Shavuos: The Mystery of the Sambatyon, the 10 Lost Tribes, and the History of Akdamus Part 1

this torah class is brought to you by torahanytime.com okay what we're going to learn and delve into is a major topic it's not something that we'll cover in one sitting but at least let's begin and hopefully we could get some understanding of this subject matter um it will probably take us a number of sessions so let's jump right into the raging river of the topic we discuss and that is i'm sure as children um and and throughout the years we've heard about the well-known sombation river we know it's some kind of raging river where is it what is it is it real can we find it is it a symbolism we also learn about the ten lost tribes that um before the um gallows before the corbin about 130 years before the horbonne ghorban sanchez came he exiled the ten tribes where did they go did they come back where are they today can we find them nowadays in the in many of the jewish periodicals thank you very much um they talk about various swatim you have the binay moshe the menasha the israel the who are these people are they in fact jewish will the assassination return before and also we're going to discuss what this has to do with the appeal that we say on some [Music] well let us begin is there any mention on of this river in shas that's always the starting point of any any discussion on any subject it's a gemaran sanhedrin base where the kumar tells us about tornas rufus tonis rufus was the roman governor of arizona during the reign of hadrian and he asked many questions to rev akiva we have sheila zoo furnace rufus this question also turned us rufus he said why is this day better than any other day meaning referring to which day shabbos in other words what's so special about shabbos why do you choose treat shabbos so especially and how do you even know what it is like who's that maybe you lost cat one day on my loyster we keep saying um and why are you special than anybody else why are you different and how do you even know you're you i'm late to maritzavi the answer is my master desires me hadrian chose me adrian appointed me that's why i'm special so because that he's the officer he's the roman governor during the reign of the emperor agent i'm lay so tony surface says what i mean to say to you how do you know today is saturday fine saturday is special but maybe today's friday maybe it's sunday said i'll prove it to you we'll see what that means is only able to bring up the dead sunday through friday saturday it don't work and finally the grave of your father will demonstrate it why because the grave of your dead does not bring up the grave of your father's uh of your father does not produce smoke on chavez every day um tornas rufus's father's grave brought up smoke to indicate that he was being judged every day and shabbos it did not produce smoke so thomas rufus says back um basically you've named me but what does this mean what is but on saturday it's tranquil and it rests now rashi doesn't say it throws stones it could just be it's a raging river that in its course of rushing it shoots out stones because the racks and the stones in the water are are ejected just so you should know there are three mentions of this river in the midrash once in viruses rava parasiti once in the yakuchmani in voracious remedy and in all three instances there's one discrepancy that it has from the gemara and that is it's not the sabation but you know the way we're more familiar with the other discrepancy is just in the shock of atari here let's just read one of them straba turn this rufus harassing charlottesville um why is today's special malayalam government how are you special i'm out he said um tortoise rufus says i don't understand what we're talking about what did i say to you that you said this back to me in other words say that again it's not a response in other words what are you talking about how am i special you must not have gotten my question so how did you understand the people what i asked you so cuba said back you said to me my yummy i'm i am in other words how is different and i said to you and how are you different so eternal says the king wants to honor me um the mountains in other words the stones of the zambadion river will approve it says do you possibly intend to pull me along from something i cannot verify you're bringing me approved from sabachi you take me to the zambadion i'll see how it rages the whole week i'll see how it rests on shabbos and then that will be a proof that that there's something special about chaos don't bring me approved from some kind of legendary thing that that so far well the maarzav explains don't bring me a proof i'm saying that's so far away from civilization that you can't prove it right people when they want to um prove something that's not they they bring a proof from a double rock that you that's not verified this is the dimension of the samba in the sanhedrin as well as three places in the meadows where else is the samba mentioned it's mentioned two places in samiros of shabbos so for example there's one of the one of those mirrors we say of you take a look we say some kale they know so this is the sign that god placed between him and naysarah uva it's response to the apicarius that asks obviously a reference to turn the surface also in this mirrors of shabbos myofasc we say devour toy vlog there's a good sign with the man the oyster the amstigula yish peshkoitu interesting no mention anywhere is given where is this river rabikiva says will destroy from man their memory what is this referring to a martial so the ramban says that means god wanted to do that but he didn't shahadiyah harassing the father in other words had it not been the end of angry anger of the enemy my opinion is it's a compound word kash or his kirby in other words in my anger i said where are they i wanted to make it and nobody will know where they are god said i i made it i placed them in