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Song From Gaza - The History & Mystery of Rav Yisroel Najara

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okay good morning everyone uh this morning I want to share with you something a little different we usually do the the series and today I want to share with you something not on AA but on a one of the and the reason I want to share with you this this uh these insights is because there's a song that we sing Friday night was written by rabis naara RIS Nara was one of the students of the arisal and one of the great liturgists and Poets actually many of the uh ptim that he wrote he set to Arabic Tunes at the time um and he was met with a lot of opposition from the mum of Damascus and SAS um the people at the time were very accustomed to singing Arabic and Turkish tunes and they would sing their Tunes with indecent lyrics so rabar wrote proper lyrics so that they could sing uh these tunes that they're accustomed to to these lyrics one of the very well-known songs that rabis Nar wrote is Kine now why am I talking about Kine RAB was a tment of his father Raa Le Raa was a student of AR he's the author of not the one that you're familiar with but um a p on the to with various reasons raro is very captivated by the art of poetry and he also wrote something called zir in 1586 which is a collection of poetic compositions set to Arabic and Turkish Tunes rabar was a rabbi in Kevon but a pestilence broke out and he then had to move to Gaza and he became the chief Rabbi Rabbi in Gaza at the time he met the uh R the who also was a rabbi in and also fled to Gaza but what's unbelievable is where RAR is buried I just found out this morning r J is buried in the old Cemetery in Gaza soem soon as this war is over we have to figure out a way to DAV at the K of the author of Kine now we know a few things about RAR first of all the writes in the in the name of the AR that in the heavens they value his songs very much the of says that whenu would begin to sing the would come and all the would say that's what he would say about now kski has some very interesting haras on Karine first of all says we say Angels man animals of the field it's sort of out of [Music] order we're created first then the birds then the animals and then man why first malim man animals Birds says that uh they're listed in order of um importance first then man then animal and then Birds I would ask on that that it's still out of order because who's more important man or is more important so still on the order over here kadish the problem then would be it would not rhyme at all can you imagine that you need anosha to rhyme with Shaya which might be the reason for the order now here's the Z concludes please return to the and to the holy of holies why specifically the holy of holies kki said because the ran tells us in that the main purpose of building bik is a place for right that's the famous of the ran the r says the purpose of theik is a of the says it's a the where is on the and the right that's how we say why do we say the is the holy of holies yeah we should say to the the answer the is is is the it as it may that's why there's an emphasis on the but all of the and here we have have a for the rebuilding of the B mikdash why why are we ding for the B mikdash to be rebuilt specifically on chabas soim says one reason I want to show with you another reason Rim says that it has it's connected to shabas why was the destroyed says because of therefore uh we specifically asked for the rebuilding of the B mikdash on chabas but I would say there's another reason for that and that is we've we've said many times that part of greeting the chabas and part of embracing the chabas is embracing the because what chabas is in time the B is in place that's why the majority of the of are request for the rebuilding of the because the bikash is so to speak the shabas of place and chabas is the bikash of time so these are in a way synonymous Concepts and this is uh this is uh some of the interesting on K written by R Nara Rabbi in and later Chief Rabbi of Gaza and beem one day we should be able to go to his C have a good day everyone aabas I sent the rob a link there's an article today that a lieutenant colonel went to that mukim and send Kine that was his dream really yeah I sent the link to the r oh great it's still they didn't okay get the get the uh locals get the coordinates yeah coordinates