Safed Vs. Jerusalem – The Semicha Controversy Part 2

this Tower class is brought to you by torahanytime.com we're speaking about the great city of SAS and the challenge that it made to claim the crown as the uh holiest city in arts Israel we explained how in the Schleich others was coming towards Israel and he had the decision to make should he become the chief Rabbi of you shalim or the chief Rabbi of of fast it was a great after great deliberation he ultimately chose you shalayim but from the years 1530 to 1580 for that Jubilee period fast try to so to speak uh claim the crown and in fact during those 50 years we could we could make the case that never in history was there a collection of godola Israel from 1530 to 1580 and smash that there was any time anywhere in all of Jewish history and then we learned how the Samsung first said that in 1837 when 90 of the population of uh fast perished with a very tragic earthquake and 2 000 Jews died some Cypher roads Pasha Samar that he said it was because of the jealousy of yushalayim so I'm sorry for wrote that it's um it's because everybody they come towards Israel and they go that's fast and they ignore you shalayim you shall I am like a jealous wife took revenge and we learned how the samsiper said that even though everyone's running it's fast unlocker he says don't count me among them how could you forsake so with that background We Begin one of the most interesting episodes in Jewish history and that is the Smith controversy now just right off the bat we turn to the end and number 21 the Ramos says that you have to know smihab is a formality it's not significant the guy has sneha he doesn't have Smita didn't have smiha and vice versa some people who don't know their Olive from their base they all they have smiha and it's it's uh it's as valuable as the paper it's printed on so Smith writesha what's the function of Smith just that people should know that he could pass in um and whoever is ready was his rebbe gives him permission to offer his opinion Once Upon a Time smiha had great value smiko was so valuable that if you didn't have Smitha you cannot Dan Dinesh us um you need authentic smigafor to give capital punishment someone desecrate Shabbos imagine this guy he shows up in show how'd you get here I drove here did anyone tell you not to yeah sure Reuben and shiman they both warned me not to drive so the guy he thinks he's getting called up for an Aliyah meanwhile you call him up you tie him up you carry up to the basm and you throw him off the roof that's what they used to do right Mrs doesn't again right in order to give capital punishment you need to have smiha and most importantly for our purposes in order to be Makai of malkus which means if someone wore shatness it's alive by Mesa the guy walks into Shoal he says check it out you go boss he said but it has shyness in it yeah shyness what's the difference did anyone tell you not to wear it yeah the guy in the store said maybe you don't want to buy so we take the guy he had his warning we Swip him in order to give Capital punishments in order to be dancing in order to give malkus you need to have smiha foreign continued until the times that I'm a run we're gonna see that the um the Smith has stopped in the townsendama run when the Great Yeshiva Israel were abolished under Roman uh occupation in the 4th century but this authentic smika dating back from which meant like this you could not have authentic Smith if your Remy didn't have authentic Smith you could be the god of Adar you could be the ram mom the rambam did not have Authentics then the last time they didn't have when the great authent when the Great Yeshiva Salama were forced to close during the fourth Century ceased why is it called sneaker because the original smik ramashoven put his hands on Yeshua benon but the placing the hands on the talmud was not a critical part of the process okay what does this have to do with anything well we're gonna see you take a look at number six has a three volume safer called he tooks it out uh many many different and young him in about Earth's Israel Michael writes about the history of the original smika take a look in number five he says what's the root of Smiggle the phone him it used to be Heist and Nick race used to be called Smith continued from generation to generation the first person is oh okay we accept that to me all right Hashem like the plastic says am I sure likewise gave Smith like it says to say even though the original smika was hand on head but the subsequent smiggles it was no longer but it was merely a name currently ready viavlier okay fine and then he goes on to say the sweetheart continued until after the hormones not the only in the times of the tanam even in the times of damarun and it lasts until the end of the days of avayan rabba until okay process there was xero the Romans issue to decree that any City any person who gives mikha we will destroy them any City that the Smith is given we will raise the city and to swim around the city will be raised will be plowed over it was a great man he went in between two cities