A discussion on Montpelier, Provence, France and its connection to the Rishonim.
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And you know, boys, I I will take a few moments. Uh we have just left the Montpellier. So, I have to tell you that one of the sadness because years ago in the time of the Rishonim one does not have the faintest idea of the great influence and the tremendous situations that took place. Matter of fact, a very, very major controversy that really was recorded in many, many, many Jewish continuous Jewish among the Gidolei Rishonim that you will be familiar with and I'll mention which the controversy started right here in the Montpellier. But first and foremost, it is important, therefore, to become aware of a major figure. A major figure in Montpellier, a person by the name of Reb Abba Abba Mari Hayarchi. Whenever you hear the term Hayarchi, Yarchi means moon, and that is referring because that they had a shareish from Lunel, which again is another place that Beze Hashem that we will be there. And there's a lot of Rishonim lived there as well, which when the time comes we will talk about them as well. So, Reb Abba Mari Hayarchi was a great Talmudist, a great scholar, and at the same time also he was a tremendous, tremendous kannoy. Uh Reb Abba Mari, first of all, uh you know, when you talk about Provence and you talk about the great Rishonim or the leaders of the community, they are known as the
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- 0:07And you know, boys, I I will take a few moments. Uh we have just left…
- 2:42But quite a bit of time, many years he spent in Montpellier from where we left.…
- 5:55his wing was the Godol Hador of the time which is the Rashba. So here we…
- 9:09to me," he says. And he says that proudly. Probably it's not known to me, he…
- 11:51he realized this is not the case. Here is the lotion of the Rosh. The Rosh…
- 15:04says the different parties he proposed so to speak a conference of having representatives of both…
- 18:14France agreed with this type of a ban because as the Rashba himself pointed out there…
- 20:54concerned again, says in the Torah of gisa b'yom of oilam, what age does it mean?…
- 24:07Provence. For I see it like I mentioned before, and I saw it Eretz Toyva U'rechava.…
- 27:21that I find here but they do not doing enough in order to try to sit…
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