Journey to Morocco 2025: Fez - The Kever of Lula Sulika

Okay, this is one of the destinations that literally people come from all over the world to have this at this holy site among uh some of the handful of that we've been to. This is one of the most eminent and draws in a way for on the heartstring more than anywhere else. This is the story, the legend of Lula Salika. She came from a family that a Moroccan family that originated in Tangers toward the north. The name of the family was Kagaval. She was a beautiful young lady, an exceptionally beautiful young lady. And her father told her to limit her exposure to so she should not be noticed and uh to try to adopt uh an an extra precaution of modesty of and her as beautiful as she was her personality in her shamayim exceeded her beauty. She was once noticed by one of the local Muslim leaders and he expressed his interest in marrying her. And he said that she has no choice. In other words, she was not left with any option. So she didn't know what to do. She escaped. They hid her. And this Muslim ruler comes to the house. Where's Selika? Where's Selika? They don't know. They can't find her. She escaped. Now that's not acceptable. So they took her mother in in herstead. And uh Selika was heartbroken because she realized that if her mother is put in prison in a in a Muslim prison, then her life is in peril, her life is in jeopardy. And it was because of her. So she says, "I have no choice. I'm going to have to give myself in to save my mother and then give up my life aldeshm so as not to be violated." So they try to pressure her. They try to pressure her. This became a national story. So they brought her to Fez and she's noticed by the prince and the prince said he's going to marry her and he promises her that she will be the next queen of all of Morocco and she says no never. She was willing to be Moer Nephil Shashem but then what happened was they accused her of embracing Islam and then denouncing it. And according to the religion once you embrace Islam then there's no there's no turning back. So she's in a very difficult predicament and the uh prince of Morocco comes to the local RV in Fez and he says listen this is not just a personal matter now if you don't give her over you're literally endangering the lives of all the entire community in Fez. Either Celika is given over to us or we could wipe out the entire city. So the RV comes to Celika in the jail and he says you know Esther Hamala was willing to live with Akashro in order to save the Jewish people. So you need to do that. You need to you need to give yourself over and give yourself to the prince in order to save the community. You cannot you cannot stand on ceremony now when the lives of the entire Jewish people in Fez are at risk. And Celica said, "No, there's a big difference between me and Esther. Esther only had to live with Akashro, but she didn't have to denounce her religion, but they want me to embrace Islam." No, I can't do that. Esther was required to give herself up. I'm not allowed to give myself up. And when the RV heard these words of Sika, apparently he agreed with her. Maybe we'll speak not here about the halic implications and ramifications of this decision, but she said that there's a distinction between her and Esther Amala and the RV left crying at the self-sacrifice of this young girl and she gave herself up. She was tortured to death. There's a tradition that as she's being dragged to her death, she took extreme measures. She tortured herself so that her holy body should not be uncovered. And she's buried over here. This is right next to great sadikim. A hater fasi ravid hater the rishine who's buried there. A descendant of rabotam and rashi. And in this mak have experienced great Yeshua. So we should be that all of our should beem.