine listen as long as it naturally came
from there as long as it naturally came
from there that of itself is going to be
okay the same is true for food like
regular [laughter] if you have a a fruit
that's wormy assuming that it germinated
from the fruit itself. It was never who
would want to eat it. Even Ravina was a
little I'm not sure I'm so in up to
this. [laughter] But the bottom line is
is that also is going to be okay. It's
all based on over here. Either way, he's
up to
feels like a harden
in the world of kosher fish and
non-coosher fish. You should know that
leviosen is a kosher fish. Now I know
that Paul success and this is of
he was talking about the he said
it [clears throat] has shields that
protect it
has shields right is uh big strong it's
powerful so it has a shield that
protects it and that's the scales that
protect the fish
what's that referring to
means it's sharp. They have these sharp
fins that allow them to swim, allow them
to get around. That's referring to the
fins. The bottom line is if it has
scales and it has fins, if it has casim
and it has that means it's kosher.
And on that note, Hadrron Allutus.
So as it relates to raid
perutus
concluded with the sugas related to
fish, I think it's kadai to end with one
last raid bite. Again, no one says we're
not going to come back to this uh raid
in the next perk or two, but at least to
end and make a hydr on perk elut with a
topic related to fish is a kosher or is
a non-coosher that many many years ago
took the world by storm. In fact, the
Russia in this whole no was none other
than the great
land of Prague. In fact, the chua that
the Yehuda wrote about this uh
particular fish goes down as arguably
the most famous truva. So imagine that
because there are a few pretty famous
ones, but this is definitely in the
conversation. It's on the Mount Rushmore
of Chu in terms of the impact that it
made
and the legacy that this chuva holds.
So the chuva which is printed ironically
in Madura.
This is not a Madura ga but this is a
Madura. It's ina
the background is that
there was a a kahila
in Romania/Hungary
that was called Teameshvar. The kila of
Tameshvar had formerly been a kahila of
Ashkenazi Jews. But over the last few
decades prior to when the Bhuda sat down
and and wrote this cha a lot of them had
come from you know different countries
and they had settled it to the point
that the kilo of tevar was almost 50%
Ashkanazi and 50%.
Now there was a certain fish that was
native to that area. The fish in the cha
from the nhuda is called the sterile or
the sterile. Today it's known as the
sterlet which is a member of the
sturgeon species of fish. More about
that later. And this fish the Ashkenazi
Jews and Tishvar had not eaten you know
as long as anybody could remember. But
now you have all these fi Jews that are
coming and they say that in Morocco, in
Tunisia, these different places that we
lived in, we used to also have access to
this uh sterile and we used to eat it.
And as a result, they're arguing that
this fish is is really kosher. Now, what
happened was these two men hug him
emerged. There were the Jews that ate
it. There were Jews that didn't eat it.
In the year 1781, Teeshvar hired a new
RV and the RV's name was Rati Heres
Sego. He was auda,
my great rabbi, and he sends a letter to
his rabbi. And he asks his rabbi, this
fish, is it kosher? Is it not kosher?
And included in the package that he sent
him, right? This must have gone
certified mail or FedEx. He sends him an
actual fish and he tells you that this
is the fish that everybody's talking
about. Everybody's tumbling about and I
I need to be m this BECAUSE IT MAKES
SENSE. SOME say it's kosher, the others
say this is not kosher. Is it okay or is
it not okay? So [snorts]
sits down and he writes a truth. He
says,
you don't see this every day, right?
Every starts, but doesn't usually come
with a bottle of wine, right? It doesn't
usually come with a fish, right? Sounds
nice. But
I got this the day after
together with the fish and you asked me
to try to figure out what's going on
over here. Now it seems that one of the
questions
had asked was these Jews that are coming
from far away lands. Do they have an
ammonos to say that where we were people
used to eat it? Like are they even
believed? And that's really what the
first paragraph of the chu is about. He
says,
"You want to know if they're believed?"
He says, "Number one, this is
believed." But besides, it's not an
tellahil. People are coming and telling
you. So, in terms of believing their
used to eat this fish, there's no
question in the world that this is
something that's going to be okay. He
says, "Anino,
I took the fish and I looked at it and I
experimented on it and I tried figuring
out whether this is okay or not and I'm
going to tell you what my findings
were." But in order to appreciate the
finding of the we need to learn one ram
this raan is and it's on the p of
which was the topic of the last two
this is such a critical
what are fins
right these are uh what the animal swims
with kasim what are scales
These are what is part and parcel of the
actual fish. It's and it comes from the
says the rabbi
even though said that the to the fish do
not mistakenly understand the words of
the sages to mean
that they're literally attached to the
body of the fish
and they're literally one with the or
with the skin of the fish. They're not.
