Rabbi Hillel Danziger – Ein Yaakov

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[Music] Welcome to Inside Arts Scroll, where the books that we read and the people that write them come to life. It's a pleasure to welcome Rabbi Hill Danziger to Arts Scroll Studios. Shalom. Shalom. It's not just a pleasure, it's an honor and it's also many collective years of being a part of the greater arts scroll mishbah. How many years are are you associated with us? Um close to 40 about 40 years. Rabbi Danziger is here really almost like a celebration of one of the most monumental um projects that Arts Scroll has embarked upon and that is the completion of the English Anyakov. Yes. Um, and we're going to delve into what the anacov is. Uh, but before we even talk about what the anyakov is, Rabbi Danzer, how long were you working on this project? Five years. Wow. Five years. Um what we'd like to do and talk a little bit about is the history of the inyak because it's not a new safer and then a little bit about the safer itself and maybe share with the with with the viewers some really interesting things that I learned when I was learning about the enyakov and by going through some some of the parts of the safer itself. So rabbanza talk to us a little bit about who the author was what period of time he lived in. Right. So the author was uh Ryakov Ib Khabib and he was born in 14 55, excuse me, 1445 in uh in Spain and he was uh one of the Spanish exiles in 1492 where he went to Portugal which expelled its Jews only five years after that he suffered a lot. His son the Maralbach as a teenager was actually forcibly baptized in Portugal and they

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