Shavuos: The Mystery of the Sambatyon, the 10 Lost Tribes, and the History of Akdamus Part 4

this torah class is brought to you by torahanytime.com okay good morning rabbi um we're going to do something a little differently today we've been uh had a multi-part series on the topic of the mystery of the sambatyan finding the 10 lost tribes and the history of akhdamos so we mentioned we start off this year from the german sanhedrin base from various midrashim about this mystical river that shoots stones six days a week and rests on the shabbos and the sambayon was the testimony to tornas rufus harasha that we in fact know the seventh day of shabbos and that it's a day of rest we spoke about the idea that the asuras hashwatum were exiled beyond the sambanian river because of sukham saying malachim they were exiled behind beyond the har goyzen which the ramban and pasha's hazinu identifies as the samban river we mentioned the various reports of the 9th century traveler eldar hadoni who despite the fact that ebenezer says is not a credible source nevertheless many we shine him most notably taisus and musaf and the mordechai and the rash they do quote his farim with the safer israel and he testifies about the existence of of lost jews behind the sambatyon he even mentioned a legend that when the levium were being exiled from bavel and vulcanetsa ordered them to sing shira to him which we know the famous matters that the levian bit off their lips well el-dadhani reported that a bit off their thumbs eldar hadani reported that after that a cloud came and lifted them up and deposited them on the other side of the sabbation and while we thought this was more of a fantastic tale it's actually reported that way in targemiano-san benozial in parashat's kisusa and then we mentioned the connection between akdomos and this story based on the aliya rabbah the el yaraba wants to come to answer the taz's question the ancient custom was that on the first day of shus they would take out the safer torah they would lay in the korea they would start and then the balcory would chant yeshua and the the taz asks how are you allowed to do so in the middle of queer satora hari ladabhi maps to come of christo with this peon and therefore the ta says that this custom is incorrect and akdama should be advanced before you lane the torah and this is what we do in all of our shulls but we mentioned the el yaraba says no del yoraba wants to answer the tazes kasha and though yaraba wants to say he found an ancient germanic document which brings the whole story in history of akdomos and since it was written in a midbar and the first pasta of the krisatara on the first day of schwa says [Music] is referencing in a tale about the composition of akdamos and that it was somehow composed in the midbar so that's what we were in middle of learning last time we got together well let's see um what we learned so far was that the jews were in the midbar asia and the jews throughout history especially after the advent of christianity suffered terribly and they were always subject to the whim of the local king or emperor or governor and there was one particularly benevolent king but there was a khaimera there was a priest who had an ayan ra but literally he would look at yiddin and he would kill them with his vision he was a and we can see this happened in the period that we shine him and he came to the king and he said well your jewish subjects do not accept christianity and we need to have a debate and if they lose we should wipe them out and the king said how can we do that and ultimately he was successful in persuading the king to hold this debate and the jews were very frightened because how could they debate this priest this priest had this x-ray vision he could kill you just by looking at you and they came to the conclusion the only way to save themselves is to send the messenger to the other side of the sabbation and bring back some of the we said the vilna going said that those on the other side of the mountain bring back one of those lost tribes one of those lost sadiq and only he would be able to be successful in um combating and disputing this koimera this priest well nobody wanted to go and the reason is because in order to go across the samba you can't cross it during the week because the the river is shooting stones it's uh it's perilous nobody could survive it and the only way to go is to go on shabbos when the river subsides but that would entail hello shabbos but what could you do it's because the fascists for cloudy so you need to go the problem now that we we discussed what exactly was the philosophers either it was out of the trump or they needed to go on a boat or they needed to swim but the issue here was that while they would be allowed to go to the other side for the fascists the story reports they would not be able to return because that would not be fascist we asked the question normally if you go on a mission to save someone you're permitted to return it could be that it would not apply in this situation because the reason why you're permitted to return is because nobody would ever volunteer to save jews if you would not be allowed to return but it could be in this case