Journey to Naples 2024: Rav Yitzchak Aramaah and the Unique Cannonization of Megillas Esther

this Torah class is brought to you by Torah anytime.com okay good morning everyone we're here in Naples we're in the synagogue of Naples one of the reasons we wanted to come to Naples this is a unique destination many people come to Italy and they go to Rome and they go to mana and they go to padwa and they go to many ancient communities they never make it here to Naples one of the great Rim died and is buried here in Naples R AR arama uh the Bala Bala is a classic work now the Bala lived in a time where the Spanish Scholars were great in philosophy and a lot of the works of these Spanish Scholars we don't have today and did not last the test of time because they did not combine it with knowledge of the Shas The greatness of the is with all of his expertise in philosophy he always gave prominence to the wisdom of theas I want to share with you an idea it's a based on the B you could think about it and you tell me what you think tells us tells us we're and we go to here MRA Milla why would we not be after all isn't the M the Milla itself is TOA so we mean and you go to hear the Milla it's t the Milla is also TOA it's a famous question so I want to propose a new answer based on an interesting historical tidbit that the balaka reveals about how miger was written the balaka says that Mig was written than any of the any of the other the other other so the the prophet would sit down he would commune with and would Inspire him so let's say the told them the The Inspired their pen to write with divine inspiration not so says did you know that hashem's name is not in the Miga we all know hash's name you know why hashem's name is not Milla originally Miga sester was written by Persian historians took out and gleaned they sifted through the history books of the after the Milla itself says you want the rest of the story so it was originally a secular document so the just sifted through it and then canonized and put into thees the story of that's why hash's name is not because they didn't add to the original story the original story was written as a secular document they just put in what we accept as the one of the according to this proposal of the maybe there's a very big that and we come to the because in a certain sense you would think the Mig maybe is not on the same level of to as the rest of the told them straight what to write the they sat down on their own and they wrote with divine inspiration but maybe you would think that this process of taking a secular document and sifting through it and bringing back into what we accept maybe that's not on the same level of t as other so the is even though the process of it was different than any of the other enjoy your breakfast you've just experienced another Torah class brought to you by tor anytime.com