Journey To Morocco 2025: Debdo - City of Kohanim

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Daniel Glatstein’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

Okay, good morning everyone. Shalom. We're headed out of Morocco, but now we're holding in Kadesh Kislave and I want to tell you about a particular city in Morocco that has an amazing phenomenon and is very relevant to Kislave and the Yumpt of Khan. First, I want to give a big thank you to Daniel Harris for his historic camera work. Usually he videos. So it's a big honor that he came uh to help us out over here. Okay. I want to tell you about the city of Debdau in Morocco. Debo is about 100 kilometers from Algeria. Uh and it has a phenomenon that almost no other city in the world has. It's a beautiful city. The aesthetics, the scenery is breathtaking. It's surrounded by orchards, flourishing orchards. It's a blaze in in light. And the road that leads to Debdo passes through valleys and streams. It's surrounded on three sides with majestic peaks. And in the winter, snowcap mountains. When you go to Debbau, you can't help but call out Marabu Masakashem. However, what's most unique about the city of Debdo is that the vast majority of the Jewish population of Debdo are kohanim. Kohhanim. I was wondering, you know, all the Sparim on our trip this time are are kohanim. You know I don't I don't know if all are kohanim but we're going to see actually there are cities in the world that the climate is only conducive to kohanim and as we're going to see levim were not able to survive even in debau the climate was such that levim could not stay in the city if they would stay in the city more than nightfall they would die you know that there's certain areas in the world that

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