Italy history from Venice

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

Just come here. Um the truth is it's not simply a sightseeing tour, but is is a bonus it's a it's a real big source to have the opportunity and when we're here at the first stop here in Italy, which is Venice, uh we think about it uh we're going to mention throughout throughout the day and throughout the days um various um great personalities whose influence stems to which we glean from even till today. Um Venice, of course, uh has been a very Um Venice, of course, uh has been a very major major Jewish area. Well, starting from 1290, but that's not when it was really became so influential. You have to realize also that the first Shas first Shas, real Shas, was printed over here by someone by the name of Daniel Bomberg. The Shas was printed, a very very beautiful Shas, which is still quite a number of a Shas of the Bomberg edition which still exists. And um number of years ago someone who really had it actually was auctioned off really had it actually was auctioned off and was sold for millions of dollars. And there's something that which was able to see was uh on display in Manhattan. And there was really it's a it's very very impressive to think about that so many years ago that they were able me to produce such a very very beautiful Shas. But Venice B'Chol was a major printing area. A major printing area of Seforim. Uh one of the I'll give you an example. Take a look at the style. Every year it has a Mikra'os Gedolos Chumash. What's Mikra'os Gedolos Chumash mean? What means that you have a Chumash, you

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1. 0:00Just come here. Um the truth is it's not simply a sightseeing tour, but is is…
2. 2:05owned the printing press his name was Daniel Bomberg. But he's not a Jewish person and…
3. 4:42was in Padua again not far from here. Ramchal the bottom of the city of Moshe…
4. 6:45him. Based upon his tremendous power of the of of of speech, his specific style also.…
5. 9:19they left there at the stroll and and they lived over here. So the truth is…
6. 11:49says there as I said, he was one of the Rishonim that lived in Rome. So,…
7. 13:55sefer is called Sefer ha-Shalshelet ha-Kabbalah uh Shalshelet ha-Kabbalah. So then he says as follows. He…
8. 16:27person. They didn't know who he was. And he comes in at the time, he says,…
9. 18:29We see that this is the that really made this major major contribution he says to…
10. 21:05Vesuvius, Mount Vesuvius, which is here in Pompeii, erupted, a volcano, burying five cities. It's the…

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