Excerpt of a shiur given after the morning prayers, Parshat Mishpatim (February 22, 2025)

Now, they returned another six hostages, there will be a seminary[1] in Be’eri, in Nir Oz, these are those [i.e. the hostages] from Nir Oz.

The Biebs[2], they are from Nir Oz.

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They [i.e. Hamas] put an Arab woman [instead of returning the remains of Shirri Biebs], because they took the body.

For sure, they already cut her into pieces, or burned the body. So they also regretted [this], so they put an Arab woman, a ‘saintly’ Arab woman, a ‘holy’ Arab woman, not some stam Arab woman.

A sweet Arab woman, like that, mamash, a sweetie like that, a true tzaddika, with five veils.

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They put her in the aron, I saw her, yes, it was dafka charming – they should put all of them in the aron!

They only put one, why just one?! Why not a million?!

In any case, because they once learned in Shuvu Banim, so they put one, instead of a million.

From today, we are going to concern ourselves [with the matter], that they should put a million.

Amen, amen, amen.

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They should put all of them.

There’s a billion, a billion – two, [-] in the world. Two billion and a half.

There are two billion and a half [-].

They should put them all in.

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Translated from Shivivi Or, 398.

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FOOTNOTES:

[1] A religious girls’ school – the Rav has been commenting for months on how so many of the ‘left-wing’ kibbutzim in the Gaza Envelope are making teshuva, after the terrible events of Simchat Torah, October 7th, 2024.

[2] In Hebrew, the surname is spelt ‘BIBAS’.