Dror Yikra | Dr. Aaron Adler

the she is um memory of I will also take the opportunity to dedicate this morning sheer to memory of my dear Uncle RAB Aron ziga and my aunt Libby is here and she should have a in good health for many many many many years draw it's even hard to read the words because we always sing it I mean most people don't know the words they just sing it and uh like many complicated poems we generally don't take the take time on Shabbat to even notice what the message is of sometimes it's PR fairly obvious those that talk about the so you know you're talking about food you're talk about the chabas meal but um is um it's a it's a sophisticated poem that has become immensely popular because uh it does fit so many different Nim and different communities and different families have said it to so many different Nim uh in my house we many times like the yemenite version of it don't ask me how that happened but um there [Music] right a few minutes before I just played that as one of the draw options and also um my wife mentioned to me the week ago that in in honor of the beginning of the freedom of uh the hostages maybe we should do something that has to do with freeing of hostages and let's just tackle these two words if you look at the sour is in the middle of the page Source number one from parat Bahar it talks about the Mitzvah of Y after seven cycles of shmita 7 time 7even so you have the 50th year the yel Year and there it says she sanctify the 50th year and freedom will be announced through the country throughout the land right this this Pas by the way is on the Liberty Bell it's on the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia that's where the original is and there's some replica in ghap Pon in the um in the Liberty Park B Liberty Bell Park and it's this the jubile shall be for you people will return to their plots of land that they may have bed and and slaves will return there will be sh of slaves will be returned means those we're talking now about every every Jewish slaves and Jewish slaves basically means employee plus it's not just an employee the way we have it it's it's a little bit more than being an employee um you're still Jewish you still have to keep mitv you you you um you you are somehow in the in the framework of somebody's hands for labor for for tasks whatever they may be the says that if you have ever you're not to over burden him with terrible tasks and so on pointed out that the word in the context of is the same of we had heart back breaking work and you're not allowed to do that to evid I so it's it's basically um a person who does not have full freedom of his Day schedule somebody else is scheduling it for him he has to do certain tasks but nevertheless he's still Jewish as opposed to evid Kanani a non-jewish who's just do a piece of furniture actually in a person's in the owner's house yeah does that if we get any compensation for his work well zo he's supposed to be there for the maximum of six years unless he likes it and then they they make a little hole in the air and they stays there until yo so maybe he's satisfied maybe he's a person who who's not happy with his private life and now listen he has food he has Board Room board and and and even a wife can be given to him except that the children won't belong to him so it's a little bit of a big sticky issue here um I I the truth of the matter is I was trying to figure out how an evid iy would feel and I and I and I I did figure it out when I did my basic training in the Army that's evid iy because you're still Jewish you have to get up and Dav and put on fill and everything but you you can't decide what you want to do they they they're decid somebody's deciding on your behalf so it's a little bit of an Evy situation but and and the EV will be all of them no matter what so there's something about being let out let out so I wouldn't call Ev iy imprison but nevertheless there's something about let free let free in the context of the poem which means for men and women not just for children for men and women it's going to be something about Shabbat Shabbat is is a day of drawer where perhaps we're locked into our weekday cycle of work and weekday cycle of activities and on Shabbat you are free from those burdens of the weekday so that's where the drawer comes in if you look at source number two the E Ezra on a in that mentions the word drawer so the Ezra defines drawer as the name of a bird shame of it's a bird that chirps that sings Why was this bird called dra in other words sometime if this bird is somehow in a cage and not allowed to just be free it's not going to sing but when you let it out it's going to sing so the benzar says that's why has the nickname drawer because drawer means freedom and this bird will sing when it is free Ezra who comes from Spain says yeah we we know about this bird in Spain now that's going to be important with regard to the author of The drra whose nickname is dun dun it says on top dun and um I don't think anybody gave anybody at a Brit the name you know Dunes almost sounds like donut but uh right but his name was Ru adoni I'm not familiar with that name either Adat laat again where is that from where is he from so we know he's in the 10th Century um and he was born in Baghdad some claim that he was a grandson of raon could be but that he was in influenced by raon that's not a question it shows up in many of his poems so uh and not just his poems but also we know Dunes