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#1: Iggeres HaRamban (10 Minutes of Meaning) - Introduction

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Rabbi Efrem Goldberg

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them all online and this morning we begin together the letter of the ran Moshe benman to his son from Israel when he moved to Israel his son was still living in Spain we'll give a little bit of a background and then we'll dive in it's a very short letter you'll say why are we learning this how long could it take one or two sessions but literally every word of thean is precious every word is such a source of inspiration so we'll explore and we'll analyze and we'll use two primary commentaries that are fantastic first foyer wrote a magnificent commentary art girl published on thean and more recently maso wrote a short commentary and both our fantastic works that help us help us through so when is the ran first of all who is the ramban we've heard of the ran is Parish on we've heard of the ramban this commentary and Chast ramban was a prolific writer and commentator on the width and breadth of Torah not only Torah not only the revealed Torah as in tanak and Sh but the ran as well was a great cabalist was a great Mystic and in fact his commentary on Kish is filled with cabalistic illusions with references to to mysticism we know about the ramban he was a doctor less well known as the ramban was also a physician the ramban also was a was a doctor he was born in 1195 in garona in Northern Spain to a prominent rabic family and ultimately he passes away in Israel in the year

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  1. 0:31them all online and this morning we begin together the letter of the ran Moshe benman…
  2. 1:32Torah not only the revealed Torah as in tanak and Sh but the ran as well…
  3. 2:34offense but defending the Jewish position and the Jewish perspective he later published the um the…
  4. 3:38still living in Spain his son nman named for his father uh was still living back…
  5. 4:40he should read this letter weekly with his children to the point they commit it to…
  6. 5:43promise the ran says any day that you read my letter you will be answered from…
  7. 6:46themselves to say it will be spared and saved from Calamity and you are promised to…
  8. 7:47lack of of commitment to religion even from leadership but you think about Yim today compared…
  9. 8:49that sh was destroyed the Arabs the Muslims destroyed it but in 1967 when miraculously Hashem…
  10. 9:511623 in as part of the and it was later printed by the r by the…

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