Journey To Italy 2024: Livorno - Sir Moses Montefiore

this Torah class is brought to you by Torah anytime.com okay okay we're leaving the city of learno leghorn if you noticed in the sh that we went to there were a number of pictures downstairs he had a beautiful painting of the there's also a picture of one of the great princes who was born in leevo a outstanding personality he was born in Leo on the fourth day of kesan in the year T me 1784 he lived till 1885 sir Moses montury is a yid Leo a yid Leo in fact the Jews of Italy minted a special coin a medallion in his honor to give honor to the uh prince who was born in learno on one side you have a picture of his head around him the title that says and on the other side it said Moses mon this was 100 years after the birth of Moses mury what's amazing is his grandfather settled in London in the 18th century his grandfather had 18 children Moses mon Fury's grandfather 18 children one of them was y elu y El was the father of Moses m fui who had a burning love for AR he made seven historic trips to the Holy Land the record of his trips is the a very important element of the historic account of the early days of AR he founded the first settlements outside the the walls of Yim y mosha many of the neighborhoods were named after him and he spent a lot of his personal Fortune to build up AR Isel in the 19th century um he has many notable accomplishments one of them was he saved the life of the malbim and possibly most notably in the year T 1840 he fought valiantly to protect the Jews of Damascus from the blood liel and uh in honor of his heroic acts Rim fagi wrote AER in his honor about the Mitzvah ofi named the saer after sir Moses mon Fury one of his initiatives to bring parosa to the Jews in AR Isel which was not successful was to build a great windmill which never really worked because where it was situated and uh the the quality of the Grain in as opposed to elsewhere but sir Moses mon Fury is uh a great prince in CLA Isel and he is responsible for really building up in the the last Millennia he was AO how could we not mention him uh leaving this city thank you very much you've just experienced another the Torah class brought to you by Torah anytime.com