Journey to Spain/Amsterdam/Portugal: In the Footsteps of Chachmei Sefarad

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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.

Portugal Magic I think over the last two days we've over the last two days we realized uh there's a very big difference between Portugal and Spain not just on a spiritual level but even on a physical level most most of us found that Portugal is quite a beautiful country and is there any way to explain an account for this difference between Portugal and Spain we also spoke about the Hiram not to return to Spain whether there's basis for this or not there's basis for this or not regarding returning to Spain there's a very interesting argument of Herzog of Herzog says it can't be worse than mitzrayim than Egypt where the terrorist says you're now at a return to Egypt and the rambam went to Egypt so if Egypt where there's an Issa in the Torah and yet the rambam went back it can't be that Spain which had most of the Harem then there must be some reason why it's permitted to go back and in fact says as follows Vegeta explains that he heard in the Vegeta explains that he heard in the name of the arizal himself that at first of course it was forbidden to go to Egypt and the reason for that is told by paroi sifu I don't you're not gonna see my face again and moisha said that's right I'm not going to see your face and the mccobelim explains that there's a reason for the phenomenon that when the Jewish people are in a Gallows in an exile when it ends it ends overnight they

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1. 0:31Portugal Magic I think over the last two days we've over the last two days we…
2. 1:01there's basis for this or not regarding returning to Spain there's a very interesting argument of…
3. 1:34Vegeta explains that he heard in the name of the arizal himself that at first of…
4. 2:04when it ends it ends overnight they don't give us much warning we don't have that…
5. 2:36Vienna time we took out every last spark of kadusha therefore we have no more business…
6. 3:08we took everything with us we took every last ounce of kadusha when the Jewish put…
7. 3:38kadusha so we had we had a few days of uh gathering in whatever was left…
8. 4:10so it's then writes that in everybody's personal mission and travels in life where they go…

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