he didn't want any City to be destroyed he went away from the Trum of the Cities he stood in between two mountains and he gave Smith to five tell me them mayor baby I see and the Romans found out and the Romans were chasing them and he says to tell me to run run and they said really what's going to be with you so I'm gonna stand here Kevin Durant he stood between the two mountains he stopped there the only way to go is through the narrow path between the mountains is tamizam ran away and they preserved the Smith system and they pierced his body with 300 Spears but he was meister and effort to be able to continue this Mika process unfortunately it died with the tuitions of Christ today we can't get Marcus we can't give me suspension we can't be done DNA classes however 16th century look at that at least them who is the leader of the all these and all these um this Jewish community in science who is the leader of the time the Mahari beirav iakov and maribe RAV was a very interesting personality the maribe was born in Spain in 1475. so you can imagine at the age of 17 years old he is expelled from Spain he's expelled from Spain where does he go he goes to North Africa a year later in 1493 how old is he he's 18 years old there's a tremendous community in Fez 5 000 yeah then he's appointed the chief Rabbi of Fez at the age of 18 years old okay from there he goes to Algeria from there he goes to shalayim he's forced to leave you shalin because of famine he goes to Miss Ryan and then mid 1500s he makes his way to stop and who's in fast in the time no these were all Jews who were former residents of Spain they had Muranos he had people who had a desperate Shabbos under a threat of persecution he had people who had abandoned their religion and they lived secretly as Jews but unfortunately they had to violate Christos and they come back to eres Israel with the looming gazera of khaif Karis imagine a yid he wants to return to his roots he wants to be an observant Jew again and we tell him no problem duchuga he says true only helps for Lavin we said don't worry I'm Kipper no but I I violated Shabbos I abandoned My Religion we say don't worry you'll just behave courage so the guy is walking around with this you know gray cloud Hall hanging over his head they couldn't live with themselves they fell into deep depression so the entire Community they were Sullen they were despondent they were depressed who was the leader of the of Julian svas he had to come up with an asah to allow the Jewish Community to rebuild itself how could anybody you know somebody's going to come to shul and learn thinking oh don't worry I'm just going to be Hive car race so he came up with a tremendous and that is if you look in the beginning of the third pack of Marcus excuse me the end of the third pack of Macos it says anyone who's kind of car race who takes upon himself the way that read the mishnah now what the mishna really means is that if someone was and Marcus and he had malcus he's plotted from Currys extended that to say that if someone is high of car race and he takes malkus upon himself he's partner from Currys says if we could somehow give these hidden Marcus there will be Potter from car race they will remove the crystals that's looming over their heads and they'd be able to live like normal Jews again was looking and searching for a way to reinstitute malcas so he went around the shows who wants Marcus everyone raised their hand the only thing is he couldn't give it and even if he would give it didn't have a status amalcus so how is he going to bring back Marcus he has to restore smika how's he going to restore smiko wake up Maestra so he found the Rama and based on this varav try to reinstitute Smith he did reinstitute Smith he gave smika to four talmudim among which was further eventually it stopped but he based this Innovation on a reading of arama the ramam is a number seven in number six cesarama Anthony in order to continue do you need do you need one person or is it sufficient to have three uh excuse do you need three people or is it sufficient to have one person says around them if what if you have an Arizona only one person with smika moish he takes two guys he says Shimon you sit on my left side foreign he could give 70 sneakers at one time he gathers together 70 people so here is the guy with the smiko he said we say where do you have Smita from ah don't worry Masha gave there's a k name as a kingdom gave Ali Ali gave Schmo small gave David and he takes two guys they say who are you we learned we learned for a year in in uh Eric Israel After High School he puts them on one on one side one on the other he then gives smiker to 70 people at once uh make business and then that person can make other but they didn't and you're set you can make but they didn't all over when you see a reshine that says Nira Ali it seems to me how much evidence do they have to their position none they don't have any Riya otherwise they would say it's mavour in this place we have a riot from this place but if they just say nearly nearly means that's what they think that's what