Journey To Morocco: FULL JOURNEY {Marrakesh & Essouira}

Good morning everyone. We're in Marakekesh. We have a great statement of says Marakekesh. There's no in the world like the Marrakesh. I'm going to tell you something from David pledges. He says I'm going to return in peace back to my father's house from then will be to me as a god says the truth is he says he heard this but the says this says inubus someone who lives in it's like he has a gun someone who lives in Brooklyn or the five towns or in Williamsburg or in Bokeh or or in my or wherever you live it's like you have no god that's what the says so says I'm going to return home then the will be to me as a god like says only it's as if hashem is your god now says going to later himself says as follows [Music] go back to the land of your fathers then I'll be with you. In other words, the same teaching that on a certain is only with let me tell you one more thing from Berduga. We were by David Berdugo. I can tell you from Schluga who's also a sad in mech says like this when Hashem comes to Abrau he says Abraham like Abra why does Hashem add the word we know who Abra is to to Jacob Au why add the word so he says as follows Hashem is telling Abraham I'm going to give you Israel why what's Jacob Ainu's right The right is because Hashem promised. So since his whole came from so Hashem is invoking the fact that I'm giving this to you because I am Abraham says Berdugo the merit in Mechnes. Have a good day everyone. >> That was those were very good tales. But I want to tell you a miracle that happened to us from our last trip here in Morocco. I don't know if you remember there's a good friend of mine who came he was on a trip with us to France and then he came to Morocco. He was he came to pray by kit sadikim so that his daughter should find a zeug should find a katan. So first we went to France and he prayed by Rashi by Tis and other and then he came to France and we prayed by Ra Amram Ben and the Gdollam here in Marakeesh and when we came back his daughter met a French Moroccan Jew and they became and he said it's a good thing that she found the Katan before we went to Alaska otherwise she would have to find a French Moroccan Eskimo. >> Okay, I want to bring you back in history to the origins of some of the gdam in Morocco. We're going to go one of the most notable in Marrakesh and maybe in all of Morocco is an individual. There is no one in the shade that has the descriptions that the following individual is given. It's a name. I'm sure you've heard the name, but I want you to have clear who the various personalities were. The name is Rebi Abraham Azulai. Did you ever hear the name Rebi Abra Azulai? I'm sure you did, but you may not know that there were four Rabbi Abraulis. There were four Rabbi Abraulis. Your responsibility now is to learn who the four Rabbi Abraulis are to have an understanding of where we're going. Okay. There is a Rabbi Abrauli buried in Kevron. Have you ever heard of him? His yard site is shabas parasara. The whole movement of going to for paras is in part due to he wrote a famous cafer called a very important safer aer of kabala. We're getting off here. >> Yes. >> To be continued. >> Okay. It's a great to be here. This is an a very important historic site. This is the lazma shul lema means migurashim. We explained there were two main groups of Jews here in Morocco and in Marrakesh. You had the toim. You had the settlers, people who had been here for centuries, native Moroccan Jews, and then you had the migurashim. You had Jews who came here in 1492. If I were to ask you, which community do you think was more populous, more dominant, to shave or migrashim? By far, Migurashim were the more influential group. They came primarily from Castile. Not from everywhere in Spain. They came from Castile. That means they were almost like Ashkenazarim. Why do I say that? But they were from Sparad cuz their rv was the rush. Their statement was wherever the head goes, the body follows. Meaning whatever the rush says, we follow. So already 1492, they're still following the rush against the ram and the riff. 1500 they're still f following the rush over the ram and the riff. 1508 they're still following the rush and then slowly they start to adapt to also incorporate the suck of the Rambam and the riff. But if the Rambam and the riff don't say something they will always follow the rush. That's the murashim. Theim on the other hand they're following the Rambam. Now the in his commentary to your prey talks about the following that brood for 40 years regarding we mentioned this on the bus. If you have a cir if you have an app, if you have um a scab on an area of the lungs and you want to determine whether it's a tra or not, the migrashim had a leniency that they would blow up the lung and they could look and see whether it's a traa. The toim would not rely on that. This was one of the big disputes. There was a a go by the name of Rav Gajin Gajin was from the Murashim. Nevertheless, he was Mahm on this issue. So this was the shul of the migurashim which was the main community here in Morocco. Jews who came from Castile who are following the pisque harash. So we're going to have a ma here and this is a sh that was used for hundreds of years and all and is continuously used. So we mentioned this show and here I want to take the opportunity to point out a very important phenomenon and we're going to go to the Jewish cemetery. I have a safer it's called Matis Marakekesh. It's bigger than the telephone book of GDA is that just lived in Marrakesh. It's my biggest book. The biggest safer I have is Matis Marakeesh. It was such a big safer that Rab Pil had to write a second book to navigate the first book. It's such a big book compiling a list of all the sages who lived here Marrakesh that it's it's it's massive. Rav Yoseph had to write a a a guide book to navigate that first book. I have a safer called Mali Raban. Thousands of who lived in Morocco. If you show this not just to the average Jew, you show it to a Tamil Kakam, maybe they heard of one or two of the names of the thousands. Such an interesting phenomenon. You tell somebody about a god who lived in Europe. Of course, everybody knows them. Even if they didn't learn in yeshiva, you heard the names. Anywhere else in the world, you're more familiar with. Why is it that the gdm of Morocco are almost completely unknown to the majority of the Jewish people? So Rioseph Hil in the introduction to Kadosh Marakekesh he says something very important. There is one thing that never really made its way to Morocco that because of it so many of these are unknown and that is something called the printing press. The printing press never made it to North Africa. So most of the theim most of the manuscripts of these gulam unfortunately remained in manuscript form and over the years they were lost they were buried they were scattered and unfortunately kame the names of these sages were forgotten there's one notable exception had it not been for a stroke of probably you never would have heard Ibanatar but at the end of life in the year 1742 one year before his passing decided he's going to make aliyah he's going to move to Israel that's by the way where the learned from one year in Israel goes to Israel through Italy he stops off in Venice in Venice he encounters the printing press so he sends his manuscripts He prince had not made his way through Italy, you never would have heard of him. That's an amazing there's another exception. There's a famous commentary on the Zar called Mikdash mel of shalom baglo bzaglo to be at his ke he's buried in a university in England how he ended up in England is a different story he was a student of the kakme marakeesh kakme marakekesh put together mkdashmelik on the zar they called it he named it mkdashmelik He also was able to publish it. So people know the name shalom baglo. But from here we see the importance of publishing in Jewish history. Publishing a safer is the single greatest thing you could do to preserve the Tory and the traditions and the customs and the knowledge of the Israel for Israel. are safe or last forever without then the names of these unfortunately were lost for all