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Okay, Boker to good morning everyone.
Shalom.
Welcome to Morocco Tin 2025 with La
Tours. Thank you for joining us.
We're going to have a very exciting uh
tripe.
We're going to learn a lot about the
history of Moroccan jewelry, world
history in Morocco.
I want to thank Rabi Ro for organizing
such a wonderful trip. We welcome uh our
good friends Rab Ysef
>> and what's our security guard?
>> Uh Zoe.
>> Zoi.
>> Zawi took off time from uh Hollywood to
spend a week with us to for our
protection. So I want to talk a little
bit about the origins of Moroccan
jewelry. We're going to go back now more
than 2,000 years. First, I'm going to
share with you some new information,
some very interesting,
some new information about the origins
of Moroccan jewelry that are actually
mentioned in the Tami that are mentioned
in the Gumar. It's really amazing. If
you look in the gared and sad, it seems
that Moroccan jewelry originates all the
way back to the times of the 10 tribes,
the Sashvatim and the times of the first
Bikdash. The Gmorrah discusses where the
10 tribes were exiled to. Where were the
10 tribes exiled to? The Garra says,
"By the way, if you didn't say,
you might want to say it now to continue
listening to the otherwise we're going
to have to leave you on at a gas
station." Okay.
Marzuch la Africa
says the 10 tribes went to Africa. There
is a tradition
that the Ethiopian jury descends from
Shvadan. So the Gumarra is saying that
the Assaratim were exiled to Africa
the Slug mountains. But then the Gumra
says that when the Jewish people were
exiled to wherever they were exiled to,
they started to disparage
Israel. You see, maybe we'll speak about
it later on the trip.
For many centuries, the most authentic
esroyim came not only from Morocco, but
a certain region in Morocco called Susa
Basra, Sus Basra or Sus Trey.
And the Gomorrah says that when the
Jewish people came to wherever they were
exiled to and the 10 tribes came to
where they were exiled to when they came
to a region called Sus Amri Shavia and
they said it's equal to Arat Israel.
When they got to a place called Alman,
they said it's like our country kimatu
sust when they came to sustra
which is the main location of Moroccan
Amri alad train. They said it's twice as
good as the land of Israel. So here we
have evidence in the Gumarra that Jews
began to uh proliferate and be
successful in Morocco going back to the
times of the first Bameikdash.
There is even a tradition that the
biblical city of Tarses mentioned in the
Nvina is somewhere in Morocco.
what we're going to see now. Well, first
let's get a little bit of the history.
Then I'm going to tell you some of the
folklore, some of the legends before
later we'll talk about some something
which is probably has more credible
historical
evidence. You know, we always talk about
the golden age of Spain, but it's not
really accurate to talk about the golden
age of Spain unless we talk about the
golden age of Moroccan jewelry. In the
11th century, a Moroccan Berber imperial
dynasty
known as the Amor Amoreads,
Amorraads, they ruled a a good section
of northwest Africa and the capital was
where in Marrakesh this empire began in
the year 1062
and now we're talking about we'll speak
about it later. The rishim start coming
to North Africa beginning with Rabenuiel
[snorts]
and his son Rabenu Kananel and their
student the riff rafasi. So now the the
Torahmies are moving from Bavl and
they're coming to North Africa. But
there's very interesting
uh tradition that
the Jewish communities in the Atlas
mountains claim to have originated in
the times of Mayamel even though the
Gumar says in that any anything west of
the Carthage the Carthage is where
where's the Carthage
>> Carthage is in Tunisia
>> in Tunis the Gammorra says they don't
know about Kalisrael and they don't know
about Aino Shabbash Shamayim but many of
the Berber tribes which originated in
Morocco have uh some Jewish practices so
that their origins are shrouded in
mystery. There's a tradition that when
the Bafraim left Mitsim 30 years earlier
so they come to Israel and they're
attacked by the Philistines and then
they leave and where do they go? There
was a tradition that the benryim made
their way on the first tours. They made
their way to
>> Morocco.
Morocco. Ysef maybe your ancestor was
their tour guide of the Benim in Morocco
a few thousand years ago.
According to folklore,
according to folklore, there are there
are biblical figures that are buried in
north in uh North Africa. Who are they?
We're stopping here.
>> Yes, Benun
and Daniel. There are traditions that
there are biblical figures buried in
North Africa. We'll continue this in a
bit.
>> Okay.
Okay. Continuing some of the folklore
about the origins of Morocco and the
Jewish community in Morocco. We
mentioned that according to legend some
even biblical figures are buried in
Moroc in North Africa. We mentioned
Yeshua Benoon. Yes, there are uh there
is a spot in Arat Israel which is
attributed to Yeshua Benoon. But these
are all mimos that have not really been
authenticated. So there is legend that
Yahushua is in North Africa, Daniel is
in North Africa and legend has it that
one day Jethro Yroy the father-in-law of
Mosh Rabenu went missing and Mosha is
looking where's the where's the where's
my father-in-law and he had he got word
that Yroy was out exploring he was
looking for the magical elixir of life
the water that if you drink it. It will
give you eternal life. And Yroy was told
that if he goes to the spot where the
Mediterranean meets the Atlantic and he
drinks from that water, he would live
forever. So, Mushra Rabinu set out
together with Yeshua Benoon to find his
father-in-law and he they looked for him
in North Africa in Morocco. So that was
another l early trip in the early days
of so you had the bryim you have moenu
and benun and actually there's another
legend
that the first residents of north Africa
known as the berbers are the canananim
when the Jewish people came into the
land of Israel and they chased out the
seven nations the gashi the kiti the
ammoi the prii
the B. Some of them ran away to Morocco
that the Berbers are the Canananim. And
in fact,
amazingly, we have a tradition that
the Pik says in
there's a tradition that gel is
somewhere in Alers
or in East Tunis. And then Yoyo went to
try to chase down the remaining
Canananim that were found on the sea
coast near Fez and Mogador. Mogador that
today Mogador is
>> Esera.
And in fact a monument was set up where
yo wrote
him that there's a tradition that yo
benuya
chased down the berbers and he even set
up a plaque that he reached Mogador. The
Jews of Mogador have a tradition about a
golden ring of Yo Ben Surya that's found
in the city. Until today, Jews of
Morocco referred to the Berbers as pilim
that the pilim were the original
canananim that ran out when the Jewish
people came to take Arat Israel. So,
here are some of the folklore, some of
the legends about the origins of the
Jewish community in Morocco, as well as
civilization in general. And soon, we're
going to learn about perhaps the seinal
event in the last 1,000 years that is
responsible for the toyo that we had for
many centuries in Morocco.
