Journey to Greece 2024: Solonika - The Life and Times of Rav Yaakov Ibn Chabiv, Author of Ein Yaakov

this Torah class is brought to you by Torah anytime.com okay rabai one last uh Missing Piece about Salan so we could close the book on Salan I want to speak about one of the greatest leaders of salonic jury you're all familiar with one of the that this individual wrote R you know on chabas we spoke about the now we're going to speak about his father ROV he comes from Zamora Spain he's Bor born in 1445 he's a tamed driver he's born in 1445 nag he's a of of Valencia he has to flee Spain in 1492 he comes to Portugal as we mentioned on chabas in 1497 they made a law in Portugal that all children would be forced ibly kidnapped and baptized rakov ib's beloved Son rbab a young boy already a promising Torah scholar was kidnapped by the church and the mahak as a young boy was baptized many are not aware actually in the somebody attacked REI and he mentioned the sh made a veiled remark alluding to something Shady in re's past and R the maak responded in a forthright manner he said look even if they changed my name during the period of conversion I did not change the knows that I always feared him even though I didn't have the to be in my heart I always feared Hashem in other words the Mah had no choice it's not they gave him a choice whether to give up his life or not he was forcibly baptized now his father comes to Greece and just to get a little bit of the backdrop Greece was part of turkey at the time the men hug him in Greece followed the ancient community of turkey meaning they practice safic custom excuse me they practice Turkish custom rakov is coming from Spain his was now let's see if you know who is more what meaning you have no idea right the SPM are much much more all there many rely on when when real is much more than what the regular meat that we eat even the highest level of is not up to the standards of so rakov comes here and the ancient Community basically were lenient and they found Minash his community back in Spain were like and he that they do not continue to observe their of Spain why you're if you come to a new place you do not keep the practices of your old country your that was from ofak now the Turkish Community is led by taek and his student but they respected R greatly so in other words R LED theic community and R ta and maram they led the Turkish community RAB yakov's magnum opus is something called ayak ayak is a collection of all the AAS but many are not aware that Rak attempted to collect all the Aus of and Yami he did not get around to doing all of Yami because it seems that many volumes of Yami were not available furthermore only completed he never didik that was completed by his son completed the majority of the the plan of was to create an index of 12 major subjects so that people if they wanted to find an a let's say on toyra oned on sh he was going to divide the AAS of sh into 12 main categories furthermore he wanted to make an index so that if somebody was learning let's say mat they could find any a related to M he was going to create a to help use the and connect it with the he never got around to it now he also wrote many don't realize this a p ony you know what it's called Yakov wrong Yakov was written by theak R he wrote a parish called H is is a collection of Rashi that we no longer have the rash the r the the the became such a popular saer many were written on it for example and the hab did you ever see Hab Hab is written written by none other than rud of minina is considered a classic p on the Y so as mentioned he did not complete the work he did he only wrote the rest of it was completed byov is also the author of a parish on the tour which I don't think we have but the B himself quotes the commentary of rakov so hopefully we got a little bit of a time a little bit of a flavor for the nature of the community in salonica there was an ancient Turkish community that was led by there was a community led by ultimately his son we mentioned was forcibly baptized how did he get him back this is a miraculous story rakov ibab somehow freed and rescued his son from the church and escaped to solanah so so many great hailed from Salan and as we mentioned it was thank you very much you've just experienced another Torah class brought to you by Torah anytime.com