Rabbi Mordechai Becher The Jews of Italy Presented at TorahLinks of Cherry Hill 2011 11 23

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so very excited tonight because I happen to love Italy and I like Italians are almost pretty much like Jews yes they the family the food the whole works so there's they're very Jewish you know anyway but we're talking tonight about the Jews of Italy and this is really an introduction it's a three-part series we're going to be talking about robe moshe haim Lizotte oh he's really going to be the main focus of what we are talking about but tonight I want to give some geographical historical and ethnic some geographical historical and ethnic background to rub Moshe fanless ATO by talking about Italy which is where he was born and raised and taught and the next next week I think is next week we'll be talking about the Biograph biography of Ramos of Hondas Otto details of his life the works that he wrote etc if we could actually if we just read the works that he wrote it would take the entire hour so we're going to briefly run through them and then the next week we're going to talk about some ideas that remote O'Connell's Alto taught us some some central and Alto taught us some some central and beautiful ideas of remote Rapanos Otto's unique brand of what I might call rationalist kabbalah the rationalist mysticism which I know sounds like a bit of a contradiction but that's that's where he that's what he was so let me start with Italy so of course before this is the art of Titus and know if you can see that but but the first Jews in Italy there is by the way one of the commentaries reductive dubbing chemically maintains that already were

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