eternity. So we're going to go to the cemetery in Marrakesh literally hundreds if not thousands of are buried there and we're going to try to uh learn a little bit about them and that's all of our and the of all these should be Okay, Rabbi said we're here in the uh cemetery of Marrakesh. This is one of the most historic cemeteries not only in Morocco but in the entire world. And it's also one of the most beautiful cemeteries in Morocco. One thing we have to notice that the cemeteries of Morocco are better preserved than any Jewish cemeteries in the entire world. And that's certainly worthy of our attention and study. Why is it why was Moroccan jewelry to have cemeteries preserved to this extent over here in this glass? Yeah, in this glass over here we have the book Matis Marrakesh. Matz Marakeesh is a story of how Rab Ysef Hel Ysef collaborated with him was able to restore and refurbish the cemetery when he came here was in complete disarray and he brings some very important points regarding the merit of Moroccan jewelry that they were to have such preserved cemeteries. Number one and primarily the reason is it's a reward for Morac and jury for the preservation with which they always maintain their cemeteries throughout the years. They had special rules regarding the cemeteries. Number one, the sadikim were always buried in a separate section. They did not bury, so to speak, the average Jew, if we could say such a thing, together with the sadikim. Number two, in all of Morocco, not just Marrakesh, in all of Morocco, men and women are buried separately. Ysef, in the entire country, men and women are buried separately. This is of number three. They did not allow animals not only in the cemetery but even in the external vicinity of the area lest the animal wander in and soil the cemetery. Therefore, they said there are no stores allowed on the street around the cemetery because if there are stores, people are going to buy food. If there's food, they're going to be rappers in the cemetery. So, those were some of the takoys in Morocco. Another thing is they buried, we mentioned they buried men and women separately. They also did not allow men and women to walk together in the cemetery. That's the rule in Morocco. You don't walk with your, this is not a time to this is not an occasion to spend time with your husband or anybody else. Men and women separate in the cemetery. They had other takis. They were making. There's no eating in the cemetery. Let me see. They made a takana. They had guards. They kept it absolutely clean. And whenever there was a yard sight of any of the they brought the to say to him and to learn the Torah of that in the cemetery because of all of these practices I was just given the keys of the city of the city of the cemetery. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. He's that gentleman has been guarding this uh in his family they've been guarding the cemetery for three generations but says Rabel that Moroccan jewelry was rewarded because of the preservation they had for their cemeteries they were more than anywhere else in the world that their cemeteries have been preserved by the way that's a lesson in life in general you know people want to know how do I make sure my shul remains for many years how do I make sure my family remains Well, the shira that you put into it, the efforts you put into anything innas will pay dividends for you and for your family. Whatever you put into, you'll be rewarded measure for measure and it will be sustained and it will be preserved. So, we're going to go first to the great Rabi Abram Azulai. Can I just I want to finish something up here. Okay. I just need Okay, go. New clip. Go. Yeah. Okay. We We were talking about Rebulai. We're now headed to Rabbi Azulai III. Okay. Rabbi Azul the III. The first Rabbi Abram Azulai came from Spain in 1492. He came to Fez. He was from Castell. He is the grandfather of the well-known Rabbi Abram Azulai who is the great great grandfather of the so Abra Azulai comes from Castile. He comes to Fez. His son was Morai. His his son. In other words, the first Abra Azul's grandson is Rabi Abra Azulai the Bali Abra. He lived in Kevron. He's buried invases paris. There's an amazing story about him that when he landed, he took a boat to Egypt and there was very turbulent water. He climbed off the boat. He took some of his stuff with him. And as soon as he gets off the boat, the boat is washed to shore. The boat is destroyed. Its cap sizes. It was a very big miracle that him and his family were able to get off the boat. And Rabbi Abraulai would sign his name in the shape of a boat. The writes that he personally saw the signature of his great greatgrandfather Rab Abraulai. Rabbul's son is Rabenu. Rabu Yitzk is the greatgrandfather of the his son is Rabishay Rabishay was a great marbra he was a student of the prehadesh he passed away inim on Arab shabas kesh 1732 his son was zaraka who is the father of the he passed away his son isim yo David Azulai. So you got the names. You have Abrauli the first. He comes from Fez. He comes from Castile. He comes to Fez. His grandson is Rabbi Abra. The well-known Abraulai. He's buried in his great great grandson is the by the way I was to get a hold of the signature of the he also signs his name in the shape of a boat. The monk hatcher says that hidden in the signature of the are various signature is amazing to behold. None of these were are the rabbi that we're about to go to. Abraul that we're about to go to was a relative of Abraulai, the great great-grandfather of the one we're about to go to, the says about him. Words that he doesn't say about anybody. And then the says there's a tradition that his prayers never were turned away empty-handed. That is something doesn't say about anybody. So we're about to go to an individual that whatever he prayed for Hashem listened to. Where in the world could be a better spot to then by the says that there's a tradition. Okay. >> Make sure the key works. >> Okay. Look at the sign. It says tough sakiml which is 1903 which is wrong. It's a mistake. It's an outright mistake. That's why originally they didn't think he was buried here. They thought this is Rabbos IV, the grandson of the one we're about to go to. They even made a mistake on the kev itself. The date on the kever itself is incorrect. But this we're going to they ultimately found here. It says >> um here. Let's see >> the yellow one. >> The yellow one. Okay. >> No. one got the other one. >> Let's see if one second. Isn't that a bench? Not even. >> Okay. [Music] >> Okay. Rabbi say perhaps we could say in this entire trip this is the most ke this is no question the ke of the first of Morocco the third in history the writes about him words that he doesn't say about anybody else firstly the says that he he heard that Rabbul was a relative of his great great-grandfather the he says shamati Now it's very interesting. They originally thought this was the ke of his grandson because of the mistaken date. It says tough sad gimmel. He was notifi the says that he has a tradition and there's somewhat of an error regarding this as well. The brings that he has a tradition that he was nif. I'll tell you the says that he was nif in tough sadi tough sadi which is 1738. However the tradition is that he was nif in 1741. Let me tell you a little bit about razulai. First of all he was a talmid in nigl from we're gonna go to his kit was a student of the b. Okay, you understand? He was a of the and learned by that's who he learned from in Cabala. He was a student of Morai of of he was a student of Rabyakov Maraji Rabyak Maraj. Now had a best friend Schlomma Amar. We're going to talk about they used to learn Zahar together. We're going to talk about some of their correspondence and some of their uh learning together. His students the says Rabakov Pinto Rabishain. Now, Raulai was uh the great Rav over here in Marrakesh. And on one particular occasion, a officer was riding on a horse and the officer's foot got stuck in the opening of the sewer and it uncovered a very bad stench and they decided to open it up and they found over there the body of one of the locals and there was a blood label here. They blamed mazuli and