The Chida Part 1 - History and Origins of the Azulai Family

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here on the so we're going we're good then after that we're going okay that's how it works if you want to join us that's march 3r to March fth first ever Yak kala in Miami uh we have amazing uh topics about morality and ethics in Warfare very interesting subject okay here we go lived an amazing life a remarkable life he lived from 1724 to 1806 he was one of the most prolific writers great Travelers and Pim and his farm range the full gamut of of possible subjects from to he wrote he wrote he wrote encyclopedias how did he do so much how is it possible there's a there's an account of something like 71 and some have even more than that so there's one line in the actually there's a biography on the that retki wrote and he opens with this line and I always think about this line when I think about the in which is also an amazing little sa I started learning marah this year it had a very big has me tells you the right kavana to have at every part of the day so for instance what to think about when you're walking to shakas literally a few maybe two dozen different things what to think about when you walk into a every time you walk into a you think the following three things I'm being Mitzvah of I'm being the of of two different things they have a of the place and awe of the one who resides there and you ask Hashem for permission to come in so right then and there you just three thing you walk into you're three MIT every time you walk into how to say you know there's a there's a whole sh are you supposed to say it um with all of your or all of your strength so I like to say if you actually said with all your they would carry you out you they would institutionalize you I mean do do people actually say people make believe you know how you could scream much louder than that we know that we have it on video you know there you could scream louder than that so why so says what does it mean it means you rev yourself up as if you're gonna say it when you say many in his talks about what to do on chabas chabas is a very busy day you know between the sud and the and being and all the Li and you also want to rest how do you fit everything in has a line this is my favorite says someone who doesn't waste the time there's time forever that's like you know to me the encapsulates maybe in a way the life of the now the wrote maybe one of my favorite far in Lazar laar he's in quarantine when he came to Italy they when you come to a new country they lock you up for 40 days so he was on a boat for 40 days no SP no computer from memory he listed in alphabetical order the names of all the G whoever lived before him and the name of all the that were ever written for his time in alphabetical order so we're talking about right now could you 50 you know and what does it talk about them it's it list the storm they wrote the times they lived in the years they lived what what their life was like in very brief uh in a very brief comments and one may ask what's the of the just to it's basically an encyclopedia it's a telephone book like what's the what's the purpose of such a sa so in one of the earliest editions of the sh it came with the Mal and the Mal gives a imagine you're famished you're tired you're walking through a country without without any provisions without any of travel and you're hungry you're thirsty you're tired and you're you encounter an orchard and you come into the Orchard and they're Lush grapes you bite into them they're juicy they're delicious they energize you and then there's wine sitting around and there sandwiches I'm now I'm adding to the musle the sandwiches not musel that's my addition so in case you look it up and says M didn't say sandwiches I'm letting you know now and it's comfortable and there's food and there's drink and it's set up for your enjoyment and rest and delight and then naturally you're sort of wondering hey who did this for me who planted this Orchard who set up the grapes who set up the wine who set up the hammock for me to rest so you ask someone and uh you know who made this Orchard who set it up huh what question that we don't no we don't ask that question say does anybody know no nobody knows did anybody ask no nobody interested it would be an embarrassment how isn't it instinctive that if somebody does you such a big favor and someone gives you such a great gift you want to know who's my benefactor so says the Mal you know we come we sit down in front of a gamar so we know there's somebody Rashi and there's somebody t but who's the who's the who's who's who's the who's the beer on the who's the Mitzvah who who are all these ma that set everything up for us well I don't know what's the difference I'll just I'll just learn what it says you don't want to know who they are you don't even their names are not even known if I would say their name right now nobody would know who they are how could you allow these names to fall into disuse says the Mal the most basic obligation of someone who receives the benefit is at least you want to know who is my benefactor so the basic obligation of a Jew is you need to know the the the elementary information about The Who Lived before us who gave us the sparm that