Shavuos: The Mystery of the Sambatyon, the 10 Lost Tribes, and the History of Akdamus Part 2

this torah class is brought to you by torahanytime.com okay good morning today is going to be part two in the series of the mystery of the sambalion and finding the ten lost tribes um we mentioned something interesting from the arzarua from who brings down uh a dimension of the sabarian that could actually have halachic ramifications and that is um we say in this mirrors of shabbos and we saw in the gemaran sanhedrin base as well as in many midrashim as well as menashevan israel mentioning that there were people over the years who had containers of the sand of the samhain you know that during the week the sambanian was volatile well this may make enough because we know there's a the well-known shyla whether you put on filin in on chalamet or not well now we would have a conclusive way of figuring out whether in fact you should wear its phone or not all you need to do is go to the zambadion if it's volatile then you know you need to put filling on and if it rests then you shouldn't where it's filling so this actually this uh journey and this adventure can actually spell ramifications so now let me tell you about something quite amazing and that is one of the original reporters of the somalian after the times of the midrish was a fascinating figure a 9th century traveler whose name was eldad hadani eldad zadanite and elda came and he made various travels so for he actually had two famous travels um [Music] he he traveled two times the first time he went to egypt and then he went he crossed the ethiopian river in the year he was then in bavel from there he went to barbaria africa north africa and his travels and his records created quite a stir some question the validity of his reports some say they were complete fabrications but as we're going to see many of the reshundum took him very seriously including the ballet isis and surprisingly there are ptosis and shots that quote him and you wouldn't even know it and that's what we're going to uh uh get involved in a little bit now this eldar hadani claimed that he was a meuca going back all the way to none other than done so for example if you turn over to page four all the way at the end of this he says so he claimed direct descent from dunn we're talking 9th century now he came with some of the most fantastic unbelievable in every sense of the word reports so let's read some of his reports but not only reports he came back with halachas but what's interesting about his where he claimed to be from shaiba dan he claimed to know me he came to be he claimed to be from sheida dun and he claimed to know the whereabouts of shiva naftali and he came back with halachic reports now amazingly if let's take a look on page two the left-hand column on the third paragraph he had a version of shas but he his shots was different than our shots very different because we're talking about four swatins that were exiled 130 years before corbin madison shine that means wherever they were exiled to they didn't know about no purim no hanukkah they didn't know about any tanoem forget no no ammo they didn't know that ancient glasses why were they they were exiled by the uh melancholy 130 years before with the assassins just them but these four but he was aware of the whereabouts of for them and their talmud if you would have brought them to me i would have said what and i wouldn't even deal with that i won't even use it i wouldn't even feel the need to argue on it and yet we're going to see elder hadani wrote a safer called israel which is quoted in many toy susan um so for example in the left hand column on the third paragraph their talmud was very fine hebrew no rabbis mentioned like this is what he said so we learned from yeshua from moshe from hashem and we're going to see some of the fantastic halachas that he said so take a look in the middle middle column second paragraph now basically when his reports came the jews were very incredulous they did not believe some of the things he said and they they brought the shiloh to going one of the early go in him say who is this guy do we need to accept what he says do we do we believe him is he do we need to excommunicate him how do we deal with it so they they write to rep a absurd person has become a guest among us usher and where did they go to sham hakaduma and you know what they do over there but don in by then they judge the four skelos three for harrigan and the hollam they sit in tents the noise them they and they fight they fight with their enemies not with each other they fight with their enemies listen to this yeah they fight with ethiopian kings and he goes on to describe exactly what type of wars they wage and what kind of uh who fights the wars and how people would fight for three months and then when they're done other people will take them over a whole description i don't want to get into that look at the next paragraph yes they have all of hamish but the empire and magilla esther they'd only in megillah yeah they were not part of that miracle they whole body of law in shame there is no sage now listen to this very quickly so why weren't they included in the ice now they are just never got to pass through zambation that's what it says now listen to this next column third paragraph this is what he told us you saw the bible the jews went up to baba oh yeah so