Journey to France: Ramerrupt - Rabbeinu Tam and His Mystical Association With Money

this torah class is brought to you by torahanytime.com okay we're driving down the farm roads from tua to ramarupt and we could perhaps picture the various types of commerce that the ballet atoys were involved in you know rashi his official capacity was not in rabbanus and being around i could say he was a very smart man and rashi was a witner the raj bomb dealt in goats and rabino tam robino time had three businesses what were they the big three goats vietnam and moneylender we have evidence that rabino time lent money to the king of france he had big big dealers that ravino tom dealt with he had a very large gentile staff in his house he had dozens and dozens and dozens of workers now rabino tom was an exceptionally wealthy man when his younger brother the when his older brother the revam rabbino yidsaw passed away he left over seven yes who do you think supported them town was so wealthy that he began each year every day by counting his money in fact and don't take my word for this the maharil himself records the ravino time and oyster that when he wanted to learn he would count his money he would sift through it he would say okay now i'm the now you could learn and i'm telling you from personal experience that when you're a billionaire and you count your money the kedushim you could come up with at that time is super now i'm not telling you from my personal experience i'm telling you from the personal experience of rabino tom if you just counted your millions of dollars that's and it says where do we learn this from we learned from tom roberto time was very concerned about money rabbino tom is the first re-shine to use the principle hafzid maruba shani that if it's going to cause the lack of a loss of jewish money you could be lenient that was the criticism if throughout shas he always comes up with leniences regarding money i'm going to give you four examples who says with yom kippur learning is beautiful with work the icker is work tara a little tyra is good with it says you said talmud number two the gemara in chaba says you now to go on a boat more less than three days before shabbos but sorry mitzvah is permitted says making money is a mitzvah making a living is a mitzvah you're allowed to go on a boat less than three days before shabbos number three are you allowed to charge interest to a gentile the gemara says no you're not allowed to did you know that the gemara comes out you cannot charge a guy interest says nowadays you're allowed to because we pay them so much taxes you could charge them interest so better time says number four you're now to do business with the ay vehicle them three days before their holiday and rashi says at all comes ruby no time that's just avoid the zara dick of business but commerce it's mother and the mekobalam want to know why is rabbenutam always the one who is lenient regarding money surround shas rabbino in business that's not considered malacha it's why is leaning in of the wealthiest man in the mesh anybody you know who's the wealthiest man in humish by abraham of you know it says by abraham avinu it says we have mid-russian about kairak about yoisei explicitly yaakov avinu was the biggest oyster in the hamish rabino time was avoided was to counteract love unheld you work you get immersed in it you get drawn into it you get pulled down by it and you allow it to take you away from hakka and rochnias jacob avino had the ability to elevate the sheep the goats the nakudim the brudim yaakov avinu was a shepherd yakovino had the ability to elevate commerce and to avoid hashem and this is something that rabbenutam inherited him from yaakov avinu through the nitsuits of his nashamah and at least kabbalistically it's a certain insight into rabino tom's approach to money and to mamma nonchal israel and to uh making paranasa this is the great robe no tam who we're going to see the rush said was the greatest together with ryazaki and of all the resign by the way ravenotam had a very good sense of humor also raise your hand if you want to hear a good rabbino time joke no you don't like robino time jokes this is this is geshwa so some reassignment want to say that in on shabbos you should say alibi a banker in the goat industry he was extremely sharp you did not disagree with rabeno tom nobody disagreed certainly not more than one time but ultimately robino tam is the one that preserved the understanding of the south pacific we're about to go to his gravesite um we're going to be at the grave of the rashbom rabbino tom the rihazakin i believe the revum is there also what we're going to do is we're going to spend a few minutes speaking about them there we'll have uh we'll start with the rash bomb then we'll go to the rebound so we'll speak about them you have a few minutes to dive in speak about that the next one and a few minutes to dive and all the tv should you've just experienced another torah class brought to you by torahanytime.com