we learn the that we say and this is what the Mal uh writes in his to the and this idea of the Mal this philosophy of the Mal we want to apply to the himself because the basically took hundreds and hundreds of names of that nobody ever heard of and he took them out of the Ash and he brought them to life so I want uh I would like to try tonight to uh to give ourselves a familiarity with the and his family background and the that lived before him and were associated with him and maybe we'll we're GNA speak about the possibly um a few weeks and let us begin with most people when they hear everybody knows we're gonna talk about where that name comes from and where that name does not come from perhaps you've heard the name AB you ever hear AB you go toon today and in the ancient Cemetery Inon buried where you have the and the and you have always refers to as my grandfather and we're going to see was he his grandfather but we're going to start with the very first abai tonight we're going to learn I'm going to try to keep it somewhat simple there were really three Abraham a four and maybe even more okay and you should at least be familiar with some of that so let's let's start with um the very first we don't know too much about him this comes from the say from Mal now remember I mentioned the name of the is a encyclopedic listing of all the who ever lived before the there's a similar sa WR called on the which does with the did with all the before him the first was m means he was exiled from Spain in 1492 from castill where does he come he comes to Fez he goes to Fez this is in the times of REO shim and he is the grandfather of the so we have the first Abram he's around the year 1492 he leaves Spain in 1492 he go he Lees Spain where does he go he goes to Fe okay fine his grandson is the the well the most famous is he's buried in he was a r he was also where I'll give you a little hint there are hundreds of miles of tunnels under this area Okay M okay yeah they live in those tunnels but it's called Gaza he was the rabbi in AA and he was the rabbi in heon he was a great M his most well-known saer is you know there's a sh on you ever hear of Kan I'm glad you're last thing okay you like you like the what's who's that you like candles you like n do you need to have a Mino the same the gor you need to have it says you need to light n n you go you're let's say I take a n and I stick it onto the table M says be careful you stick it onto the table in my belt and burn down the table what do you mean might burn down table what about the fact I didn't light a Mana doesn't say you have to light the Mana no maybe who says I'll you need a clean the whole of comes from or the another famous teaching of his that some Ser doesn't like that SP is the most predisposed City to learn cabala there are a lot of ideas that we know about they originate in the St so the is the grandson of the first he wrote he wrote B bris he also wrote a pi on I think it's we're going to come to that he in he talks about his grandfather first he calls him okay now let's go to number five on the number five is say this is entry for his grandfa now I'm G to take right away did you find your family tree people why am I that family tree because last week was about no you didn't buy that okay so do you see the on the family tree he was you know get that is I'm gonna give you a little head okay 18 something yeah okay I'm G to give you a formula this is one of the most important things you ever learned you take a Hebrew da and all you do is you add the year 1240 it's one of the best edas you'll ever you'll ever get so is 566 so add 1240 now you have to know first grade math to be able to do that but if you have 1804 1804 some of you i' like to hire as my accountant right um but you take 566 and you add 1240 it's 1806 1806 okay so is 1806 and he's writing his family tree going back to the who's like he's the third one on the your family Tre so he says that comes he's the son of Mor his family comes from castill he went he they uh went to Fez from castill and then he tells a story and this is one of my favorite story because maybe at the end of this series he tells the following story was going to Tapia and for certain reasons they had to get off the boat quick maybe it was shabas and they got as soon as they got off the boat there was a terrible storm and the boat capsized and everything was lost had he not gotten off the boat he would have died and as to remember this miracle he signs his name in the shape of a boat now hasem sent me I recently got a hold of a that sign and self signs in a boat you want I'll show you a picture after the year but in in the series well um maybe I'll even bring it in we'll see so that that's an interesting story so the comes to and he was a Bucky in many and a and a now I want you to to look at your sheet says who was the son of my grandfather his name was the son of he was a he was a speaker he was a man who were the son-in-laws of R the son-in-laws were ra see on the family tree Ra was a well-known and who else and let me see okay then the and who were their children says the their children were Abraham isra abrah isi was the son of David Abraham one more um their children where Abraham was son of and the son of he was okay now let me ask you a