Journey to Jerusalem: Mishkenot Hasha'ananim - The Carriage of Sir Moses Montefiore

this Tower class is brought to you by torahanytime.com we're here opposite the iconic Windmill and by a replica of the carriage of Sir Moses Montefiore hassar moisha who among many of his notable activities on behalf of the Jewish people he traveled to Earth Israel seven times as mentioned in the signed here he traveled here between 1827 1875 and he traveled on a carriage that looked like this he came in the year 1827 1839 1849 1855 1857 1866 1875. he traveled on a carriage that looked like this this is a replica actually he traveled everywhere in the world on a carriage like this except for an Arts Israel because in Israel in the 19th century there were no paved roads so he couldn't make his way around on this Carriage Legend has it then on the top of his carriage and gold lettering out of love for you and on the white buttons of his servants jackets was written Zachary's this is a replica of the Insignia of Sir Moses Montefiore as we know he was held in great esteem by the darling Israel he was not somebody who was noted for his talmudic scholarship but the godlin recognized him as someone whose hearts pulsated of love for the Jewish people and genuine as we know the wrote an entire safer dedicated for his accolades and for his gratitude to Moses Montefiore for everything he did when he came to Turkey actually Moses Montefiore traveled to Constantinople In 1855 he gained personal audience with the sultan Abdullah did and in order to have the rights to buy this parcel of land to expand you shall I am beyond its borders now in 1855 you have to know what the conditions in your shalim were like there was open sewage that ran through the street the odor was unbearable disease was rampant in the city the only thing was it was safer than living outside of the city outside the city besides having Arab Nomads you also had wild animals in fact one of the activities that most Montefiore was involved in is how are you going to trap these wild animals that were roaming animals that that could kill humans and he had an expert come and construct a big Iron animal trap to trap all of these wild animals and what what happened was when there was a plague in the old city of shrine and they realized that the people who lived out here in um they were the only ones saved from the epidemic they realized that in fact it was safer to be outside of the walls than inside of the Wolves this was the carriage he traveled in he traveled even an advanced days over 90 years old you know we just flew in yesterday we're sitting on comfortable chairs in the in the airplane and you know you need a vacation for a week just to recover from that flight so imagine what it's like uh driving on this Carriage through hundreds of miles on Rocky terrain probably the shocks and the struts of this Carriage are not not that great and he was my sir nephesh uh to defend the juice he accomplished many great things including saving the malbum from a gazeras maves and uh now we see much of the settled you shalim as we know it today is due to the activity and the efforts of Sir Moses Montefiore may his memory be a blessing you've just experienced another Torah class brought to you by torahanytime.com