together with mazulai. They imprisoned a number of other they were his mahalvi buasa. They locked them up. They put them in jail. They took them to fez. In fez for some reason for shabas they brought them to sali. Who's the ravan? Sali Mosha binatar is the father of the father of sees is in peril because he's imprisoned on trumped up charges of blood liel. So he asks the officers could he host them for shabas. He hosted them for shabas with Razulai chained up in iron chains. And after Shabas they bring and his to the king and the king seized on the head of Ramulai literally an a that was he saw his an exceptional kadusha and he let him go free. So this is Ramai. Now let me tell you what the says about him. These are words he literally says about nobody. Okay about his own great greatgrandfather. The says that's it about this one meaning the divine one the godly one. He says I heard from true reports once heard people were saying what does a stand for? You ever hear that? But he got very angry. He said that's that's not a very nice last name. You know, don't take a woman who's a so he said anyone who says that he put them in. Furthermore, remember we mentioned that the he is the rebi of the kadesh. Can you imagine is the of the says I heard from my how would write kameos you know we we are used to what does the kameho look like has different sh has different you know mystical permutations of hashem's name no says my rebi in other words this is the saying what he heard from who is a student that if somebody was sick would write on a piece of paper in he would say the following. So he would say you know uncle who has who has the flu and then he would write that's it nothing else that was the whole and he would give it to the and it worked every time. If you got a Kameha from Raai, it was you were as good as new. And the says that he has he's in possession of the Kamehas of Raai. Now he says something amazing. He saysgar this. Okay, again not a frequent expression that the uses. We had that one other time. Who else did the says? Whatever he said in heaven, they followed him. The heavens followed Rama's light. And then his prayers were never turned away empty-handed. So here we are. We're in a zone. this individual, this great philosoph in this all of our should be >> we're going to say this one also got answer okay right next to the cover of David Kazan sniff turn 1832 is a dro yes yeshiva in moor this seems to be A common theme among the Morocco and Marakekesh. His mother was so great that during the long nights he would tie his pis to not a nail but to a ring. I guess every had a different way of tying his pis and this way if his head would droop he would it would ensure that he would not fall asleep or he would wake up immediately. He was the the dian together with Pinto in Sav. And also where's Rabbi Lazan? >> Ah remember you asked me he didn't take money from the Tibbor he only took ma kap he uh he earned an honest living. So this is the kev of kazan capital. Okay, we're to be at the kevlar who according to the mat in the year 1738. But according to uh the for it was 1741 was an associate of Raulai and the brings down that there was once in a between andul and they agreed whoever would be nif first they would go up to the and it would be determined which one was correct. So when was nif he came back to the rama and he says listen my explanation is true meaning the idea I said is true but the way you explain the ayah is what the rashi meant right because there always two different ways to learn you could say mahalik which is accurate but it doesn't mean that's what the author had in mind so said what I'm saying is true what you're saying is what the author had in mind they were both of we're going to go to his ke we mentioned he learned by the b on this plaque it says that who is a student of he had a manuscript of pisim of and in this manuscript it says that in Morocco they followed the of so he was the unequivocal po here in Morocco and this is also the ke of his these are the ammar spend a moment uh for your personal and then we're going to move on. Okay, we're at the kev of he was nif in 1926 also inesh we mentioned many times many of the great makubalim were nif and kadesh be it be it rai pano ashal the Arizal they're all nif in the vicinity of tishabano had the amazing ability to bring his nama up to shamayim and offer in the shamayim Don't try it at home. But he was able to do that. He says, meaning he was able to to through his to perform miraculous feats. In other words, he was able to perform miracles always. And here we have it. He was able to ascend his up to the and people would proate themselves here and to great miracles. This is who elevated his to 1926 ines. We're going to say capital Okay. It's amazing to be at the Kev of Ra who there's a tradition that he met the B. He didn't just meet the Bay. He met the B here in Marrakesh. At least that's what it's reported. There's a tradition that he was born in Spar in the 1500s and he grew up in Spar in Andelus in the south of Spain. He was exiled in 1492 and he came to Marrakesh. He was known as a Balmo. He was the Rebi besides having his encounter with the Besu. He's the Rebi of Rebul. He is the Rebi of He's the Rebi of Morai and he was the leader of Kahilas Muros. In other words, he's the leader of the Murashim. The Shul we were in earlier the sh the Murrashim was founded by Rabitak Deva. He was nifa in Marrakesh and maybe from the earliest of this cemetery. So again that the says he was a mul his brother but there's a story about that somebody once stole from him and the bandits slowly became paralyzed and when they came to ask from he was and he but the chief bandit he left his two arms immo as like a testimony to his uh hisra but this is the rebi this is the rebi of mazulai. So you think about the Messiah Satra of Moroccan jury from Biod's grandson the rebul the fourth okay so that will be the next stop and we're going to be and the rebi who a philoshat Okay. Okay. Last time we were here, it was the middle of the night and Khaled showed us right outside the Kev of Revakia. We have uh an individual who learned from none other than Eliohanovi himself, Rev Shalom Kuno, who the says that he was haram. He had vast knowledge of the whole Tamud and he also had great proh profoundity of analysis and he was nif it looks like al of the year. So uh at this may all of our okay we have a great of who was the foremost to hundreds of he was born in 1889 to his father of Masod and his mother Khanina and he was born near Marakekesh his wife he married uh the daughter of Sika remember we mentioned the that's a common name over here now he was well known as a great am in learning he was a bal you know when we talk about these you know sometimes we think they were great which they were but particular was a great lambd he was a great tamudic analyst especially his madik in the l of the shinim In Eon, he was a great masmid. He didn't eat or drink like a nor a regular person. He ate extremely sparingly. He slept very sparingly. He had many many tummy. He was the foremost Marab's Torah in Marrakesh. Here's the sed in the yeshivasesh. From Sunday until Wednesday, they learned the gumaron. Thursday, they learned the what emerged from the tour in the bio. He even had students that came from nearby cities on donkeys and they would come mats shabas and they would stay the whole week to spend in the yeshiva rabak of as mentioned he was the foremost rashiva from 1889 for he did not live a long life and uh the story is that there was a co-rashiva and rakadan uh both of them were nifa at the same time at a younger age he was nif at 56 years old um shortly in in shortly after World War II. Uh and as mentioned, he was the foremost Marabyra here in the beginning of the 20th century in Marrakesh. We're gonna say the first per of it's a great to be at the of was a descendant of a student an associate of the rush. Okay. So he hailed from scions who are students of the rush in Toledo. He's a descendant of Raak of Nakmash Ashkenazi and he was uh born in Vazat to his father who was one of the Morocco in the later generations. Here's what we have about him. He fasted. He would do this for