TERM. THE ONLY reason they're referred
to as
it's because
they don't move.
They don't flap the same way the fins
do. But really, really, they could be
removed. In other words, they don't move
when they're attached, but they could be
removed. In fact,
these are the round scales
whose surface is the same as a
fingernail.
which can be peeled off the skin of the
fish by hand or with a knife.
Anytime you have these scales that are
literally
and they're attached to the skin of the
fish
and they cannot be removed, you can't
detach them from the of the
not scales of and the owner of this fish
would not be allowed to eat it
says he goes to work over here. That's
why the said we learned the
yesterday's
that it's a what does it mean it's a
because a garment a beggar you could
take on you could put back off
because a beggar is something that you
could take on you could put
says take a look at the you know uncleas
says
What does mean? It means to peel.
They're peels.
You can peel them the same way you can
peel the bark of a tree or you can peel
a fruit.
[laughter]
That talks about the armor that golas
was wearing and it describes it as
says, "If you ever saw the armor that
these tough guys used to wear, they were
all made of these metal rings."
So they were covered with metal, right?
And sometimes there were little gaps in
the metal. So what they would do is they
would take these casin and they would go
and they would [snorts] close plug those
those little holes. But those were
things that you can plug and if you
wanted to remove, you can remove it. And
that's why armor is referred to as
kascasm because of the nature that this
is something that you can be that can
come on and something that can come off.
Bottom line said that you want to know
what kasamarasim
are scales and even though the mishna
says
IT'S SO MISLEADING BECAUSE REALLY IT'S
ALMOST THE OPPOSITE SOUNDS LIKE YOU
CAN'T MOVE IT. YOU HAVE TO BE ABLE to
move it AND IF YOU CAN'T move it it's
NOT SCALES. IT'S BY DEFINITION then you
can move. Now I know that because refer
to it as a and if look at tag refers to
it AS AND IT'S THE MUSH of kasim is
referring to golas the bottom line is
the raan went ahead and ramban said an
unbelievable
he said that the only time scales are
scales is if they could be removed if
they can't be removed now why is this
right we got to absorb this because this
is where the whole sturgeon controversy
you know you know nothing about sturgeon
this is where it starts It starts
because the Ramban is saying that the
have to be removable because doesn't say
it. It's not it's not it's not anywhere.
It's nowhere in FACT
BECAUSE THE MISHNA SAYS SOUNDS LIKE THEY
CAN'T BE MOVED.
And the Raan said just the opposite.
Scales need to be removable. And if
they're not adjustable and they're not
removable and that's stuck, you can't
take it off. In that instance, this is
not going to be considered a scale. How
do I know that? I'm I'm learning a
and analysis because the we refer to it
as this
mentioned that in a few different
places. AND AS WHAT DOES MEAN? It means
peels. And based on that, if you cannot
peel it, it's not going to it's not
going to be kosher.
The
First
is literally a
only time something's called is if you
can remove it.
But if you can't peel it,
it's not called. What's the says? It's
the
if you look at the Mishna, what's the to
the Mishna? It's the Ramb. So
in the first brings this and that is the
only time a fish is considered a kosher
fish is in the event that it has scales
that can be removed. But to the extent
that these scales cannot be removed in
that instance, it's not going to be
considered a kosher. So says
in these next two paragraphs are epic.
He said, I experimented with this fish.
They have two rows of scales.
You know, I tried peeling them off with
my hand. I couldn't. the cuff and the
cle they could be removed with a kayali
and as long as they could be removed
with a kali that's uh the criteria that
you need that satisfies said that's
enough to say it's considered
he said I put it in water and I left it
there
and I added I added some chemical inside
of it and after that I was even able to
peel it with my own hand
says says,
"Even had I not been able to peel it
before I soaked it in this chemical
laden.
I would have thought that's okay.
