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Journey To London 2024: The Kever of Rav Shalom Buzaglo, The Mikdash Melech

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this Torah class is brought to you by Torah anytime.com okay we're here in Queen Mary University of all places in London at what is known as the novo Cemetery so in 1657 with the encouragement of Al camwell the head of state Jews were allowed back Inland after 350 years many who came were descendants of Morano from Spain in Portugal and they founded a synagogue and they bought this burial spot a mile end not too far from here 1733 another burial ground was required it was established here it's known as the new Cemetery Novo Cemetery now why are we here this is not just a historical trip but tradition is that there's a great Mako buried here the Kev is no longer extent it was a while ago the the K is somewhere in this vicinity uh we know it was somewhere here and when R mayor Morgan Stern came here he's reputed to have said it's in this immediate vicinity R shal buag was born in 17113 in Sali he was a student of the's grandfather and Nam sake actually when we were in Morocco we were at the K of his RAR and he comes to Marakesh where he became friends with r not the's great great grandfather but the other who talks about was a great and sh buzaglo was persecuted by the Moroccan King he came here to London he established yiva for MIM and uh for the he brought with him now after sh many ashaz were very suspicious of any M so upon the advice of his Rim he traveled throughout Europe in order to restore confidence in authentic Mam and he wrote a saer on the Z which is very accepted in the called mikdash M and it's our tradition that his Mak is here in the nvo cemetery right in the M middle of King Mary University as the power of cabala is able to extract kadus even in the most impure places we're going to go down we're going to head down and you'll see that there's the sign um over here this cemetery is called the new Cemetery belongs to the Spanish and Portuguese Jews of London and is the remaining portion of their second burial ground open in 1733 and was enlarged In 1855 so we're precisely the mikdash is our tradition is that if you can't go to the mat of someone by learning their you've just experienced another Torah class brought to you by Torah anytime.com come