Journey to Sicily 2024: Rav Matzlach, Student of Rav Hai Gaon, Rebbi of the Aruch

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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.

I want to thank our friend Mrs Beva Walden who is the head of the Italian Office of the European Society of preservation of Jewish cemeteries who sent me some very interesting information about a few ranim who did live in Sicily this goes back to the 11th century now in order to appreciate this some of you were in Rome yesterday we have to learn about one of the great his name was the AR I'm sure you've heard of the AR r r of Rome rasan Ben Rabil of Rome that's what we brought along on our trip rasan you're named after the AR rasan was named after the and he too is a is an eminent traveler and uh m in our travels and Sh so was a lexicographer a lexicographer is someone who studies the emology of words so he studied Theology of Hebrew words Rashi you may remember gim Rashi quotes the question he asked the okay the AR was a student of his father Rael he also student of raan the probably is most notably quoted by do you remember this everybody knows

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2. 1:00the great his name was the AR I'm sure you've heard of the AR r r…
3. 1:30was a lexicographer a lexicographer is someone who studies the emology of words so he studied…
4. 2:06if you drag a bench on Chavis and it may or may not make a Groove…
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7. 3:39he's that's the of the the now where did the learn the learned from his father…
8. 4:16to learn from r r lived between 939 and 1038 he was so close to r…
9. 4:50it to the AR now it's very interesting there's a lot of discussion if you remember…

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