Journey to Spain: The Cherem of the Rashba in 1306 Against Philosophy

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Daniel Glatstein’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

Spain so just want to uh cover really another amazing topic uh yesterday we spoke about the Harem about not about not returning to Spain and we mentioned that very likely there never was such a harem but it was sort of self-understood you don't come back to the country where they're either going to convert you or kill you today we're going to speak about another Harem this is a fascinating serum just to give you a little bit of the backdrop of historically what was taking place you have to understand there was a major you have to understand there was a major divide between two areas of Tyra and Europe you had the valetis in Germany and in France and the climate there the atmosphere there was very different than it was in Spain in Germany and in France it was more of a traditional approach focused only on talmadably there was no studying other disciplines Rashi tices [Music] they sat and they learned Tyra they did not involve in other Pursuits and other disciplines however Spain was more open-minded more broad-minded and many of the godalia Israel focused heavily not only on learning but also on philosophy including as we know the rambam and that was one of the controversial points about the ramen where the rabbonim of France primarily northern France were against the rambams but the regime of Southern France but the regime of Southern France supported the ramamura with the exception of they actually vehemently opposed the ramam and the emphasis on philosophy became very troubling specifically to a reshine by the name of hayaki now what is the word means the Moon yes that's why what

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