as a Garian so when we grew up studying Kish and Rashi usually the class rebi would skip a Rashi that dealt with dduk that dealt with grammar for the very simple reason that he himself didn't know the rules of grammar because grammar was not studied in yeshivas why wasn't grammar studying Yas it most probably had to do with theala the the enlightenment era era where they were it was the beginning of the reformed Jewish movement in Germany and in Western Europe and the early um in intellectuals of the um Reform movement focused on the study of Tanakh and the study of tanak without to without the oral laww without Mish without but but using going into the grammar and so on as a knee-jerk reaction in the world of yot tanak went off the radar and it was not studied not in the syllabus at all and the one who has the had the great of bringing it back on on the syllabus wasz she made it popular again and eventually it infiltrated into the world of some yes like and others so some isot have really made the study of Tanakh into a primary primary study but he knew the garans and occasionally he would quote dun or quote or and Ezra everybody knows of Ezra why because it's printed in the M but many people never looked into the Ezra because they also didn't know the rules of grma it didn't concern them and when Rashi quotes something of a grammatical nature the rebi would skip it because he didn't know the the grammar either and so on so there something about grammar that was a turnoff in the Yeshiva World and today there's a Renaissance to the studying of Hebrew grammar and so on the one who really did deal with grammar and try to Bases per on grammatical forms was sham and if anybody familiar with the H commentary of Tor so he's very much into the proper grammar and so on um the the um there there's a joke that was said but you have to understand I gave the background now you'll you'll hope you see the humor in it where gave a and he says why is the word why does it end with a why does it end with what is it's a rem to eight days of so said it's not a it's a a so so the the re yells at him and he says you're learning DD and what are you learning dduk for you know the it messed up this whole D you know okay so let's see now we know what the word draw means it means freedom calling out the freedom we going announce freedom for the son and with the daughter which means I'm is here here means means guard somehow some is going to guard us as he as uh the from from the pupil of the eye bat here is B and I brought a few just to substantiate this in Source number three from means the pupil of the eye and and occasionally that is called b as you see in the next s if anybody touches you is talking to the the nations of the world if anybody touches you is is is basically attacking a who's got his eyes focused on Amel this is almost a restatement of the p in parat is always gazing on upon and in the context by the way there is is and the ran points out that this unique supervision of over is is in Isel concern and not a concern which is very very scary um but that's that's the way R understands it so the b or in this case is a combination of the of of the usage of but but that's what it means it means that is watching over you watching you like a Hawkeye means your name is going to be sweetened whose name is going to be Sweeten obviously it refers to what does it meanb it's almost sounds like you're not observing Shabbat it actually doesn't mean that it means you've never forsaken in this case the yat goes on giving up you've never forsaken the Shabbat you are resting on the day of Shabbat and therefore your name in plural it's Amel Jews throughout the world who are observing the Shabbat who've never forsaken the Shabbat it should be pleasant for them okay so that's a nice introduction about shirat Shabbat but then he digresses to um issues that we've talked about in the context of others me wrote and that is the Redemption theme the fact that am Israel is in the galut he's sitting in Spain uh what one second he was born in Baghdad how did he get to Spain so he was born in Baghdad the author and he migrates to Fez Morocco that's already the Western corner of uh of of AFA North Africa and he's educated there and then crosses the jalta Straits and makes it to Spain so he is really one of the Spanish Spanish poets um man Ben saruk one of them was his good friend who wrote a book on grammar and uh this Dunes writes a critical review of muk's grammatical book where he criticizes him over 300 times criticize him in the sense he argues with him he says no he's got my friend my buddy's got it all wrong and um there was a big M there was a big dispute does the basic Hebrew root carry three letters the way we grew up with it the shes has three letters perhaps it has two letters perhaps it has four letters the garans were were not at home with one set of rules so they were trying to build the rules based on their understanding of Tanakh and that what was happening in the 10th 11th century uh in Spain and you have ibben Ezra is a little bit later and he's picking up on all these garans eventually some of it makes it through France where Rashi becomes aware of it and integrates some of these grammatical comments into his Paran fine but um what what happens here is he's now looking at the third bet mikdash here is is one of the nicknames of the BET mikdash and the the the hall the of the bet mikdash they're both referencing bet mikdash the