Journey to Turkey: IZMIR - The Unparalleled City of Torah Scholarship

this torah class is brought to you by torahanytime.com okay as we drive through the historic streets of izmir i just want to share with you a few words about how this city was dubbed year of ambi israel israel means this was a major center of torah scholarship for many centuries the uh hagoyin revyamtheval ghazi says in this place it's basis avira massa makasya the whole world looked toward the city of israel for the beauty of torah that came from this city fellaizi writes in the cafe not to be confused with kavakama of uh you look at all these stores you look at the alleyways you look at these second and third floors you have to know once upon a time every storefront was a yeshiva every alleyway was rabbanam and then finally writes in he says asides from the fact that this city had him he says in this respect izmir surpassed any city in the history of the jewish people because he says or balay mitzvoice he says kemar ani omar in in terms of the scholarship of the regular balabas living in izmir this was an unparalleled city of scholarship that uh spread from to even the average person so some of the notable who lived here you had ben the balcones you have aaron lapapa ravana the they both split their duties as the benivesti was the leader in terms of and revival papa was the dayan in terms of khashoggi followed by the next son of rabbi and falaji you had the baal shaiban muslim these were all israel that lived in izmir but it's not just the city of gaduila israel this is a city where every person walking down the street was in the israel izmir ira will speak about the in you've just experienced another torah class brought to you by torahanytime.com