People of the Book - Ohr Ha'Chaim (Rav Chaim ibn Attar)

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Efrem Goldberg’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

good evening ladies and gentlemen and welcome to the boca raton synagogues next edition of people of the book this is a wonderful program that we began several years ago in which we try to analyze and share with you a comprehensive view of the biography and the methodology and the contributions of some of our greatest personalities who've contributed to the spread of torah literature be it on humish be it on rabbinic literature and be it on so much more so we are once again bringing to you the next unit in the next installment next unit in the next installment of this great series called the people of the book and i have the privilege of learning with you tonight the life and the contribution of the aurah we'll examine we'll talk about his life and then we'll go through some of his works some of his contributions some of the difference uh that he made in terms of the uh the authorship and the torah text that he shared so let's let's begin and these powerpoint i'm happy to share with anybody afterwards if you're just listening and not if you're just listening and not watching i'm happy to share it with you at some further point let's uh make this bigger so you see less of me and more of this he lived from 1696 to 1743 he lived in seoul morocco to an illustrious family who descended from spanish exiles a moroccan jew a very proud moroccan jew and until today moroccan jews claim with great pride claimed ibn atar claimed the makadosh one of their own the word atar was not his last name

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