word d what does that mean a so so sometimes we we we think of uh um AA okay fine he's not giving a d here at all the word d actually means to seek out to no right it doesn't mean in this case it means to seek out to seek out in Hebrew right so the great is where you have to seek out the place of the and and for sure he's got that P in mind when he writes there's the in the context of those are learning now talking about and d means you have to investigate you have to investigate so the word d means to examine and search and find out and so on seek out he's asking that we should have the opportunity to seek out the bet mikdash me and he should give us a Sign o means a sign he should make for our nation yesha means Yeshua is of of some some type of help of Salvation Redemption whatever word you want to use but give us a sign that this is on the way and gives us a key a clue that that that it's on the way and not justdash so plant it has something to do with grapes it has something to do with with wine and within my Orchard by K what does that mean where do you have the word s so we look at source number five from the ofu to his son Yehuda it says among other things [Music] It's All About Wine and G and so is a nickname for the wine for the wine and what dun says here isi what is he talking about so there are two explanations what he might be talking about one is he's referring to the S is Amel and the K is er Isel so beyond the bet mikdash we have to have the whole the whole nation we have to have the nation here and in here here in Isel if you look at the the P six in the bottom from yes perak an entire peric hey of yes uses the imagery of is being referred to the K and is actually the the S so they have another take on what might Dunes have had in mind mind Ben so again it's a just of an entire peric where the the the analogy the of K with Amel is throughout and there's no question that Dunes is using this imagery of Amel and the K maybe because on Friday night and shabas morning a cup of wine is there because of maybe because there are other images of is inak that can be found but he chooses to use this one and then comes a should accept the calling the sh is a is a supplication should accept the of your nation so what's the the is we'd love to see the mikdash we'd love to see I'm Isel here and there it's Isel that's the and again the spirit of Shabbat allows us to bring out these you know longings for what would become the eventual the but that cannot happen as we have seen in previous poems without the eradication of evil so we've context that already a few times as M Amal where Amal would be the epitome and personification of evil I mean we we have it today unfortunately you can give it different names you can call itas you can call itah you can call it whatever you want but but it's it's still around and the Torah promised that it's still going to be around and that's why in Le we say except that the changes costumes he camouflages himself in different Generations it's a matter of context it's a matter of yeah yeah yeah right right that was that was the best line I ever heard in Harvest the distinguished president of Harvard it's all in the context depends on the context right good so here the dun is now moving over to asking a kadosh to do away with the evil nations of the world that doesn't mean we want the goyam to be destroyed it means the evil side of goyam should be destroyed but he says it in the following again he still has he still has the wine image in his mind and he's going to give some drop some locations which most probably he was very well familiar with as a child growing up in Baghdad that City still exists today we sometimes hear about it in the news we heard about it in the Gulf War war remember the Gulf War Basra b a s r a Basra that's batra right and those who sing this mro like some people think it's a Mitzvah to to sing everything in the Bon everything some sing one song right and some when they say let's sing something they kick up Shir amales right that's the litox who say right no don't sing it no you ever hear a good biller from Lita that never happened from Poland you know from from galit see them you get a billain right so if you turn the page and look at Source number seven from right we're familiar with the song the mirors right we sing this sometimes sometimes in the morning but it's in this in the morning but some would sing this for but it's this reworked this and then next so what is the Pura here Pura is what's called in Hebrew a gut it's a wine press it's a wine press uh if I'm not mistaken there's an excavated wine press at jat right in the lobby the the car coming out of outside the new madash they excavated it's either a oil press but I think if I remember correctly it's a gut because the difference between a a gut and a B habad which is the wine oil press you do this when you do to in Isel and there plenty of such wine presses and the way they pressed wine was they took their shoes and socks off and they walked on the grapes and usually it was some funnel that allowed the juice to empty of course Sometimes some of the residue of the grape would go with it so there was a strainer that came later into the production of wine to filter out that part but the original part was to squash the uh the grapes and here we're asking Kosh to step on like like you'd hit a cockroach you know is that disgusting you step on a cockroach right more disgusting than when you take