Journey to Greece 2024: Solonika - The Mystery Why Chida Never Visited Greece

this Torah class is brought to you by Torah anytime.com okay good morning everyone I'm going to share with you now a mystery a short mystery I don't know the answer to this question we have eminent on the trip maybe you could help me answer this great mystery we've spoke about it in private ation but I want to highlight and uh drive home how difficult the question it is we know that one of the alltime great Travelers there are many great Jewish Travelers in history you have ra one of the the rush records the geography and topography of is he wrote a saer you have benjam of toila who also recorded the happenings of the ancient Jewish communities in the times of theim in more recent times you have somebody RAB Schwarz Schwarz wrote he was are largely due to the research that he did traveling up to various mountains to see the times of and so forth but perhaps the greatest of all the Jewish Travelers was the on two occasions the traveled for more than 5 years years he went as West as Tunisia he was as North as London and Amsterdam on each trip he covered something like 130 cities there is no major Jewish community that the K did not visit and when the K visited a community he visited the libraries he visited the tried to come into encounter all the manuscripts he could get a hold of he visited museums he went to museums of Natural Science he went to monuments he went to Versailles he went to the Tower of [Music] London mysteriously there's one city the never visited this is a city that perhaps was the epicenter of Tyra scholarship at least from 1492 to 1590 and even to more recent times it was one of the two major centers of publishing in the Jewish World along with Constantinople along with Venice salonica was the EP epicenter of T and some reason the never made it to Sala not in round one and not around two why would that have been was there no manuscript that interested the in Salan was there no sight that wanted to see what was it about Salan that never came here many of the recorded in the sh held from Salan the marash we spoke on chabas of alab the salono was steeped in Jewish history Jewish scholarship and uh many places that you would have thought would would have been of interest to the so the great mystery is maybe you know maybe you could speak to someone maybe you could ask someone call up your people speak to your people I'm sure you have you know well connect Ed people people who know something why did the never come to Salan okay that's what I got for you right now enjoy a few moments before you hear from me again you've just experienced another Torah class brought to you by Torah anytime.com