far so good the chasm then went to the sons of much now who are the names exactly the livium um and the kazdam who are the kazdam the chaldeans of babylonians they said right sing for us the songs of zion um they shattered they they cut off their thumbs they said oh it's voice imma haleem with their tents that sainam uvakaram a cloud came along and deposited the levites on the other side of the sambatyan now again he said who's on the other side don naphtali now the first part of the story everybody knows it's a puzzle it's a perk the hill him but now he's saying a cloud came along lifted up all the levies and deposited them in kabila now you know you have gamoras and sharks then when ezra wanted to come back to the to to buy shami he looked for the levium and he couldn't find them so he can ask them well now we know why they didn't come back they couldn't get out they could they couldn't cross the somebody else they were gone and they obviously reappeared on yehudah we knew but if they were with all the others struck them how do they appear today i don't know we don't know anybody or anybody else i don't know but this put me over the top i mean here you have this guy coming and i'm a big skeptic when it comes to stories somebody um once told me that he heard from victor miller ninety percent of stories are not true and even this story that i'm telling you that someone told me it's also you know he didn't tell me either and you love nah i don't like stories i don't like stories i don't sense i'm a kid i do not pay attention to stories any time ask me something my review taught me i'll remember a story i tune out i don't i don't accept stories it's not gemara is not a story tomorrow's with me saying that a cloud came along in the positive level i don't know but we're going to see void there's a big earthquake also and that morning they saw a great army and the army came along and they took the river the haste of hamas are they diverted the river sha girl of that rolls on stones that an army came along and took this sambal that wasn't there and put it there in other words the cloud deposited the banane and then an army came and sort of barricaded them with a river that shot stones this is all part of his report yeah and from that time on that river i died the army did not put water there and that river shoots stones for six days a week and rests on shabbos and when shabbos comes the cloud descends and you can't approach it until montes and guess what the name of the river is you got it we some places in that river are only 60 animals wide and they sit on one side and we sit on the other side and we talk to each other across the river and over there there are no wild animals and they're no bad the hey mice and they're no they're no uh mosquitoes and it's just a good place to be hungry who are they i guess on the other side of salvador it's just a really pleasant place so if you want to plan a vacation some bathroom tours right here you're right you heard it here first okay this is north africa that's where they marie said it was i don't know now listen to this in the first version of the um of the stories of uh eldar hadani when this question was posed to rav going says like this what's the problem what exactly have a hard time believing he says i mean if you have brought this to me i would have said uh i don't know what you're talking about no going says he says on the fourth paragraph on the third sheet at i'm on page three the first column the third paragraph that begins with ibne yeah summer he's saying the truth has that's what happened i'm thinking to myself what do you mean that's what happened the matter says all the matter says is they bit off their thumbs what's this thing with the cloud depositing them on the other side of the sambatyan but going says exactly as rave eldar said so we have to say where'd he get this from look in the um the paragraph that begins the autism the autism don't wonder about the differences and the discrepancies that you hear from him the babylonian scholars the scholars of israel they learn the same ishna and they argue on each other ain't possible and they don't take away what it says so it's not it's not a question why all that has different than you're used to different are going to derive at different conclusions aye but some of the things he says are a little bit far out there for yay schleimer he says in the middle of the paragraph either certain things that are a little off look you tried traveling to ethiopia on the blazing sun we'll see how confusing you get mine was a little bit effective yeah so obviously he's a legitimate source and his stories are true and his alohas are a couple of things look he was probably very thirsty he was very hot and his mind was slightly affected by the travails of travel so maybe that's why there's some discrepancies but everything he says is basically ms so that was a little bit shocking to me that he would give him such legitimacy but maybe even more surprising the fact that cannot all the resigners quote him really where take a look at number 15. reputable source yeah it's one of the one of the guy the first toy system everyone i mean everyone it means everyone right doesn't everyone mean everyone everyone in the means men women children are women [Applause] israel it's written in the laws in the book called lost israel because their mind are easy weak but