Journey to France: Paris - Napoleon and His Mock Sanhedrin

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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.

more convenient not to have anything to carry around including luggage is that things are very overrated who needs things so uh as long as you're here that's all that counts as hilo would say when he came to the simcoe space station if you're here that's all we need so first we want to give a big extra kayak to avi roya who put in many many sleepless nights and countless hours of preparing for this trip we've been discussing this for many months and thank you very much i'm sure we'll all have a terrific time i want to welcome a very special participant it's a big cover that we have my father with us thank you very much and my father has been prepping me for this trip for all the different rushes and material so whatever i give over i'm sure my father could give you uh in even greater detail okay so let's begin by getting a little bit of a historical context for the individual that we're going to now we're going to the camera of david sinsheim and i'm going to try to uh give you most of the information now because we're a little bit short on time and at the camera we'll just talk about the zipcos and the time but now uh let's just try to get some of the historical background of this individual from your safe david sintein 1745-1813 now when you speak about european life at the beginning of the 19th century the central character of importance is napoleon napoleon bonaparte not only did he inflict war upon all the neighboring european countries but napoleon had a major impact on european jewish life his remarkable rise and fall [Music] what closer his remarkable rise and fall contributed mightily to the dismantling of

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1. 0:33more convenient not to have anything to carry around including luggage is that things are very…
2. 1:34uh in even greater detail okay so let's begin by getting a little bit of a…
3. 3:08hundreds of years and most jews held napoleon in great esteem and they considered him a…
4. 4:44of prussia in 1812 so napoleon had a tremendous influence not only on french treaty but…
5. 5:47napoleon stated that the jews were dangerous and they could not be allowed to live on…
6. 7:22prohibited from intermarrying with christians question number five what line of conduct does jewish law prescribe…
7. 9:00and the leader in jerusalem at the time was revyamptiv al-ghazi and rabbyanti palgazi offered official…
8. 10:03to palestine in 1799 is the big question and with mahmoud of breslin was in the…
9. 11:36they he napoleon considered himself a messianic figure a religious figure and napoleon said if he…
10. 13:13strangely constituted sanhedrin and with great skill and diplomacy patience wisdom he was successful in diluting…

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