this wasn't a volunteer it was imposed on the person we weren't sure exactly but one time it was a one-shot deal how many times do you have witchcraft priests with x-ray vision right it's not a common occurrence well what we learned was the they made a lottery and who won the lottery somebody by the name of mayor shliyak sibor who was none other than the rebbe of rashi he's an individual that's quoted by rashi in a number of places rashi and amaze parigima pasuku base rashi international and park ayan gimmel pasuku bays it's he's quoted by toy systems by the shivali haleket he was one of the rabbeim of rashi and he was the one who it was his lot to go to the other side of sambal and save claudius well he had to divorce his wife not to leave her as an aguna and um let's pick it up that's what we're up to we're in number 49. we're number 49. we're in the paragraph that begins the third paragraph of number 30 not 49 kobane hakihila they all accompanied ramayana outside the city they did not forsake their place in other words they waited there until he disappeared off into the distance again we're number 49 fourth paragraph ramer waited at the edge of the river obviously he can't start traveling until shabbos comes um he was waiting for shabbos to enter by the way this would be very interesting if we had access to the sambadian we'd be able to be mahria the mahlukis between the villenegon and rabbenut as to when shabbos begins and when shabbos ends i would presume that in deference to the vilna going the sambal becomes volatile at the gross man and in deference to rabino tom it continues going until this man of ravi nutan but you know we'll have to see for ourselves um when the river stopped throwing stones his heart pounded the shabbos he's desecrating the shabbos shabbos kochenu may god grant that i am successful on my voyage when ramirez finished these thoughts he was already on the other side of the river ramirez gets to his destination on shabbos day they recognize him as a jew and they immediately incarcerate him why he's a shabbos desecrate and we mentioned a number of times in this location they have a sanhedrin and they judge capital offense and when someone desecrates the shabbos they stone him to death well he couldn't do that on chavez well they put that's why they put him in jail until sunday he didn't realize why he's coming well on sunday he sits before the besden they bring ramayana there and he's frightened and with great dread he presents to the besden and the sanhedrin what his mission is and how he's was sent to save uh claudius then the shia law is who will they send to the other side of the samba to represent the yiddin in this confrontation in the dispute with the priest well they made a raffle and sure enough who won the raffle what's the kayat the tailor so this taylor got up and he divorced his wife what happened to remember wasn't he supposed to be the debater no he was sent to the other sons of anyone to find the debater and then the other side yeah he's not uh so so you know someone suggested they can marry each other's wives now so it wasn't enough anyway by the next shaba throughout the week the trout the tailor travels to the river and at that point in time says the story dash was shira on ramen rabino mayor liturgy in honor of god and that liturgy is that is akdamas and aktomos gives shabbat to the shalom speaks about the greatness of kali israel the great reward in store for those who involved in torah rabbino mayor wrote it in aramaic why so that the angels should not understand the great praise and get jealous of us now interestingly akhtamos is like this there are 90 stanzas in akdamus it goes through the alaphaze then it goes through the jalapenos a second time and at the end it says and it spells out in an acrostic mayor beer rabbit got it so those are the 90 stanzas of akdamus aleph base that's 22 alabasch 22 and then mayer beer rabbit no it wasn't about him but that's just the style of they would be maram it's spelled out the first letter of eastenders spelled out mayor beer review it's like similar to what we have in kabbalah this you know it's not a bad rip shilling but his name is alluded to in the epis mine okay so era of shabbos the tailor departs from his relatives and his friends and from all the jews everybody wished him well and finally the kayat takes leave of rabbino mayor and rabbi rabbino mayor accompanies him to the edge of the river and he hands him a document and guess what that document was akhtamos and he asks him to please disseminate it among the jewish people so that his name will not be forgotten among claudia thrall on the other side so he assumed that they would survive this debate i guess why didn't the man go back because he's now to go back the only way to go back is if you're makala shabbas so the khayat needed to go back to save claudius but beta mayor dinner he was stuck over there he was meister nephesh according to the story now you should know what about carrying on he put it on the boat now interestingly this the veracity of the story we have to rely on the remes of the el yaraba though el yaraba just writes that because akdamus was composed in the mid bar therefore we lain it after