Don't suggest
you're going to say maybe." What do you
mean? If you add chemicals and now all
of a sudden you're able to peel it,
that's a sign of the chemicals removed
it. The mayam is what moved it. I didn't
do it. I didn't do it. It was the MIND
THAT DID IT. WHO CARES?
I read the Ramban said that it has to be
a lavush means it can come off. WHAT'S
THE DIFFERENCE HOW YOU REMOVE IT? If you
remove it
said or you did it with some chemical if
I can remove it, I can remove it. So to
me the maybe this says I was able to get
it off a clay but the minute I soaked it
boom it came off in a second. 3 hours
you'll see it's going to peel right off.
Add a little chemicals. Who cares? At
the end of the day, this was something I
was very easily able to remember. Says
for as far as I'm concerned, this fish
sounds kosher. Then the go I'm sorry
that laid out
that in the event that you can't peel
it, it's not considered kosher.
If there was anyone else in the world
that would have said,
I would have gone up against him
because who cares that you can't peel
it?
Who ever said a word about
what that means?
says, "You're worried about the Can you
explain to me how you're going to read
this?"
So the is also the bus is also what can
you peel off the skin of an animal of a
person? Could you remove his buser? No.
He says, "Okay, maybe it's not the
biggest r in the world, but the bottom
line is it doesn't say it anywhere.
And what about
in fact said if you ask me I think I
have a not like because if you take a
look at the
olive so the son says somebody brought a
certain fish and he asked is this a
kosher fish or is this not a kosher
fish? So the says went to the son
it had scales and he said it was says
who cares that he looked in the sun and
he saw that it had scales.
How did he know that you were able to
peel it?
He should have tried.
This is a not like the Raman.
So he says, "You're asking me, you know,
Ian, I know this Ramb." And if it wasn't
the Ramb,
you know why? Four reasons. Four
reasons. No, it doesn't say a word about
anywhere. It's not in
number two. The
says means
what really means. It's not it means it
doesn't flap BUT NO SOUNDS LIKE IT'S
part and parcel the of what about
and I've done because the whole story
about wanted to see if an animal he saw
scales he knew IT WAS GOOD TO GO. What
do you mean just because it has scales?
Yeah, it means it has fins.
We understand that. But how do you know
you can peel it? Why didn't he check? He
assumed it from it was ALL ABOUT SCALES
MEAN NOTHING if you can't PEEL IT SHOULD
HAVE said he saw that scales and he says
if you're asking me you're asking me
this whole is a
no choice Because if everybody brings in
who am I to be I have no choice and we
have
I'm being even though I don't understand
it
as long as he can peel it.
I don't care how you got it off.
He writes this
of
Hungary. You should know
this fish that you sent me
without any question in the world.
was another fish which is a whole
another discussion that was mentioned
that's called the tick seems to also
come from the species of uh sturgeon so
that he didn't send him the actual fish
but the other one that you mentioned
assuming
if it meets this criteria and he says
that's what it sounds like from you but
I don't know I didn't see it
without any doubt in the world it's
going to be okay
receives this letter from his from the
god
And he immediately goes and he tells his
mut this is okay you're allowed to eat
it everything is fine and word slowly
starts to spread you know within Hungary
Romania that part of Europe and the word
gets out that the was mata the fish this
sterlet fish the stittle and people went
and people start eating it now
[clears throat] just to appreciate for a
second the
really two Right. Number one, he's
saying that when the Ramban said that
you have to be able to remove it, I
don't care how you're able to remove it.
As long as he can remove it, that's
going to be okay. Even if it takes 3
hours of water and even if you have to
add some chemical into it, I don't care.
Right? His
right? It doesn't matter how. As long as
you can remove it, that it means it's a
and that in of itself is going to be
okay. And it's coming a little bit from
a place that this whole to me.
But the bottom line is that's the first
of
right. No one said it before.
I don't know if I go ahead and I add
some chemicals to it. That's going to be
okay. But that's the first second to be
hud and this is a very big is that the
and it sounds like in Hungary was to be
people did not eat this fish. So to go
ahead now and say that something that
is not so one of the to it being not so
is one line
is
if someone wants to get out of it you
can't be mate
If we know that
and we don't know why they were you can
give me reasons why you think it should
be but unless you know the reason that
they were and you know how to undermine
that reason is it has to remain and it's
not push to go ahead and say that
is suddenly going to be and again with
his big plates said to me this is this
doesn't even fall into that it's mutas
and snap I don't want for my life it's
the kosha fish this is what he sends
back everything is going to be okay
fast forward about
15 or so years later there was a tal of
the
who at the time was a rov of a very
kahila in Hungary the town of Ard. By
the way, not to be confused with Ard
install, but in the town of of Ard, but
this was a man who years later would go
down in infamy. His name was Arin. Arun
is today considered one of the
protoreformers
and this is invar.