they think remember I Rush of Shiva used to say if Hannah fleibowitz used to say they attacked the breath in the name of his father of David that when the rush says near and Lee it's stronger than if any research brings a riot from because the farisha brings the right from Shaz how many gamoras are backing him rush says nirali ham what's supporting him everything he ever learned everything he ever learned based on all of his last Tyra it seems to him so in other words when Arisha says near Ali even though he's not invoking a specific Amara he's invoking all of his Torah so the rambam says like this it appears to me agree so you really see this is not gonna be an easy thing but if all agree limb nice die on him and to give them they have sneakers Authentics in other words even if the speaker process was interrupted but if you could get a consensus of all the miners Israel to say that we agree that Rabbi Barrel he's the real deal we all agree that in our limited command we all acknowledge he is the real thing the chain was broken says the rambam you could bring it back yes and this individual you could bring cases of class to him and this individual the yes so the rambam out of nowhere is inventing so to speak that even though this Mika process ended in the 4th Century if you get the unanimous consensus of all the Israel you could re-institute the classic traditional risking their lives to preserve smika have to risk your lives you could always bring it back at any time why were they pained why did they go to such great lands to preserve Sam Smith Israel what's the big deal you just take a vote you get a unanimous everyone would agree that um Rebel yasuv should have I mean you get unanimous consensus Cesar ramam foreign scattered you'll never get unanimous approval the Jewish people they're scattered all over all your Sky you're scattered all over it's Israel You're Never Gonna Get unanimous approval okay so you hear what the round I'm saying the round I'm saying if Smitha becomes abolished don't sweat it relax you can restore it I swear why did he risk his life because it would be very very difficult after the dispersal the dispersal of claw Israel to get unanimous uh unanimous agreement but says a rambam if you would get such a thing ago this week was valid I'm saying the ram based on almost nothing he says he feels smiko can be reinstituted and then the rambam concludes if you had if you have one person with authentic Smith you don't need everyone else's agreement to his decision when it comes to DNA classes he by himself because he has authentic sneakers says all you need is one person with Authentics and that person among the uh among the body of the rest of the best the next three words this is it ready the matter needs what notification clarification we need to decide whether this is true or not the matter needs a definitive conclusion and the question is which matter which matter needs a definitive conclusion we need a definitive conclusion what the Ramba means when the rambam says the matter needs a definitive conclusion what's the round I'm talking about does the Ramba mean we need a definitive conclusion if one person alone with authentic sneha could decide cases or does the Ramba mean we need whether it's possible to reinstate Smith altogether right there are two ways to read the Rama I said look carefully the realm I made a statement that his opinion Israel get together you could reinstitute Smith and then the ramam said that if you have one person with smiha he could adjudicate cases even though no one else has me and then the random concludes now does the rama mean we need a definitive conclusion as to whether it's sufficient for one person testing or does arama mean we need a definitive conclusion as to what as to whether you could reinstitute Smith in the first place so maybe somebody knows what the Rama means but right now we don't know what does rama mean his opinion is you can reinstitute Smith I mean can we say my opinion is we could reinstitute nevua that if a guy gets up on a soapbox in Times Square and all the say yeah he is a real Navi so then he's a navi either based on what is around I'm saying you could reinstitute smika it doesn't say anywhere in the Hamish you could reinstitution means going back to my sharabenu so this guy Smith I don't care if you get every last Rabbi to sign a document that this guy asked me it it's not smika what is a space done says the rambam in the parish Hamish look at number nine break the number eight thank you one two three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven twelve thirteen lines on the bottom the yearly if all the sages and all the students gather together and they're going to point him as the head says Israel you can't do this in bar Park can't do this Israel commercials that man will sustain the Yeshiva whoever he wants ah says what's forcing me to say what's forcing me to say medicine for the baby foreign what's forcing me to say what's forcing me to say that this could be done says around them here's the key toymakain if you don't say this is all again if