The Yahrtzeit of the Rambam, Rabbeinu Moshe Ben Maimon — כ' טבת

okay good morning everyone today is the 19th day of T but tonight is the 20th day of T is the art side of the rambam we're going to speak in a we'll have a separate clip on today sh is dedicated by my dear friend Dr Galia Schwarz of norol Virginia who is been a partner in the harb for over a decade and if any now mans WhatsApp groups there are many WhatsApp groups how many are there seven eight seven eight WhatsApp groups there are hundreds if not thousands of people on it if anybody wants to join the groups go to our site rabid dg.com and your life will never be the same so okay so we're going to speak a little bit about the Ramba it's very interesting that the brings down in the that the rambam considered his rebi the remash which is not really accurate you should know when the ram saysa says Reb he doesn't mean he learned by the rash because the ram was only seven years old when the rash passed away however the brings down elsewhere that in the the brings in the that the ramb kissed the hand of the remash and everything he was to in was for kissing the hand of the and our good friend Dan M he's the descendant of the rambam right something like that M I mean you know they don't that's not my I don't have you know if your name is m that's that's a pretty good sign okay so the ramam says that um brings down in the that he was to all of his God because he kissed the hands of the r now the rambam writes about the remash in his to the the knowledge of inal is astounding is frightening to think about what the knew the ra says is frightening I had this the summer to be at the cemetery where the remash is buried in Spain also the Riff is buried there now there's a very famous uh Maxim you ever hear that anybody here namea any M over here you ever hear the expression your name is Yehuda right m hosha wow wow you mosha come here well afterwards afterwards I have something for what does it mean simply it means from the time of no one was as great as him in learning I read an article last night byel that the phrase has been applied to many many since at least a doz many many but says there's a deep Secret in this phrase by the way the brings it and that is from the time of until the r you will not find any tanaa or who was called M it's such a common name it's what the most common name from m until the r we don't know anyone who is named that's what the secret that the brings of now I want to tell you something many years ago R Schwarz got me a sa it's called Ty of the and I knew there was a is in it and I can never find it I even I was going to bring in the English book where this R appears but I figured since G is coming this morning maybe I'll give it one more try and I found it okay you ready for this REM of the ran okay the ramban says that every person sad or Russ isum in the we know the student of the ran was a man by the name of a who went off the D and a asked the ran where is my name in the T and said in the the third letter of these words is anner meaning it was a remz that anner would uh be destroyed and he went up to the roof and that was the end of him he he jumped off so they say in the name of the ramban that the ran isum and why coming up yud mosha you know them two weeks it's going to be par and and you know that there's a you know the rambam was named after mha right so there's a rem to why it says okay fine because we know first of all he lived in m and the says he thinks this is in the I'm not sure about that but there it does not quote it from the ran fine so says let's make the following scientific experiment let's take the words let's go to the words skip 49 letters from the me of you get the skip 49 letters you get the of skip 49 letters you get the of now skip 613 letters you get tough skip 49 letters you get a v skip 49 letters you get a r skip 49 letters you get a he mishna so the remes to the rambam of L man r that's R from the me of you skip 49 49 49 M skip 613 T so you say why do you skip 613 the answer is RA says the Mish is explaining the 613 Mitzvah so that's a to the RA in the ofce Mand that's amazing no doctors we have the r yeah in the but we're not finished okay I'm going to tell you another remes but before we do that does anybody know the last words and I'm tell I I've said this on Friday but this is just by way of introduction to where we're going now the last words that y ever said y was talking to his children and he's saying please bury me in the there I buried Abraham there I there Abraham buried Sarah there his there Abraham buried Sarah his wife there y buried Rifka his wife and there I buried Leia but it doesn't say that Leia was his wife isn't that interesting it says there AB buried sah his wife there y buried Rifka his wife there I buried Leia so Dr said why doesn't it say that there I buried Leia my wife cuz he's talking to he needs y to take care of this he has to be very sensitive not to refer to Leia right as his wife and simply rash always says right and then says you know what this the is it's those are his final eight words so does anybody know what year did pass away so let's make a simple the Y left in the year 2 448 AB was born in 1948 500 years later we received the T they went down to M 210 years earlier in the year 210 years before 2448 is 2238 y lived in M for 17 years that means he passed away in the year 2355 the G of the last that says m 2355 the exact year that he died that's from the son of okay fine so with that introduction there is a teaching from the V the V says the number of su in the T something like 5,800 and change correspond to the years of the world's existence the ram was born in the year 95 the Raman was born in the year 4895 let's go to the 4,895 Moses began to explain the T 4,895 the the beginning of and I would humbly add why because the r was a descendant of so so I'm going tell you a little story in the year 1978 R was invited by theila in Spain to inaugurate Yesa in Madrid and in that context rad ysf was invited to meet King Juan Carlos who is a A very wise King he lived from 1975 to 2014 and then he abdicated to his son Felipe rabad respected King Juan Carlos greatly not only as a world Monarch but also as a very wise man and R had a dilemma upon seeing King Juan Carlos he knew he should make the that you make on a world Monarch who has the power of life and death but he also held he was a very wise man and they should make the so wanted to know should he make two separate or should he make one it's recorded in P that he should combine both into one and you should say the Juan Carlos