up the shoe and you look at it that's even more disgusting Luc Lucille B no oh really no no not too young I remember but I don't remember that will annihilate them with his anger and so on but the image that yesah is using is stepping on them like they're stepping crushing the grapes and that's the phrase in the poem let's go back in the city ofra now and and also on the Babylonians they have to be overtaken now there happen to be different gear different versions of this line one is the now you will notice in some of the so I'm sure you have at least two and a half thousand at home from all the that you've attended and uh just said right so you're going to check you're going to go to some homework you're going to start flipping through the and see which version you have cuz some have exactly what's printed here some have the ones with adom in it and adom as we've said is Rome so bavel is the Babylonian exile first bet mikdash Rome is the second bet mikdash destruction so you have the both Exiles being mentioned here and should step on all of them so if it's batra and B somehow he's referring to the destruction of the first which really carried the destruction of the second also and we say in we're not asking to go back to the second beta mikdash we want to go back to the first so it's the first beta mikdash that was in its great Glory so that was destroyed by the Babylonians that's symbolized by the two big cities by the nation B and the big city batra but there are those who say no he spoke about B and Edom the but the theme is the same should deal a death blow to the enemy here means anger as we say it's a nickname it's a synonym to anger should smash them smash them should listen to me on the day that I call out so you see that every line is ending with right and what should do should do something to the desert what should he do to the desert with it this desert and then Mountain but it's it's it's just empty he should replace the midbar and mountain with Hadas B Ro tidar all of these are names of beautiful spices and gr and and flowers and and uh and that you use for for for smelling I mean people use hadum sometimes for Bim we actually mentioned when we did the most Mori was called bar Ro M's nickname in the most poem was bar and we showed a p to indicate it and the medish that Mor was and it was Mor in Aramaic in Theus he was the spice of Amel and where does where does he get all this from so turn the page and look at source number eight in yes where it says in we'll start with I will convert the desert to a reservoir of water and the dried out land that will be full of water means fertile fertile landid I will make the midbar AR Cedar Hadas aim he names many of which lifts out of context and reversed order just works out for him where he says elim God what you should do make it into for whom for those who are careful about Shabbat and admonish about Shabbat other words not only is it important for person to be careful about Shabbat but he's supposed to be careful he has responsibility for the next you to be a sh Shabbat and therefore he's not only a he's careful but he's also a ma he he he he relates to this to other people who are not familiar with chabat let's not get into the discussion of tactic because there are different tactics and that is to you know throw rocks at people who are driving at Shabbat that tactic is the wor wor most counterproductive tactic in the world if you see somebody driving on Shabbat and you want to be a sadic and you want to yell something say ra because in all you have to think that maybe the person is driving to the hospital with an emergency or you can say you can say I'm sure he's driving a a woman to the delivery room and the statistical probability that every car driving on Shabbat in the street is doing that may be small but it's still there it's still there so that is a better call out or shout out than saying sh don't do that it's going to be counterproductive that's for sure and why do I say this because the rambam talks about the carides the children of the kides who the ramb in this third peric of in the Mish towards the end of mish he um he's talking about the sons the children of the karite families who were raised on the on the on this on the educational level of the kites without the oral law and so on it's obviously they not quote unquote Hally religious in our sense of the word the Rah says you have to DAR Shalom with all kinds of means of Attraction a peaceful with Harmony and and that's how you pull them you try to attract them and so on certainly not to do something that would be counterproductive the ra lifts out of context a phrase that's found in M Shabbat in a completely different area of he calls them those are the children who were captive and he's saying they were captive why because they grew up in a in a nonreligious Orthodox environment so they are and they cannot be held at fault and Rah goes on to say even when they grow up and they learn and they hear that there are Jews out there who do things differently they're not going to be held responsible because the ROM was an educational psychologist and he understood that that which you learn as a child is all in all likelihood is going to remain with you and if you break with it you're a hero it's heroic to break with that which you've grown up with and so on therefore you have to you have to you know take it take it easy with them and so on so that's what called the I once said this I