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SZ Series Episode 14: With Dr. David Sclar discussing the Ramchal controversy

SeforimChatter with Nachi Weinstein

Dr. David Sclar discusses the Ramchal controversy and its connection to Sabbateanism.

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hi everyone welcome to the 14th episode of the sparm chatter series on shops sites Fe on this episode of the series I spoke with Dr David sclar and we discussed the ramal controversy with r which occurred in the early to mid 18th century some of what we discussed in this episode was discussed in a previous episode with Dr scar about the ral's life but in this episode we went more in depth on the controversy how it related to sanism the Rams and his group mem their outlook on messianism and of this Farm chatter podcast and another episode of the series on shops sites V on this episode of the podcast I'm going to be joined by Dr David scar once again and we will be discussing the Ral controversy that took place with L so thank you Dr scar for joining me once again thank you it's a pleasure okay so I first of all mention to listeners you know about the ramal and his whole life including the controversy we did this discuss on a previous episode which I can it's on it's in the episodes a while back but I will put a link to that in back but I will put a link to that in the show's notes again so people can just easily find it but for this episode we're going to go a little bit more in depth on the controversy and just to discuss the controversy and how it relates to sanism and how that all occurred so let's I guess start off again with the controversy where did it start and how did this uh you know take what year was it and how to take place okay so r or M he lived between 1707 he died in probably 1746 maybe

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  1. 0:02hi everyone welcome to the 14th episode of the sparm chatter series on shops sites Fe
  2. 6:42to Vienna one to Villa um you know the this man is astonishing this young man
  3. 12:51directions you keep going but let me just jump in with a couple small comments for
  4. 19:01conversion to Islam and his death there had been some notion in his mind and it's
  5. 25:15supposed to be some some something demonic um and then there are other rabbis in Venice
  6. 31:27defined because and this is where I would really um encourage your readers to look deeply
  7. 37:08this other members of the group not necessarily so and especially after the oath was signed
  8. 43:15not previously been looked at um Ben generally just would take something and even publish it
  9. 49:26generally that that took place or became much more prominent this issue of how do we
  10. 55:41the particular concerns of whomever was you know whoever authored it so you have bands that

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