the pasta he doesn't give us any of these details all of these details we don't really have any way to know if they actually happened we know something happened we know there was some myself with akdamas now this story appeared first in yiddish and it was published in many yiddish books and we have a translation we don't know from khazal that this story happened so if you want to know am i obligated to believe that this story happened no it's not part of not part of the mystery of tarshibalpa it's a story it's a story we do know rabbenu mayor lived we know he lived rashi quotes him numerous times we know there's something up with akdamas that's from eliaraba exactly what happened this is the story as we have it and that's what it is it's a story it's passed down through the ages but it's not these this is not the vegas okay but let's see what the story is nevertheless some question the veracity of the of the misa there's a safer you have on the sheet here the number 22 makarisa says that this is a story does not have historical verification art school in the our school i do not believe it makes reference to this story but as i mentioned the elio rabba who's on the acharyan does make reference to the story and that that itself is uh significant we know firstly we know rabino mayor barbie was rashi's rebbie and one other thing we do know is that he personally held many debates now in this story it wasn't him but we do know historically that he debated many christian theologians in fact his son his son was killed a killer hashem in the crusade of tatnu 1096. so let's just let's read out the story basically shabbos comes and this tailor heads on to the boat and the jews on the other side have been waiting for him anxiously since the previous shabbos and um as they're looking onto the horizon they see a boat they see a yid on the boat and they're filled with simcha that the mushroom has made them successful in their mission okay well shabbos is over and they send message to the king now whenever you want to hold the debate we are ready we have our man we're not afraid so the king hears the words he tells the priest to be prepared and they set a date and they they set up a big stage and the stage was located in a valley surrounded by tall trees and there was room for a crowd to gather and watch this public spectacle well on the appointed date the king his officers his advisors the whole city the whole region the priest the tailor they ascend the stage so what does the priest do he takes off his glasses and he gives him a look trying to you know inject his venom into him like he's always doing nothing happens after all he's from the other side of the river and everybody knows people from the other side of the river are immune to the x-ray vision of christian priests it's well known right and now the priest is starting to get nervous and the priest decides you know before we hold the debate i want to make the king happy and entertain the king i'm going to do some of my magic so what does he do he gets up to the stage and he takes two millstones very big heavy millstones and he lifts them up and everyone's whoa ah how did he do it it was magic and then with great brute force he takes the two big millstones and he throws it up into the air and all of a sudden these two huge mill stones are suspended in mid-air and then the priest goes like this and they start spinning and grinding in mid-air and everybody is flabbergasted well there's no way the jews are going to win this debate and now the priest says well now you little taylor you little jewish guy now you try something before we even start he says no problem he says look you see these big tall trees i'll make a deal with you either i'm going to bend one of these trees that reach up to the heavens i'm going to bend it down to the floor and you're going to come hold it or you bend it down and i'll hold it so the priest says look there's no way this guy is going to bend it down i'll tell him to bend and i'll hold it down so this little yiddullah he closes his eyes he davens he says sheamus he takes the tree and he bends the tree and he says do me a favor hold the tree down now the priest is shaking in his boots there's no way he could possibly hold the tree down but what could he do you know he accepted the challenge so he puts on a facade he's smiling to everybody thinking about how in the world you know the damn the says you know because he gives the the priest to hold it down all of a sudden when the tailor lets go the tree shoots the priest up into the air guess where he lands in between the two millstones that we're grinding it it grinds him to smithereens it pulverizes him and you know priest x-ray vision dust comes pouring down and of course all the jews were basimha and they sang and they danced and the rav told them this man were not able to bring a carbon taida but in gratitude to hashem let us all dedicate ourselves to the torah and thank this tailor from the asuras hashrattim that he speared us from the wrath of the king and the wrath of the tailor the story ends this happened in the year four thousand eight hundred and sixty-two what was it four thousand eight hundred and sixty-two who is the