three straight days. He was now after he passed away. people who put on his shoes to tremendous to the to any woman who had uh labor pains, he would they would put the shoe of on their stomach and there was to an immediate lea. Okay. The legend was anyone who would mention his name in their would see tremendous Yeshua. In 2018, miraculously they found some of his that his son brought to print 100 years earlier and he was nif in the year 1868. the night before he was nif ones at night all of a sudden middle of the night he jumps up and he blows the so they said rebi why are you blowing the you know we don't blow until second day we don't blow until the morning he said it was that he's going to pass away in the morning he was l 1868 let's see this one is maknas. It's great. We're now at Brahma, the second one in this cemetery, the fourth one in history. He was a descendant of the one that we were at earlier. He was the son of Misha. He was appointed Abbezzan of Marrakesh in the year of the American Revolution which was when by the way the at that time 1776 was in England. Okay. So just gives you a little picture of the history of the time. He is the author. He wrote to the safer. He was the rebi of he was on the best not the first and okay we're going to say kufesme 142 mascul foreign. Okay, we're going to go now to it's an amazing to be at the cab of who's the author of the famous that you're going to help me sing when we're finished. He was the son of the he was among the Marakash. He was a great misher. He was known as Naim Zami Israel. All of his songs are halal. He has a shirid. He has a shakar. And his most famous one is he married Esther. She was Nifes Nissan Tuff Raliv 1936. His son was a Rama Bipo who was a Rashida Marakeesh in the times of Rabakov Adahan. And we're going to try everybody together to sing this important pot yama about the beauty, the grander, the splendor of Tyra. You ready? Here we go. [Music] [Applause] The words are there. I need forever. He's coming. in the heart. So you [Music] got history. [Music] upon him. King Give me love. This morning of the father. [Music] Okay, now everyone together. for Okay, welcome everyone. We're at the Kev of Mul al-Mazan, the Balna, the master of the scales. We don't know the name of this great personality. We just know he is at his eternal rest in this location and this is a good way to conclude our trip. You know, we've been to the graves of many cababalis, many gaim gym, and you try to think, okay, how do I apply that to my own life? How does a Jew, how does any person elevate their nama? You know, it's very interesting. The greatest man who ever lived, Mosher Rabenu, the first time before Hashem spoke to him at the burning bush, you would expect Mosher Rabenu is about to merit the greatest divine revelation of any individual in history, he must have done something very holy before to merit that. What did he do? You know that's probably something we could learn from to figure out what did Mosher Rabenu do right before the Almighty revealed himself in the highest aspakar in the history of man. All we know is one piece of information. Moshabenu took a sheep and he brought it out into the desert says Rashi so that they don't steal from other people's possessions. From here we learn a very important point that in Judaism holiness means don't take a penny that doesn't belong to you. Forget everything else. The foundational principle of Judaism is if you owe people money, pay them. If somebody has a claim on your money, don't go to sleep at night. You can't go to sleep at night if you owe someone money. If you have a worker, if somebody has a tina, monetary tina against you, if you're clean, if you're then you're so that's the story of Alazan. There was once a great drought and they came to the RV. What should we do? And the RV said, "What are you coming to me? Go to this individual." So they came to the master of the scales and they said, "We're not sure why we're here, but the rabbi said we should come to you." So he had no choice. He took out his scales. He holds his scales, he says, "Rebunisham. If I owe anybody money, if I violated deceit, if I've ever used these scales intentionally or unintentionally to take even one penny that doesn't belong to me, reject my but you and only you know that these scales have never been used to trick anyone, not only intentionally, but even bash. Please, Hashem, bring relief. Bring rain to the Jewish people. Whereupon the blue Marrakesh skies, get the skies in. Look how blue they are. Look how blue they are. Perfect. The blue Marrakesh skies turned cloudy and the rain fell in the merit of the honesty of this man. So if you want to know what could we learn from great Israel, the most important lesson is don't owe people money. Don't take pe other people's money. You know what did Rabbi Israel Salanter do Arab Kipper? We expect we he was probably in the mikvah. No, you know what he did? He took a hammer and he went from schul to shul and he banged in nails. Why? Because if somebody sat down and their pants ripped from somebody's nail, then somebody's going to owe that guy money and someone's not going to have kaparam kipper. So more important than the malus and the mikvah and all the holy activities that people do on kipper is return money that doesn't belong to you. Don't damage somebody else. Don't double park. Don't change your name. Don't take money that doesn't belong to you. That's the highest form of holiness in Judaism. And don't let anybody convince you that their other inyanim sigul and otherwise the most important thing is make sure your bank account is clean. That's the highest form of holiness. If you want to be mispal, this is a good makam to be mispal. Um, Rabbit Strasfeld says capital. >> Okay. I don't know if I know it by heart. >> What is that? >> It's the one. >> Yeah. >> Okay. Welcome everyone. We're on a special journey, a special voyage to the Kev of Hagad Pinto Pinto Hagad and Hashem should bless all of you that you're making the effort to go to the of this great sadic in that merit. We're going to a special city Mogador which is now called Esoera. Esera and this city is a port city and it was renowned for being one of the most important export cities of Esroyam from Morocco. Morocco is a major producer of Asroyam and Mogodor was the most notable of all the export cities. Mogador exported city uh asim literally all over the world. Now we're going to learn a little bit about the history of the Moroccanim. The there's one particular area of Morocco which is uh a city of Mikubalim. The name of this city is Trudant Trudant which is an area called Susbas or Kel Jasus. And in this area it produced the classic iconic Moroccan esrog and for uh many hundreds of years this was considered a esrog of choice for the Jewish people. Some of the notable mikubalam that lived in uh trant were ban elbas the author of the kadesh >> and ra lived in the times of um about 400 years ago before 450 years ago he had many talidim you had rabakovaran the author of perak shan kako the author of ginas bisan. These two swarm are swarm of great uh cababalistic importance and very deep cabala. Now here is what's very important. What kind of historical evidence do we have that the Moroccan esrog was used? Because after all when it comes to esrogim says that more important than the simonyim of what a kosher esrog is which by the way there are certain sim of what a kosher esrog is it has to have bleto it has to have bumps the is supposed to be the bottom part is supposed to be shakua sunken in and out coming out the seeds are supposed to be in a certain direction is what we're going to learn but more important than the simum of esim are the misery that these arrogum were actually used. So what evidence is there that the asroyum of Morocco and Trudant and Mogodor were used? So we go to the chuvous of Rebrial Anawa. Remember Rabal Anawa? Who remembers what city was Rebea Anawa buried in? >> Okay. Fez. That Fez very good is the name of a city in Morocco. So that is not where the Rafal Ka >> Sali >> Ribbat Ribbat is the capital of Morocco. Good. If the question was where is the capital of Morocco was Morocco? Rebat would be the right