Journey To Ukraine: Lemberg/Lvov - The Kever of the Ta"z; Rabbeinu Dovid Ben Shmuel

this torah class is brought to you by torahanytime.com it's really remarkable to be at the cover of the itas rabbi david ben shmuel halevi who lived from 1586 to 1667. he lived 81 years which is quite a long lifetime for those days and it's really a miracle that we were able to be here for a few moments the taz was a son-in-law and a student of the bach and uh it is said that by time he was seven years old he already knew baba kama above thoroughly he was also student of his older brother first he was in fact the student of of his older brother rabbi yitzhak khalevi who is the author of shao suchus mahari halevi and in fact when the taz would send a shiloh to his brother so the taz would sign his name david the younger son of adoni my master my father so rabithak addressed him in the following way david is caught on the enough but he's great in all other respects he's my master my brother okay so the bach recognizes greatness and he took him as a son-in-law i once heard from her viktor miller that the way this was made is the bach once commented to the tas my daughter so beautiful she's as beautiful as the moon and we're upon robin said in that case i would like to be makadesh the levana now the pineal hishua has a haskama on the safer of the taz and he says that the sakham of the task foreign the first of the early ones nobody greater than him now unfortunately the ta's lived through a terrible kozak uprising of 164 1649 which destroyed over 700 jewish communities and the tas suffered much much hearts hardship he said two of his sons died in krakow when they were young and another two murderers died by the kazakh khazaks on the eighth day of er in 1664 in lamberg interesting if you look in the tazin archaic he brings that when my in my youth i lived in krakow and my basement rich was above the base hacknesses and the task says that i was punished for living on top of the basaknessas that my my sons died and the taste as he attributes it to that now the taz is most well known uh for his perish on the most notably on and yaradaya on the other khalakkim it was published after there were already a number of noise caleb now the story goes that during the programs of 1648 the taj fled to a fortress in the city of alec and the city came under siege for many days the walls were breached and the yiddin were engaged in philos and heart-rending prayers and at one point the taz was faint from fasting he drowsed off he was faint and in a dream he heard the following word words i will protect the city in the merit of my servant david referring to him that and they were ancient rusty guns which stood on the ramparts had not been used in many in many many years they were not not serviceable and these guns suddenly became usable and a great artillery barrage decimated enemy camp and caused the enemy to flee another story an amazing story is recorded by none other than the nephi and the ruach that a woman whose daughter came who was deathly ill came running to the towers and said save my daughter so tas says what do you want from me so she said no i'm asking of your torah i want i'm asking of your torah so the task says indeed i just studied a very difficult sugiya and i answered a question and i will donate this close to my learning and sure enough the daughter snapped out of this feverish illness and was cured now there's an on another occasion the it's reported that in the safer afnesham that in the pincus of levov were here in lava and that was the the taj's final rabbanus is brought that the daughter of a wealthy man became insane a ruachra entered her and her father asked to the taj please do me a favor visit my daughter and pray for her so finally he is seated and he came in and when she opened when the door was open for him this girl who is possessed turns to the tas and says and then she turns around then the tas says why are you turning around and she said because the wicked cannot look at that sadiq and she says to mishno in the heavens they call you rabbinu going bao to rezah and the taste as well in that case if that is true then i am goizer that you should have a refua because today i answered up a question on the tour and i answered it la mita shaltaran and that's hosuh before shalema and sure enough the woman snapped out of it and the oyster asked the taj that uh he says i want to give you a matana the taj refused so the gevira went and he bought a talus a beautiful thousand for the tas of turkish wool and the tabs would not wear he said i want you know i'm an old man i'm almost up to my final stage and my old talus could testify that even one time in my life i did not allow a foreign thought to enter my mind in the course of now the taj was a contemporary an and an associate of the tsam sadaq of kraknel and rob shimashin of prague and the taj also wrote a very important work on humish namely the divrei david on rashi now a few important things about the taz on the taz originally published his commentary and the shah as is known very often argues on the ta's the shah was much younger than the taz but the but the shah says that uh when he met the taz titans honored him very greatly and kissed him on the head and was so happy to see him in the dhamma of the shaq the mahabharata says don't think that i had some kind of personal issue with the taz where i have animosity towards him because as ghazal tell us as vahe vesufa that ultimately when tamini argued there's great love in the end i actually hosted the shah says and he stayed by me for three days and i honored him tremendous honor lo you monkey is super and he honored me greatly and he kissed me on the head and you rejoice with me like at a sim you should know that i did not compose the safer for any other reason then for the ms of torah now the the ta's started off in krakow where he learned in great poverty and then he became the rav in pala patalic which is a small town in eastern galicia in poland and then he was a rav in russia shiva in austral where the maharsha had served it's uh interesting that the shah wrote hagoys on the task called nikuda sakasef which the tas himself never saw but the tas includes in the an additional page at the end of the taz which seems to be in disagreement with the shah and the shah responded to that in something called kuntrus these became the two greatest perushim on archaim and yaradeya the ta's never saw as we mentioned the kusakasef but the taz's daughter's son rabbi yo ben god wrote a response and a refutation to the entire nikola sakes if it's called maguine where he defends his grandfather now on the original matseva of the taz it's written in the light of his torah it illuminates for generations and generations even when he was still alive his plaque is wholesome pure and organized says another great in lavabre but he says 200 years when he served when the shalom after the tear of the ta's based on the government's command they had to clear out the cemetery and they opened up the caver of the ta's and they found his body was shalem and his shrouds were shalim and his he was completely whole he had been completely intact and not disintegrated as gadolin sadiq and what an amazing of a lifetime it is to be in the vicinity of the gov hakadosh of rabbenu david zuchus you've just experienced another torah class brought to you by torahanytime.com