thought I was going to be funny when my brother had me as a speaker in Teck and I said why is it called Teck I said cuz you're all T by staying in staying in and and and yeah somehow or another they never invited me back I don't know why I don't know why you know right it was a good line so the um the idea of for those who admonish and those who keep they're going to have something that has something to do with a river and peace what is that all about flip the page Source number n from is getting top building today had you observed my had you listened to my you would have been like a peaceful river flowing nicely as opposed to a stormy River you know where it becomes a dangerous situ situation um but so means a Easy Rider it's going to be peaceful River and that's what Duna says not K like the rivers the water of the river it will be like shalom shalom fine and now gets to the the last stanza El again he's talking to the K who is a jealous God that's already mentioned is a jealous God he he will take revenge over those who we have to take revenge from we we're suggesting to to do it to to to trample trample upon those who should be trampled that those they should be scared out of their wits when a kadosh comes to get them let's see where this idea comes from if you turn the page and this is going to be very familiar in Source number 10 from the Shir from means shaking shaking trembling is another synonym of scared frightened out of your wits so l so what dun does he takes the word L and integrates it here we ask to do something to scare the wit out of those who are going to get trampled on and when all that happens then what was the reaction of when did it to the Egyptians and what what the shatam is telling us is that CNN was Broadcasting katamu to the world because it said so they all know about it all these nations they heard about word got out very quickly and that sprang Amel into song look what did and therefore [Music] um says after and my mouth will open up wide wide wide so that I will be able to sing the songs of let's see where these phrases come from you're all familiar with Source number no Source number 11 is less known but um happens to be of the first day of R that's how many Yesa boys know a thank God because it's a or because it's Ain in the gar but but to say that they know it from that's less likely this is my mouth is wide open I'm going to sing about the downfall of the enemy because you made me glad you made me happy with your help with your help and the next you God you took us out of we say this every day at the end of I will open my mouth up wide and fill it up with words of Joy fill it up with words of joy and the next phrase comes from shal shal so what dun is saying is I will open my mouth up wide and fill it up with what and it's interesting that and then it says before so the says that um that in our day and age we have to limit the amount of being of enjoyment limit the the the the the uh quantity of enjoyment we have and we and we do and that's based on the PUK of alar so many different were thrown in to guarantee that we limit and budget our Sim because of the destruction of mikdash and so on that's why under we have so many I mean whether it's breaking the glass whether it's some people still having the the eer on the on the head of thean remember my my kids didn't really ask for it except for maybe one of two remember I think a ton did ask for it and uh if I'm not mistaken my wife will correct me I think my wife said under the you don't need a Kaz it CU it's like a salt shaker that comes out and it doesn't come out because the they're like thick you're going like this you don't need a Kaz you know just a little bit you know but it's eer the idea of eer on the forehead is mentioned already in the mishna in the second per with regard to Drought fast days if the drought in her is and drought does mean not enough rain it means zero rain zero rain in Earth Israel for in the since the sukot and then by there's a whole schedule of fast days and so on one included putting eer on the heads of the of the Mel even and so on it's a you really have to uh see it as a as expression of mourning and so on so we do this as an expression of mourning um there is a Min not everybody has this of Kala under doesn't wear jewelry right sometimes you see this in and afterwards they take off the earrings and so on I once did a for a non-religious uh nice couple but they weren't religious but they wanted to have a proper we did everything and the had an ear in and I wasn't sure if I should ask him to take it off go I decided I'm not starting up with him you know I'm happy that he's having a and let's just leave it like that yeah but the but there are so many different uh minim of you know when you when you paint the house they say to leave over something I always say that every kaban in this country is M always leave something over there's no kaban in this country that didn't think of Z mdash and left something undone right both temples what both temples for both for both for both right he's M I said he's M for sure for sure but in all seriousness it's a it's it's something that for 1900 years we live with this we live with mikdash at the S night there's so many the and you know for some people have the Min of hard bed eggs and salt water to eat that there also a Min of aus and so on it's there we've grown up with those kind of what right the sandwich of H because the original was he made a sandwich