question what was well what was was great grandfather Yeah so and were's great great uncles okay had a son we just mentioned had son now why were both of their sons named AB very simple after the grandfather now I wna I want to show you how all of these people are listed as you look at number six was great-grandfather was great great uncle was his great great uncle was like the's first cousin three times removed and abaki was his first cousin three times removed now the has quite an in he saysi was the son of the son of the daughter of the and and he learned he said says my cousin learned Caba from my mother's father and my own father says learned by the by and he was the at the time of all these now very interesting says and had when I saw this actually I had actual says I saw a lot of the writing of and his power and his wonders he went up to Shay on this on Friday 1729 and he was the first one in our era that they allowed to be buried within the four why I have because I was there and I even had a map and on the map it said and I had no idea who it was I have a map of all the we're talking about hundreds and hundreds if not more of good is and I went to the foot of Z first of all to go to zi but one of the main reasons I wanted to go there is because you know who's buried at the foot of zi someone who gave a Shar about a few years ago the wife of this now three years ago me and R we were in the city of Lumberg and in the last few minutes of our trip we made sure because everybody really wanted to go to a cev in Lumber and after this cover was the T the yes and the and where is the wife of the the wife of the SM after he died went to by himself she was a very big her brought in of the she set up a and she was so righteous they buried her by the speed of Z and I knew there were a few other people buried it and I and I saw the map of I didn't know it was the's first c three times removed but the says that um he was a very eminent stage and he was the rebi of uh the in his generation and that would be a reason for me to go back there so hope to go back there and once we're talking about him I mean did you ever hear probably would be very happy that we brought out this name you know we brought it to to life I'm gonna tell you from you ready for this I mean you don't hear every day I get like a s that has AUM in it the P like this okay par test ready for this okay let's see if he said you ready you ever hear that it sounds like Vaguely Familiar sounds like it has something to do with theill right are you allowed to say what do you call somebody who says oh there's always fire burning in P house what is that called remember very good if you say fire is always very it could mean he's very hospitable or it could mean he's a GL he's always you know he's always barbecu now not just yeah this is from I get all warmed up and I get if I would say there's fire in someone's house okay that's the REM of next because you know theas I said it's I know you prefer to be a grouch you would rather Mo and you know Brown and walk around you know sorry it's all over you still have you still got another week to do that try to much grouchiness as you can but we know now says my father told me in the name of our cousin that on the day of a person's birthday a person's masle is strong so why is it that sadim die on the day they were born if your mle is strong you should die D not on your I mean what kind of birthday present is oh birthday present you're dead that's wow that's really nice could you wrap it in a bow could you wrap what's the birthday present we take away the on the day that he's born the answer is my father said in the because for the day that it brings great elevation to their Nish because their masle is strong on their birthday that's why their nft on the day of their birthday because their N is a great Ali on that day hamon was happy thatu passed away on Z but just the opposite the fact that he passed away on the day that he was born that shows that AR masul is strong on that day not weak that's what fine let's move along now that we brought and so next time you go to call up Josh wander say you want to go I know everyone goes to the regular spots on the top where where they think it's safe now you go all the way to the bottom that's where the is on the bottom Safari is on the bottom there's someone else on the bottom me personally so they asked why didn't so they sayar passed away seven days after he was born why because when you have a br that's really when you're born so he he really passed away was born so why didn't he pass away seven days later oh he was born he was and he was also okay now we go to the's grandfather and lo and behold next to ba the of I saw the name when I was looking at the map I don't know why I didn't uh it's very hard to know the the the graves are rubbed out of it but now that we're mentioning the name of's grandfather I'm going to tell you's grandfather there's another the says tell sounds from so says we knowa whether or another the says tell us one is the reward is you'll live long so this is the meaning if you praise when the hits a person and you're and you're you next next of no you want to hear the from the grandfather no I thought so okay what does never thought I would see your face what did he mean