So he describes him as
Rabiner. He says
just like was
he was he was the one that fought very
hard for the organ you know the Hamburg
temple in 1819 and he got involved in a
lot of controversies and he was on the
wrong side of everything during the
latter part of his life and again called
him but at the time he's aud
He comes across as being very sincere
and very errant and
he decides that it's autbah that there
are people in Hungary that are still
being mach and not eating this sterile
fish despite the fact that
went and said that it was mut and one
day he goes and he in a very public way
he goes to the shook it's on an air of
shabas and he says I'd like to buy 100
lb of uh sterlet and even that other
fish that tick that mentioned that he
never saw but if it mirrors this fish
it's going to be okay. It makes a big
public uh spiel out of it. Word got
around and I don't know why the gap of
time but several years later another
Hungarian RV someone by the name of
Rabitzkab
he was the pak sharu he was the roof
again Hungary Hungarian city of pox pox
he came and he got very disappointed
very upset at the fact that was making
such a big deal about this and even
though he's a bhuda and the hud was make
but he felt that this was something that
was very very wrong and he got into it
with Araar and they started having an
old school intellectual debate. So if
you're familiar with pmics from back in
the day so sometimes they would just
duke it out in a couple of truis and
sometimes they double down. They start
writing contresses and migillas and and
it gets very very intense and in the
year 1798
this is uh 17 years after the huda had
written his chuva. It's 5 years after
the huda already passed away. He sits
down and he writes a he calls it this is
and he's making the argument for why it
is that this fish is mut and that this
is coming out against me
held its mut how's it possible that a
Hungarian rabbi with a small can go
ahead and pan and even have a certain
cano AGAINST PEOPLE THAT ARE MAKE it's a
AND HE WAS SO UPSET and he goes ahead
and he writes this say for
we he talks all about everything and he
comes out very very strong. Now was a
very clever man till the end of his
life. He was very very smart and did his
work before he went ahead and he
published the imra he verified that the
tru from the huda was authentic. Now
let's appreciate something you know we
live in a world right now where we have
chuhuda on demand right so uh we have
madura kama we have madura
if you know the history of chuva madur
kama was printed in what year drum roll
1776 that's when the first edition of
I don't know if it was July 4th but 1776
is when the first maduras you want to
know what the yidd were doing in 1776
there's an answer but that our founding
fathers But 1776 that's the year that
the first madur of was printed the
second madur was printed in 1811 many
years after almost 20 years after was
nif by
these
chuvas all of this excitement took place
between the printing of madurama and
madura which means this tru is obviously
not in madurama we said it's in madurana
it was put there by rebu but at the time
this is not like a chuva that you can
find you know in a Er, because it hadn't
been published yet. So, who has the
chuva? Seel has the chuva. Now,
had reached out to Seel and he asked him
if he could send him the real trua. He
sent it to him. But he was even smarter
than that. He took the chuva and he sent
it to Prague and he said,
"Was this authentic?" He did, right?
what's getting [clears throat]
HE LITERALLY DID A AND HE ASKED them and
he gets back a letter that's signed by
who's now the the
Prague the son
who's another one to be the SON AND A
FLECK LIST ABOUT AND THEY ALL say
this is 100% legit this is a real tr so
when he comes out now and he's going to
write them
There's n be no bubber misers over here.
I know this is a real truth. And he goes
out, he puts it out and he comes out
guns blazing. But
he went and he wrote a response. His
response was called right. So you know
what a m is.
