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Journey to Morocco 2025: The 2 Demographics After 1492, "Gerushim" & "Toshavim"

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Rabbi Daniel Glatstein

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Okay, good evening everyone. It's your favorite time of the day, 11:00 p.m. But, you know, 11:00 p.m. is always relative. It It depends. You know, in in New York it's 4:00 p.m. Nor What time is it in in New York? >> 5 >> 5:00 p.m. And can And here it's basically breakfast time considering what we still have to do tonight. So, >> it's 6:05. >> So, uh here we go. I want to give you a little bit of a picture. We've discussed earlier the origins of Tyra North Africa which uh for real began in the year 960 with the episode of the Arbashvuyim. But now I want to give you a little bit of a picture because the Arbashes created communities in North Africa. These communities were known asim. Tishim were the settled residents in North Africa. However, in 1492, the Jews were expelled from Spain and many Jews made their way to Morocco. Most notably, the Jews of Castile. To give you a little picture, the Raven Castile was the rush. Rabu Asher, Asher Khadishi. The Rush was the Raven Castill. So we're talking about a sardic community led by an Ashkanazic Mardasra which is very important because in Morocco they primarily followed the Rambam and the riff. However the new community of Megurashim they followed the rush. So just imagine in 1492 in the

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  1. 0:00Okay, good evening everyone. It's your favorite time of the day, 11:00 p.m. But, you know,…
  2. 0:33which uh for real began in the year 960 with the episode of the Arbashvuyim. But…
  3. 1:35the year Run Bay the there was a new community in Morocco. These were Jews who…
  4. 2:36stability? So we know that they were exiled near 1492. In the year which is 1498…
  5. 3:37financially. And in his where he talks about the imperative of Jews who come to Israel…
  6. 4:38the takonois of the Jews of Castile who came to Morocco in 1494 in in the…
  7. 5:08but if the Rambam and the rift disagreed, they began to develop a new approach. Namely,…
  8. 6:12the grandfather rear a nephew of the kadesh who by the way I didn't have a…
  9. 7:13and in simladesh discusses a very big that erupted here in Morocco between the migrashim and…
  10. 8:14required to be makan you cannot be lenient regarding the trace of these particular lungs So…

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