answer. >> Salai. >> Daniel Ari Harris the renowned videographer got the right answer. Sali Sali is where river is buried. He wrote it. He says that from the days of our forefathers as sukus approaches or before the Jews and the the Muslims would go to Trudant. They would buy over there as mitzvah and they would bring it. So here we have from over 100 years ago uh documented evidence that the esrogim of Morocco were the esrog of choice for many Jews all over the world. also shubus yafl. By the way, the videos are sponsored and dedicated by a very dear friend with good health from his family. Okay, we have he says we in the west meaning Morocco most of our if not all of them come from Basra which is the south of Morocco. Now amazingly the says that among the acceptable esrogim that are kosher for esroimsukus are esroy Morocco. And when the Rambam says that we have a tradition, we've seen that the Srog has been used from the times of Yeshua until today. The Rambam was the most specifically referring to that he saw with his own eyes, which the Rambam of course was in Morocco. Who remembers? We said the story about how the Rambam was ultimately had to leave Morocco because when the king of Morocco mocked the Rambam taking the Dal Minim Sh the dalim uh publicly the Ram so to speak mocked the practice that the ishum have of throwing stones. Okay, let's talk a little bit about the Moroccan esrogat. Remat maintained that the Moroccan esrog was the quintessential was reflective of the most perfect asro. All other in the world were held up to the model of the Moroccan. So for example, Rabbiat said that regarding a specific asrog that he saw he noticed that there was a certain type of esrog that was very tart was very and he said well then it's not a kosher esrog because the Moroccan esrog the esrog of moador is a very sweet esrog so the moro esrog became the model the paradigm the quintessential esrog likewise morai aio of from the rabbis of Salana. He also pointed out that the esrog not only are the seeds of an esrog vertical and not horizontal like a grafted esrog in other words an estrog they have to an estrog seeds need to be vertical. The grafted esrog had horizontal seeds. But furthermore, Reb Morai pointed out the Moroccan esrog had very few seeds. The grafted esrogim which are grafted from lemons have many many seeds. So we see throughout halik documentation the Moroccan esrog was held up as the example of the paragon, the quintessential model of the way an esroorg is supposed to look. So friends, in 1864, >> Rabam Sadon of London was importing Moroccanim. And the retailer said, "Look, if you're going to import a um Moroccanim, you're going to need to get a from the chief rabbi of London." Who was the chief rabbi of London at the time? Who is the chief rabbi of London? Anybody know? Center that. Who was the chief rabbi of London at the time? Nathan Marcus Adler. Remnen Adler. Not to be confused with Ramnasen Adler, the Reb. Nathan Marcus Adler. Were you ever at his kev? I I was in London. I was lucky to be at the ke of Nathan Marcus Adler. He wrote a commentary on Taramunlas. The most important commentary on Taramlas is called Nina Lair by Nathan Marcus Adler. So Nadler says, "Look, I don't know about Moroccan. Ask one of the Israel of the time. Ask David Kazanim Kazanim Kazan was the son of Kazan Kazan was the grandfather of and Kazan is the author of Shaubish. By the way, I was to be at Kazan's onus. Not only was to be there, I found it. I found the Kev of Kazan. I'm going to show you. I have a safer that is a map of all the Anyway, so he said, "Look, I don't know. I'm not from Morocco. I don't know about Moroccan." So, Kazan sent a letter to three in Morocco. And I'm going to tell you the names of these three godam. >> I told you the year. The year is 18 64. 1864. And these Gdon were Mosha Tidano Rab Karush and Rabd Ben Shim. Rabb David Ben Shim was known as Suf Dash. David Ben Shamine Dash David Ben Shamine. And they all responded that we never heard anyone question Moroccan. Nobody ever had a problem with Moroccan. Moroccan were always considered beyond any question. They were always considered kasher. Now let me just give you a little bit of of uh some background here so we can understand how the Moroccan made their way all the way to Europe. Traditionally Jews of Eastern Europe, what kind of esrogim did they use? Italian esroim from >> Yanov. Yanovim Genanoa Genanoa. However, that all changed in 1809. You know what happened in 1809? There was the Napoleonic wars and the roads leading from Italy to the rest of Europe were all muddled in warfare and they could not transport and export the asylum of Genanoa to Eastern Europe. And now the question is what are Jews in Eastern Europe going to do? What are Jews in Germany going to use? They can't get the Genanoa esrog. So there are two choices. They could start importing Moroccan asim or they could get the asroyim of Corfu. Last summer with tours we were to visit Corfu. So the question then arose are Corfu as kosher. They were being used but the question arose and this question was um initiated by a very powerful hakic authority. His name was the Kamud Daniel. Raise your hand if your name is Danielle. On the We have Rav Daniel Harris >> on uh >> the Kamud >> the Kamud Daniel uh author the RV of Harodna. The RV of Harodna the author the author of Kamud Daniel. He was one of the rishim that came out and challenged the authenticity of the esro already in 1805. You cannot make a bra on the corfu says if you don't have any other asteroid you can only make a braha without shamos however frame z margolas of broad the author of bafim he pas in 1825 >> the baker >> that it's kashel to use the kfu so this became a major Whether the Corfu was okay or not, or Vak, the author of Nefeskaya writes that he heard testimony from people who visited Corfu, who heard from old men in Corfu that never grew in Corfu. They never even had Corfu. They're all lemons. So this was a very big Mus. By the way, the of Lublin did use the Corfu and because of that writes that if the that if the used the Corfu, he must have seen that the Corfu was not grafted. Unless you say that maybe the reason why he was lenient with the is because he was a descendant of the Bach and just like the wasn't on because the Bach his well the Bach was not on grafted the Bach held an esro that was grafted with something that it's still yellow it's going to be kosher. So again this was a mus that rocked Europe for uh many decades said it was good used it other used it says it was said it was ple finally the or came out against came out against the corfu and he gave the most glowing endorsement of the Moroccan esrog he said he got his hands on the Moroccan esro and it was the most beautiful esro he ever saw the Moroccan esroar tried to put a on the corfu he tried to get inspector to concur with him inspector did not want to commit himself to put the the corfu in so very smartly what he did was he said that for one year's time we're going to investigate the status of the corre and in the meantime everyone should get the Moroccan astrog. This all comes from the safar alpim sho 2,000 years of beauty for the history of the Moroccan. We are now headed to the city of Magador known as esera which was the major export of the Moroccan esrog to all over the world. It was the the seat from which the pre-ad zahadar was disseminated to the whole world and ultimately sad who wrote to Kazan who wrote to the three gdam in Morocco one of them being that said nobody ever questioned the Moroccan esrog and therefore themed brings themed quotes that the Moroccan esrog was endorsed through the support of Nathan Marcus Adler Robnson Adler of London, England. Okay, that's a little bit of the history of Magador and soon we're going to hear about Kaim Pinto Hagadal. Thank you very much. Okay, everyone, we're about 45 minutes from Esera from Magador. So at this time I just want to let everybody know that Pinto among many of his wondrous feats he was an expert in Sadak he was malum he would be able to take people with him to Magador very quickly which is why we're experiencing such a quick ride. Okay friends at this time I want to give you a little