with cor PES and put the mat and mor in the cor P because Mor wasn't an independent the Mitzvah of was to eat it with with P like nobody eats horse radish it goes with geil the fish right so the horse ranish with fish is the morrow with the Corbin PES but in the absence Corb PES kazal made an institution we should still eat Mor independently as a RAB Mitzvah and that's why there a nobody made a because it wasn't a Mitzvah to eat Mor it was a Mitzvah to eat Corb PES with mat and except that mat there's an independent that's why there's a mitz of mat even without fine so so then when there'll be so then in those days when uh then we'll be able to open our mouths wide with what they call in English full throated uh praise but now we have to limit ourselves a little bit so is taken out of this clearly by by Dunes when he says just a word about the so I remember very vividly in 1979 some of you may recall this as well when there was the um the peace treaty was signed in Washington with the then president uh Jimmy Carter who's no who's no no longer with us and um andan Shalom and Sadat right so it was a very moving ceremony out on the lawn of the white house uh and begans turned to speak so he spoke and he spoke fine and then at the end of the speech he puts puts on his big black and he started reading shal shal and he says and he repeats it and then he goes on you remember Bean's intonation right that's how vegan sounded and then he went on to speech and it was very weird and the in the dinner that they had at the White House so it was a kesem after kesem the first was that they knew that bean was careful about kosha food so they were going to have airin meal you know for him like when you fly Delta Airlines and you order koser you know you get this triple WRA plastic and bean said because they're going to be Jewish dignitaries there whether they keep kosher don't keep kosher he was worried about he didn't want anybody to eat non kosher and therefore he said there'll only be a meal if everything is kosher and the White House drafted rabbis from Silver Spring area and Washington to koser to kaser the White House kitchen the stuff that we would do in the Air Force you know before PES in the Army so they caser the kitchen that imagine NE the White House on tax pay of money had to buy a new set of dishes I mean the anti-semites could have had a field day on this one and and it was a kosher meal because ban said if he's eating kosher everybody's eating kosher he's not eating out of plastic wrappings you know and and they did it they did it for him and then he gets up there and he makes a speech and he's going to explain why he said we would like dreamers we were coming back this is the flip side of leaving going to B and we were crying and so on and now it's the flip side we're coming back we were like dreamers and theot is if you're not a dreamer you're never going to make it you have to dream you have to continue to dream and you Dre is and then you dream for and you dream for harab and then you dream for bet mikdash you dream for KES kashim you have to keep dreaming and that's so Bean's going to explain why he said twice said he had a dream it almost sounds like Martin Luther King which last Monday was his uh two days ago was his birthday he said he dreamt that uh that he went into the Oval Office of the President United States and he saw on his desk there were three telephones there was the red phone the white phone the blue phone so he asked the president says what do you need three phones for so the president said the uh the white the the blue phone he said the red phone is to Moscow it's the hotline Cas of a National Emergency you know a global emergency have to talk to Moscow fine what's the blue phone blue phone is to London because the uh headquarters of NATO is in London and therefore if there's a regional problem we have to talk to London what's the white phon the President says it's the God okay a phone call so ban asked the president to you use that phone he says yeah one year we get New Year's greetings okay fine then the the the the dream continues the second dream second dream the second dream is in here in yam in the prime minister's office and president car comes to visit and he enters into Bean's office what is you see three phones there's the red phone the blue phone and the white phone so president asked the Prime Minister he says Mr ban what do you have well the red phone is for Washington you know if we have a problem we have to call Uncle Sam okay what's the blue Fone we also have to talk to London you know also important the regional what's the white phone white phone forgot so President says do you use the white phone oh yeah several times a day you know here it's a local call that was a kidish hasem it was a kidish hasem and when he he actually said that story he said the president came to Jerusalem DC and everybody thought ban fell off his chair because it's Washington DC he said oh you don't no it's David's Capital Jerusalem DC and he got a standing ovation right there and there it was such a kidish hasem the RO comes to the White House and reminds them that you is that's why when was elected I wrote this in my book on the R's conversations when Bean was elected so the r told me that we had four rashah Israelis finally we have a ye said have a Jew he he Lo be was born in brisk have understand that they were lansman they were lansman so they he knew the family and when Bean came to