are you allowed to look at a Russia you're not at Russ soob said I thought I would never be able to look at your face because I thought maybe you went down you became a Russ but you know why I'm able to see your faith you ready for this he because God showed me to you when you're about to sin with Farah God showed me to you so you didn't sin that's why I could look at your face simply we we translated I never thought I would see you and now I'm seeing you no I never thought I would see your face because you're Russia but why you not a Russ God showed me to you grandfather you say one more I'll give you one more what do you do if thear stries you say sh what what's the last resort very good had his so simply means remember the day of your own death no don't mess with me one day we're gonna you yeah so remind him of his day of demise grandfather where is he buried Ezra tell them even though you're C the foot of you need a match going to show you exactly where right now here here's the map this is the grave ofi and number seven right over here who's his son now you can't make this up Wednesday morning morning I give a Shear it's a three minute Shear tell you at 10:45 a.m. if I look at like 10:30 I try to find something very quickly that's when that's that's when I I'm that's when I prepare early serious okay today I I opened something up who a like I don't think I ever I never the name never even registered the V was on this week's whenu came down from what what happened tried to kill him when he came down and he got that that Monday La yeah he's a lady did he bench G that was the sh brings from his father his re asked father says in my dream I asked but he didn't answer me I had to actually knock on his door he didn't want to answer me what why we different than the plane so say no you don't he didn't Ben he said did AB bench when he came out of or said no he said after the anytime God commands you you need to be mo you don't bench g off yourself did okay fine so now the big question okay now when I to take that their family trees and I want you to tell me how is related to I want to know the exact relation the precise terms now which is the second okay is the grandfather is the great grandfather and Abram is the great great grandfather two great is grandfather no so a guy actually has a nerve to write a sh to that what right do you have to call the from your grandfather I just read your say m he's your great great grandfather just like a guy walking around saying you know my grandfather Rashi grandfather rash 50 Generations your grandpa so in the is my grandfather's grandpa first I want to tell you that's most ridiculous question don't you know that when the mar wrote to the Rama hey you don't write with the proper Hebrew grammar you're not so back that's meaning come on that's that's your question the grammar is not good so that's what you're asking says that's an expression like get a light you know that's what you were I didn't speak with proper grammar that's your kasami why I call Grandpa that why don't you ask like a real question on but you want to know I'm not going to get too involved but I'll dismiss you quickly says you know that writes my grandfather ran and these six Generations from the ran and all those asaz rabbis they always say oh my grandfather my grandfather the my grandfather all the always have it's Generations up nobody ever challenges them I think that he's and says not means he has the same M as doesn't the med say that r said wrote a letter to RAB I'm sending this letter from Yehuda your servant to Mal Anon says why you be your so reab said I'm not any better than my grandfather said about my grandfather I could say about the my grandfather but I thought you know you now you really appreciate the question now you see he's not a grandfather he's his grandfather's grandfather that's why you need a family tree to understand okay now anybody here in the Kamas business how many AB do we have so far two now we're doing a third one if you go to Morocco in Marakesh buried there is someone who has one of the longest titles in the whole from the city of marash a student of a friend ofar and the third were Associates and they argued about the Z contemporaries that's good word thank you schar was n in the year T so that's 1738 earlier than ra and he comes to in a dreaming down he say look I want to tell you something the way I learned the Z in sh is correct the way I learn not the way you but the way you learned is what the be meant so the way I learn is right but you understood what actually meant okay that's just an interesting story try to make hez tales on that I heard that thei was related to my great great grandfather and he wrote a wondrous Parish on the Z and he was the rebi of ROV pinto and RAB and I heard from reliable sources that my cousin the would say that many people say that is rash and he would say if anyone says that there I put them in I put them in not only that he put people in for saying that the word aai stands for in English a harlot or a defiled woman you should not F we know a cannot marry a or so the word stands for so in a way it's a little demeaning you know on on the one hand you can look at it it's like Prestige I'm a what does mean but on the other hand it's like I don't know