Journey to Portugal: Lisbon - The Riveting Messianic Account of Dovid HaReuveini & Shlomo Molcho

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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.

1496 explosion from Portugal in 1504 erupted 1506 is the year of dreadful plague in Portugal thousands of conversos were slain in a continuing series of pogroms the worst occurring here in Lisbon it became so bad that Emmanuel actually because there was so much instability he allowed conversos to leave the country that changed later on but I'm just telling you what the backdrop of the story is so on to the scene of this woeful unstable situation steps one of the most mysterious characters in Jewish history charlatan madman genius scholar believer Defender opportunist hero villain among other wonderful qualities he's all one and the same and his effect on spartic jury and the world was apical uh Apollo apocalyptic apocalyptic thank you so he's a a swarthy Jew he's dressed like an Arab he appears in 1523 in Egypt he identifies himself as a member of the tribe of ruvane exiled by King sankherev he comes from the other side of the sambalion river river he claims to have letters and credentials to be from the Jewish King of the assaultim and he has come to meet with the Pope for a secret venture what's the secret Venture he's going to join forces as the king of the Assassin he's going to join forces with the Pope to free the Land of Israel where the land of Israel would become a Jewish state so the pope what's in it for the pope was the pope would get control of all Christian holy places and the trade routes and in

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2. 1:02telling you what the backdrop of the story is so on to the scene of this…
3. 2:02credentials to be from the Jewish King of the assaultim and he has come to meet…
4. 2:35exchange for that Israel would become a Jewish state so that the conversos have a safe…
5. 3:37and he approves of the plan to free Jerusalem and Israel from the Muslim infidels but…
6. 4:40the woodwork he takes a Muslim maidservant he publicly converts her to Judaism and now he…
7. 5:10a concern a descendant of a commercial family child prodigy and he's 20 years he's a…
8. 6:14is having all kinds of visions of the eminent the imminent Messianic Deliverance now in some…
9. 6:44to enlist the Emperor of Germany's Aid to support the war against the Muslims in in…
10. 7:45much romanticized but later on in history he was more considered a false Messiah David haruveni…

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