bit of a background of the illustrious Pinto family. The illustrious Pinto family. By the way, today in Marrakesh there was a kev of Rabenu Yakov Pinto. Rabenu Yakov Pinto who's one of the Kakme Marakkesh. Rabyakov Pinto was one of the authors of Mktash Melik on the Zra Kadesh and he was the brother of Rablommo Pinto who's the father of Rabim Hagod Pinto. So here we go. Everyone's going to be tested on this afterwards. the history of Rabai and Pinto. And if anyone answers the questions, maybe they'll be eligible for a strawberry snack. Strawberries brought to you by Ong Select. Soft and chewy natural. Okay, so here we go. One of the most illustrious and splendorous families in all of Moroccan history. Hailed from Ravi. They escaped Portugal in the year 1500, 8 years after the explosion, they changed their name from a classic Jewish name to a Spanish name. They called themselves Depinto Deep Pinto because they came from the city Pinto in Spain. Pinto means a picture or beautiful. And th those members of the depinto family that made their way to Muslim countries, they dropped the duh and they became known only as Pinto. The first of the Pinto family were two brothers, Rabul and Rabio. We're going to first talk about Rabio because Rabim Pinto was from Rabshaw. Rabio was the father of Rabos Shayohu Pinto, not to be confused with the current chief rabbi of Morocco. He's the father of Rabio Pinto who Rabio Punto had from Rabyakov Abu Lafia. Rabio Pinto wrote an important work on the a Daniel Harris. Do you know what work that was? The anacov it's called harif harav yahu pinto in any a you have the marsha and you have harif haravoshio pinto raoshio pinto was a des [Music] midnight it's only 11:25 so I'm not going to explain how he was matara from the world but he was just take my word for it. He was also the mutin of Vital and after Vital passed away in the year in the year Shinpe I'm sorry that's 1620 in the year 1620 Yoshio Pinto became the chief rabbi of Damascus and he was nifter on the 23rd day of Adar in the year 1648. Now I'm going to uh that was Rabio Shihu Pinto. You got it? He's a very important ain a cadmine if you will. Now Ravul Pinto the brother of Yo had a son Ruvane. He had a grandson Rabu Ruv. Ravu had many Banim Sadikim. Most notably Schlommo Pinto and Rabino Yakov of Pinto. Okay. Rabinu Yakov Pinto was one of the authors of the Miktashmelik together with Rabchalum Busgallu. Busgallu is buried in Queen Mary University in London. I was to be at his cavary. You know who else is buried at Queen Mary University? Rabbi David Netto and Reb Rafal Muldullah. One time you need to go there. I was there many times. once gave a tish onto also buranimal mold. This is the partner of Rav Yakov Baldullo Balu Ravakov um Pinto Ravakov had a brother Ravak by the way the moonatcher said no Raban Bazgulo was buried in Spas we'll leave that for a different occasion Rabyakov is buried in the ancient cemetery in Marrakesh we were there today Rabyakov Pinto is buried in Marakekesh. He's one of the authors of the Mikdash Malik. His brother was Rabenu Schlommo Pinto. He's the father of Rabenu Pinto Hag, who we're going to go to his ka today. So again, the family starts with two brothers, Rabio and Rabch. Rabshaw is the father of Yo. Rabo is the grandfather of Ruvane. Rau is the father of Yakov and Schlommo. Yakov is the author of Mikdash. Schlommo was the father of Rabenu Kaim Pinto Schlommo Pinto the father of Kaim was buried in the fishing town of Agadir next to his brother-in-law and friend Rav Khalifa ben Mala however because of many catastrophes including the earthquake of 1960 therefore some family members took the bones of Schlommo Pinto, the father of Pinto Aad and they brought it to Arat Israel. So currently Schlommo Pinto is uh allegedly buried in Arat Israel in Kiryat Malah where some claim that Raay Vital's bones were also moved there and that's a discussion for another time. Now Pinto lost his first wife. His oldest son was Yehuda Pinto. Then he married a woman from the Benovishi family of Marakekesh and he had the great sadic Rabim Pinto. Some say that Rab Yehuda Pinto was born while his father was in Israel and he's buried in Haraz next to the Some say Rabie Huda Pinto was buried inas was born when his father was living in and then Pinto was called by Rabi Khalifa ben Mala and he asked him to come to Morocco where he married Khalifa Ben Malco's sister and his second wife and from him was from her was born Rabim Pinto. So Rabim Pinto was born in Agadir which is a fishing town. We're not going to have a chance to go to tonight. However, we're going to go to the city where Pinto was a great Rav Makul Maluban Malum including and at the ke we're going to speak more about the greatness of Rabinu Pinto. >> Okay, we're on friends. We're here at the Atlantic Ocean at the port of Mogador. We mentioned Mogador was one of the largest places of export of esrogim in the world. They exported the Moroccan esroim we know to London and to all over the world. It's about 2 and 1/2 hours from Marakekesh, 2 and 1/2 hours from Safi. Theoretically, it's 2 and 1/2 hours. That's what it says in the safar, but when you actually take it, it's more like 3 hours. I want to tell you about some of the dom who lived here. You have Rab Rafal Corat from the Corat family. His son Dari authored Marva Sheamesh. His son Rab Abram wrote Brisav and uh the cemetery is located in the uh northwest part of the city on the sea coast. So this is Mogador. Literally one of the most beautiful cities and spectacular places in the whole world. Mogador as nice as it is at night, it's even nicer during the day. Okay, let's go. The uh we're at the cemetery in Esera. You look at the hours, it's from 8:00 to 18:00. That means it closes every day at 6:00 without exception. Because of our connections, the community is making a special dispensation to open up for us because of our historic mission to go to Pinto. Also, his rebi is there Bivas and the Yanuka, the son of Rabb Kazan. We were by Kazan's Kev this morning. He davened for a son and he was told that they would only have a child who would live a short amount of time and they were mab and that yanuk is buried right by all. Okay. We traveled over three hours all the way from Marakekesh to Moadier esera to visit the cavaim pinto hagodal not to be confused with pinto who's a grandson who's the and benim in kasablanca modal miser he hailed from holikimishim Pinto. He was nif on the 26th day of El in the year 1845. He was born in 1748 in Agadir. He came here to Moador and he elevated himself so greatly that he had Gilu alyahu and many revealed themselves to him. There are many miraculous accounts. One time there was a maka of locust here in Mogador and he chased it away with teaser Pinto made a goam to help the Jewish community and then he realized that it's better to to so he took apart the goam he put in earthenware jugs the pieces of the goam he put it in the bases by his house and then it was transferred here to the cemetery pinto was malum in the n of sadak and the miracle of sadak. So on one occasion he came to David ben kasin who was in the city of mechanz and he says let's go to mogadir. So he said mogadir it's a very far trip from mechanis to mo is a very far trip especially then back then. He said don't worry he said I can't go my wife's going to wake up in the morning she's not going to know where I am. He said don't worry we'll guaranteed to be back before she wakes up. He said it's impossible. He said just come just come. And sure enough with Sadar he came to Moadur where they met Rabis Nara who's nara the author of Karib he was a R in Gaza and they met him in for he came down from the sonara is reputed to have had the soul of David he was the author of karim he came down to Moador and he met Rabd David together with Pinto and then they made up that every they would come here in Mogador and would sing with them at at this location. Now even though Pinto greeted everyone bes in the month of and told he locked himself up in a room that was the room that lived in. In that room his children were born his grandchildren and he wouldn't speak for 40 days. There was just a hole in a little kitchen that they