Journey to Turkey: Izmir - The Life and Times of Rav Chaim Filag'i

this torah class is brought to you by torahanytime.com good morning everyone so it's every rabbi's dream to have people say we want to hear more so thank you very much captive audience there you go actually there was one saraba who gave a very long draw so he spoke for an hour and a half he was a rabbi in a very modern community in los angeles and after the draw show somebody came over to him he said and this guy was in movie productions and he said rabbi you think maybe we could do something with this drasha i'll make a little video you'll give a little clip maybe you could condense what you said today maybe into seven minutes five minutes we could and the rabbit's eyes open wide he thinks this guy's gonna make him famous he's gonna make a movie out of his russia you so he said you think you could condense the drasha into five minutes rabbi said yeah i think i could do it he said so why didn't you so anyway well i said there's a lot to talk about let's speak a little bit about regained fallacious uh it's almost hard to digest that we were there yesterday i know for a very long time i had a big haitian to go to his kevar khan philadelphia lived 80 years according to some he wrote 82 samara but the list says he wrote 72 swarms so here's a little bit of the history of his development it's not like he became kakambashi overnight in 1828 after his father passed away he was appointed sifta in izmir in 1853 he became the royce of bezdin in 1855 he becomes kakam bashi he began his literary career at a young age at the age of 16. now he writes something that to me was very meaningful and that is it's not like he sat in an air-conditioned room and he wrote and he wrote and he wrote undisturbed he said there's not even one page of his book that he wrote uninterrupted he was constantly overwhelmed by the tsar hatsey but even people pouring out their hearts to him we mentioned yesterday that he felt to rush somebody when somebody wanted his attention would be insulting he gave everybody their attention and nevertheless he made time to squeeze in for his writing but i want to read to you one line that i didn't have a chance to mention yesterday he says it was all the a service to yuat suri umagini kedarakateva he said what i wrote was supernatural even i couldn't believe what i did and in other words he saw the rebar shum with its mamas divinely inspired what he wrote all these samara and he himself did not believe now we know in cloudy soil today the concept of kuala lum is widespread every city i was just in cleveland this past shabbos cleveland the joke is has more coilolum than pizza stores you know most most uh they have i think eight or nine cuddle them over there who invented the idea of a kyle anybody know who invented the idea that there should be a kailuam that people who could be gainfully employed could go and sit and learn the whole day and other people should support them we know there's only there's there's an idea of you succeed but widespread kylo ren is the invention of that was me the indian of akaila now we we mentioned that he lost 54 of his farim in the fire he says it was maroomas and the passage of the games did not retrieve all of his of him so for example he wrote a paris on the whole we do not have high philosophy he wrote over four thousand pages of which i believe is in the middle of being reworked but we do not have all of these kedusham now uh rohan falaji is one of two gudulem that in the state hanno we know this tejan is a voluminous work of there are only two gadolim that the stahema refers to as maran only two godolam zorkha to the title maran and they are maran gaoinuzenu robheim now it's very interesting we have a nice hasidah here if you go to an auction today which swarm command the highest price and who wants to buy it among many is that we know there's a famous controversy regarding are you allowed to say it sorry to tell you my personal practices i do not say la shaymi hood i don't say it i don't say it either the reason i don't say it is i follow the mission of mission does not bring it down now this is this is based on the [Music] in the shabtaitsu therefore we don't say it this is not a chapter wasn't that result no the reason didn't say that is from and therefore you could argue with him because he could argue with everyone you want me to talk or you want to talk over here so um therefore tell me they know uh do not say the shame and however however the writes in a rare place because many people have all the storm of the khida but they don't always come with the he does perush on the haggadah known as simcha now wrote a few sim casa regals he wrote some regular commentary on rus he also wrote to the uh haggadah and there the hidat takes issue with the sack of the nudity says to say that is an invention of the shin sadi the shaymichud has existed among the svardim for many many generations that predated shabtaitsvi and he wrote that the naughty heath was not correct about this and many of the practices that the mishnagdam opposed to the hasidim what was the snag mostly they felt that a lot of their practices were rooted in sabbatianism however the khida defended these practices based on the fact that they existed for many centuries in the spartak world predating shabbat sway see shades who did not infiltrate um so to that extent the hasidim feel a certain brotherhood with the hida and the earliest fire them so that's uh an interesting thing we mentioned yesterday that the rokhan falaji's practice was he always wore gloves and as we said he wasn't covet conscious it was because people were constantly kissing his hands be it men be it uh yola dice we'll call it and therefore as a practice of sneos he always kept his hands covered now one interesting thing that i did not see written anywhere until i saw the kether of as we know there's an idea there's an idea that sadiq passed away on the same day that they were born so for example maisha so uh there was a question because the envelope passed away seven days after he was born so they were asked so why wasn't hashem in islam so the answer that the nakhlas david gave was in fact passed away on the day he was born because one is a jew born a jew is not born when they're physically born the jew is born by their brismillah so in villager in fact was nifter on the day that he was born because he passed away on the day of his milan so now the kasha what about moshe so moshe should have been after seven days later no moishe was known and maul david was nyland maul and therefore in fact they passed away on the day they were born so it's written about now we're going to come back in a moment to achieve why aren't sadique in nifter on the day they were born so the kid is from