a way that will say where are they then nobody will know where the jews are shall you shall have shame but there'll be no remnant of them nobody will know where they are now what they're talking about when did god ever take jews and put them somewhere where nobody knows where they are this is a remiss to the exile of the ten tribes they were exiled in the hergothen [Music] removed so for example look in look at number nine when the navi talks about the exile of the assassination it says they were exiled to nahari then look at number nine vishnas hashias you know where he put them here's all we have i remember many years ago someone once answered victor miller where are the assassins he said where they are so know if he says where they are they're in and or a model whatever these places are that's where they are the policy we have it would have to have been under the territory that this guy was responsible for right it's not in africa or ever well ashore certainly was a world force as a world empire now god you is removed from civilization and why is it called sabation again the ramban gives it the same name as the gemura not like sabat shabbat the people who live in that area sabbath gamut they always make words yon like jews like to say million so we always like to add yon so therefore sabaa is after shabbos so where does some come from in arabic shabbos is sabat no no no ma'am oh the ma'am doesn't have the meme i don't know maybe we'll maybe we'll learn about it okay now there are two versions of the mara mccoy mice one is um the version you have over here and the updated version which which i don't even know if they got this year has um a different marimokum we're gonna do both um briefly and they both come from the safer called mikveh israel the mikveh straw was written by rabbi menasha ben israel one of the most interesting all-time jewish personages if you want to look at a picture of him can you show that i once gave this out many years ago three years ago well rabbi menachem in israel was born on the island of modera in portugal in 1604 he passed away in middleburg holland in 1657. he was born as a murano in portugal he was taken as an infant to amsterdam who answered them at the time was a very it was a haven for many muranos again think about the year this is a year 1604 you would think by then spain already cooled off no more than a century later after the inquisition his family was born to murano in portugal taken to amsterdam his family openly returned to faith and embraced the name and yes he studied under reviews of koziel and rabitsakuzil died two years later at the age of 18. the menacing israel was appointed the rabbi of this friday community shalom he received a very comprehensive secular education he's fluent in 10 languages he had great knowledge in medicine mathematics astronomy was very well read in classic literature and the writing of the early christian theologians it's written that cromwell that his interest in readmitting the jews to england was kindled by the attention of the impuritient circles to ramanash's work in other words when cromwell saw that the christian theologians were studying nash's work he and specifically his work called esperanka d israel he had a very interesting group of friends among which was rembrandt the national minister was very good friends with rembrandt who actually made an etching of ramanasha and he prepared the copper plates illustrating some copies of menasha's piedra gloriosa which was spanish work on the meaning of the buchanan statue so israel wrote a spanish work on the vulcan statue and the the illustration of it was prepared by rembrandt himself he founded the first jewish printing establishment in holland and he employed a new typeface which was a copied later by many european uh printing houses 1639 so three spider communities in amsterdam united to form congregation of the shalom and who was the rav rav shal martera a very well known god of israel he was the rep he's only 35 years old at the time right 1639 yeah yeah correct he was appointed the assistant wrote and ravinasha was only given a very minor appointment and he did not have adequate income and when a rambo doesn't have adequate income i'm out of there right he has to go he decides he's going to go to the new world he's going to come to america in 1640 he's about to make the long journey over the atlantic he wants to settle in purnam bukha where's pornambuca brazil which were taken over by the dutch was heavily jewishly populated already in 1640 and uh just then the new community uh engaged rabbits as rabbi in other words as the nationalists was about to go to parnambuca pranabuka calls the buhari with the assistant rabbi back in uh shalom so ramanasha was offered to be assistant rabbi in um and suddenly nash's financial problems were solved the pereira brothers founded eshiva ramanasha became the rush of shiva ramanash was very anxious to have jews settle in england because they had been expelled in what year 1290 the jews were expelled from england and menasha felt that the jewish people's return to england would be the last step before the coming mashiach he felt that before moshe comes the jews need to return to england why because only after the jews were scattered to the four ends of the world world would they be redeemed and therefore in israel published a safer species which was his preeminent work called mcveigh israel which were which were about to read a piece from now interestingly in uh he published this work in 1650. in 1650 he writes that the american indians were this is what i read were descendants of the assassination this is what i read it's printed in a very in in a reliable book [Applause] i don't know but somebody happened to call me up this morning who received the email of these mara mccoymice and told me they did research on assassination for 40 years when i told them this they said it's a mis it's a misreading of what ramanashvin