Journey To Morocco: Fez - The Rambam's Encounter With the King of Morocco

this Tower class is brought to you by torahanytime.com I hope everybody had a great day we had an amazing time today what we saw today it would have taken maybe a few weeks to see ordinarily but well let's uh discuss a few loose ends about the city of Fez about the city of mcnez and some other important Indiana so we just were at at the house of the rambam the house of maimonies The Story Goes that the rambam on a circus day was walking through the streets of Fez holding his bow at minim like Minogue shalim he was walking through the streets holding the Lula of the estrang the hadassana is close to his heart and all of a sudden the king of Morocco pulls up on his horse King alaraco is well acquainted with the round bomb and he says Moses been my mind why are you walking in the streets holding a branch and a fruit and a leaves like a fool why are you conducting yourself like minhaitim my master the king the rambam said these are not branches and leaves our holy Torah commands us to take these four species on sukis yeah yeah yeah the king says you probably think that what we Muslims do where we throw the stones and you Jews you think that's minutem and the king of Morocco was often a flash he didn't fully process the encounter but some of his advisors who were bitter enemies of the rambam tried to persuade the king that when the rambam was discussing with him and the King said you probably think that when we throw stones that's the minak showed them the rambam didn't mean that when the most aluminum throw stones at the Jews at him the rambam was attacking our religion that when we go to the Mecca and we throw stones at the Kevin of our Prophet that's what the rambam meant that it's minhakshaitim the ramen was attacking our religion the realm was the Tango our religion and the King didn't want to believe that that's what the random was referring to the king chose to believe the rambam was saying that it's foolish for the Muslims to throw stones at the Jews but his advisors kept on persuading and persuading him and the king of Morocco had no choice but to send out a warrant for the arrest of the rambam and his father maimon but the king wanted to protect the random so he sent him a private message that rambam you're a wanted man run away hide and that is what the rambam did the rambam went to a secret home in the city of Fez where he went up to the roof and he hid out with his father maimon for a very long time nobody was aware about the whereabouts of the rambam except for one student now on this roof there were 13 copper plates and through these copper plates the random was able to calculate zmanim and time and other uh ways of measuring days weeks months and so forth the enemies of the rambam did not lessen their search but they could not come up with the rambam after many many months the rambam finally came out of hiding and he took his family with him and they went out they left Terence Israel but you should know in the city of Fez where the rambam hid that roof is considered a makum and at every Ace Sarah the Jews of Fez would go up to the roof of the rambam and pour out their hearts that Hashem should save them in the Merit of the rambam so we were today at the house of the rambam and Mirza Shem on on future Adventures maybe one day with bizaica to be at the roof of the rambam but this is the story of the rambam's encounter with the king of Morocco and so we see that the king of Morocco had a long tradition of being favorable to the Jews as the king of Morocco did indeed save the life of the rambam he gave him the heads up that he was a wanted man you've just experienced another Torah class brought to you by torahanytime.com