tailor do what you need a hem or something for that i don't know doesn't say four thousand eight hundred and sixty-two right so we're talking um about a hundred and fifty a thousand one hundred and one excuse me we are talking uh you know what nine hundred and uh eighty-five years ago okay you're telling me 900 we're talking about in the times of rashi do we have any other evidence about this story no it's a story it's a legend there is there is uh hints to it in the words of the el al-yaraba but again this is something that has been passed down through the ages and of course this is the the history of akdamus that was written by rabbenu mayor baritzk who that we know he wrote act almost and we know he was rashi's rebbe and he concludes akdamos with the words god wanted us he desired us and therefore he gave us the torah so this is a very beautiful his mind and some of the history of it now let's end off with some facts about the ten tribes the king gave it after that he bought some real estate on the other side then he made a castle yeah we got off the hunt we wanted to pay the other guys okay one by default let's talk a little bit about that are they coming back or they're not coming back so there are two gemaras you have to learn now we're not now we're not learning stories we're learning tyromisinai and there are two gemaras that you have to know number 26 and 27 agumar and sanhedrin and ayalko chimay excuse me aguero around sanhedrin and the gemara miguela the gemara says like this first we have a macholikist and then we have a gemara asares has number 26 the mission on sanhedrin aenon the 10 tribes they're never coming back he cast them to another land as of this day just like this day it goes and will never return afhaim so to the ten tribes hulkham they went they nom they will never return for example look at number nine and ten it says in the ninth year of hoshea the king of ashur captured the shomerong and he exiled claude israel and he situated them in takalach and to havar and to nahargozen and are madai says the tanakama they went there they are never coming back this is the opinion of rebbi akiva rabbi kiva says the ten tribes are never ever ever coming back revelation he argues just like this day it turns dark the night comes but then day comes again so to the ten tribes it was dark for them it will illuminate for them and they will return that's the opinion of revelation one more mach like this tanner do the ten tribes have a share in the world to come says not at all if their actions are like today they ain't coming back but if they're not like today and they will come back in other words if they keep up their actions they lost to sharon alama if they do chuva so get it back yoymer it's ashore so we have a great math like us if the ten tribes are coming back we have a math likus if they have a share in the world to no they come leave they were exiled they were exiled because they were the gemara in megillah says something which is very important and not so well known even if they do true they're not coming coming back and they ain't going to almighty they lost that question i don't know if rabbi akiva could predict that they're not going to do chuva but one thing he could predict he knows that they're not they don't have a shin on them about maybe because they didn't do chuba but who came after them is saying they did not do chuva what do you do with how you're strong so that means according to rabbi akiva if i were to answer i'll be a the kiwi would come into this room and say well if the ten tribes are not coming back then rebecca would say everyone in this room is not from the ten tribes okay that means your bikini would be able to say we're all from yehuda or benjamin but there's one caveat look at number 28 and that is so gemara is talking about the time of kyou when he was doing overdue repairs in the vasamik dash and they found the safety of and it was open to the apostles that said god will carry out your king to in exile and they wanted to get the prophetic meaning of this so they sent word to a nivia a prophetess which prophetess and the gomorrah asks hold on evie there was a navi at the time where was yermia so you say yeah i asked myrov i went to hold on and that's an event no no this is a very important rule you need to take it to the town you need to take it to the town i asked my rabbi you gotta take it to the top and if you're near the round they should have gone to him sigma says where did your mirror go was took a trip to the other side of sambanyan to bring back the ten tribes and did he he brought him back umi nolan how do we know year mia we're talking a year me up before corbin maxwe shine how do i know he brought him back to sieve the positive says like this the sale will not return to the seller the sale the the the will not return to his memca now normally you do get your field back why because of youevel but your evil does not apply if claudius throws not living in arts israel so one second it says the sale will not return which means that yoivel does not apply but one second yoivo was already bottle so why would the nobby have to say the day will come that yoga will be bottle yo if it was already bottle the