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Journey To Spain: Visiting Spain - The Mystery of the Cherem Part 1

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Rabbi Daniel Glatstein

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and I want to speak about the topic of going to Spain in the year 2016 the Spanish government which began to have somewhat of a turnaround in their attitude toward the Jewish community they announced the development that Spain was considering issuing passports to descendants of Jews that were exiled in 1492 as a way of a sort of reparation like the what the German government did to to pay War reparations you know try to make things good again and one of the rabbis uh Rabbi avinar who is the religious Zionist rabbi and he came out with a proclamation that he forbids it's forbidden for Israelis to obtain a passport as uh and that this gesture is just a political ruse to make up for the expulsion of Jews what they're going to kick out 200 000 Jews they're gonna burn people at the stake they're going to burn people in the Inquisition led by Thomas D turkamada and any Jew Who had who was suspected of secretly observing the religion would be burnt the the smell of burning flesh wafted throughout the country and then they're gonna give some hidden passports and everything is good and then everything in Khan you know no more hakapadas all we need to do is stamp your passport and we could barbecue you and then we could give you a passport no nobody is allowed to accept such a passport and we know that uh in recent times the Spanish government offered citizenship to uh to Jews of Spanish descent Legend has it and more than Legend sociologists right that something like 80 percent of

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  1. 0:33and I want to speak about the topic of going to Spain in the year 2016
  2. 5:24um and the article in hamar was written shortly after 1969 and it's basically a scathing
  3. 9:09all generations and until this day no Jew would ever have the audacity no loyal Jew
  4. 12:58this conscious hamar but he this article says this Rabbi is showing that he's willing to
  5. 17:17spartic name toledano is a compound word it means Toledo no idano Toledo no meaning we
  6. 21:00that we took a we would never return no he doesn't mention anything like that in
  7. 24:45could say you know peace unto me I don't know anything about any haskam and who
  8. 29:01no Rabbi ever wants to go there they're never their requests are never acceded to and
  9. 32:52there is no reliable source that there was made by the Torah Giants meaning in the
  10. 36:30in his contemporary problems volume one he BR he brings from rabbitovio in an article which

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