Parshas Chukas: Burning of Torah Manuscripts in France

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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.

[Music] thank you [Music] so what I want to bring to your attention once we spoke about the Rabino Yona in the Shari tuva I want to speak about today we're now holding yeah we're in the sixth day of the week foreign number 14 on your sheets a Jew should cry over the burning of the Torah then on this day the Tyro was given over to the clip ice to the forces of impurity and the sort of we lost we lost the tower we lost control over the time what's this talking about says the safer Tanya now this should not be confused with the valatania the safer Tanya the valatania the safer Tanya and uh for for many many years I did not know what is the safer Tanya clearly it's not the the safer Tanya the Magnum came before the Tanya I happened to figure it out tonight that on Friday Parcels Dominic is that you feed him fast why because on this day in France 20 cart loads of svarim were burnt in France now you have to understand we're talking in you have to understand we're talking in the 13th century 13th century the printing press had not been discovered yet all these Shahs all the words of The Shining were because it could take years decades to write a whole Shas 20 cart loads of pharah meant manuscripts of rishina meant Shasta that were lost forever that means that were never recovered they were exactly 1 200 documents of history that were never replaced it was a

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2. 1:41you have to understand we're talking in the 13th century 13th century the printing press had…
3. 3:49there's an amazing historical uh fact that when titasa Russia exiled claudi Israel from there were…
4. 5:56all the earliest recorded source that we have from the reshinam of the burning of the…
5. 7:58and mid-russian to his ideas but the ramam does quote secular sources he quotes from Aristotle…
6. 10:02with the Torah why would you want to reconcile Torah with a Greek philosophy or Arabic…
7. 12:05agree with certain things however he did not allow his disagreement to affect his his value…
8. 14:1112 34. seven years later in 1242 now don't ask me how seven years after 12…
9. 16:11because they realized the there's something wrong over here this is not the right way to…
10. 18:13for the punishment maybe it was some other Avira he says like this in the same…

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