Journey to Jerusalem: The Windmill and Sir Moses Montefiore

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

interesting there were three great philanthropists who were involved in the expansion of ushalaim Sir Moses Montefiore Yehuda Toro was an American Jew son of asphada Rabbi who amassed to Great Fortune but he was not married and he did not have children and somebody by the name of gershom kershit now garisham kershit was the grandson of mendil Mendes sayas of New York where we're actually in at his kevar in Chinatown in Manhattan and he was from New Orleans he was good friends with Yuda Toro and Yuda Toro put sir Moses Montefiore Fury and gershom kershit on his bored and knowing that he didn't have errors and sure enough when yehuditoro passed away garshan kershit and Sir Moses Montefiore were now in charge of this Great Estate which they used to fund the expansion of yerushalayim and it's very interesting that um much of the funds that were used to build Michigan came from the funding of Yehuda turo now why did Moses Montefiore have this windmill constructed one interesting thing is the most iconic one of the many iconics is actually it was an abysmal failure Moses Montefiore wanted the settlement outside the walls of yousham to be economically independent so he figured if he produces this windmill they'll be able to sell flower for

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2. 1:03was good friends with Yuda Toro and Yuda Toro put sir Moses Montefiore Fury and gershom…
3. 1:34build Michigan came from the funding of Yehuda turo now why did Moses Montefiore have this…
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5. 2:34and it was basically useless furthermore the windmill was good for England where the grain was…
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