King Henry VIII and the Rabbis (with Jerry Rabow)

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>> Okay. So, let's start off tell the listeners a little bit about yourself and your background. >> Well, the the the background uh is that I was a practicing lawyer and um I I got to the point frankly where I wondered if that's what I really wanted to do uh for a lifetime because uh I I was interested in a lot of things. I was lucky to have a good liberal arts education and I was curious. So I decided um actually it was curious. So I decided um actually it was a very Jewish decision. Um you you know that [clears throat] 120 years Moses's lifespan is the most that any Jew can properly wish or hope for because because Moses was Moses and we are not. And I was approaching my halfway mark. I was approaching 60 and I thought okay uh this could be the time and so I did in the sort of in the midst and so I did in the sort of in the midst of my uh practice years and um but it's interesting that I had no specific idea. I didn't say I want to write or I want to paint or I want to compose music. I didn't say any of those things. I just said I want to see what else is out there. And the first thing of course that I did was to read during the daytime. Something I had never done for my whole practice unless it was law that I was reading. Uh I started reading

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1. 2:38>> Okay. So, let's start off tell the listeners a little bit about yourself and your…
2. 8:22the sitting king of England Richard III and he and he defeated Richard and Richard was…
3. 14:02they did. And now we get to the first echo of Jewish concern and influence and…
4. 20:14seven pregnancies in a decade and and yet that none of them produced a surviving a…
5. 26:00he he was a personal leader of the papal armies uh at his time. 20 years…
6. 32:14So the so the troops revolted and they assaulted and invaded the Vatican which had no…
7. 38:00uh sexual relationship between the parties, which certainly was no more true then than than is…
8. 43:44law courts are able to do, especially the the the canon law courts. So the new…
9. 50:01particular uh support from many Jews and rabbis in Italy. On the other hand, there was…
10. 56:16just, I think, a beautiful beautiful indication of of the fact that Henry and his adviserss…

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