the states to visit Ro spoke them in yish all right let's finish up the poem DC stand for again what was that DC David's Capital David's Capital yeah let's look at the last two lines he's going back to the theme of Shabbat the last two lines as the poem began with Shabbat the first two lines the last two lines end with Shabbat on Shabbat you should utilize the time to expand your wisdoms which means you should be studying t on Shabbat and that will be the crown for your head nit remember the first line he used the word the same word use at the end and you will guard the mitv the holy mitv and you will keep the Shabbat this notion that Shabbat the utilization of the day of Shabbat it's not that you're not working but then said twiddle your thumbs but there's something to do on Shabbat so there's a section here in number 14 the last Source from the tour so who's the tour the tour is rabenu the son of the rush his um the I'm sorry yov re yov Ben AER re yov AER was actually born in southern France uh not I'm sorry sorry they were he the the son of the rush ra actually studied in VMS he was ashkanazi trained in the in the school of the maharam marenberg end of the 13th century but there were many many many pums going on at the time and the maram was was incarcerated and u he was imprisoned and and after he dies in prison his body is not let out for burial for 14 years but the rush RAB a flees uh the scene and he ends up in Spain and he becomes a rabbi in Toledo too it's not the we are actually familiar with the idea of a ashkanazi rabbi serving in a spy setting it happens in the 16th century with the the son of the father of rakov who was Thoroughbred ashkanazi but um rabak B father the asazi he didn't that wasn't his family name thei Community from theat those who are refugees from the Spanish Inquisition who made it to Holland so they engaged his services to be the rough so they called him the ashkanazi because he was like the exception everybody else was FY so that has happened and those who know remember from Brooklyn Flatbush Rabbi Zulan liberman he was the rabbi of the Syrian Jewish community in in in in Flatbush so this has happened or can you get better than the Spanish Portuguese synagogue in Manhattan his R mayor salic I mean that's a riot I mean he had have a t he told me he had a tutor to just to make sure that it doesn't slip with with SPI minhagim and I remember once seeing him in in Chicago and an airport we were both speakers on a weekend and it was right before sh and he wanted to wish me well so he tells me so I'll wish you the way we do in our he says a good kazun he tells me I said in the Spanish Portuguese synagogue nobody ever said a good kazor he was a funny guy may but I'm just saying these things happened so the rush rer was the r in Toledo of a of Spanish City major Spanish City and his son writes the tour the first attempt to organize Al in four columns and later the rabf Caro writes his bait yose on that and that morphs into the so this is very important so the tah says if you just look at the underline the the middle of the section won't read the whole thing what we're doing on Shabbat says I have a a a match for you gonna make a shab tells I'm I have a for you and it's Shabbat Shabbat is going to be free from their work is actually talking to Tor he's talking to Tor and saying that I have is which is called chabbat they won't be working that day and therefore they're going to be engaged in Torah study and and he says the minut was that there was a Shear in in the afternoon and you are not allowed to schedule sud when the ren town was make giving the she there was a r k Benedict B Benedict who when he gave a Shear if you weren't there and he saw you in the weekday he wished you Raa because the only reason you missed the shear because you must have been deadly sick but um and he really forced the people to come to the shear and the actually says that there are three things that Bal lose their fortune and one of them is they make one of the sud chabbat at the time that there's a scheduled B midash going on in the she so this is a pretty serious thing and the that the Shabbat should be utilized for talut so not only is there special creat on Shabbat but there should be a special sh on Shabbat that the balam should be able to attend and so on the rambam himself gave such a Shear in Cairo in old fat the old Cairo and it was always interesting for me to know what was the safer on the table and it wasn't his own book and it also wasn't he used something in between rasi wrote a digest of the talmud B we call him the Riff and there two three generations before the rambam in Spain and he used the Riff and he explained why he said it has the flavor of gamarra but you can proceed you can make progress cuz he said if I'm going to learn gamor once a week we'll finish in 3,000 years so that's not going to happen so here I can move I I get the the topic I get the basic uh the core issue I get the bottom line and now we're ready on the next topic so he said for balab this the ram says this this is going to work he didn't use his own book as the text on the table he used the Riff but he expected people to come to that share I think I would have come to the raom share in the afternoon for sure all right the ram she the ramam she yeah I would come to R the ramam gave the ramam she ramam gave the r but he gave the she on the Riff right okay so now you'll sing draw your Crow the Shabbat with with cavana