we'll we'll translate it in a more delicate way calories is coming easy correct quick light like kalkanesha light swift you know we're not as we're not as quick as them so we have more we could be more deliberate but in any event it says in this in the hillcrest eretz israel that women cannot shout everybody say what in the world is she's not in there what's safer what in the world is israel well comes the hidden in the shame hacked islam israel is number 14 he came from the 10 tribes in the times of the i'll tell you a little story in 1910 stories 1910. my stories are true in 1910 a man appeared dressed like a bedouin and he comes to an arab and he says take me to the jews so the arab goes go to peta he goes to peta he comes right back to the arab he says there's no jews here everyone here is christians that's what he told me you have to speak to them so he speaks to them kodesh he realizes they're jews they said they asked him why do you think they were christians he said i never saw jew without a beard before i figured they must have been uh neutral nobody knows who this guy is they say where you come from there's 1910. i can't say i got lost in my travels he said where could i go to learn kabbalah they took him to yeshiva now yeshiva and the other was the father of shamaz they are the founders of the great kabbalah one of their first talmudim was frank and they took this man to the yeshiva and it was determined that he was from the assassin who had traveled and got lost he somehow he made it back from wherever he was originated from and he told them that he came to hasten the gula he spent the rest of his life doubting at various kevarim and learning kambala 1910 but we're going to see a little bit before that what happened so now here we have hill clay starts to soil quoted by toy swiss now the elder haddon is hoskins that women cannot shout do we follow that it says that anyone who's puzzled to shaft is only with the evidence um the gemara asked but we know they're allowed so twice this quotes the safer of elder adani and he argues on it now you tell me if if eldar hadani is have no authenticity and no basis you think twices would quote it you think twice this would say oh it says in hell this and this and i feel like that but this would never say i read in the comic book says like this and i i say there's no such thing as a superman superman never existed all right well of course not this is not quoting nonsensical sources the fact that he quotes hillary's throne argues on it means that he gives it a certain degree of credence but tesla's doesn't mention he just quotes the safer right correct now he did not write to say for help says because the title of sarah's destroyer is a very generic title that i mean could a swarm about the luck of the right style couldn't could have been written by many of the top ah so more than one safer called what's here it's israel well first of all you have the hida khida's telling you that the safe hazards israel that's mentioned in texas in the beginning of hulen are for that but we'll see in other we shine him where they say exclusively that this is a safer from alderaan for example the mordechai look at number 16. the mordechai in the beginning of khulin on the words hako nera hadleigh so here we have uh black and white that this is the halal whether a kaya whether an if it's piglet and you can't shakth until you daven first and if you don't make a bracha on the shirt is piggle and if you're not wearing clothing it's piggle and if you're a shooker it's piggle if you're not wearing a yamaka it's piggle and if you're soiled with shikh razar it's piggle a novel that shocks piggle a woman who shocks an old man who sharks no you can't eat it says the mordechai what do i have to say about these you know i was in a i was in a a nursery school and i heard some kids talking and they said you know to eat jelly beans on tuesdays it says toy says hmm i disagree that's just the hum of alma but we're not annoying like that obviously not but the fact that the mordechai is quoting and saying we're not annoying that way means that it's some somewhat credible but it's not it's something that we don't follow so the fact that all these we shine inside it means that it has some significance even the vilna going even the ville nagoyan in his commentary to the siddhar the abnayal yahoo and the bracha tikka the shofar godol even the vilnigan comments you know this rock has three feathers in it the sun is the cabins we have three parts so who are these three parts referring to says the going israel there have been three exiles echoed one exile ah behind the dark mountains the achar and the other one were scattered to the four ends of the world so who is but in the dark mountains who's on the other side of the sambayan and who are on the fourth sides of the world asera the ten tribes they are behind the mountains of darkness um and on the other side of the river um because they were exiled hundreds of years before yes they are free me kamameo sanum for hundreds of years and they have kings and when meshiach comes first the aseras tashwatan will be redeemed and only then you hear them in yemen how do i know it sounds like this is firstly those who are exiled by asher will be reading and those who are cast away they are smith's crime everywhere else then they will come in a and says the going this is the meaning of to