Sepharad

You'll see I'm right.

And the exiles of this military force of the sons of Israel, who are among the Canaanites as far as Zarephath, and the exiles of Jerusalem who are in Sepharad, will possess the cities of the Negev.

There's that idea of possess again, to own.

I'm going to own you, but I'm going to own you because I've converted you in your thoughts to obedience to Christ.

So it was a simon of Hadzolah and Yeshua.

And I came across recently also another mention of a red thread in Sephora.

There's a Tz'or HaMorah.

The Tz'or HaMorah was of Avram Sabah.

He was one of the Megurushes of Sephora.

He was one of the Jews who expelled in Spain in 1492.

And he writes in Parsha's Voice Hanan, he writes that in their places where the local authorities have banned the wearing of tefillin, he says as there were some places in the times of the Gomorrah, or he writes in his day at the turn of the 16th century in Portugal where they also banned wearing tefillin, So the Torah says you should tie a red thread around your wrist as a zeichel, a dumb bris.

And there is a period of blindness until the fullness of the Gentiles, which is about now.

The captives of Jerusalem who are in Sepharad shall possess the cities of the south.

And I think that's the word Negev.

Yeah, Negev.

It's very important to make sure that it's always adjacent and in contact.

L'minhag yotzei Sfarad, v'rab minhag Ashkenaz.

According to Sfaradim and many Ashkenazim, krichat tzratua sat Tefillin shel yad hi klapei chutz.

So we always have a different question, how do you wind the Tefillin? How do you wrap them on your arm? So according to Sfarad and many Ashkenaz, then we wrap them outward.

Bo'ofen zeh kesher Yud nimshach tamid l'kivun beis haTefillin, v'nishar tamah lo.

In this way, 'cause you have to figure out when you tie the knot and how it tightens on your arm, so this way the Yud is always going to be next to the Tefillin and near you, and it's connected to it.

Both of them went to Tzfat first and then to Yerushalayim.

The Radvaz came from the Geru Sfarad, from the expulsion of Sfarad.

He went to Morocco and Fez, and from Fez he went to Jerusalem.

to Israel eventually, and he was a very hush of an authority in Jerusalem.

In this case, they can collect the money from him.

In our place where we lived in Sfarad, the Rambam means in Cordova, where the Rambam lived in Sfarad, he says such things used to happen continually.

And there were Talmud Chachamim who used to be embarrassed by Ami Haaretz, and they would forgive them, and they, for their parts, did not seek to collect damages.

And this is fitting for them to do.

And the captains of this host of the children of Israel shall possess the land of the Canaanites as far as Zarephath.

The capti- captives of Jerusalem who are in Sepharad shall possess the cities of the South." He's talking about the cities of Edom.

Now, Israel, uh, is gonna regain that full extent of the promised land again, including possessing all the lands of Edom.

And this was, uh, prophesied once again, uh, in a couple of other places.

Now, let's discuss Sephardic Jews, the second largest Jewish group in terms of direct descent from the ancient Israelites.

The term "Sephardic" comes from Sepharad, a historical reference to the Iberian Peninsula, which includes Spain and Portugal.

These Jews primarily lived in this region, but they were also present in parts of the Maghreb, such as Morocco, Tunisia, and Algeria.

Their history and dispersion reflect a rich interaction with Iberian and North African cultures.