Rabbi Mordechai Becher The Life and Times of Rabbi Moshe Chaim Luzzato 2011 11 20

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I think every one last week we gave I guess the geographical background to remark on risotto we spoke about the Italian Jewish community the unique Italian Jewish community we spoke about the history of the Jews in Italy from the Roman period and slightly before all the way up until Second World War and even in present day still a vibrant even in present day still a vibrant community although quite small and we spoke about some of the great sages who lived in Italy and some of the great works that came from Italy and Italy has a certain unique character of the Italian Jews that is expressed as I said in their own unique new socks that is like their form of Prayer which is not Ashkenaz and it's not spired it's not the the North African Middle Eastern Jewish custom it's not the Ashkenazi Jewish custom it's not the Ashkenazi European Jewish custom they have their own unique custom Musa Rami the Roman custom I was speaking to Rabbi Arrietty good friend of mine this week who is of Italian origin his father's from Italy and he says yes he has the Italian sudarium Italian Mizoram that are in that's the Italian rousseff interesting one of the great kabbalist actually a student of the most timeless Otto commented that he says you know there are different attributes divine are different attributes divine attributes called Sephiroth now what you might call modalities of divine will and there's the right side there's they're divided into a type of a diagram we've got right side left side in the middle the right side generally tends to be the side of kindness and Hesed giving loving kindness etc and the left side is the side of of

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1. 0:00I think every one last week we gave I guess the geographical background to remark on…
2. 4:33two different styles within Judaism traditional Orthodox Judaism but two different styles he says the Italians…
3. 9:40of course he had times of deep depression his name subtypes fee and by a rant…
4. 14:16about some pastry but I want to give you the background to explain explains a lot…
5. 19:27are they right of course 100% and there were rabbis who make their business to do…
6. 24:15not go to the mikveh every day that made it even worse not only is that…
7. 29:17Frankfurt and they confiscated his manuscripts we don't know what happened to them either they buried…
8. 33:51was teaching Kabbalah mysticism he did it in a very logical orderly organized fashion he teaches…
9. 38:57tells you the the level of the writings of of him and in addition he wrote…
10. 43:41the book of Ecclesiastes so so incredible and and all of this in the midst of…

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