israel writes that the american indians took him to a remote place where there were people who claimed to be descendants of the ancestors okay we'll have to look into that more now the new world was jewish um and it was the only barrier where um the fact that the only barrier to the to the european countries that were barred out of there anyway this work mcphee israel raised a lot of interest among the christian protestant theologians especially among their puritans because there was an english preface and in the english preface there was an address made to the parliament exhorting the members to consider the jewish readmission to english foreigner yes now one interesting thing and actually been israel rights you can look this up in paris tesla mcveigh you swirl it you can look it up it's on hebrew books he writes that meshiach comes the first jews who are going to be redeemed are the jews of america okay he wrote this in 1650 so the first jews who are going to be why because the pastor says it says south america which america i don't know which america he meant because he was going to brazil i think he meant actually you know the this america he said like this because there's a passage he says islands will gather to me tarshish will come first and says in israel tarshish is america the targum shivam says tarshish is kartika where's kartika it's in north i think they're in north africa anyway 1655 ramanujan israel travels to england he brings with him his pamphlet titled 65 yep can you say he died in no 1657. 1655 he travels to england he brings with a new pamphlet called humble address to the lord protector outlying his argument to allow jews to settle in england river nash was deceived very cordially and alvaro cromwell actually gave him audience and he agreed to him stopping short of granting his plea however um because of the public opinion in the following year england declared war against spain and the rich and poor muranos were in big trouble because they were spanish officially of spaniard descent and the only way they were able to set to to remain safe in england was to proclaim themselves the jews and actually england declaring war on spain is what these allowed these jews to publicly come out that they were jews and not spaniards okay so basically a year later because of the war of england and spain cromwell allowed the jews to stay on a temporary basis not until 1753 where jews are granted english citizenship [Music] left england he left england after audience with cromwell broken penniless and feeling he hadn't accomplished anything and his son uh this was intensified by the fact that his son shmuel passed away on the second day of rosh hashanah menasha sailed with his coffin to holland so soon after his arrival he himself passed away at the age of 53 and he was well known as a great orator and let me share with you one thing that he writes and then we'll have to pick it up hashem um after yamdib let's take a look at in my version number 11 but you don't have it on yours something that ramanashev and israel writes about the sabbation over because by the way he was very interested in finding the ancestor so if you look in number 11 and for six days the sand was flying around the cup the sand could not rest for six days and on shabbos the sand stopped this is the testimony of menashem in israel the anika mohicken and i will also testify that he's saying this is what someone told him he said that my father told me and he says my father wouldn't lie to me he says a father to lie straight out to his son it's impossible he told me many times that in lisbon i guess what was the match to start doing in lisbon right ramanasha was born in portugal he said that in lisbon there was a black man shahadiyah he had a glass full of sand and he went every area of shabbos to the street in the street it was called ravana i wonder if that has to do with shalom which you jews and he would say close your stores they would say huh and he would say how to take a look at the glass take out the glass and the sand which was moving suddenly stopped and the jews got fried and they all closed their stores right so he saw another black man with the glass boss and he would go in front of the masks and while all them were bowing on the friday he would just stand there with the glass with the and then all of a sudden and the the guard would come by he said what are you doing and he got very angry at the black man he said you're doing the wrong thing because you're strengthening the belief of the jews without you we would he said you're you're questioning you're questioning the faith of it in other words you're doing something wrong you're you're strengthening the the belief of the jews are we saying that this is like an african river because these were people that came from africa oh i don't know he says says israel i believe this is not the only nest that god performed for the ten shavating but rather hashem performed for them many many miracles and let me just share with you one other thing one other interesting halachic point and we'll hold it over here the zarua brings the famous shailah do you wear it fill in on halamoid or do you not wear it so he brings an amazing thing he says you know what i have a great way to find out whether you should wear a tool and or not river if it's violent then you know taka it's violent on holland you need to wear its villain and if it rests on hollowed then you know you shouldn't wear no you didn't say anything until now that the sambaccio rested on the any day other than shabbos i thought it was going to rest on it so it seems like um according to this arrested and it seems according to this this might be a good way to find out whether in fact you should wear its phonak so if anybody finds out about where the location is river please let us know mr tashem at the yum i wish you a kind question you've just experienced another torah class brought to you by torahanytime.com