Journey to Morocco 2025: Meknez - The Kever of Hamalach Refoel, Rav Refoel Berdugo

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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. We're here in Mechnes at the K of Hamalik Rafal Verdugo, one of the greatest in all of Morocco. He was born in 1747. He passed away in 1821. He elevated himself through spectacular almost supernatural. Some one of his Tamil ones came to visit him and they found the Rebi. He had tied his piso haro to a nail in the wall so that if his head would begin to droop it would be too painful not to remain awake. He also suspended a cold bucket of water under his feet so that if he would start to fall asleep his feet would go into the water and he told his student after 120 please reveal to the community this hmada so that they should know how a person should dedicate themselves to tamora. He wrote he also testified about himself to the that he is roy to be buried in a coffin. Now usually we don't bury people in a coffin. We put them straight in the ground. But he is roy to be buried in a coffin. Why? Because he never saw keryab. He never became tame. Now what is the meaning of this? This is actually something that is uh something that that I've discussed a lot but I'm going to explain. It comes from the writings of the Ramach. The Ramach teaches also the great great grandpa of

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1. 0:00Okay. We're here in Mechnes at the K of Hamalik Rafal Verdugo, one of the greatest…
2. 0:33that if his head would begin to droop it would be too painful not to remain…
3. 1:07that he is roy to be buried in a coffin. Now usually we don't bury people…
4. 1:38Rama that someone who's not at Gmor if they're buried in an Ain then Hashem is…
5. 2:10never became and therefore he was right to be buried in Arin. To me this was…
6. 2:40the greatness of Adam. You can have someone who went down to Tomas Mitsim and yet…
7. 3:12berdugo he was nif in t actually the safer says t but in the ke it…

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