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Why Are the Thousands of Chachmei Morocco Virtually Unknown? #Shorts

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Rabbi Daniel Glatstein Official

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There is one thing that never really made its way to Morocco that because of it so many of these are unknown and that is something called the printing press. The printing press never made it to North Africa. So most of the the most of the manuscripts of these GDM unfortunately remained in manuscript form and over the years they were lost they were buried they were scattered and unfortunately The names of these sages were forgotten. There's one notable exception. Had it not been for a stroke of Hashkah, probably you never would have heard. But at the end of life in the year 1742, one year before his passing decided he's going to make aliyah, he's going to move to Israel. That's by the way where the learned from for one year in Israel goes through Italy. He stops off in Venice. In Venice he encounters the printing press. So he sends his manuscripts. He prints. Hades not made his way through Italy, you never would have heard of him. That's an amazing ashk.