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Journey to Spain 2023: Toledo - The Rosh's Father Return From the Dead to Rescue His Wife & Children

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this Tower class is brought to you by torahanytime.com okay back at it here so the rush comes to Spain in the year 1303 the rush had a very interesting custom you know many many Russia Siva they'll take shlishi rabbis they usually take sushi some soy Fair rides in shuva samakov 66. 66. the rush was marked a bit every week to take the lowest Aliyah now I never knew which is the lowest Alia what's the lowest Alia I thought Ravi was the lowest the rush said Hamish is the lowest and the rush was marked but always to take tamishi now why is kamishi the lowest that's important to know which is the lowest of yoragabai and a guy comes into the show that you don't like you have to know you need to know these things but the rush would take hamishi every week why people didn't like hamishi because they said you know the first Dahlia has a shith the number one has a nine two is Machado three with seven four with six five five's a bachelor so nobody ever wanted to take hameshi so the Russia said I'll be my shadow every week with hamishi now the rush comes to Spain and tell me them come to him from all over the world we have chuvas that tal medium came to the rush to learn all the way from Russia if you imagine in the 14th century students coming all the way from Russia now the rush comes to Spain and he notices a custom that he really did not appreciate and that is many people were focused on learning the Riff and not on learning the gemara furthermore many people were poskining from the rambam the rush writes in achuva claw lamin Alpha is tests that you can't pass from the rambam he says the rambam is different from all other posts and other postgame they let you know which gamara they got the sock from so now you could analyze is the gemara a good source is the gemara a good analogy but says the rush who casav sifroy Kim is just writes you have no idea where he got it from says the rush if you don't if you're not familiar with the gemara you cannot pass skin straight from the rambam by the way this is an issue that reverberates until our time you know people who may know the shibura or a kitchenack and say oh yeah the Mr Brewer says we have to know what the Makar is you have to know if the situation at hand is analogous to the source now I want to share with you uh literally one of the most haunting stories you'll ever hear this story is quoted by the shame says the source of the story is a hand written document that he personally saw from vital written says in a letter of the Russia's son now she had many boys the rush had eight Sons the most well-known was the balatuna robin but it's interesting was not the Russia's Tour by the way comes to Spain couldn't get a job was an Univision the tour this is very interesting I heard this from if you look in the tour the tour brings that he asked his father whether you know the gemara talks about whether you're allowed to collect money for Shabbos or rabikiva would say eat peanut butter and jelly and don't borrow money so the tour asked his father Rush what about me am I poor enough that I would qualify for this and the rush never answered his son and it's a mystery why wouldn't the rush answer Hassan so Revo bam explains the rush did not want to say that his son had a din of an uni because that would create a reality in a metzius that his son would be an ani and he would it would be impossible to extricate himself from that but this is written by the Russia's said when I'm asked what was life like back in Germany when I was a little boy before we ran away to Spain he said I was too young to remember anything because my grandfather the Russia's father who knows who is the Russia's father all you who knew holy Toledo anybody knows the Russia's father is born in the year 1210. and when he was 16 years old he had a friend in Yeshiva named they sealed the Covenant with each other that they would split the reward of their mid-slice and their massive and their Tyra makipuram and in ashkenaz they were very machved that every Jewish adult male should light a Nair bury for themselves on Yom Kippur by the way you know there's a halacha many people lied a yard side left on Yom Kippur but actually the halaka requires that every married man light a narabori what we call gesundelecht for themselves on Yom Kippur everybody know that besides your yard side left besides your left for havdala nerches and they were very superstitious about it if you're near bury went out you weren't surviving the year it wasn't happening for you and that year Rabino has never went out he was very scared and sure enough he passed away on now the minogan ashkenaz was before you buried the mace you lay the RN out at the entrance of the cemetery to be able to straighten out the avarum of the mess because you know it would be very uncomfortable and very unseemly if the mess's legs were crossed or his eyes were bent you know you need to look good down there in the grave you know it's important to look straight and look your best so they would straighten you out make sure the smile was good the head was straight the knees were straight the arms were straight and right before the burial of rabinocoin says remember the deal we made we're splitting all of our mid slice and in his Repose broke out laughing and everybody heard a little while later was sitting and learning in the basement and who walks into the basement none other than Robin says you know if I didn't know you better I might be surprised to see you walking around and they were learning together and representative what's going on and he says it's like it's it's like an Eden I mean no it is Gane then it is Gane then so he said um I have a chair over there I'm doing very good so rafana Khan said you have rashes to leave ganheiten to come learn with me he says Avada I would come with that Russia's but I don't want to come it's not that I don't have a I'm allowed to come I don't want to because it doesn't look good for the reciting that live before me who are not allowed to come so I don't like to make too many Cameo appearances but yes I do have Russia's a few months later six months later this is again after the death of his wife is about to hit the sack and Robin appears to his wife not in a dream alive he walks into the house he says what are you doing quick get out of here tomorrow they're going to annihilate every Jew in the city I've already dive in to save the rest of Germany but my Twilights were not answered for your city so please my dear wife run away immediately now on Shabbos save your life save your mother save your sisters save our children and that is how the wife of raveena was able to save the rush this is reported by RAB Khan vital and brought in the safer Shane of the miraculous Rescue of the mother of the rush through the appearance of ravino yahil after his demise where he appeared the hockets so when we talk about Toledo Anything could happen in the city of Toledo you've just 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