Journey to Spain 2023: Toledo - The Life of Rebbi Yehuda Halevi, Lover of the Land of Israel

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paitanum says the rashva you ever hear of the rashford benaderas in cement is the greatest in Merit and distinction of all the pythonium now rabihuda halavi was literally in love with the land of Israel after all he wrote the famous words Libby by mizrach van Nieves while I'm on the far ends of the West my heart is in the east and there have been many pilgrims who traveled to aort Israel including Spanish we shine him like the ramban but no one expressed their love for herits Israel as passionately azerbuda Levy so for example the rambam mentions only one time in the entire mentions not even once and the entire even the ramban who is a great lover of Earth Israel speaks about her this world merely in a halachic sense however Levy expresses his passion in a poetic literary Style in his famous who shall make me wings so I may wander far away I would cause my shattered heart to wander what does mean who could make me wings he is clearly echoing the words of the greatest lover of Earth Israel himself who invaram rabba we read that when Hashem tells him to go and look at Earth's Israel but you won't be able to enter says if I can't enter as a human please allow me to enter as a wild animal as a Kaya who eats the grass and drinks the water and the Rebellion says Israel comes with Moshe feinsteins asks you know the gemaran soita says that my shopping but if my shopping would have entered as a bird it's very hard to Makai in chuma's Masters as a bird so the most show we see from here the great spiritual benefit of merely being an artist Israeli even without the opportunity Makaya Mitzvahs what is the benefit of being an artist Israel says I will fall on my face the Arts I would cherish your Stones greatly with favor Your Dust even the Stones The Rocks of Earth Israel are endowed with a desirable qualities this is the this is a reference to the practice of rabi ABBA who would kiss the stones of akko soon we're going to read pastors please allow me to Cross it's one of the great Visions one of the Masters of the secrets of the Torah he says what was moishes Gematria 51 the yaridan Jordan um was the Jordan River is 50 amazed please allow me to enter one Amman to the land of Israel okay so who got the first clue okay anyway what gives the dust of Earth's trial their special quality now listen to this why is the dirt about Israel Holy says even when I stand by the burial spots of my forefathers in Hebron milk raise your hands if you've ever been at the cover of arrow in aikoyed oh you've never been to Aaron I couldn't did you know that the reason why Earth's soil has kadusha says if you hear that lady is because Aaron hakain is buried inert Israel that means the cover of aarona coin is the epicenter of caduceus so imagine if you could go to the camera if all the caduceus was emanating from the camera imagine if you could go to the cover of Arena claim so you could join with nothing wildler and others at the cover I mean um at the cover of Arana an upcoming of your trips [Music] two great lights moist and Aaron now leave is introducing the principal that the sanctity of Earth Israel comes from the fact that the graves of our ancestors are in Earth's Israel we find this in safer nakamya when Arts Israel and you shall I am lay desolate nakamya comes before the king of Paras and he requests permission to go up Terrace Israel when the king asked why are why do you look so dejected the king wants to know it's not right that you come in front of me so dejected The Cameo says foreign look the city where our forefathers are buried is destroyed from here we see the kivraid Sadiq Menards Israel in Dallas Israel with great kadusha now Levi pens his most stirring words the life of the Soul avir I would say the heir of your land Ruby who that lady says merely bringing breathing in the avir of Earth Israel so if you've ever gone on a beer trip imagine if you could go on on a beer trip from Earth Israel to the sources of caduce Israel I think people are sleeping that's what it seems like or they just don't know what in the world I'm talking about okay now the idea that the arrowverts itself sustains the soul is developed by review that Levy in great detail in the safer kusary he says that just like the body requires oxygen the soul requires spiritual air in the land of Israel when you breathe in the air it's an extremely spiritually potent subject substance the great great grandfather of the hidayah he writes Israel who taught Hashem and therefore Israel in fact says that is why we call the era vertical avir avir is Abby didn't even know this Javier or Hashem or Hashem or Hashem that's why it's cold up here and that is why hazal say Avira the ARA market now [Music] now Olive above yeah okay it's well it's well known as commented that he had extra seat when he came to Arts Israel then his learning that he never experienced anywhere else if that lady's greatest contribution to the world of tiger literature is the kusari kuzari describes the quest of the king of the khazars to determine the True Religion by questioning a Christian a Muslim and a Jewish scholar the King was finally convinced of the authenticity of Judaism which he embraced together with his whole Kingdom however the king of the khazars tons the Jewish scholar because even though the Jewish people pray daily for their return to Seline says the king of the khazars it's insincere lip service you chirp it like a bird every day you say the sakhazana however you chip the words like a bird [Music] we don't even think about what we're saying but are you ready for this says the kuzarin if we would prepare ourselves in the land of Israel wholeheartedly with the desirous soul then we would achieve what the Jewish people achieved in the Triumph namely the gulaima and the author of The kuzari took his words to heart he set out for the land of that he he yearned for and tradition has it that he reached Damascus he faced Zeon and in Sion he said the kinna Sian haloi masiraya many historians believe that Levy only got As far as Egypt raise your hand if you've ever been in Egypt Ian which means you have to view yourself as if you were first imit trying [Music] but many historians believe only made it as far as Egypt but says that in fact where he fell to the ground he embraced the dust in fulfillment of kiratsu Abode and as he was kissing the dust of yushalayim he was trampled and killed by an Arab Horseman born in 1080 right here in Toledo you've just experienced another Torah class brought to you by torahanytime.com