So he comes out with no and he says
and he comes out with a and he writes
this rebuttal and he comes after. Now
there was a little bit of history
between
and
is a you know again at that poem he
wasn't but he's a leftleaning type of
rabbi you know a little
too liberal for for sure for the
Hungarian raon
he's a
he's now budging one iota from the
messiah right that's the world that he
comes from and the bottom line is
they go at a little little bit and um he
comes and he writes his uh he writes his
and in the ma he said something shocking
in the [snorts] Miam he said that I want
you to know I also heard about this uh
letter that was written by
and I went to Prague and I reached out
to Yehuda
is it really true and I told him all the
reasons that I don't think this makes
any sense I was I was very disturbed by
this plaque And I said to me, "This
doesn't make any sense." AND HE SAID,
"YOU GAVE ME A LETTER." AND in the
letter, he said, "I'm from." I backed
out. I retract my And he said, "Do me a
favor. I want you to be a and I want you
to send this to
I want you to send it to him. I want you
to be a and you let him know that I was
from." And he writes in the I know what
you're gonna say. You're gonna say,
"Okay, where's the We've delivered the
goods, right? Where is it?" So he says,
"I have to be honest with you. do with
two copies. One copy I sent to the I
sent it to I don't know where it is. He
wasn't alive anymore at the time by the
way either. And he says, "I don't even
know where this is." And my copy got
lost. So I don't have it. I can't prove
it. I can't demonstrate it. But I'm
telling you what exactly happened. And
then he went ahead and this was all
including the he lobbyed all the
Hungarian and even outside of Hungary
theim
and too came out very strongly on the
side of
and he said like the there's no way in
the world there's no way in the world
that the was this sterile fish. Now to
be clear never went so far as to say
that was he didn't say that. He didn't
have any evidence of that either. But at
the same time, there was no way in the
world in his mind that this was
something that was okay. Now it's
interesting just to hit the pause button
for one second that one of the big
mandar
was remarkable as we just mentioned. In
fact, just recently Shiva's precious mai
ona was published came out a year or two
ago. This is already on it was put out
by his name is Kly. I uh had the
privilege to speak to him this morning
[snorts]
about
this whole sterile controversy. He's a
gishmaki. He did an unbelievable work
and in the back of this volume there's a
it's many many pages where he goes
through this very very clear incredible
footnotes
to go through but the bottom line is
class every should have anyways but
[laughter] this is classic but inside
the new there's three sim that are
dedicated to the shim from simal sim
and then sim if you go through these sim
and in the makes a big deal about this.
There seemed to be steers around what
his attitude was towards what this tru
meant. He never said he was but there's
definitely like a little bit of
confusion. Just read a few excerpts in
the says
there's no way in the world that he was
this fish over here. He says there's no
way that was he was ever camping inv.
So here he has already a whole and in
the middle he says like this
says that this is kosher based on
[laughter]
said that this fish is kosher.
He had a different type of fish.
in the club he said cuz I went ahead and
by the way had done some public scaling
of this fish he did it in Vienna and his
finding was that he couldn't remove it
so he said there's no way that he meant
this fish
somebody I believe must have fooled and
when they gave him the fish that they
claimed was the surgeon fish it must
have been something else
So he was
in other words he'ser
he just acknowledged that he had gotten
the wrong
and he calls [snorts]
because he's allowing people to go ahead
and eat this fish. So the B is Khan
writes this contress seemingly innocent
says I don't understand LIKE LIKE WHO
ARE YOU TO GO CONNECT HE'S VERY
disappointed and he's like what are you
doing and he says the and I sent this
the the I got the original and I sent it
to and
he rallies all the
and they all say again I don't know what
happened over here there's no way in the
world said this fish then
said that was never matter after this
fish. It must have been a different fish
or or something must have gone on.
Right? Again, he didn't know. He was
grappling a little bit. As a matter of
fact, in in this is one of the truest he
says,
by the way, was also he says, I feel
like I'm I'm
uncomfortable with what I'm doing here,
BUT THERE'S NO WAY HE MEANT this fish.
But the he took it further. He said Huda
was ma this fish but then he went ahead
he was. So what did they do? What did
what do you do? You have a sh like this
now wrote a trua sounds like he was ma
the sturgeon
and now years later is not alive
anymore. It was fair seg not alive and
there's no one there's no one alive
today that can [laughter] be mish right
there's no one alive that uh could be
mish now all of a sudden you have raon
that say it never happened these are
real.
So what are you supposed to do? So like
what would you do? You go back to the
source, right? So they decided, you
know, was going to be Maka, we're going
to go back to Prague and we're going to
ask uh Lando who was literally the Ben
that was Malov
and let's hear what he has to say in
terms of how exactly this went down. and
barashmander
was good to us because he took his
response to this whole uh question that
was asked him and he incorporated in and
if you take a look at
it's the very next so the
is
and just a little warning this is not
for the faint of heart
he's writing
I received your letter.
