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Shavuos: The Mystery of the Sambatyon, the 10 Lost Tribes, and the History of Akdamus Part 2

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Rabbi Daniel Glatstein

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that is um we say in this mirrors of shabbos and we saw in the gemaran sanhedrin base as well as in many midrashim as well as menashevan israel mentioning that there were people over the years who had containers of the sand of the samhain you know that during the week the sambanian was volatile well this may make enough because we know there's a the well-known shyla whether you put on filin in on chalamet or not well now we would have a conclusive way of figuring out whether in fact you should wear its phone or not all you need to do is go to the zambadion if it's volatile then you know you need to put filling on and if it rests then you shouldn't where it's filling so this actually this uh journey and this adventure can actually spell ramifications so now let me tell you about something quite amazing and that is one of the original reporters of the somalian after the times of the midrish was a fascinating figure a 9th century traveler whose name was eldad hadani eldad zadanite and elda came and he made various travels so for he actually had two famous travels um [Music] he he traveled two times the first time he went to egypt and then he went he crossed the ethiopian river in the year he was then in bavel from there he went to barbaria africa north africa and his travels and his records created quite a stir some question the validity of his reports some say they were complete fabrications but as we're going to see many of the reshundum took him very seriously including the ballet isis and surprisingly there are ptosis and shots that quote him and you wouldn't

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  1. 0:32that is um we say in this mirrors of shabbos and we saw in the gemaran
  2. 3:58shiva naftali and he came back with halachic reports now amazingly if let's take a look
  3. 7:28they and they fight they fight with their enemies not with each other they fight with
  4. 11:21this guy coming and i'm a big skeptic when it comes to stories somebody um once
  5. 14:33says like this what's the problem what exactly have a hard time believing he says i
  6. 18:24doesn't everyone mean everyone everyone in the means men women children are women [Applause] israel it's
  7. 21:43but we're going to see a little bit before that what happened so now here we
  8. 24:59whether a kaya whether an if it's piglet and you can't shakth until you daven first
  9. 28:48what how do you know a few pictures big room pictures of the river cows in
  10. 32:08kind of nonsensical book you know this book don't rely on this book it's it's not

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