Journey to Morocco: The Sahara Dessert - Why The Sages of Morocco Have Been Forgotten?

this Tower class is brought to you by torahanytime.com okay good afternoon everyone so as we drive through these Villages here in the Sahara it's important to remember these Villages were graced by hundreds maybe thousands of Sadie Kim throughout the generation throughout the ages and most of themes milave most of them have been completely forgotten these are names that we don't know about we don't know about their teachings we don't know about their writings Justin Marrakesh in the cemetery we went to where there were hundreds of buried there were 50 great notable Sadi Kim rev ozinkot of David elbaz of Joseph hakun Al khadarama many many that are unfortunately were forgotten what's the reason for this we remember that every everywhere in the world oh everywhere else in the world Eastern Europe Western Europe Russia Ukraine Spain why is it that the Morocco many of them hundreds of them have have been forgotten and there's one primary reason for this and that is because the printing press never came to Morocco there was no beta in Morocco and therefore we the manuscripts of all these have remained for posterity in manuscript form they've rotted they've disintegrated and unfortunately most of them we don't have anymore they're only two Exceptions there are two exceptions who we were successful in Remembering because they were they managed to get out of Morocco there's somebody by the name of RAB shalom buzzgalo actually is the collector of the perus on the Zohar of the marakash called lekech and he made his way to London and with Shalom printed one of the most important Works ever on the zihar it's called miktash melach perus miktas this is one of the most important commenters and well-known commentaries on the zihar and you could go to London today repshelan buzzaglo is buried in London and the reason we know about mukta schmelach is because of shambuzzaglo managed to get out of Morocco and publish miktash malach the most notable exception of all the Morocco that is known to us is and the reason we know about the Paris is made Aliyah when he left Sally to go to Arts Israel he took to he took his manuscripts with him he went via Italy and in 1742 he published in Venice so the reason we are so familiar and the reason we Revere the name are achaima kados is because managed to get his manuscripts out of Morocco and publish it publish it in Venice on the way to aretz Israel says review Hillel remained in Morocco it is very possible we would never have known about the arakima kadosh so we drive through these cities and it's somewhat of a miracle that we could visit their kvarim and we could learn a little bit about them but the main reason that we've forgotten about them is because there was no publishing house here in Morocco now we could understand a little bit in the writings of the banishedai beneshkai talks about when his brother's business collapsed and he didn't really have a source of income the beneschi said that greater then the pain of not being able to support his family greater than the pain of no longer being able to be on the giving side is the fact that so many of his farim remain in manuscript form and he's not able to publish them and the beneshkai actually had an old an ancient safetyra that dated back many many generations and he sold the safritorah to be able to publish this varim so here we see the historic importance of the Publishing House the printing press and the absence of it is uh why very little is remembered about the Morocco you've just experienced another Torah class brought to you by torahanytime.com