cabba forgotten those are are the ones who are behind the mountains of darkness they have heroes to capture are those on the other side of the sambal by the way it says the going you know which river the sambanian is the ganges what how do you know a few pictures big room pictures of the river cows in it people bathing what okay so interestingly degra writes that the um the gullos of the assassination in michael is referred to the silla that cilla are the crippled ones why are they shut them called the crippled ones because we have two legs to stand on what are the two legs we stand on these guys they only stand on one leg therefore they're crippled they don't have the target so we see that the safer elder adani is reckoned with however on the other hand not everybody is so favorable toward the safer elder hadani for example and if you would have asked me if i had to guess who would be more skeptical of the safer elder adani i would probably guess the ibn ezra and in fact the evanezera says that we do not have to accept anything reported in the safer el dorado look at number 18 is i that says differently in a book called says even ezra don't believe that book oklahoma let me tell you the following shalom any book that the prophets did not write and did not write from tradition do not rely on it especially because there are things in here in these books that insult the intellect for example seifer's rhubarb l anyone here ever hear of sabres rubble also the book elder adani you do not have to rely on it it is not compelling so even ezra does not you reckon with that book when when the when was the event it was four right for the goal after the gauntlet so now the fact that the you know some are going for example who's somebody you normally think you could rely on so supportive of uh look refsema gone didn't say we passed it like el dorado he just said you know you don't have to throw him out of town you don't have to excommunicate him and you don't have to think of him as a heretic or a disbeliever but even as they're just saying you don't have now i'll i'll i'll take it the other way will even ezra ever write about some kind of nonsensical book you know this book don't rely on this book it's it's not obviously the fact that he even entertains the possibility we're relying on it but he wants to and it must have it must have credibility right it must have some significance but not not to rely on in a with as a torah source by the way the marami ruthenberg also writes about the elder adoni he said the things some of the things he wrote leloy davar were written for naught is a shasmaraam 19. but let me let me tell you one thing and this really sort of shocked me and uh that is the story that albert had only reported about the levium i mean that that really bothered me because everybody knows the levine bit off their thumbs but that a cloud came along and lifted them up i mean that sounds a little bit especially anytime somebody wants to make up a story you don't just make up a story out of the blue it's always based on a true story right you take a story and that everybody knows and then you just embellish it a little bit so but then you also have the issue with them are here today we knew who they are they would then be the only group as far as we know of the uh schwarten plus the levine that are that kids today so how did they get back well those levine if they were over with the other schweppen the levium that bit off their thumbs were the older olivium who used to play in the base of mikdash the younger livium they didn't bite off their thumbs it happens to be the younger livium they weren't picked up by the clouds they did not go back to art israel they didn't want to possibly not but rabbi said where does the story come from and lo and behold there's a targum well opposite all of your nation i will make a separation when is when you are in captivity like i'm going to remove you i'm going to remove you from there they shrink in la gavel and somebody and i'm going to put you on the other side of the sambal you will then be separated you're not mixed with the nations of the world gives us the missing piece of information that we only knew from el dorado that it wasn't only that they bit off their thumbs but in fact somehow miraculously god elevated them and remove them and put the levine on the other side of the sabbath even the ones that didn't bite over there but but here here this incred seemingly incredulous story that uh eldar adani seem to have invented no this is already well documented from target minister that there was something supernatural that occurred to those levine that they were elevated and they were removed and they were taken to the other side of the conference wow that's pretty good that's pretty good confirmation one that seems to buy it no that that's what senate going said that what happened to the vm is exactly as reported by eldar haddadi so that's that was very uh remarkable to me that this story that seems so unbelievable is actually documented in target tomorrow we're going to learn about other sightings and reports from the other southern sambayon and mr jean will learn what this has to do with the pier of akdamos and even though this is after shivuas but it's certainly something very interesting okay everybody say have a great day you've just experienced another torah class brought to you by torahanytime.com