He asked something very difficult of me
to get involved in a
run away from a
you expect me to get involved. I'll
never do that. He said, "Besides, I'm
reading the pamphlets.
This is a fascinating idea." Again,
we're talking about so we have to be
careful. But this is a fascinating idea.
Sometimes you have a fight and it looks
like it's not even about uh right just
about who's right and who's wrong,
right? Sometimes fights just take on a
life of their own. And he says I'm I'm
schmecking a little. It's on the
spectrum of
but being that who's AT THE HEART WHO'S
IN THE EYE of the storm? It's my father.
I feel like I need to respond.
And then by the way, here's a copy of my
father's original cha. Either way, says
that take a look at the chuva.
You're going to see
that the fish that my father was the
fish that the sent it was that fish.
It's the It's the fish. It's the
sterling. It's the sturgeon fish.
I don't care how you remove it.
And then he says, "It's unbelievable to
me. I can't fathom.
You you claim that my father was
he instructed you
to take his retraction and send it.
You should forgive me.
What you're saying is a flatout lie.
Everybody knows.
Everyone knows what a my father was.
And not just that, he wrote all day,
every day.
Why would he have not sent the letter
back to its original source?
He knew him.
You know how many years he spent in my
father's house? I we KNEW HIM VERY WELL.
HE WAS VERY CLOSE TO HIM. WHY DIDN'T HE
SEND IT? IT'S NOT LIKE some strange
person. He knew him very, very well.
You think he was going to rely on you?
I want you to know my father was such a
sadic. He was so medic when it came to
him writing a tru. I'm telling you, my
father would have NOT SLEPT. HE WOULD
not put his head on a pillow.
He would have sent it WITH THE
PROVERBIAL
HE SENT THE TROUB out into the world.
Not printed yet, but still it made its
rounds that this fish is mut. And you
have that sitting at a kiddish club and
they're eating this sturgeon fish. AND
YOU THINK FOR ONE SECOND MY FATHER WOULD
NOT HAVE THOUGHT THAT HE NEEDS TO PUT
ALL OVER EUROPE to tell. SO WHAT ARE YOU
DOING?
Where's the letter? Where's the letter?
Where's the letter? You got lost in the
mail. Come on. Where's the letter? So, I
want to tell you another thing. I want
tell you another thing.
There's a that you know if you walk into
house and you see as an apple, you could
eat the apple if he gives you
permission. You don't have to be
concerned that it might be. Why? Because
there's a that
he says, you know, my father when he
passed away, he left over a stack of
stuff. He left over a whole pile of uh a
whole pile of chuvas. You know what
those chuvas were for? They were meant
for Madura. He had printed Madura and he
was getting ready for Madurana. He says,
"Do you know this chuva that he sent to
is in that stack? Do you know where it's
sitting over there?" How could he have
left it there? He's from it AND HE NEVER
THOUGHT TO TAKE IT OUT OF HIS PILE OF
you could eat an apple.
AND MY FATHER WOULD LEAVE A WOULD HAVE
been
in the of eating.
How is that EVEN SOMETHING LIKE THAT
POSSIBLE? AT THE VERY LEAST,
he should have left a little paper that
said he WAS
you don't even have the letter.
Come on. He said
I never HEARD FROM IT. HE NEVER TOLD US.
So he never either got it.
He says what he's telling me is not
true. This is 100% a lie. Now in the
course of the truth, he tells him,
I know it's
because you mistakenly think it's
awesome. So you think you need to save
the world. But I'm telling you right
now, my father was good at learning. My
father did the work. He did the
experiment. If he was comfortable with
the sturgeon, I'm tell you have nothing
to worry about. This is something that's
very okay. There's a lot of terror in
this cha as well. It's a few pages long.
And one of the things that comes up is
that believe it or not, there's a preadh
that quotes a certain fish called
thearian. And he says
that that fish, the only way you were
able to remove the cascan was if you
boiled it in hot water. And he says that
if you boil in hot water, this is
quoting the Rambutam, it's going to be
okay. So tells him that there's a my
father didn't bring this for some reason
but there's a THAT SAYS
HIMSELF
WHO HE HIMSELF SAID IT'S this whole and
my father really is a now it seems that
there was a little bit of a tuml there
if the was really the the sturgeon it's
not the sturgeon this is just for a
little uh just in middle he tells him
like this he says I want
that this at the time he's
things would change but at the time he's
what he went ahead and he wrote
he says
he said I did a lot of research I went
through some I went through some science
books
there's a Jewish doctor obviously
Berlin who lives in Berlin.
