Journey to Spain 2023: Lucena - The Site of the Kever of the Rif, Rav Yitzchak Alfasi

this Tower class is brought to you by torahanytime.com back to the Riff so the Riff uh by the way inside there's no Kev for the rift there's no cover that says here lies there's a plaque that says that in this area we have a tradition the roof is buried so um I want to speak a little bit about the Riff how did the Riff get to Spain the Riff is not originally from Spain the Riff is from North Africa Torah comes in the year 990. with the episode of the arborium the four captives and one of the captives that was Redeemed by karuin was Robin is the father of hi Allah okay so right now back continuing with the Riff and this is a story that's developing as we speak this story is developing as we speak this is live footage of the entrance to the cover of the Riff okay this is not uh um altered in any way and um we have the local police of the Spanish police that have been uh very on the case they say that in 10 minutes the Jewish people will allowed to be reunited with Robin let's talk a little bit about uh the Riff back to the Riff so the Riff is a talmud of Robin and together with Rabino Nissan excuse me the Riff is let's just set the record straight raveena Khushi is one of the arbish William okay he comes to North Africa his son is no his son is the rift the Riff gets a job with the encouragement what is his first position he's the rabbi in Fez in Morocco he is the Towering figure in all of Morocco how long is he arrive in Morocco for 40 years so riff is rubbing Morocco for 40 years in Fez we were just in Fez in uh in the winter so the rift was a rabbi there in Morocco now he's called riff Rabino Yitzhak Al that's the al-fasi so that's where the Riff comes from the Miri says about the Riff his God al-haiskin we mentioned he must have hadash to be able to write this compilation says the Riven when I talk about the rivet here it's the Ravid the first private the first means not the Ravid balhasagasan the first the Rival the first says that miyamois were of high going there was nobody like rabiosukafasi so how does he come to Spain The Story Goes Like This the ref was a Dion coming into his best then was the caliph a non-jewish caliph versus an ani the calip was very powerful the rift ruled in favor of the Ani the Caleb says really you'll regret this the Riff says the Tara says you can't be scared of nobody I'm not afraid of you the Caleb says you'll regret this so the riffs tell me them were scared for his life they appoint guards at the entrance of the city and sure enough within a few days a stampede comes into this they said run run he takes his of him he takes his talus in villain and he runs for his life he makes it crosses from Tangiers he gets to Spain the Riff is 75 years old at the time everybody knows that at age 75 you can't get a job anywhere certainly not in rabonis you see in rabbanos they want you to be in your 30s with 50 years experience that's how it works in rapunis so the roof had this the ladder but he was 75 years old the Riff says you take me here in Lucena I'll be bar mitzvahed with you the Riff was the rough here in Lucena for 14 years who does he teach Rima gosh who else his son Robin who else at the time of the Patera of the Riff the Riff love the remagast so much and in something unusual the Riff Gave Over the nasios and the rabbanos to the remagash over his son which is something you see all the time right where the moistad goes to the more deserving as opposed to in-house so that's uh you see the Godless of the rift the riff gave it over to review Joseph magash Vari magash okay so that's a little bit about the Riff we mentioned that uh invokes the Posse On The Roof as brisi Akim as yet okay should we talk about the real magash okay we'll take a break you've just experienced another Torah class brought to you by torahanytime.com