Journey to Italy 2024: Livorno - The City of the Chida

this Torah class is brought to you by Torah anytime.com okay good morning everyone hope everybody had a good rest and a wonderful walking tour in bolognia uh we're headed to the historic city of learno learno was a great Center of printing and learno we could say was the city of the where for last 27 years of the life of the who by the way said was yesterday the spent his time in learno and there's a big question the was tied with his soul to the land of Israel to Earth Israel why did he spend the last years of his life in learno after all the and the which are the response of the the talks about the importance of supporting in is the says the two most important mitz in the are Li and living in is and if you could combine both of them there's nothing greater than supporting Tyra in is so why did live 27 years of his life outside the land of Israel well there's one Mitzvah that's greater both than learning Tyra and living is and that is and to the his most important Endeavor was publishing and learno had two ingredients necessary to publish sarim number one the printing press number two patrons padrinos padros so in Leo the was able to publish many of his According to some accounts he published more than 100 certainly more than 70 one of the most amazing that the published was the shame Haim which when the arrived in learo he was in Lazaretto Lazaretto was a quarantine he was there for 40 days and he did not have he did not obviously have a computer and in an act of Supernatural bio bibliographical proficiency the record in alphabetical order the names of all the G who list who live before him and all theim that were written before him what exactly was the and the of the sh what do we what do we get from having an encyclopedia of all the G who ever lived and all the that were ever compiled so I want to share with you briefly three great benefits of the sh I'm going to share with you very concise l number one in a great principal when you hear the name is it will engender greater observance of the teaches that when you say the names of G is when you say the names of it engenders Kad in a person is referring to a similar work to the sh called written by the author of The and Sam writes that the toas of this of saying the names of G saying the names of is when you hear the word is when you say when you say Rao when you say m when you say it elevates you so here the records thousands of is it engenders kadus in a person the malum wrote A has to one of the early editions of the sh and the malum tells us about a man who was famished who was hungry who was worn who was tired and he encounters an orchard and after resting and enjoy the orchard the person asks who's my benefactor who planted this Orchard who created this environment and he's dismayed to learn that nobody knows the answer to that question and no one has even asked that question says the malum anybody who learns is the most basic question we have to ask is who were these people who are our benefactors who were these great men who contributed years of their life for the benefit of the Jewish people and the malum says this the answer to this question was provided by none other than the I would like to share with you an original offering one of the benefits perhaps of uh the another idea if you look in quotes all the times in Shas that Rashi says I don't know look inash says I don't know I can't explain this comes and he lists all the times that Rashi in in sh says I don't know so they asked what's doing he's trying to demonstrate how much Rashi didn't know why is he Gathering all the times Rashi says I don't know and furthermore they ask did not list all the times that Rashi said he didn't know so kki said like this said it brings C to the T it brings glory to the T if when you see an idea you're able to make a listing of where this idea appears in other places it's a way of showing Beauty to the T it's a way of according Grandeur to the Tyra if you see the gamar says and then you could say that's in that's in K that's in if thear says a CL and you could demonstrate what do you get from cross reference says kki it's a way of making it's a way of glorifying the why were called so perhaps by counting and listing all the and all the it's a way of showing to the Andover to the Andover to the and this is a way of demonstrating the glory and the beauty of the Tyra I want to share with you some Choice off offerings that the records in the sh for a more full treatment of this subject please go to Tor anytime.com where you could hear many many examples of of but in honor of this trip I'm going to share with you just a few Choice ones as we head to the city of lerno I'm going to begin by mentioning uh a tidbit that I never mentioned before in the entry to the Shak maybe you want to come join usem upcoming trip time we're going to be going to the city of wara Sak kutna we're going to spend chabas in CAU we're going to be at the r on his yard side and then we're going to go to the sh the Shak how was the Shak able to find so many Mar without a computer says a actually come to think of that you could ask that question of a lot of you could ask that of the says the Shak had a special shame you know there are many types of Shame ice I don't know if you know there's a shame of that not every bus driver has you know but by the way I could tell you what the shame of is the says the shame of is hey Alf hey maybe just saying that we'll get there a little quickly you could check you know it's that if you invoke that P the trip will be at least 1 millisecond shorter anyway the says that the Shak had a special shame a shame of finding Mar that's how the sh was able to find so many references okay a few very important says was written by none other than maram Rutenberg maram Rutenberg is the editor the chief editor of to Muma okay A little trivia question we have tumas we have tarumi and we have tum y I can't hear you was not written by wrote Al is either or Tumi but the printers to distinguish between two types of Tumi they call one Tumi and one tum y benal this is one of my favorites the writes that he has a cabala from an Adam godal who has a cabala from zakim then the times of Maran YF there were three great gim who were capable of writing the Shar they were r r and Har each one was perfectly capable and suitable of writing the allowed to write because of his exceeding humility how do we see humility in the B he does not disparage the ones that he argues with okay this is very important to know says Rashi and he wrote three additions we are in possession of the Third Edition of Rashi moreover says he has a tradition that Rashi fasted 63 1 fasts in order that he should be able to write Al in fact R said what Rashi did on I could replicate but what Rashi did Al nobody could replicate it's very interesting the says Rashi on the Riff is not rashi rashi is not Rashi Rashi Med Raba is also not Rashi now I want to share with you one final idea about the shum that the shum writes about rakov Ki rakov KI ises that name sound familiar to you rakov Ki he's the author of the May rakov Kuli also was one of the all-time great ldim he put together theim of Mahar he also put together and edited to that without the editing of rakov Kuli would not be readable the Miss and the if not for the editing of K these would not be usable and rakov Kuli one of the great alltime edited and sift through the the r as well as theim are you familiar with the saer parim is one of the earliest of L on the on the the par is one of the first written it's one of the first of its genre where to take lamb principles and apply it to thees it was a lot of the chapters in were not organized and without the Mish without rakov Kuli would not be usable but then rakov Kuli went ahead and he wrote a book in ladina rakov Kuli Roa saer mayam loes and it's a safer of midrashim it's somewhat light material you may say and many wondered why did rakov Kuli write a saer so to speak for the multitude when he could have written a saer on a much higher level and it's amazing that if you look in the hak of the May Rak Ki says it should not be beneath anybody's dignity to bring the Tyra in as many venues and forums and languages as possible because no one less than MO took and he translated the Torah says rash so who is a greater rebi thanu andu himself was M the in every possible fashion says the motivation of rakov Ki was Asim he did this he could have written of the highest caliber but he did this and the then says something that he doesn't say about any of the that he mentions in the what does the about fortunate is of Ki and fortunate is his and we could likewise say about the who contributed so greatly to the literature of Cl is we say about the as you've just experienced another Torah class brought to you by Torah anytime.com