Journey to France: Provence - Meet The 3 Ra'avads

this torah class is brought to you by torahanytime.com everyone so now uh we're continuing on the second leg of our trip uh we're here in the south of provence when we were more north we spoke about the family of rashi and the six generations rashi his son-in-laws now this is the private territory this is private land and we're going to speak uh we're headed to the cover of the rivet i do not believe that most people who come to france or provence have ever gone to the gravesite of the rivet but before you go to the rivet's cover before you know who the rival is you need to know who the rival is not so as we mentioned a number of times and now we'll explain there were three rybids the well the most well-known private the rivet who wrote the hassagas on the rambam wrote sagas on the rift wrote a parish on the taras kayanim was the third and the final arrived the first rival is known as rabbi avram even or even david who is a spanish astronomer historian philosopher who wrote a very important work called safer hakabala nothing to do with mysticism but rather of the historical traditions of the jewish people continuing from refrigerating this the first private was killed out of hashem he wrote a renowned mathematical compilation and he defended in the seifer kabbalah traditional judaism from terrorite attack now there's one very famous and controversial account that appears in the safer cabala and that is about the four hostages who were setting sail from bauri italy and they were kidnapped by pirates and ransom and that really was the seminal moment that transferred the power of torah from bavel to the uh to north africa to spain to italy and to other communities that is found in the seifer kabbalah of raven number one rabbi brown benzema he also wrote a word called so he wrote a number of um works some and even in latin as we mentioned he was a historian he was born in 1110 uh he was of spanish origin and he passed away either in 1160 or 1180. that's right at number one now we're up to arrive at number two rival number two was also born in 1110 he passed away in narbon in provence in and he was one of the early founders of provincial jewry he was the talmud of ramo shahadarshan and one of the powerful provincial leaders of todoros ben moshe appointed writer the second to be the avbes then he's known as rabbi avraham av so he's called rivet not because he's ben david but because he is avbesden now he was the rebbe of rabbi avraham ben david iii and his future son-in-law is also the rebbe of rob zarakian now rabbi avraham ben david raven iii and reb sarah levy had many very fierce halachic challenges many of the conclusions of the riff and the rivet attacked vehemently the bala he said that anything good the balamore wrote the balamore took from him from the river the third and uh when rabzi passed away then the challenges of rival the third were mellowed a little bit but in the safer div revoice uh it's recorded all of the disputes between rival iii and the baal hamar now raju ii the father-in-law of robert the first uh the rabbi iii is considered one of the earliest mikhubalam so the perhaps the first known mikubal makobol kabbalist was arrived at the second ravi abraham ibn david rabbi abraham vesden and it's interesting because he is the first one to that's reputed to have had guillory elijah now rivet the third definitely had guillotine rivet the third is ruby abram david of pokier and he was born in narbonne in 1120 and he passed away in pokier in 1197. writer the third in his hashtag on the rambam in a number of places he writes he writes this and he'll place lulav he writes this in other places that he had divine revelations in the area of halacha that god came to him in the halachic process so these are the three rivets we're going to write in the third now when we get to rabbit iii we're going to learn the rabbit the third had a very saintly son who is blind rabitrak saginaw a rabbit saginaw wrote a contrast called soyd hadlockas writes in parishes was the father of kabbalah was the father of omega so although his grandfather ram avbesdan was one of the earliest mukubalim the grandson rabitsak saginaw is considered the father of the mekovalum he taught to me kobalem of ezra and rebels real who the ramban learned kabbalah from and that began the tradition of kabbalah in clarissa so we're headed to rivet iii ravi abram bin david of pokiers who lived again from 11 20 to 1197. you've just experienced another torah class brought to you by torahanytime.com