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Alhambra okay how is that and I want to
just explain a little bit of the Jewish
significance before that we have to know
of one of the great Jewish personalities
of all time was
from the generation of the first three
shinim okay this is very important who
were the first three rishinam there's a
lot of misconception about them some
people say the base you always says it
was earlier the first generation of
reshanyam was
these are the first three reasons born
in Cordoba in 993. he starts off he is
educated in religious matters he's
educated in secular studies he's a
student of Hanoi was one of the
arbashvuyan his son was
his student there's a Civil War in
Cordova in 1012.
Sulaiman was Victorious so shmal hanagar
has to run away he comes to Malaga so
here's the story about Hiroshima Rose in
power nugget is a shopkeeper with many
rabbanim
they're very good Statesmen politician
but they can't make a buck so shmulhan
nugget is an unsuccessful store keeper
but he's a great writer the visor is
writing letters for the sultan
meanwhile
the advisor got got wind that schwannaga
is a very good writer so he used shmula
Nugget's skills he took shmulhan nugget
he took shmuel you know here he slipped
him a few bucks and Schmo Hana gets
secretly was the writer for the sultan
the sultan never knew the visor is on
his deathbed the sultan comes the sultan
says
you're about to die who's gonna write
for me so the visor spills the beans it
wasn't me it was Samuel
so small is promoted and now he becomes
a nugget he becomes the great Nasi
there's a lot of jealousy from the Arabs
that this Jew is rising up in power
everyone calls him the Jews call him
IBN nagdila
now the king at the time was King shabas
he dies in 1037.
I know you can't imagine such a thing
but now there's contention among the two
sons who should take over to be the king
sided with badis the older son but he
was a Das yahar but this wrestles away
control of the kingdom and now shemal
hanagid is ascending in power because
he's the only one who had the foresight
that the Bahar would be successful he's
appointed
commander-in-chief of Granada
he's commander-in-chief he builds a
palace this area is the Palace of
but this is a self-indulgent king he
doesn't know if he's coming he doesn't
know if he's going
became the most powerful individual in
this entire region
in that capacity he opens up a big
tamilik Academy he's very wealthy he
sends money to bavel he funds the
Babylonian yeshivas of Surah and
pompadisa he opens up a tremendous
Library
and he becomes the first generation of
all the rishan who is a very tolerant
person here we'll conclude with one
story before he rose to great power and
he's writing for the sultan somebody one
of the Arabs once insulted so the the
sultan said I give you permission cut
off his tongue
small nugget said I will do that a
little while later they're passing by
the Arabs house and the Arab comes
running out and he heaps Praise on
shmalanagan and the sultan says I
thought I told you to cut off his tongue
and schmohanaga said I did I sent him a
gift and his bad tongue was transformed
to a good tongue so indeed I did cut off
his tongue now he fought all the wars as
general commander-in-chief of the
granadan force but from the battlefield
he always sent messages to his children
sending them lessons inquiring about
what they're learning he was also a
paragon educator and father his son
takes over raviah now
so you know when you become a katanim
you become connected in ways you never
would have thought imaginable
so
is as wise as his father his problem was
he grew up in wealth so he never learned
the political skill of how to defuse his
enemies and those who are jealous of him
started off poor so he was always
sensitive maybe people are jealous of
him the son grew up in wealth and
therefore he had many enemies one day
the Arabs Got so angry they stormed his
house on Shabbos they brutally murdered
him and now he has an Amana he has a
yasim and they run off and they run to
Lucina where we're headed okay Lucina in
Lucena is
he wants the groom Azaria the son of
yaha to be the next leader of claudi
Israel they had a lot of Hope for him
nebuch this boy died at 12 years old and
that was the end of the dynasty of the
hanagit family so this is the purported
area of the actual Palace of the most
prominent Jew perhaps in the last 1000
years
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