Journey to Morocco 2025: Marrakesh - Why Are the Thousands of Chachmei Morocco Virtually Unknown?

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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.

We mentioned this is the show the murashim and here I want to take the opportunity to point out a very important phenomenon and we're going to go to the Jewish cemetery. I have a safer. It's called Matis Marakeesh. It's bigger than the telephone book of GDR that just lived in Marrakesh. It's my biggest book. The biggest safer I have is Matis Marakeesh. It was such a big safer that Rabel had to write a second book to navigate the first book. It's such a big book compiling a list of all the sages who lived here Marakash that it's it's it's massive. Rael had to write a a a guide book to navigate that first book. I have a safer called Mali Raban. Thousands of who lived in Morocco. If you show this not just to the average Jew, you show it to a maybe they heard of one or two of the names of the thousands. Such an interesting phenomenon. You tell somebody about a god who lived in Europe. Of course, everybody knows him. Even if they didn't learn in yeshiva, you heard the names. Anywhere else in the world, you're more familiar with. Why is it that the gdm of Morocco are almost completely unknown to the majority of the Jewish people? So, Rabio Pile in the introduction to Marakekesh, he says something very important. There is one thing that never really made its way to Morocco that because of it so

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2. 0:30first book. It's such a big book compiling a list of all the sages who lived…
3. 1:01somebody about a god who lived in Europe. Of course, everybody knows him. Even if they…
4. 1:31many of these galam are unknown and that is something called the printing press. The printing…
5. 2:02had it not been for a stroke of probably you never would have heard Ibanatar but…
6. 2:35the printing press so he sends his manuscripts He prince had not made his way through…
7. 3:08up in England is a different story. He was the students of the Marakekesh. Kakme Marakekesh…
8. 3:38to preserve the Tory and the traditions and the customs and the knowledge of the Israel…
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