Journey To Spain: Visiting Spain - The Mystery of the Cherem Part 2

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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.

A week from tomorrow I have the opportunity uh to uh speak on a trip to España, to Spain, to Amsterdam, to Portugal. And we began discussing this topic. So next Monday, the next two Mondays, there will not be share. So um in 1968, we discussed last week, permission was given by the Franco government for a repair of a ancient shul in Madrid. And the question was therefore raised about whether settlement and visiting Spain is authorized. We quoted an article in the Kislev Teves edition of Hamar 1969. And the author says that following the Spanish expulsion, rabbinic authorities of that generation placed a ban for any Jew to establish residence there. And it is alleged that that ban was promulgated for 400 years, but then was later accepted by uh later generations as a decree. And because this prohibition has been accepted by all of Klal Yisrael, so ain beis din yakhol levatto divrei beis din chaveirai elam kein gadol mimeno bechakhma uveminyan. We uh cited the letter of Rabbi Yitzchak that he says that there is no source for a not to live in Spain. There is no vow. Probably he says it's reasonable they were not more than living in Spain. And they never perhaps even if there was an issue it was only to settle there permanently and not for the sake of business. For business it was permitted. Um that was what we learned last week. Uh the Rabbi Eliezer also uh began a search for what is the basis of this uh ban. And because there's no authoritative source at first glance the Rabbi Eliezer uh it would seem that it cannot be prohibited. Especially because um there were many who recorded their

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7. 25:58Does anybody know what year the Inquisition was disbanded in Spain? It lasted for almost 400…
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