Journey to Ramsgate: The Kever of Sir Moses Montefiore, R’ Moshe ben Yosef Eliyahu

this torah class is brought to you by torahanytime.com so we're here of moses montefiore maisha ben yosef eliahu sahranam lebron so he was the man whose heartbeat for the jewish people we know mashabenu stood ted amos tall paro on the other hand was very short maral says this is an allegory to their spiritual greatness if moshe was so tall then that means his spiritual greatness was towering sir moses montefiore stood over six feet tall now today in 2021 at six feet tall is tall 150 years ago six feet tall was extremely tall we were just in new york part of the way that they knew that one of the cemeteries was the jewish cemeteries because they saw the skeletons were shorter then the jews were slightly shorter than the rest of population and back then 150 years back then the times that was extremely short so going back 150 years if he was six feet tall that was extremely tall and he lived over 100 years and this also we could say allegorically symbolizes his greatness of heart for the jewish people just to talk about some of his practices that i think will be meaningful at this location legend has it that sometimes he would take out a little book on his right side and write something in it and then he would take out that book again and write something in it and sometimes he would take out a book on his left side and when asked you know moses what are you doing he said actually in the business world in december the end of the year a businessman makes an inventory on their profits their earns their losses for the course of the year well every time i do a mitzvah i do a good deed i help another jew i think about how it could be of benefit to my community i record it in the book on my right side anytime i say something that's not fully accurate anytime i do something that doesn't meet up to my standards i record in the book of my left side every hoy dash ello i take out the books and i read them and i see do i have more merits or more demerits and when i see i have more information on the right side then on the left side i am the simcha i am happy that i know god will write me in the book of life i mean this is a practice of one of the sadiq somebody who kept the khajwan hanefesh of everything that he did his entire life and that's pretty remarkable that he had that practice legend has it that in the basement of his palatial home he kept a coffin and every night he'd go to sleep he put on his burial shrouds and lie in it for a while he's reputed to have said that it is very good in eliminating arrogance whether the story is true or not we don't know but they don't say it about everybody that was the kind of esteem he was held in the jewish people in other words he was recognized not only for his generosity and philanthropy but his personal character and his humility his genuine humility and era shamayim and someone of his caliber of wealth to be held in the esteem for that level of your shamayim is rather impressive if i if i could read to you from his diary the last his last moments in this world it was very powerful to me day after day this is the diaries of sir moses and lady mount to fury day after day whenever i saw him this this was his attendant he would say have i anything more to do moses mounted here would say if so let me do it is there any check to be written for charitable purposes tell me and i will sign it the moment i am a i am able this is the way he lived what more could he do what more tzadaka could he give who more could he help on being assured that i would not hesitate to remind him that up to the present he had discharged all of his self-imposed obligations in connection with benevolent institutions when he was told yes he's fulfilled all his vows he would raise his hands heavenward and say thank god for having been able to do so relatives and friends now arrived all his faithful attendants entered to take leave of their good master we recited part of the daily morning service my god the soul which thou hast given unto me is pure atta the atom is the trilo they said in his closing moments you are destined to take my soul for me from me so long as my soul continues within sovereign of all creations lord of all souls and then we all said together shema is with the last word his soul took flight to heaven he died saying the word the heart which beat so warmly for all that is good and noble had stopped forever serene kindness peace heavenly peace lay upon his countenance lit up by the glorious sunset of a life illuminated by the love of god we all responded together shame hashem we hope that our twilight's at a place of an individual who really gave up his life and comfort to help the jewish people he saved so many jews so many communities he helped build the heart of claudius he helped build you slime we hope all of our felice should be nascavel barack i'll say we're going to say two cuphead luck together you've just experienced another torah class brought to you by torahanytime.com