would pass food to him in. Now in 1845 in the last year of his life during Lol where he never would speak he wouldn't come out he came out of the room to be the people to do chuva to be mazic the people and people realized it must be this is his these are his last days and sure enough on the 26th day of in 1845 he returned his holy nama some say he's the rebi of the rebac of Abi Abi Kat here in this place people flock from all over the world from all over Morocco and they've experienced great nissim it's makul that anyone who comes on the yard site at least one of a person's bash is nabel just want to point out where we're standing you can mamish hear the ocean it's on the ocean the maka climb at the end of the maka that the beach of has a connection to that's why said when his was in to put him onto the so this kev is is already on the which is a of we're going to see buried behind is a ke of who is rebi and we'll also see under this oil were all the ramim of mogador including Raat Rabon and we'll talk about other alah is buried here and is buried here. Okay, we have a great to be at the ke. We're just trying to clean off the the date 5594 of someone who is the rebi of Rab Pinto Rabakov Bibbas Nisbakesh on the 18th of Sivan in the year 5594. Okay, so we're talking now almost 200 years ago. Harav. This is also dirtias based on the tradition. Pinto is of this is the rebi of today in Marrakesh when we were at the kebab buried next to Azulai was Kazan tradition has it that Kazan him and his wife prayed for a child and in aim they were told if they have a child it'll only be for a short amount of time and they said indeed okay however much time this is the child he's given the title so may all of our Okay, we're here in Mogador where by the oil and under this oil are buried six notable gym of Mogodor esoera Rabi Abram Kurat Rab Yoseph al- Mala Rabbi Alazar Halevi Rabbim Yohas Rabona Navon and Rab Ysef al- Mala II. If you come into the IEL in the IEL. Okay. Whoa. Careful. >> Okay. >> So, we're inside the oil. Here you have around the oil. You have signs for the various who are buried here. You have alah whose is under this oil. We have Rab Corat Aves of Mogador whose son is around by the way. Rebat. We have shouts to Chubas from Rebat. Shout Corat Rabion Navon is under here. You have Rabzari and Rab Yseph El Mala Hasheni also Rakim Yohas. We thank our friend over here of the cemetery. Hashem should bless you. Hashem should give you shepher. Amen. Okay. Okay. Uh today's uh learning is dedicated in honor of the worldass camera work of Danielle Ari Harris. The sponsor said, the anonymous sponsor said it was like gold. It's it's better than water, you know, but we can't reveal who it was. So bothered if Jacob went to everyone knows he left. That's where he's been living. Why does it have to say who? When a sadic's in the city, he is the splendor of the city. He is the shine of the city. He's the majesty of the city. When the sadic leaves paid panahara. So the question is this is not the first time that saddic left the city. Sadik been living leaving cities from time of memorial. All of a sudden now the has to tell us that sadic is the glory of the city. What about when Abraham left cities? What about when ye left cities? So the explanation is this is the first time a sadic left the city leaving behind another saddic just as great when yakavina left the city is still there. So why are we saying but is there must be that every sadic has a unique splendor. Every sadic has a unique glory. Every sadic has a unique contribution. And I hope that this is one of the main things we take from this messiah that we visited dozens and dozens of but each one has a unique flavor. Each one has a unique toyra. Each one has a unique path of a hashem. And I hope we remember some of these names. I hope we encounter some of these names. You'll see you'll go home and all of a sudden you're going to see a safer and you say, "I was just there in Morocco at the ke of this sadic." But every sadic has a special has a special has a special. It's been a great pleasure and all of our should and of all of these end of our services because >> okay good morning everyone sham we're headed out of Morocco but now we're holding in kadesh kislave and I want to tell you about a particular ular city in Morocco that has an amazing phenomenon and is very relevant to Kislave and the of Kaneka. First I want to give a big thank you to Danielle Harris for his historic camera work. Usually he videos so it's a big honor that he came uh to help us out over here. Okay, I want to tell you about the city of Debbau in Morocco. Debbdo is about 100 kilometers from Algeria. Uh, and it has a phenomenon that almost no other city in the world has. It's a beautiful city. The aesthetics, the scenery is breathtaking. It's surrounded by orchards, flourishing orchards. It's a blaze in in light. And the road that leads to Debbau passes through valleys and streams. It's surrounded on three sides with majestic peaks and in the winter snowcap mountains. When you go to Debbau, you can't help but call out Marabu Masaka Hashem. However, what's most unique about the city of Debdo is that the vast majority of the Jewish population of Debdau are kohanim. Kohanim. I was wondering you know all the sparadim on our trip this this time are are kohanim you know I don't I don't know if all sparadim are kohanim but we're going to see actually there are cities in the world that the climate is only conducive to kohanim and as we're going to see levim were not able to survive even in debau the climate was such that levim could not stay in the city if they would stay in the city more than nightfall, they would die. You know that there's certain areas in the world that are only good for kohanim and not levim. Yeah, I don't know. Maybe like the the d and the climate by the den and by the kodesh is only good for khan. Maybe because the air conditioning over there is you know it's higher up the altitude on the den. I can't explain it. But I want to tell you a little bit about the city of Debdau. The residents of Debbau came primarily from Spain, from the city of Seville. They came not in 1492. Does anyone remember 101 years earlier the Jews of Portugal were expelled in 1391. 139 There were many forced conversions in 1391 where the Jew where the Jews of Seville came to Debau. There were many prestigious families Abar Benel Avraham, Davidid Gavishon and Hakohhane Sakili. Ever hear the name Cohen Sakili? Sakili were the family names of Kohanim who came from Seville to Debbau. Where does Sakili come from? The Gamatria of Sakili is Sadd. They were descendants of Saddaken. Okay, so the kahanim of Debdau were the descendants of of that's pretty amazing because they date back to what is known as biblical times. Was a kayen not to be when we say we don't mean that was his last name. It means he was the he was the high priest right and in the times of David and so the kahanim of sakil and and ddau were descendants of kayen in the times of David and so when the kohhanim came in 1391 they were led by rabbid hakohhane rabd hakohhane came to an area it was arid it was dry nothing grew in debau that's why we're passing by like desert over here. That's what Debbdo looked like until Kohhane took a stick and he stuck it in the ground and all of a sudden a natural spring of water flourished and he took it as a synonym that this is where they should reside. So these kohanim of debau trace back to the kohanim of the ba mikdash and they had a law that they could not marry out of the priestly clan. If you're a Cohen of Debbau, you could only marry other kohanim of Debdau. You couldn't marry Levim. You couldn't marry Israelim. Only Kohanim. In the city of Debdau, they had very unusual practices, very special practices, especially when it came to the Yumpt of Kaneka because because was a miracle that happened in the city of Debau. Not only did they say halal every day of Kaneka, they said hal Shalm every night of Kaneka. In the city of Debdo, they said hal Shalim every night of. Do they do that in Pico? No. In Pico Robertson, they don't do that. But in Debdoanim, they did do that. They said they said Shim with the braha. By the way, in