He has pictures of all the fish, little
fish and big fish.
Different colors
talks all the physical qualities of the
fish
where you can find them their names.
Whatever you want, you can find a little
Chambra over there. I found
the fishian
Latin
Italia
catchy. [laughter] But the bottom line
is, you can't make this up, but here's
what he says. In Italy, it's known as
theiano and in Hungarian, it's ketchy,
right? Kokoske. But the bottom line is
this. I don't know. It made me laugh.
You can't make this up, right? So, this
ketchy is a whole different
[laughter]
not what we're going on over here.
Anyways, it's a long cha. And at the
very very end, the last paragraph
doubles down.
He said, "I see that all you want to do
is win.
I went through your whole pamphlet.
You're all over the place
and as it relates to, you know, you're
saying certain things about your right.
You didn't like
I'm not coming to defend. I don't know
him. I'm coming to defend
that you wrote a to go at him.
[laughter]
of
and you're treating my father like this
is his first day on the job and he made
SOME SORT OF MISTAKE. OH, Pope was tens
of thousands of Jews. Come on. That's my
father
and [laughter] you write to be against
people that
this is not something uh that you can
do. Skipping a little bit.
This is the sharpest part of the truth.
He says that you're saying people are
eating this. I want you to know
he said there's not such if some people
are going to eat the surgeon fish is
coming from all this fighting.
So why should people the innocent
unlooker who doesn't know the think that
the terrorist do
there's no
even though it was ALWAYS AWESOME NO
MY father was not a disturbion I don't
think that I don't think that's a
like you have
said it's awesome. No one said it's
awesome.
People didn't eat it. We don't even know
why.
Is weakening.
This is how scholars raging right now.
This is the late 18 1798 1799. It's that
era.
If onlookers see two Jews fighting
there's no question in the world you
know what's going to come out from there
this there's GOING TO BE SUCH
IS NOT THAT there are Jews being
is that Jews are fighting that's and you
have to stop fighting don't talk that's
where it's going down then he tells him
listen if you want to go ahead and you
want to be m and if you want to in your
bearos
but to go ahead and
That's not a proclamation of strength.
That's not okay.
Epic. Epic.
was very disappointed that uh was that
he made up this retraction. He writes
another letter to
didn't back down. He didn't back down
and he doubled down. It's the next tru.
It's all printed in Jander wanted this
to be printed and he came down very very
strong. He said my father held it was
mut and without a question this is the
way it is. you know also wrote a letter
to a fleckless right again together they
were running the city of Prague and they
were the two greatest and it's printed
in giml of
it's
I'm not going to go through it but uh
fleckless essentially came out the same
exact way came out as a matter of fact
in the last line you nobody wrote more
poetically than the truth however could
be literally nobody he's so poetic and
seems that one of the things that the
pakar wrote in his pamphlet was that any
person that's going to eat from this
sturgeon fish is not going to be to eat
from the not from and he tells the he
says it just bothers me so much that
people are being
and they're eating this fish and the and
you and the you're standing by this he
says you I want you to be able to be to
eat from the he writes His
name was
because he's very confident that
he says
he says this. I You're making me laugh
when I hear this.
If you want to be
listen poetry and this is he says this
is not the
quoted in
[laughter] the bottom line is in Prague
this did not go over well this whole it
didn't go over And they stood very
firmly by their hat. In fact, in Prague,
they ate the sturgeon. It was something
that they ate. They held it was mut they
held in there was m
and this was the minig as it was there.
