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The Plastic Potato

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A teaching ofRav Elozor Simcha Wassermanהרב אלעזר שמחה בן אלחנן וסרמןProfile ›

Rav Simcha distrusted anything described as new and improved in Judaism. He compared it to a plastic potato, which looks, smells and even tastes like a potato, but when planted does not grow and cannot reproduce.

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