the safer on the Babasali, it's reported in Taflat where the Babasali lived, where his older brother Abdavid lived, there were, you know how many kohanim there were in Tafle? >> None. There was not one Coen in the whole city. Can you imagine a city, one city, it's Ro Kahanim, and in Taff, no Kayanim. So they imported a Cohen. The name of this Cohen was Rebi Davidid and they taught I'm sorry the name of this is Rebel Yahu and David Roshen who taught Rebel Yahoo Tyra and they were so enamored with this cohel that after Rabbi David brought rebel in and rebel had a daughter Rabbi David married the daughter of Rabbi Yoh who he imported from Deb and the Babisali honored ed his sister-in-law very greatly. First of all, she was kat and secondly she was bas. So can you imagine they import the coin and marries uh marries his daughter. Now why they import the cohen? They needed a coin for pig. They needed a coin form. It's not like Ashkanazim where we den you know once every once a year they they den every you know of course every day and it was very important for them to have a cohen. Now in the safe, he brings from Amar that there was once an individual David Halevi and David Halevi moved from Devdo to Fez and then he left. He left Dabdo and he went back to Fez. He went back to Fez and nobody understood why did Rabi David Halevi leave the city of Debdo. Some suggest because he wanted to learn Tyra from a well-known Rav or the living quarters in Debdo were not conducive. But it is suggested that there in the official chronicle of the city of Debdoanim it says Levim were not allowed to live in Debau more than one day. If a ley would live there more than one day he would die. The Levim and Debdau would die. So they were not allowed to live there more than one day. That's why we're not going to drive through because you know I'm concerned maybe you know you don't know for sure who the Liam are. It's better to better safe than sorry. Okay. But if any of the kohanim want to go to Debdo then we're going to have a special taxi and pro you'll probably make the flight. Okay. Now another minhug they had in Debau is uh for them some of the by the way some of the family names of Kohan of Debbau Marciano Benim Sakili and they produced many generations of great lineage of Tamikim Sadikim most notably the Sakili family. But in Debdo, as important and as moving and as inspirational as Kaneka is in all the Jewish world, Kaneka took on a completely different meaning in the city of Debanim. It was their Yam. It was they took it personally because they dated back to the Kohanim of the time of the Bikdash. And when they said the words in Alanim, they said it with a heart of flame, feeling their personal connection to the Yumpt of Khan. So that's one of the amazing cities in Morocco Debdo Hakohanim. May its memory be a blessing to all of [Music] Yeah, sure. Okay. Good morning everyone. By the way, we're now in the vicinity of the Balan. Bul Azra Bulra. The Balan. A few observations about Morocco in general. I'm sure you noticed that wherever you go, it could be a shul, it could be a bakar, it could be any Jewish institution. Aside from having pictures of the mikubalim, the gdole, you also have a picture of the king, right? What was the king's name? >> Muhammad the 6th. >> Muhammad V 6th. Wherever you go, next to the sadikim, there's a picture of the king. That's one important observation. Another observation is I'm sure you are pleasantly pleased, maybe surprised with how courteous, how polite, how gracious the Moroccan people are to us. You know, we have security, but probably you felt maybe we don't even need security. And these are two very important observations. Number one, the presence of a benevolent king. And number two, the character, the good character of the Moroccan people. There is no question that these two phenomenon go hand in hand. Benevolent king and a gracious population. You know, the Nvi says, [Music] "In those days, Israel had no king. Therefore, everybody did what they pleased. The disintegration of society, the breakdown of society, the deterior deterioration of character comes when there is no benevolent authority. But with leadership, with benevolent leadership, the people are elevated, the people are upgraded, the people's character are on a high and noble level. And that is what we're all hoping for. We're all waiting for the Malika Mashiach which will elevate Kal Israel which will elevate the whole world which will bring Hashem's presence to the whole world and it will bring an elevation in the character and the mid and the nobility of Cla Israel and the whole world and this is something you get a real taste of here in Morocco. It should stir your heart to beh that what benevolent authority could bring to a nation and to the entire world. Okay everyone, now's where we say goodbye. But our goodbye is just the beginning. First we want to begin we want to thank uh my dear friend Rababi Roak for organizing such a wonderful trip. Thank youabi to continue to give yan opportunity to connect to their heritage. >> Want to thank Rab Ysef who's brought in the safair. Thank you very much. Hashem should bless you. You should continue to help out our community and we should have uh you should thank you Daniel Harris for the worldass camera work. So I just want to take a few moments to uh you know it's a whirlwind. It's hard to process everything we did in just a couple of days. But we were kind of many but still bash I would call it you know like a 4 day two nights trip and okay so if you remember we started off the trip we were in Sali we went to fall ana kawa we went to the of the father and grandfather of then we made sure to stop inat in the capital city. Do you remember where we went there? We went to Rebel A. If you remember a I didn't mention at the his parents were told that their son who was a nephew of the was the gilgal of the Tana Hinus. Okay. We went to Wazan went to Then we went to Mechnes. Even though it it uh made the day a little bit longer, but by unanimous vote, we spent a few hours in Mechnes. We went to the Kev Abdavid Berdugo. On this trip alone, we already learned at least five devra from Rafel Verdugo, including why Jakavinu when he sees the shepherds and it wasn't time for them to take a break yet. Yakavinu spoke up. He says, "Why you uh why are you taking off? Don't you have to put in an honest day's work?" And he says, "From here, we learn in life in general, if you see somebody doing something wrong, if you see some something, say something. If you see something, say something." Okay. Then Monday we were in Fez. We went to the ka of El Kabir the of Ravid Hassarasi. Then on Tuesday we learned about Shemakum. She akum. Yeah. We learned about the coffee and tea of an akam in the Berber village. Went to the cover of Schlommo Lashanho Belhanch. >> Schlommo bhans. Bilh. >> Yes. >> Yeah. Bilh. >> Yeah. Yeah. Okay. I got to ask on that. Okay. Then we went to Marakekesh. Marrakesh said was Marrakesh. We were at the ke of a relative of the we were by Schlommoid. We were by their rebi rebutd levia or leua. We were at many many in Marrakesh an amazing historic cemetery. Then actually I'm not going to say last night today. Today we were at the kev of pinto hagadal. We were also at wow >> that was >> that was mira. Yes, we were at the but when when we were there we found the kev of his >> rebi rebas [Music] vibbas we found the kev of the yanuka this the son of David kazan who's buried right next to rebul also underneath the oil of kaimhag we found seven karim rebas rev al-mak the First, Rabb Al- Mia II Rabbi Levi and many of the Moador we went to we spoke about the come from Mogador and the Ezra Hashem. This was not this will not be the last time you hear from these. I guarantee you that because you visited them, they're going to be visiting you. You're going to see their learn about their Tory. all the want to thank the um what's the >> Zoe >> Zoe Zoey >> thank you there different types of gdylum you know Zoe thank you thank you God bless you and all of these you should be to continue to learn about their and all the for good health for nas from your children for all of these should be. Thank you very much.