Journey to York - The Site of the York Massacre of 1190 The Ba'alei Hatosfos of England

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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.

uh frightening place. You walk down the street and you see museums, you see people walking the streets, and you feel like it's any other location or any other day. But this is the site of one of the most terrible massacres in all of uh English history, perhaps all of European history. But to appreciate that, you have to understand some of the background of what York was back in the 12th century. Today, by most recent account, there are only by most recent account, there are only about 191 Jews who are living in this city. That was the last statistics. But uh in the year 1190, this was a major center of Jewish learning. Many of the Baalei HaTosafos lived in York, and that's what I want to start off talking about. So we have uh individual by the name of Rabbeinu Eliyahu ben Rabbi Yosef HaKadosh. Why is he called HaKadosh? HaKadosh is because he died al Kiddush Hashem. He's called Rabbeinu Eliyahu me Oivarka. Me Oivarka means from York. That was the Me Oivarka means from York. That was the Hebrew name for York. Me Oivarka. Where do we find him? Look in Tosafos in Maseches Yoma daf chof zayin in the middle of the Tosafos. Hiksha Reb Eliyahu me Ivroyok. So you have Tosafos quotes York, cites York. So that's one example of the Baalei one of the Baalei HaTosafos. That's Tosafos in Yoma. You go to Yoma perek aleph amud beis. You look in the Tosafot Yeshanim, you have Rabbi Yehuda ben Rabbi Yosef who's having a discussion with the Re. He

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1. 0:30uh frightening place. You walk down the street and you see museums, you see people walking…
2. 1:32Me Oivarka means from York. That was the Hebrew name for York. Me Oivarka. Where do…
3. 3:04familiar with, Rabbeinu Yosef ben Asher. He's from the sages of England in the year Tav…
4. 4:07Is that how they sing it in Manchester? That's where we're going to sing it today,…
5. 5:39were very angry at the money lenders. Especially, some of the major players here was someone…
6. 6:39at each others hands rather than renounce their faith. We're going to speak about the fact…
7. 8:12ceremony over here um unveiling this area. But of course uh there's no forgiveness for them.…
8. 9:13And on this location, uh according to this plaque 150, there are other accounts that there…
9. 10:51Oh, you have the piyut? Oh, so we have um I think I actually have it…
10. 12:15Oh, we're still going? Oscar God man baby when Jose…

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