rebecca vega beggar says that creates a person like a clock so a person naturally will be born with a certain time frame every human being really should pass away on the day they were born however the passage says hello kim also i saw them yashar the hema bikshu a person he's looking for all kinds of uh haps and all kinds of uh shtick and therefore he sets off his internal time clock but if somebody was uh a yashar remains a yasha they would be nifter on the day they were born but sadiq who maintained their internal clocks they in fact do pass away that they were born oh let's come back to khan palangi rakhine felaji was born on you test schweit he but on the cover it says he was nifter on yo zeinschmatt he was taken to kavura so you tess born buried on your chest and stole a kim of jacqueline to get an idea of some flavor for some of his safari in philadelphia wrote a safer nephesh in the back of nephesh he talks about the following you said that relationship with claude israel is the relationship of a father to a son we know it's a famous macholicus between rabbihu and ramayana rabbi huda says you know i always say that it would be very convenient if we could have a relationship we could have an arrangement with our children that of rabbihu doshita you take your kids to a store people will know your kids are running around they're misbehaving people say who are these kids he said i'm not sure i rented them for the day you know but you can't really do that your kids are your kids are your kids with you this is not us with three bonus shalom we are not always the children of akalesh barco when we behave when we're oyster with sunny shall malcolm we're the children of hashem we're considered we know the shita by the way the balaturim says that rabbihood of is maruma's in the pasta because the pasta says we're now anybody know do we ever pass can lycra mayor we know there's a clown in chas and aravind that we never ever pass can like remember why because there was nobody as deep as ezra why why were we not quebecois so we would think we would pass in like that we are not always considered comes the rajba and the rajba says that this is the one exception and shasta that we pass in like ramer that we pass again we're always considered in the safer brings 36 proofs that we're always considered he proves from the various mitzvahs that we could not perform these mythos of unabandoned give you a few precious examples if a regular person takes the staff of the king they should behave me so so why could he keep shabbos shabbat says that we're bottom line and therefore the ban of the malcolm island another another is chuva i have a question how could malcolm we're able to do chuva okay there's a big shailah rubric doesn't discuss the shailah but he answers it begins with with which anybody know see they're sleeping already that's what they want condition very good that's the way it should begin you would think nauseam should begin with conducion first you get married [Music] is a common case most people don't even know anybody who ever was involved in eboom why why would we restart yvonne's surprise says that our relationship with the kadash baruch is not fasan and kala it's yavam and this would explain why rebbe began because this is really the representation of our relationship with that now falaji wrote a safe er very interesting safer sort of like a kitser it's called now will appear in every week's edition of magazine why because all the school ice of how many coins to give to tsudaka every month you ever see that give 43 give this number of coins it all comes from seifer okay quotes his son i want to tell you something very interesting tell you something a little controversial i want somebody to tell me what is the main job of a father what do you think the main job of a father is to be your child friend role model man coach so you know who says what the main job of a father is rashi rashi and hummer says yo saddik says to his brothers don't worry that you sold me to mitsurayam look what the bansham did to me that you see mainly says rashi what's the job of a father is to be your child's best friend if you learn with your kid and you you tell them go to sleep get up get up for chakras put on talos put on filling but you're not your kid's best friend you're not his father the definition of father is to be your kid really rashi no that's not what actually means i'll tell you another rashi rashi says yakov avina went to call his brothers so rashi's bothered yaakovino doesn't have brothers says rashi his children his children says from rashi we learn you need to cheat treat your children like your brothers this was a practice of rakhine falaji raphael falaji throughout his swarm always gives covet to his children he quotes his son now this is a big pella that's a big mystery the beneficiary also writes rashford to give money little initials for mayor balones nobody knows why why should you give it and then he also says to lightning is nobody knows what's the opinion of ramir balanese on the first night of uh so many suggest it's because secretly they don't want to reveal this but secretly destroys is the yard site of ramire and the reason they don't want to reveal this is because traditionally the art center of mayor is pesachini but so they don't want to burst anybody's bubble so they let people think romero's yard side is um but really his yard side is uh rich que one more idea from falaji no no steady one more idea from rouhani falaji there's a big suggy on chasse who didn't that according to the shita that the nissan nivra alam if i were to ask you according to the sheeta the nissan iv when was the world created you'd say dash nissan adam was created and then the first day of creation was ada right that's usually what's understood the same way according to the sheet of the tishrei nibra islam adam was created on rosh hashanah and bahiar the world was created his carbon which was a carbon pesach and the reason why carbon passage is we have a precedent from admiration was mavi para makri and mafris on the first day of creation era of pesach so it comes out this year we had our pace of shalia's bashabas and this year was really a unique year on the calendar because it's the same type of year with which hakadoshvaraku created the world this is the kids in the safeway brooklyn a syrian jew who's working on bringing out to print all the manuscripts of falaji but as we understand this is a repository of information which like the writing of many of the israel was certainly divinely inspired as we see filaji was in the spoil at what he was at his own personal literary output okay i'll give you a chance a parrot list boy named ben parshall la parsha you've just experienced another torah class brought to you by torahanytime.com