Journey to Spain 2023: Grand Finale - Rav Ovadia's Historic Meeting With King Juan Carlos of Spain

What’s said in this shiur

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

1978.ft was invited by the Spanish kahila to visit and inaugurate the Yeshiva and Madrid and in the context of this context of this visit where the value is actually invited to meet King Juan Carlos who reigned as king of Spain from 1975 to 2014 when he abdicated in favor of his son Felipe VI rabavadya had profound respect for King Juan Carlos not only has a powerful Monarch and a world leader but he respected the King as a a wise sagacious man who is proficient in many disciplines and actually felt that upon seeing Juan Carlos who should make two brothers who has the power of life and death you should make the bracham and amazingly it's recorded in the safe area that he should combine two brachos into one and upon King seeing King one Carlos rubbavadi recited the bracha Baruch Hashem and at this historic meeting King 1 Carlos srivavaglia the following question is there a difference in the observance of Torah between ashkenazim and you said no there's no difference at all in the fundamentals they're only minor discrepancies in terms of matters of custom but they're not Central to observance by the way Robert you're right it's brought in the safe apparel Darwin we entered the palace the windows were closed and surprise it was hot in Spain you'll have a hard time relating to that but it was very hot and my wife Robertson was with me and I noticed her about you said how flushed her face was and the queen was sitting next to the king she stood up from the chair and opened the windows and this was the Kim of the navi yashaya paragraph says Kings will be your nursing your wet nurse and your princesses Kings will serve you and Princess is your wet nurse King Juan Carlos then expressed his pain

Jump to a moment

1. 0:301978.ft was invited by the Spanish kahila to visit and inaugurate the Yeshiva and Madrid and…
2. 1:02respected the King as a a wise sagacious man who is proficient in many disciplines and…
3. 2:07you said no there's no difference at all in the fundamentals they're only minor discrepancies in…
4. 3:10and regret for what the Spanish people perpetrated 500 years ago during the time of the…
5. 4:16so Saturday includes Jews from the Orient these are all sardim so ravavady says the term…
6. 5:22Ain um says you're going and the greatest Sage of Spanish history was the yelid Cordova…
7. 5:52there are five thousand and eight 5845 or 5846 corresponding to the years of the world…
8. 6:56accept the sack of the rambam the greatest Sage of Spain this was very reasonable in…
9. 8:17[Applause] anyway I just thought I would share that with you and this Insight I want…
10. 9:21think up Seville because of that or the Ritzville or of Seville in Arabic means of…

Every second of this shiur plays inside Lehallel — a filtered YouTube library of Torah, music and shiurim. No ads, no comments, no autoplay.