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everyone we're headed to the city of
Puerto
according to this forum the city is
called aporto
and in this context I want to tell you
about the life of one of the greatest
common that lived in Portugal
from Saba was born in Spain in 1440 he
passes away in 1508 by the way 1508 is
the year of the passing of that
barbanell
so immediately you see that he lived
through the time of the Spanish
explosion and in fact the tragic story
of ravia from Sabah is really the
illustration of immune inhumanity that
could be perpetrated in the name of
religion
is born in Castile was a student of
rabies de Leon who instructed him in
Kabbalah by the time of the Inquisition
Ravi avram saddle was already 52 years
old
we are from Saba flee Spain he comes to
Portugal and he comes to aparto
the city we're about to go to was the
city where Rabia ramsaba came he was
looking for a safe haven but it was not
meant to be
now in his first peaceful years in
Portugal in aparto revia from completed
his momentous commentary on the Flemish
what is it called
hamar
and his commentary on the McGillis which
is called Escuela and also a commentary
on of perkiavos
as we mentioned in 1496 the Jews are
expelled from Portugal but King Emmanuel
had a terrible surprise and store for
the Jews of Portugal as we mentioned on
the first day of pesach
and according to the account of Rabbi
zacharya fandel all Jewish children
below the age of 18. were kidnapped and
baptized Rabia from had his two sons
taken away from before his eyes
kidnapped baptized and he never saw them
again
but that was not all ruby Abram had a
very extensive library of manuscripts of
hand-written ancient documents and
foreign they were confiscated and burnt
publicly in Lisbon together with
thousands of other sorrows so he's
bereft of his children distraught about
his life's collection he flees to Lisbon
with a secret treasure the secret
treasure is his personal manuscripts of
the hamar and the Esko hakai Fair
one day it will be Abram's family tells
him his secret has been revealed if he
will not destroy his manuscripts he's
jeopardizing his life so with the broken
heart he digs the grave he buried this
and all of his hedushim when we go to
Lisbon we're going to be looking for the
kadushim of Sabha he buried it under an
olive tree
is going to be showing us all the olive
trees in Lisbon we're going to be
looking for the khadushim of saba suse
ever rewrite his condition yes
so what happened was
he buries the khedu shim under an olive
tree
he writes in the introduction to the
Escala koi Fair on magillas Esther that
he was then subsequently imprisoned with
other Tami the kakamem one of these
sages he was imprisoned with was forced
to convert the sage would not convert
and he died
and after six terrifying months in
prison Ravi avram Saba manages to escape
he escapes from Portugal and with his
last remaining son Yitzhak where does he
go to Fez where he rewrote Surah hamar
from memory
however he says because of his age and
his memory and that Soros he did not
restore all of his hidushim he rewrote
on Hamish on Miguel assessor and
miguelas Rose I want to share with you
one amazing
writes he says I'm telling you now
something I'm gonna reveal it to you
he writes this in person
this is something
I never saw I never heard it
is Galilee what was revealed to me
meaning he's saying he had divine
inspiration
why is the holiday called Hanukkah is it
because they rested on the 25th day it
should be then
wonderful person is very busy very
preoccupied it doesn't have any time to
learn what should a person do if they're
so preoccupied they don't have time to
learn well what does it tell us I feel
like
even if you just say Shema in the
evening and the morning your yard say
because krishma is basically the cliff
node version of kalatarakula
by the way this is not the time but
there are many proofs that the Mitzvah
of
a Mitzvah of talmatira in the midst of
saying Shema that's why before we say we
say we make breakfast
even there are many many uh proofs to
this notion that the midst of them
they didn't have time to learn so how
did they serve Hashem they were Valiant
with the 25 letters of the creation
Hashem
athletic facts desire I publish rights
and he doesn't quote this there are 24
letters in Baruch
desire says when we complete the 24
letters of Baruch and we reach the
madriga of 25 to 25 letters of Shema we
reached the umptip of chanukkah
at the end of Ravi avram sabha's life he
was on a ship and it was headed to Italy
and there was a terrible storm
and it threatened to capsize the boat
and the brings down the story in the
shame
was asked by the crew on the ship they
saw he was a holy man please dive in for
the welfare of the ship that we should
be saved
River was old he was weak and he said I
may not survive back to shore I will
pray for the safe return of the ship if
you promised me that you will bring me
to kaveri Israel
they promised him
he prayed the storm stopped
it's
ever passed away on Arabian Kippur
from Sabo was brought to Kevin Israel in
Italy in Valencia so this is the
tragic story rubber from Sava and at the
same time
the inspiring story of how he rewrote
all his condition from Emory but I do
want to share with you that I believe
the story has somewhat of a happy ending
and that is
kak had a daughter
this girl went on to marry Maran bet
Joseph Carroll
became the grandfather-in-law of Robert
so at least through that he's he's the
foundation of the
Israel nishanallah he is we're going to
the city of aparto
ran away and wrote his
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