Journey to Morocco: The First Generation of Rishonim & the Tales of Rav Nissim Gaon

this Tower class is brought to you by torahanytime.com okay we're back with you back to the history of North Africa we mentioned the first three recite him so who remembers the first three we shine in canal ravni Sim going and nugget s daughter married the Nugget son yahaysef now this is very interesting ravenison Going's father raviaco yvgoin was in correspondence with SRI Ragan if you read the Epistle of Sri ragayan about the history of the tradition of the transmission of the Torah it was written to raviacoin the father of ravnissim and when withhai Goin learns about the greatness of North Africa he told ravyakov who was living in Korean don't write to the going in here in bovill you have revolution in North Africa so I want to share with you uh was the son of Rabino and he's quoted by Robin and there's a question in halacha what is the primary way to calculate is it based on Witnesses or is it based on calculation Rabino khanano says the main way to calculate is based on calculation and the proof is because the Jewish people when they got the Torah in the mid bar they were not able to have witnesses because they couldn't see the new moon because they were a nanihakovai that blocked the moon so in the mid bar they must have used hashbein so from here we learned the primary way to enter Calais is okay I want to tell you another thing about Raven this some guy and we mentioned wrote the introduction to Shas he also wrote a storybook the name of the storybook is safer Massey ice he wrote The Storybook to his son-in-law dunash dunash was very depressed dunash his son-in-law fell into depression and the schwer wanted to console his son-in-law so he wrote a storybook so I want to share with you a story from ravenism going this is what we call a North African Tale so if your kids ask you did you bring back any good stories any good Legends you could tell them the legend of the banaya fry him you could tell them is buried here you could tell him that Daniel yeah went on a trip over here but this is recorded in the safer masseuse there was once a very wealthy man who said to himself what good will my money do me in the world to come let me give my money to a poor man who has given up hope on this world who is hopeless who has fallen into Yosh who has fallen into despondency so the rich man meets a poor man and he says I would like to give you a lot of money and the poor man said why me I don't need your money he said well I made another I'm going to give my money to someone who's given up on this world he said given up on this world what do you think I'm a fool you're a fool I haven't given up on this world I trust in God I have full faith to have full hope you're you're a fool you're a shytan why do you think that I've given up in this world if you want to give your money to someone who has no hope in this world bring it to the dead in the cemetery so the wealthy man said okay I have no choice I'll have to give my money to the poor to the dead so he went to the cemetery and he dug up by the way that's one of the Bates and we're going to we're trying to find the money that he he left there not just joking okay but he went to the cemetery and he dug a hole and he buried all of his money and that's where his money went a little while later the Rich Man became poor and he needed money so he decided to go back to the cemetery so he started digging digging up the cemetery and he was apprehended by the officials he said why are you digging up the the dead were you trying to steal the gold teeth or something and he brought in front of the judge now who is the judge this Medina used to have a very wealthy prestigious judge and he died and the poor man that poor man who refused the money of the wealthy man he was a very well respected individual he became the new judge of the Medina and who's being tried before him the wealthy man who had earlier tried to give him all of his money so ravness of going rights he tried to uh act as if he didn't recognize this wealthy man and he said why did you try to dig up the dead and he said no please believe me I used to be wealthy and I I gave my money to the dead because I made another I'm going to give my money to somebody who's given up on this world and then the judge decides to reveal himself he says I am he I am the poor man you tried to give the money to do you remember me and they embraced each other and the poor judge gave the wealthy man back his money and he taught him a very important lesson that in this world nobody is beyond hope there's always the possibility to change one's Fortune things in life change very quickly this was the message revnissim Goin wrote to his son-in-law dunash to try to cheer him up the lesson of gamzaya avar that a person's station in life is only transient and Hashem um and as this Farm activation say we just finished device ERM Avion okay see you in Marrakesh you've just experienced another Torah class brought to you by torahanytime.com