Journey to Morocco 2025: The 4 Hostages - How North Africa Became a Center of Torah Scholarship

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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, friends, you see the ocean in the background. It's a perfect opportunity to get some of the background of Moroccan jewelry and literally one of the most seinal events in Jewish history. If you could count on one hand, the seinal events of the last 2,000 years, this would be right up there. This is known as the story of the Arbashuyim, the four captives. This is recorded by the Rivid. It's recorded by Rivid I not to be confused by Rivid II or Rivid III. Rivid III is the Rivid Balhas on the Rambam. He wrote the footnotes on the Rambam on my manities. His father-in-law was Rivid II. We're now talking about Ry the first, Rabinu Aram Bar who lived from 1110 to 1180. He was a student of a student of the riff and he wrote a classic work of Jewish history called Sepher Hakabala Safer Hakabala and he records an amazing story amazing account I remember when I was in yeshiva I learned in yeshiva and arashiva's father was the rebi of came to speak at the yard site of Rabbd Ali of his Rebi and Ra Pam said over this historic account and he said that there are times in Jewish history where in order to preserve the Jewish people Hashem makes a very significant event occur to preserve the Tyra of Kal this in the it says this this occurred in the year 990 however however the do says it's a toyer It could not have happened in the year 990. It happened had to happen about 30 years early in the year 960. Now let me just paint a picture for you. Since the close of the Tammed Bavi, from the time Ravina Raashi sealed the Babylonian Talmud, the seat of power of

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1. 0:00Okay, friends, you see the ocean in the background. It's a perfect opportunity to get some…
2. 1:01an amazing story amazing account I remember when I was in yeshiva I learned in yeshiva…
3. 2:06Tory lay in Babylon in Babel in the great yeshiva in Babel Surah Padisa Neher from…
4. 3:08most critical was the authentic tradition going back to the am and the tradition of the…
5. 4:43redeemed by four different communities. Rabinu Shimaria was redeemed by Egypt. And when the Egyptian community…
6. 5:44leadership over to Rabenu Mosa. Now it's interesting in today's day and age rarely will you…
7. 6:48which means that even if somebody dies in the seven seas and his molecules decompose, God…
8. 8:23Rabinu and Rabu Kananel. Rabino Kananel has a very good friend Ravisim. If you look at…
9. 9:26saysanos he's the first generation of theim raanim and then ravenu raisim had a mutin and…
10. 10:26which brought Tory from the times of the rishim to the times from the times of…

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