Journey to Portugal: Porto - The Saga of Avraham Saba & the Kidnapping & Baptism of King Emanuel

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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.

the year of the passing of that barbanell so immediately you see that he lived through the time of the Spanish explosion and in fact the tragic story of ravia from Sabah is really the illustration of immune inhumanity that could be perpetrated in the name of religion is born in Castile was a student of rabies de Leon who instructed him in Kabbalah by the time of the Inquisition Ravi avram saddle was already 52 years old we are from Saba flee Spain he comes to Portugal and he comes to aparto the city we're about to go to was the city where Rabia ramsaba came he was looking for a safe haven but it was not meant to be now in his first peaceful years in Portugal in aparto revia from completed his momentous commentary on the Flemish what is it called hamar and his commentary on the McGillis which is called Escuela and also a commentary on of perkiavos as we mentioned in 1496 the Jews are expelled from Portugal but King Emmanuel had a terrible surprise and store for the Jews of Portugal as we mentioned on the first day of pesach and according to the account of Rabbi zacharya fandel all Jewish children below the age of 18. were kidnapped and baptized Rabia from had his two sons taken away from before his eyes kidnapped baptized and he never saw them again but that was not all ruby Abram had a very extensive library of manuscripts of hand-written ancient documents and foreign they were confiscated and burnt publicly in Lisbon together with thousands of other sorrows so he's bereft of his children distraught about his life's collection he flees to Lisbon with a secret treasure the secret treasure is his personal manuscripts of

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1. 0:33the year of the passing of that barbanell so immediately you see that he lived through…
2. 1:06we are from Saba flee Spain he comes to Portugal and he comes to aparto the…
3. 1:37is called Escuela and also a commentary on of perkiavos as we mentioned in 1496 the…
4. 2:48the hamar and the Esko hakai Fair one day it will be Abram's family tells him…
5. 3:20is going to be showing us all the olive trees in Lisbon we're going to be…
6. 4:23miguelas Rose I want to share with you one amazing writes he says I'm telling you…
7. 4:56because they rested on the 25th day it should be then wonderful person is very busy…
8. 5:26because krishma is basically the cliff node version of kalatarakula by the way this is not…
9. 6:41at the end of Ravi avram sabha's life he was on a ship and it was…
10. 7:15pray for the safe return of the ship if you promised me that you will bring…

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