Journey to Greece 2024: Solonika - "Mother-City of the Jewish People"

this Torah class is brought to you by Torah anytime.com okay good afternoon everyone sh we're here headed to salonica and salonica in the history of the Jewish people was a key cog in the Messiah of CLA Israel from 1492 until 1590 salonica was the epicenter of Judaism and toyra for CLA Israel many many is lived in Salan some of their names you may be familiar with others less so you had R is that name familiar to you R just to give you a little example R was one of the three candidates who was nominated to write the along with and a third you have the marina you have Theon alitz was here raan was here R Caro was here this was the number one destination when Jews were exiled from Spain 1492 years later from Portugal they came to salonica want to read to you a little bit of the some of the descriptions that the gum write about Salan in those years so the maharash the Mah writes in he says through the traversing of the generations H shalan saluka has been transformed Leo is now not every city in CL is was called is many of you may come from communities in New York that have not yet been called is present company included you may come from communities with many yes many many pizza stores not yet have they warranted the title is there are a few cities that in the history of the Jewish people isir was called is Sal says was upgraded to the tile big communities the number of Institutions was wondrous there were literally hundreds of rabim here I have a saer take a look at this r a list of literally hundreds of that lived in Salan I venture to say maybe you've heard of one out of every hundred of them marash says there is no city in the world that had more than Salan therefore the Eminence of the various institutions in Sal transcended institutions anywhere else is the majority of the residents of salano were Jewish to the point where even into the 20th century we see the ports were still closed on CH there were Tories there were schs of which there was nothing like that throughout the world by the way fagi writes about Salon G we were in Turkey a few years ago and said it was a good trip so we went to the K of fii says Salan also the sages were of such Eminence they protruded they spit out fire they were so great in Tyra they were exuding fire so you may have thought you're coming to salonica it's a nice destination we have good tour guides it's a beautiful Community this was a city that played a major role in the transmission of toyra to CL is I want to begin in segment number one by uh sharing with you about R taak we're still going yeah r taak r taak was born in in 1465 he passed away in 1546 he was born in Constantinople Istanbul now in Turkey by the way Salan at the time was part of turkey and he was born in Spain he passed away in Istanbul and he was already an adult when he was forced to leave Spain with his father in 1492 they settle in Salan and re yak's father taak is one of the leaders of the the community then started one of the most important yes in the history of the Jewish people now this is very important to know R taak wrote in a letter that for 30 years his Yeshiva here in Salan was one of the most important yeshivas in the world for 15 years he says there was no Yeshiva like his Yeshiva the KAS plus he writes that he had more than 20 who were worthy to be rash in their own right by the wayak for 40 years he did not sleep in a bed taak slept on a board only Friday night only on chabas he would sleep in a bed moreover the writes in the sh that we have a tradition by CH that in a 24-hour period he was involved in teaching the ISA for 18 hours and he only you've just experienced another Torah class brought to you by Torah anytime.com