somebody's gonna carry on the name you know don't take a legitimate you know actually in one of the official biag of from he brings that they found ancient documents in Corfu that in fact when somebody would marry when a CO marry kala they would change their name and then other sort of wonders why is it embarrassing that aai means that first of all that's only if you spell spelled it out with you so it doesn't even work but I want to tell you something about this I heard from a holy man his name was you know who that is came to for a year in change learned by him and told me that he knew ra the thir and if somebody was sick ra third would write a kameha you know what you write in the Kam he would write very mysterious words any so if anybody out there needs to make extra and they want to go into the kameha business you don't need to get fancy kameha is an amulet that they used to put they would hang it around their neck or put it under their pillow and traditionally it has various shamas ra know no fany ST Hashem should send for his ingrown ton and that's it oh it said his name and it said his illness and that's it and one second and and the told me that he is in possession of fine now the was born we said in 18 in 1724 how do we know that now here's another personality I want you to be familiar with back to the family tree okay back to Family Tree the he does father who okay's mother soundi part of the goddess of was he was able to combine the and asaz World his grandfather was one of the great asaz RAB his grandfather was yeah now's father had a sister who's the sister married to so is who to the his uncle was the was the he's also in the look number 17 re he's also the re was he wrote the wellknown he wrote A P on he wrote a beer on all the to there was no Authority like my uncle and he was and he was and he passed away at only 47 years old on the 16th day of Shabbat in the year 1760 47 that's right was born in he writes the his mother was s and he was born after seven months of pregnant and when he was born they thought he was dead there was no sign of life and they they just left him on the side and his grandmother said I think there's a pulse in the kid and the grandmother put him in Cotton warmed him up and the rest is history as they said what was his name his name was y and David were ad his name was actually after I got a hold of the signature there's a yid who travels through all the libraries in Italy someone put me in touch with he's uh publishing the journals of the he sent me a picture of the signature of the with the boat and after the boat he signed his name in English Joseph A I can show you knew English in fact I didn't know this when we were in France when the was in France and he went to Versailles King Louie was coming out of the palace and he saw the and he was so impressed with the he asked someone who is this Ambassador what country is the an ambassador for okay began now the first day for the road was the parish on H it's called sh y he wrote when he was 17 years old his father gave him Pas his father was his father wrote about him that when my boy was six or seven years old old the spirit of God began to beat in him and that's when he was Ma on himself the O time so so we have AB who left Spain in 1492 we have AB the great great grandfather we have cin whoe you ready there's a fourth ab and that's the son of the the son of now many times over the years we set over the following and this is the something I saw today and I was very Blown Away by it do you remember when Yu was running away from Lan finally Lan catches up with him so they said okay let's make a meal they make a meal and yob needs someone to gather Stones so yob called his brothers sash's bothered his brothers yob doesn't have brothers he has one brother and as's not he's not calling you know who his brothers were his children says from here we see you should treat your children like they're your brothers not like they're your children says we learned from if you want to be successful with your children treat them like they're your brother not like they're your children and he brings from the it means treat them like brothers in other words like friends I was very Blown Away because number 23 and is a basically a summary of the and he says you know when my son my best friend saw this I never saw anybody refer to their son in any rabic literature as you did usually you know say that you know contemporary but I don't think I've ever seen anyone refer to their son as he but this is so like the Mal said the great contribution of the is he took many of our benefactors whose names were lost and he brought them to life tonight we learned about besides his son his father his uncle his grandfather who's buried where his great grandfather of his great great uncle his cousin is also buried there his great great grandfather his great great great grandfather of his great great great great grandfather the first and if you want to know there's a fifth abai who is during this century is buried in maresh as well a descendant of the who wrote um so we were introduced to many great is and above all learns a little bit about the background of the perhaps we'll continue this subject you've just experienced another Torah class brought to you by tor anytime.com