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okay good afternoon everyone
we're coming from the city of Barcelona
we were at the place where the
disputation at Barcelona took place
where the Ramba ramban had his
famous dispute with Pablo christiani
now we're coming to the city of garona
which is the city of the ramban and
Robin
now
as mentioned in the year 1263 the ramban
was summoned to dispute Pablo christiani
and even though he won the dispute He
was ordered by the king of Aragon that
he has six weeks to skedaddo
and the ramban left immediately
the ramban concert Israel and then we
have this famous letter known as igeras
ramban what exactly did the ramban write
this letter
in the State Fair
he brings that ramban wrote this letter
when he was in the land of Israel when
he was an artist Israel from akri he
wrote it to his his son in Castillo his
son nachman
however one of the world's greatest
experts in the rambana of Chevelle who
published many of the works to ramban
says if there is a tradition that ramban
wrote it to his son when he was an
artist Israel okay then we'll accept it
but if we're not if we don't have such a
tradition it's very hard to believe that
ramban wrote this letter to his son
because then his son would have been
already a grown adult and with the
ramban B writing words of Musser to a
grown adult it seems he says like the
rambana is addressing it to a younger
child
however many disagree with that because
there's so many commentaries on the
garage
ramban is a very deep work that it's
very reasonable it's very plausible that
the ramban wrote it
later in life even to an adult child now
if you came to the trip just to hear
this it was worth your while
the ramban writes and any day
that you read the igarus ramban your
prayers will be answered okay so people
think it's like some kind of segula you
read the letter you dive into win the
lottery you pick the lucky numbers and
then that's how it works
if you actually study the letter there
are a number of difficulties with the
with the letter that if you don't know
the key to crack the code
the garage ramban is a sealed book in
other words it's impossible to
understand
for example the gyro ceremon begins
with probably the most difficult
dictum of all just noticed
train yourself to speak all your words
gently
they say no problem I'll speak gently
except for to him or to her no look hold
on to everyone yeah but they're
exceptions
they're no exceptions there's never
a Time
not this big gently okay that's how the
ramban begins
few lines down
says
therefore I will explain to you another
you
know unless someone has had temporary
Amnesia we got that already
that's how the letter began to snahek
tamid the daber called why is ramban
repeating himself
and it's such an obvious question but if
you don't know the answer to this
question then there is absolutely no
understanding of igarus
here's the key
the key is there are four
avigara suraman
there are four segments and you have to
be able to identify these four small
chapters in the garage part one is how
to acquire humility
you acquire humility by speaking gently
by looking at other people and trying to
see how they are in fact greater than
you are that is part one of igars
the ramban then goes on to part two he
speaks about the disparagement of the
media of gaiva
now the ramban is bothered by a question
I've explained to you how to acquire
humility so now you've acquired it now
the question is how do you practice it
gives you the formula to practice
humility
the formula is continue to speak gently
so in other words you need to speak
gently to acquire humility you need to
speak gently to continue in that mode
okay so this is another segment and
you'll see actually in many editions of
the ramban there are four segments and
the one I sent you it's not broken up
otherwise you would have gotten the
answer right away but if you look at the
uh
if you look back on your phones
the first segment begins
that's part one part two
Benidorm
part three alkena foreign
that's not how to acquire it how to
continue in that mode
and then the ramban gives us
the formula of avoida sashem and that is
so these are four segments in the garage
ramban now this is out of this room
many people look for various School
lights to design
everybody wants yeshuys
everybody wants salvation everybody
wants Nissim everybody wants some kind
of miraculous salvation in this world
in the baglian library in Oxford they
discovered the original printing of
igarus ramban
and it begins as follows
the ramban says to his son
to my dear trusted son nahman
ETI
remember my actions remember how I used
to behave
Venice kale remember the Miracles you
saw when I was living with you back in
garona the ramban lived a miraculous
life many miraculous things happen
surrounded ramban is telling his son kid
remember the Miracles Hashem did for me
you know you admit you've never seen
anyone in your life experience Miracles
like me or father
you probably want to know how could you
Merit having miracles in your life
why do you think I am to Miracles more
than anybody else
I'll tell you why David
because I speak gently
so that completely revolutionizes the
whole igarus ramban The Garrison was a
message to the sun my dear son if you
want to be zoja to the Miracles that you
saw firsthand that I am
I'll tell you why I'm sorry to that I'll
tell you why hashem's Miracles were
always with me
follow this formula Hig
a benajas says
says the holy words of the ramban pierce
the heart
even though they're not applicable in
our generation why says ramban the
middle of um the middle of humility is
no longer relevant in our generation you
know why
we're so nothing
that you can't be a none of anymore
there's no such thing as an honor what's
an on of an on of is a great person who
says you know all of my greatness all my
talents and all my ability it's all from
my college varku says we're not great
enough anymore to truly be humble
humility is a thing of the past in order
to be humble you have to first be great
but anyway the hidar writes that the
piercing words of the Creed of the
ramban enter the heart and change a
person by the way does anybody know what
is the most oft repeated word in the
garage
little trivia question
the word lave the word lave 14 times
because the objective of igarus ramban
is to purify the heart in any event the
ramban passes away in arts Israel and
there's a tradition in the safer
that the rambans tell me the Mast Reba
how are we gonna know when you pass away
so ramban said go to the gravestone of
my mother when a crack appears in my
mother's gravestone that will be a Simon
that uh I went
and sure enough in the year 1270 a crack
appeared in the gravestone of the
ramban's mother where he ascended to
Heaven Nissan in the year 1270
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