answer is it must be yo was ready battle but then a time came that it went back into effect and then it became about again how's that it was bhatta when ashwar exiled him so now the jews are not all on their land so now there's no yoyo but when yermia brought it but brought back the tenshwatim yoko came back says the gemara magilla jeremy are brought back all ten swatim so what's the problem it's a steward to the mission in sanhedrin rabbi kiva says they ain't coming back and the government says yermia brought them back so did they come back and they knocked rebbi akiva says the ten tribes are not coming back and rabbi yochanan said yermia brought back the ten tribes it's a big problem right other y'all their niche do they come back do they not come back ready for this you ready he only brought back some of them so if i were to ask you are there people today among us who are from shivatruvain maybe yes shimane yes you saw all the ten tribes are represented how many did he bring back we don't know exactly what about the rest or the majority that he didn't bring back will we see one day tishby atari it's kushio zevayas rabbi kiva says they ain't coming back rebellious says they're coming back but one thing is for sure some of them have already come back and that's what yermia did says mcgill yeah yeah i think most of us are from chevy yehuda i have some kind of tradition i'm from shiva dehuda but who knows anybody's guess but but they're all shifting are represented let's end off with the following and that is here we are in the year 2016. every square inch of planet earth has presumably been scouted out and discovered and explored you could go on to a computer program and they'll show you a picture of basically every square inch in the planet so where is the sambao river someone tell me you want to say 200 years ago there's a zambanyan river that shoots up stones it's in the far east in india in between uh afghanistan and pakistan and in the mountain region over there but we've been there you know we looked for osama we didn't see the uh zambation river we you know we've been everywhere so we have an encounter with the sambal so what does that mean for us well this is a question that the morale addresses and let me explain to you what he says in my terms and that is like this you ever lose car keys lose your car keys yes and you ever find them you ever find them in the place where you already you look 10 times and right i am right what happened until god wants you to see something you don't see it and when he wants you to see it you see it everything is hidden until god wants you to see it so says morale especially when it comes to the salvation river god specifically wanted to hide something so now you have a question so then how come i don't see it that's a question when god doesn't want you to see something everybody knows we don't see it how many times have we looked for things we have no clue where they are and then finally you dive in a little bit and then you find it in the place where you looked a hundred times where is this river your guess is as good as mine we don't know some say in africa some say in asia so i don't know where it is there is some concept of sabbation let's let's read that inside and then we'll uh we'll conclude this uh this series we're on the final page which is page 11 the middle column one two three four five six seven lines from the bottom field the sages of the world the geographers and the makers of maps they've already mapped out every square inch of planet earth you know it's show malcolm schleiner frame every inch of this world is already documented right called noida main malcolm nobody has found the ten tribes except for mishpochah magazine no one has discovered the ten tribes right actually in the last couple of weeks come out every week they have a different write-up about a different community whether in china or india that has some claim to the 10 tribes and there is some evidence that perhaps there are many tribal um practices of whether whether in india or china which which are similar to judaism and whether or ethiopia and there is question maybe there is jewish blood mixed in there but nobody has identified with veracity these are the 10 lost tribes why not the in raya misham says marael it's not a proof bishopville diverseath their mouth speaks emptiness it is very plausible there is a place in a land that is not known god could have separated it from civilization through mountains s who knows there are still places in the world that maybe hashem has not chose to show us at this point look at the last four lines god decree on us separation and decides to gather them in that's what we dive in every day to cabbage no the sun is the cabbage the cabbage says we learned this it's on your sheets the going tells us that there are three places that jews have been exiled the asar sashwatum were exiled behind behind the mountains of darkness behind the sambani river and of course cloudy straw is spread to all four corners of the world and these three exiles are alluded to into cabbage one the sun is the cabbage no too the cabbage is you've just experienced another torah class brought to you by torahanytime.com