Chacham Shemtob Gaguine and his Seforim

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hi everyone welcome to another edition of the Swarm Shadow podcast on this episode of the podcast I'm going to be joined by Roy schlomo Shasha who is the editor of a number of sparm and and articles and other things mainly published through aat Shalom and in this episode we'll be discussing ra shov gagin who was the AZ of the Spanish and Portuguese community in England and he was the principal of the M College theit in England and we'll be discussing raav gagin in his life and his writings raav gagin in his life and his writings and and as there are a number that uh Roy has published and are working on so first of all thank you for joining me thank you very much for the invitation and uh look forward to this chat so let's start off tell the listeners a little bit about yourself and your background and especially how you got into editing sarim and manuscripts okay well everybody is supposed to believe that in their lives it's a certain element of hash haa of divine Providence and maybe maybe this divine Providence and maybe maybe this this comes through in the story that I'm going to tell you uh I had a normal childhood like everybody else has got I went to went to school I went to I went to University and when I was about 35 or 36 I was stagnating a bit with my learning and I didn't know what to do and I couldn't find any shum that really fitted fitted what I wanted to do so I went to uh I went back to University again at the Grand age of 35 36 and I did an and a PhD in Jewish studies which

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