to and this is recorded in the of Ron Carlos is there a difference between Ash and or is it like a different religion good question no every we all want to ask that question also but we don't have the gods but Ron Carlos wanted to know is ashkanazi Andi different religions you know are they like denominations of you know or is it the same religion says the exact same thing the only differences in minor ritual discrepancy by the way rabad writes that when we entered the palace it was very hot and we just came off the plane and my Ritson who is r rebon rebit Margalit she was white she was famished and the queen saw that she was famished she got out of her throne and you if you know in Spain they have these Big W um buildings with Windows on the top and you need to take a stick and lift up the window and the queen got off the throne and opened up the window for re say it was a of the Queens will serve us that was n when the queen of Spain served my wife fine then King Juan Carlos said to to your people 500 years ago when we kicked your people out of Spain and you should know in the process of the uh Inquisition many Jews went to Amsterdam in Holland and they were accepted there in open arms and that's where the very first Bible was published printed says W Juan Carlos I have the copy of the first Bible ever ever published I learn it every single day and now Juan Carlos as the best K I ever heard in my life Carlos how many live in Israel today so said is a very generic term Jews from B from Egypt from irao from Syria from Yemen from Russia from the Balkans they're all so at this point King Juan Carlos asked an amazing question why would you call a Jew from Yemen fi he was never in Spain in his whole life why would you call a Jew from Syria aardi why would you call a Jew from Egypt AI not they're not Spaniards why are we calling every Jew who's not ashkanazi a Spaniard it has nothing to do with Spain they were never there their ancestors were never there this was such a good Kasha R published the Kasha in his saer says an answer which is such says we know that is different than any other Nation all other nations have a common land a Common Language but the Jewish people we are defined not by our not by our language not by our land but by our toyra says rabad any Jew who accepted upon himself the authority of the rambam is aardi is a Spaniard because the definition of a Jew your identity is who do you learn Tyra from if you accept the rambam you're a Spaniard King Juan Carlos was beaming that Jews all over the world call themselves Spaniard because they're Mel the authority of the ram so a Jew from Yemen and Taman they go back to Ram straight nobody else so they're Spaniards then King Juan Carlos gave rabad a cross and ra wrote a cha that it's m to keep and a cross is not AAR because it's just a symbol many years later Raba had um very bad joint pains and other and other difficulty in the Misha so his wife brought in a Mel to check the Maas and they checked the Maas and the Mel said do you have AAR in the house said get out of here you're an impostor you're a charlatan you don't even know a BL gamar I don't have arthritis because I have the cross the cross is m i have arthritis because I learned Tyra as a kid in a wet basement do you know a black gar he tested him the guy didn't know black he threw him out and he called him we'll leave it at that so don't be a spoil from uh charlatans anyway that was uh one of my favorite stories okay um what else we have on the rambam the rambam was born in Spain he was born in Cordova his father then had to run away to Fez he did not they didn't have safe haven in Fez and they came to by the way the the ramen was born on ER of pesak in 11:35 they didn't have a safe haven there and uh they had they came to Earth Israel ultimately the ram went into a business deal a partnership with his brother David who was a merchant and um David supported the rambam however David went on a business trip to India and his ship was lost at sea and the ramam fell into a very great uh state of morose and depression where he couldn't get out of bed for an entire year um upon his new reality that he didn't have support that's when the ramban became a doctor he didn't serve as a doctor all he was forced to because he didn't have livelihood um at that point he describes his daily schedule where he would work most of the day for the sultan and he would come home at night and he literally had no strength at all left um and really it's amazing that the rambam was able to produce what he did Legend has it that the ramam was ultimately buried in Taria and that is a major topic what evidence there is that he's buried in Taria but uh those are now sh we do something else my great-grandfather was a talent of rabish mikuta rabish mutna was one of the great in Poland one of the sharpest Minds in Poland Rik and my great-grandfather's name was P Goldman he was the ofik wrote a Mal okay it's a commentary on the r in the of yeshu Mal he brings why do I call the sa yesu Mal with the word m he says if you notice most of the perim on the RAM have the word m in it why is that says cuz if you look in the arizal the Aral says the rambam had the of the now Shu was a doctor in is called was called me therefore all the the r have the word because the ramb was the Gil of who was a doctor who is known as me alasar so uh many years ago I saw in the writings of the T he says that if you look there's a difference between the rashba and the r and I was afraid to say this over because the Bima brings that if you look at a rashba you can't ask any questions on the rashba it's solid it's like Ironclad there no there no weak points so to speak but on the rambam so many questions and the reason for that he says is that the Raja learned with Tam so everything was ironed out like a thousand times but the rambam was on his own and this is what the B writes and I was very scared to say this over because how could you say anything that even Intimates that there's any at all in the so I spoke to the I asked him am I allowed to say this over so he said you could say it over in the following that of course there are no weak points in the rambam we Pas like the the r is one of the three Amud but why does it seem like to us that there's so many questions on the rambam and the Raja it's like you know the reason it seems that way to us is the process that the that the ram was put to paper did not go through the same procedure as a r but but of course the of the r is uh one of the anyway that's how the advis that we could say this over okay don't go anywhere you