you're not able to restore smika you'll not have a best why because in order to have a business right upon him so you say rambam you say rambam who says you'll ever have personagado again maybe we lost it right there's certain things we're not gonna have again so who says we'll ever have a business says the rambam God promised that you will have again God says I will restore my judges like in the beginning and my councilman like in the beginning afterwards you Sean McCall this be called the city of Justice so says if Hashem is promising us that once again we'll have real day on him and we'll have real badinim real Diana's cannot be without Smith so if God is promising us that besan Agoda will return it is impossible to ever again have President unless we could restore the smiha and I looked through shots it says nowhere that there's a way to restore smika says this is the authentic way to restore smika otherwise how will mashiach ever come because The Return of the best godo this is the only way to restore smiha is if we get a house Israel so therefore he looks at the rambam The Ramones because God promises us that the person I gotta will return how will it ever be able to return if this vehicle tradition was broken says therefore I am forced to innovate this new way to restore Smith really had another motivation in restoring the Smith number one he wanted these Muranos to be able to have a clear conscious and number two the ramam is saying that the restoration of truth but the denim will usher in the period of so he was merely doing his part in allowing that process to hurry up yes [Applause] but the rambam in the parish Hamish doesn't make that comment he just writes openly you could do this because otherwise how's mashiach Gonna Come and based on this Rama maribe said you need to get what every last you actually think you need to get every last says it's not every last one but at least most of them and since the majority of the Roy Binion and the Royal minions felt that if we get the majority to uh unanimously at least it's fast to accept this proposal then we're going to put it into motion and in fact remember the state it was the year the Year 1538 raviaco barab together with his tamidim they all got together and they pronounced that smile and in fact if you look in the carry out safer and number eight on your in number eight on your sheets number nine on your sheets the curiosity if it brings down on the rambam on the place then the year hey agreed to give smika to raviat he then proceeded to give smika to some of his talmudim and they restored the glory of smika to its greatness rights that we don't exactly know who he gave Smith to we know all the gathered they agreed to give Smith we know he gave Smith yourself Carol and he gave Smith who the others are we don't exactly know they're different versions and then we know reviews of Carol gives mikha to maram al-shek and then and then for some reason we don't know exactly why smirk has stopped if you look in the state of haderus to number writes actually Smith was given to 10 they gave Smith is however writes that these people were probably given Smith by some of the original who were given Smith but in any event based on the reading of the rambam based on the fact that the rambam in the the perisham schnies does not write he writes definitively you could restore this Mika so the fact that the rambam writes we're going to see them next week the reviakov felt it could be read differently and in the year 1538 in fact motivated by the desire to alleviate the depression and the despondency of the Muranos motivated by the desire to try to usher in the um he actually restored the Smith process because he had the majority of Israel but there were many but they were just small amounts and without consulting with them and without getting their opinion and we're going to see even they even the Mahaba who is going to be the main antagonist to the smiha restoration he conceded that Romanian opinion of Israel weren't fast and facts about the malbach writes in his country there is fast but nevertheless this is a illustration of the tug of war that existed it's fast had the majority of sages but the mahabah is going to say without getting the approval of as small as they may be as few as they may be it's not gonna work and even if you're going to come and get our scum after the fact the same way in a Sanhedrin you need to take the vote before you come up with a decision not first get the Rive and then tell the Mio about your decision even if the meat agrees with you after they're not counted so we're going to say Malbec disagreed with this but this was a great institution in class well a great occasion in class 12 where abiaka barab the leader of the jury and svad return the Smith and they were able to bring claiso to a pedestal that we hadn't been on since the amaran and stay tuned Hashem next week we're going to learn about the opinions of the Mao Bach and what happened eventually to the Smith process have a wonderful week you've just experienced another Torah class brought to you by torahanytime.com