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A discussion on the life of the Chida and his travelogue, Maagel Tov, including its publication history and content.
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joined once again and we'll be discussing the of is's diary or his travelog of his travels as a Shad which he was a was collector in other words for for the community of k um and there's two new editions we just published one by m one by m m um which we'll call the riv Edition after the editor we'll talk more about it there's also an English translation it there's also an English translation that was published many years ago that's not available right now and we'll be discussing these two new additions as well as the safe you know the actual safe for the diary and what it's about so so with that thank you ra for joining me once again thank you very much n pleasure to be here it's a pleasure to interact with your listeners to talk about things that we all love and hopefully uh we can Enlighten some people in the process okay so we're going to start off with a brief bio of the there's for those familiar mayor has a famous book those familiar mayor has a famous book it's not two volumes of C I think it's still available on the for those interested there's been a lot written on the who was a massive noted historian bibl he was he was I don't know Collective but he was a you know man of many talents but just in brief to start off with those that aren't familiar you know where where was he from when was he born and and who did he learn under and that kind of thing was born to a family famous famous Rabin family that
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