Journey to Turkey: Bursa - The Mayor Shul

this torah class is brought to you by torahanytime.com now in the the mayorshul it's okay the mayor's show means that this is a shul that was established by jews who came from majorca so this is all part of the assimilation and the integration of spanish jewry into turkey now when we speak about the uh acceptance and the acclimation of spanish jewry into turkey we need to speak about rebellion romeo wrote the preeminent work on rashi the most important commentary ever written on rashi was rebellious now tell you a little english how do you say a commentary on a commentary is a super commentary on rebellion mizrahi which itself is a super commentary because it was written on rashi there are many commentaries on rebellion anyone who's familiar with the martial the marshall quotes rebellion he writes about how he came here many years in advance of the spanish exiles and he helped them acclimate and become developed and he helped them basically be prepare themselves to integrate into society and he it was very difficult for him because he basically had to give up learning and teaching for a total of one year he gave up all his writing we know rebellious rakhi aside from writing and rash he also wrote a commentary on the smug there's a famous kasha of mizrahi in his commentary on the smog mizrahi asks you know the famous kumar about hanukkah hanukkah the gemara says what's hanukkah and the gemara never says that there's a mitzvah to light the menorah here here it is the whole gemara by hanukkah never says there's a mitzvah that's the famous kasha of ravio mazrachi and his commentary on the smack anyway in shiva samakhv he says that the spanish exiles burnt him they really they really did him a great disservice why because here it is he gave up his life for them and rabbi yamazaki had a son gershon and gershon was the victim of a rumor that he accepted muhammad as the prophet now if he said muhammad as a prophet he would have to formally convert and he he had to run away to an island off of greece naxos and there the jews of naxos they authenticated this rumor and basically rebellion lost this his son because of this and he felt he records for posterity that here it is he gave up a year of his life and the jewish community of um the exiles they sort of they burnt him now once we're on the topic a very important uh halachic discussion now this is a very an interesting shilon halacha are you allowed to teach karoyam not torah mathematics science and there are many good oil moves said you're not allowed to but royal mizrahi and shiva non-zion writes that the do not have the power they don't have the right to put in kheram people who are not doing what they want and therefore said the previous generation continued to teach the quran we will continue to teach them it's not that he was lenient toward them because regarding whether you're allowed to marry into the family of the quran religion said no of course you cannot marry into them but he felt that did not have the power to put into haram those who wanted to teach the karam taira so this is a little bit of the history of these bhatte kinesios were founded upon the exiles of spain about 500 years ago and we remember their contributions with great reverence and we'll see you've just experienced another torah class brought to you by torahanytime.com