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Journey to Morocco 2025: Legends and Folklore of the Origins of Jewish Life in Morocco

2.7K views · Nov 23, 2025

Rabbi Daniel Glatstein

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Okay, Boker to good morning everyone. Shalom. Welcome to Morocco Tin 2025 with La Tours. Thank you for joining us. We're going to have a very exciting uh tripe. We're going to learn a lot about the history of Moroccan jewelry, world history in Morocco. I want to thank Rabi Ro for organizing such a wonderful trip. We welcome uh our good friends Rab Ysef >> and what's our security guard? >> Uh Zoe. >> Zoi. >> Zawi took off time from uh Hollywood to spend a week with us to for our protection. So I want to talk a little bit about the origins of Moroccan jewelry. We're going to go back now more than 2,000 years. First, I'm going to share with you some new information, some very interesting, some new information about the origins of Moroccan jewelry that are actually mentioned in the Tami that are mentioned in the Gumar. It's really amazing. If you look in the gared and sad, it seems that Moroccan jewelry originates all the way back to the times of the 10 tribes, the Sashvatim and the times of the first Bikdash. The Gmorrah discusses where the 10 tribes were exiled to. Where were the 10 tribes exiled to? The Garra says, "By the way, if you didn't say, you might want to say it now to continue listening to the otherwise we're going to have to leave you on at a gas station." Okay. Marzuch la Africa says the 10 tribes went to Africa. There is a tradition that the Ethiopian jury descends from Shvadan. So the Gumarra is saying that the Assaratim were exiled to Africa the Slug mountains. But then the Gumra

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  1. 0:00Okay, Boker to good morning everyone. Shalom. Welcome to Morocco Tin 2025 with La Tours. Thank…
  2. 0:30good friends Rab Ysef >> and what's our security guard? >> Uh Zoe. >> Zoi. >>…
  3. 1:33you might want to say it now to continue listening to the otherwise we're going to…
  4. 2:33exiled to and the 10 tribes came to where they were exiled to when they came…
  5. 3:35which is probably has more credible historical evidence. You know, we always talk about the golden…
  6. 4:36uh tradition that the Jewish communities in the Atlas mountains claim to have originated in the…
  7. 5:41their tour guide of the Benim in Morocco a few thousand years ago. According to folklore,…
  8. 6:42Yahushua is in North Africa, Daniel is in North Africa and legend has it that one…
  9. 7:46legend that the first residents of north Africa known as the berbers are the canananim when…
  10. 8:50yo wrote him that there's a tradition that yo benuya chased down the berbers and he…

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