Journey to Germany : Maintz - The Saga of the Son of Rabbeinu Gershon

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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.

in the ground in the water and let's speak about rabino garchon again because we spoke about his great contributions to the jewish people but there was another takona that he made and that is he forbid yiddin to shame those who renounce their judaism under duress and then returned throughout history there is this there's always been a struggle between the rabbanim and the hamoinam whether to accept back jews who gave up on their religion on their religion the jews who who were courageous and would not give up their religion did not always embrace their fellow brethren who renounced their judaism and came back when it was convenient for them but the rabbanim always tried to accept them willingly knowing that if we didn't accept them they would be lost forever and one of the haram of venus because it was common christian tactic to forcibly convert yidan by threatening them with death or explosion there were entire communities in germany there were entire communities in germany and france that gave up their lives but not everyone was able to withstand now rabbino gershon personally suffered numerous tragedies his wife died tragically and then he moved to maine's to first to mets and then to maine's some say his only son or perhaps one of two sons in the year 1012 there was a priest here in maine's who converted to judaism and was burned at the stake and the church

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