This tumm took on a life of its own. And
the nimu being that it was you know
being led again the the one in the
trenches the most was the but the
support that he had by the
a lot of in this pist whether I'm who
was the ber of and you know definitely
one of the
you know where he stood it seems like he
was also from the from the and for sure
and the bottom line is at the end of the
day the one and the one and it's for
that reason until today the sturgeon
fish is considered a non-coosher fish
and there is no orthodoxic
cautious agency in the world that
[snorts] will give a hat and will give a
hashk on the sturgeon fish it's not
going to happen so at the end of the day
and it's really when you think about it
it's so fascinating it's so fascinating
you know whenever you go through one of
these pmics we did in a bridge version
of it but whenever you go through one of
these pics it's always like what's the
punch line right what's the takeaway. I
don't know. I'm really not sure. I'm a
little uh I'm a little torn. You know,
to me the for sure the more interesting
part of the pmic is the aftermath. It's
not is the fish kosher or not. It's it's
that and did they send him the wrong
fish? And it's even possible, right?
This is for sure the way it is. So is is
there mukim to say that they were
literally kahilo kadoshas of Jews that
were eating non-coosher fish based on a
sack of the LAST THE BIGGEST PLACE IN
THE LAST TWO it's exactly 250 years
since Madura k was published right the
biggest poisoning in the last 250 years
could you say that I I I don't know
could you say that it doesn't sound like
you could even say THAT IT'S IMPOSSIBLE
HOW COULD THE LEGACY OF THE debuda have
this rees on it it's it's almost not
possible But you know you go through it
and there there's a lot of things that
uh you know cause you again this is just
me like leaving like what went on here
first of all what was the mitas
said he peeled it off he said he was
able to kay and once he soaked it then
you know then
had said he did a public uh experiment
he did it in there WERE MANY WHO
COULDN'T GET IT OFF IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE TO
GET so what was the mits what is the
mits today I don't even know but what
was the mitz Could you peel it off or uh
could you not peel it off? The other
question is what was where was the pakur
coming from? What was
like what was really doesn't sound like
it right. So so what he was saying this
for a reason the ter was and by the way
there's no question in the world.
I was even hesitant to say this because
but he was at and he was doing this
100%. You know, you look at what was
agenda. Now, hindsight's 2020. So, if
you look back in time, you know, is some
uh very left-leaning rabbi who
eventually, you know, was in the words
of the So, if that's the case, this
looks like an early sign. But then
again, you read the you don't see it.
And he's defending
AND THE PROUD BEZDON AGREED TO HIM. THEY
SAID HE'S RIGHT. So is this a sign of
you know Kurin at an early age already
showing episode
7 over here or no actually got this one
right and uh yeah we understand history
treats the paksharu a lot better than it
treats but in real time in the late
1790s he's a r of an Hungarian city like
uh like the paksharu is and and
technically he's on the right side of
things. It's [snorts]
uh it's it's not clear you know was this
related to
I don't know could be this is what was
going on you know skull is raging tells
him he said why beus the skull is raging
people want to say
maybe that's where he's coming from
you're going to take a fish that
everyone always held was awesome now
you're going to eat it who knows what's
going to come next
battle cry you know wouldn't start until
later but again this is definitely early
stages es Hascola. No, no question in
the world. And this is the Hungarian
shittita of we're going to protect this
with literally with a shield of cascass
to make sure that that nothing's going
to get through. So again, this leaves
you hanging. It feels like
I almost again that's what came from
said no. So what are we going to be? I
don't know. This is a very very hard one
to to be Maka. It's not so clear what
the legacy of this is. I mean you know
this idea that Adam writes a chuva and
he comes out a certain way and the
people get uncomfortable and then you
know all the stories start coming he was
he wasn't he meant this he meant that
this is a clinic in terms of how you go
about that I mean I don't think there's
a question in the world this is a clinic
read and
she gives him six reasons why this is
this is for sure not what happened one
thing I will tell you I don't know if uh
if you know but the sturgeon fish right
you know anything about the sturgeon
fish it's a very expensive In fact, the
caviar that comes from sturgeon is the
most expensive caviar in the real
caviar. And this is something that's
eaten only by the mameish. This is the
you could pay thousand for a beluga
sturgeon caviar. It could be like $1,000
an ounce. This is like very very
high-end stuff. So the fact that nimumer
the sturgeon is not kosher definitely
saved kaol a lot of money. I don't think
that's I don't think that's the legacy.
But for sure
because if not this would be on every
fishboard that you've ever been to at
any
pass the sturgeon please. I'll take the
beluga sturgeon with the beluga vodka.
That would make for a great one two
punch. The bottom line is
no one's going to eat it today. It's
considered you know already a few
hundred years of not okay. M they ate
it. A fascinating topic and I think an
appropriate way to end perfus. So again,
a lutrafus.