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It's a great
one of the greatest of the one of the
greatest rabbis of the last 500 years.
The lived from 1724 to 1806. The
literary output was unparalleled.
The was a great his forum spanned the
gamut of all topics all types of topics.
So he started writing on
as as a youth actually his first safer
is safer which he wrote at 16 years old.
It's not a safer that was published. The
uncovered
150 mistakes that made based on not
knowing the history of the that came
before them. The uncovered 150 questions
that had that had they known the history
they never would have had these
questions. This is the road at 16 years
old. So already we started to see the
interest the had in the history of
Israel. So the perhaps most well-known
work is the which is a a work of
biblioraphic
marvel where the lists in alphabetical
order all thearim that were ever written
and all the gym all the rabbis who ever
lived. Now he wrote that obviously
without the aid of aid of a computer but
he wrote it from memory when he arrived
in Lavarno and his boat was docked at
the port. He was in quarantine. He was
in something called Lazarto. And from
memory, the remembered all the books
that had ever been written and all the
and that preceded him. You know, it's
amazing. Yesterday, we spent a good
chunk of the day. I don't know almost 4
hours in Harazim. And we had been there
many times before. So we ready. We were
at the Beneskai before and we were at
Sharabi before. We were at the mo the
notable. So this time we went to of
that most people never heard of. Now the
only way we were able to find it is
because the records it in the
and had the not recorded the names of
these all-time great
you know they they would have been
forgotten. So the the preserved them for
history. Actually when a new edition of
the Shemagdam came out in the 19th
century they asked the Malb to give a
husk. So to me that's an amazing you
have like this convergence of two
worlds. the world of the malam of
Poland. He's giving a h to the
so the malab writes about the value of
the
in other words what value is there in
knowing the history of various
I actually have at home the a copy of
the own of and in it the in his own
handwriting wrote biographical
information about the of lun so what
exactly what's the what's the Torah
value of knowing when the rabbi lived
and what his life was like. So the Malam
says, "What's the value?" Imagine
somebody was in a desert and he was
traveling for miles and miles and miles
without food, without shelter and all of
a sudden he encounters an oasis and
there's a beautifully set table for him
and the air conditioner is on and he's
in comfort. So would he just sit down,
eat and walk out? He has no way of
thanking his benefactor. But the least
he could do in having gratitude to his
benefactor is who is he? Who's my
benefactor?
So if you sit and you spend time
learning a safar, learning a rashi,
learning a tus, there's nothing you
can't you can't give back to them. The
least you could do is try to find out
who are they? Why' they do this for me?
Why do they contribute this to the
Jewish people? Why do they dedicate
their lives for this? So this is one of
the great works of the shame. The wrote
many works on
the wrote on
the wrote on shal. By the way, a lot of
the are named after parts of the body
shal the neck or the eyes
the knees of. And there's an expression
just like we say
just like from the Rambam no one was
like the Rambam by the way that's what
say Ashkanazm have a different opinion
who is the greatest of theim there's
also an expression
from
there is nobody like
now also he made two historic trips to
Europe and to North Africa from 1753 to
to 1777 where he was a shadar
where he basically went around
collecting money to support the nar is
and he writes in a chuva in
that many people say actually correctly
that don't I first have to support local
institutions
so why am I sending money to
maybe I should give all my money to
local institutions. So the also there
was a lot of impropriy with the system
of these.
So the addresses he says there are two
mitzvah in the Torah that are equal to
all 613 mitzvah. There's limo
and there's living in Israel. The says
living in is like all 613. So imagine if
you could combine the two. Imagine if
you combine learning and living in.
And if you can't then make sure you buy
it. You know as they say
any problem you have you could address
with money. So if you can't do it
yourself, at least support learning Tyra
in. So the dedicated life. Now on his
travels, the had a photographic memory.
So he would go into the various
libraries and he would memorize
manuscripts such as miri, such as toyus.
And for f for
hundreds of years, at least 500 years,
no one had seen the miri, no one had
seen the toys until the 20th century.
And now we that we see the we say oh the
who recorded it from memory in his books
he memorized it word for word he got
every single word right. So for example
in the
in the beginning of the para he brings
down from the on the para or he brings
down of the for example for example you
know the gumar says why don't we say
halal on purimasa
read reading the migill is like halal
well what if you don't have a migillah
do you say halal on purim if the reason
we don't say hal purim is because
reading the migill is halal well what if
you don't have a migilla
So the brings down the of but we didn't
know the
until the and until our century when the
manuscript of the miri was uh uncovered.
So
people wonder how does the how did the
accomplish so much in his lifetime. So I
always like to say if you look at I
highly recommend
get a hold of the calledash
and the first section is called which is
like a
but it's more than a it has the proper
to have when doing mitzvah and other
times in the day. And in his 153rd note,
he writes,
"If you don't waste time, there's time
for everything." So that explains a
little bit how the was able to
accomplish so much.
Amen.
