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[Music] named Pablo christiani and Pablo christiani was somebody who I believe was raised Jewish and became an apostate and they were having a debate about which is real Judaism or Christianity this is not the only time that we had debates debates were actually quite common in the Middle Ages there was common in the Middle Ages there was really a cosmic battle between Judaism Christianity other world religions and trying to understand which is the right frame to really understand the world and Pablo Christianity posed a question to the ramban and he took this question is really based upon a passage in the Jerusalem talmud what's known as the talmud Yi in the Jerusalem talmud there is a story where it says that there was a non-jew and he heard you know a a cow a non-jew and he heard you know a a cow that was crying out and he came over and he said your temple has been destroyed there has been the the the bigdash the Temple in Jerusalem has been destroyed I know this so I could see the animals are stirring and they're working up and I I know that your temple has been destroyed the animal cried out again and this non-jew turned to this Jew and said yehudi yehudi Jew Jew I want to tell you something else not only has your temple

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