Parshas Vayeira: The Rashba's Cherem of 1305 Against Interpreting Avraham & Sarah Allegorically

What’s said in this shiur

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

this week's Parsha was obviously Spanish history and I try to avoid it but I couldn't help it um but you'll see what I mean okay let's begin in the following way we're going to begin with one of the all-time great Spanish leaders and not because uh not for the state not for the sake of the trip but just to get back around for the topic of the parish that we're going to speak about I'm sure everybody has heard this name I'm sure almost everybody here I'm sure everybody here is familiar with this luminary the name is nobody learns gamara without studying the rash Brothers one of the most of all the reshine him he was born in Barcelona in 1235 he passed away in the year 1310. okay the rajwa begins his career as a financier he begins his career in business but he was recognized all over the world as a great Dominic scholar as a great rabbi and he was soon asked to become the greatest uh the leader of barcelonian jewry and ultimately the leader of Spanish jury and one of the leaders of Claudia Israel in his time now just to get a little inkling just to give you a little picture of who the rajable was to appreciate what's going on over here firstly we know the rajva wrote many many chuvais how many chupas are as well everybody anyone who was in Yeshiva is familiar with the tuba sarajeva there are 1295 Chivas okay no computers this is

Jump to a moment

1. 0:30this week's Parsha was obviously Spanish history and I try to avoid it but I couldn't…
2. 5:18does anyone listen they want to is there any way to enforce the takana no basically…
3. 10:06that the rajva didn't learn your xiaomi or forget you shami you know why nihirin someone…
4. 15:01illustrations they were certain areas that were very serious and intense they did not study secular…
5. 20:31um away from the Torah and eventually lead to fira gamura except by the way they…
6. 25:19villain on your arm opposite of your heart and on your head opposite your mind you…
7. 30:07is what's the shot all right what's the plan the answer is there's certain things in…
8. 35:26it wasn't like today when they had an asifa in a big building and they said…
9. 40:16very into learning the riff what's the Riff the roof is like you know but people…
10. 45:06says you know what I never learned a lot about my family because my father the…

Every second of this shiur plays inside Lehallel — a filtered YouTube library where each video was reviewed against one written standard before it could appear. No ads, no comments, no autoplay into anything unapproved.