Journey to Morocco 2025: The Kever of "The Master of the Scales", Mul Amzan Hakadosh

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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.

Okay, welcome everyone. We're at the Kev of Mul al-Mazan, the Balna, the master of the scales. We don't know the name of this great personality. We just know he is at his eternal rest in this location. And this is a good way to conclude our trip. You know, we've been to the graves of many cabalists, many gym, and you try to think, okay, how do I apply that to my own life? How does a Jew, how does any person elevate their nishama? You know, it's very interesting. The greatest man who ever lived, Mosher Rabenu, the first time before Hashem spoke to him at the burning bush, you would expect Mosher Rabenu is about to merit the greatest divine revelation of any individual in history, he must have done something very holy before to merit that. What did he do? You know, that's probably something we could learn from to figure out what did Mosher Rabenu do right before the Almighty revealed himself in the highest aspakar in the history of man. All we know is one piece of information. Mashabu took a sheep and he brought it out into the desert says Rashi so that they don't steal from other people's possessions. From here we learn a very important point that in Judaism holiness means don't take a penny that doesn't belong to you. Forget everything else. The foundational principle of Judaism is if you owe people money, pay them. If somebody has a claim on your money, don't go to sleep at night. You can't go to sleep at night if you owe someone money. If you have a worker, if somebody has a tina, monetary tina against you, if you're clean, if

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1. 0:00Okay, welcome everyone. We're at the Kev of Mul al-Mazan, the Balna, the master of the…
2. 0:31lived, Mosher Rabenu, the first time before Hashem spoke to him at the burning bush, you…
3. 1:01Rashi so that they don't steal from other people's possessions. From here we learn a very…
4. 1:32you're then you're so that's the story of Alazan. There was once a great drought and…
5. 2:04the seat, if I've ever used these scales intentionally or unintentionally to take even one penny…
6. 2:35the rain fell in the merit of the honesty of this man. So if you want…
7. 3:06somebody's going to owe that guy money and someone's not going to have kaparam kipper. So…
8. 3:36The most important thing is make sure your bank account is clean. That's the highest form…

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