Journey to Amsterdam: The Kever of Rabbi Menashe ben Israel, Jewish Sefardic Cemetery

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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.

Murano family his family is from either Madeira or from Lisbon and they were crypto Jews and they were accused of judaizing by the Inquisition and his father escapes just in a split second timing from being burnt at the auto defe and he comes to Amsterdam you have to understand the Jews in Amsterdam at the time had been indoctrinated with Christian theology for a very long time and many of the works that Menasha and Israel wrote were to address the corrupted Christian views that Jews had maintained and held on to very strongly so Menasha and Israel wrote a safer called nishma shayam actually there is a rub in Kew Garden Hills who republished it was the book proving the immortality of the Jewish Soul Menasha bin Israel wrote book mikvay Israel or in Spanish Esperanza de Israel which expressed the yearning for the coming of mashiach all of these Works were translated into number languages into Latin into Portuguese into English Menasha and Israel believed that the American Indians were the Assassin he writes that the American Indians were the ten tribes by the way menashement is also writes something very interesting he says that when the when mashiach comes American Jews will return Terrace Israel with their money with their money he says so um but some say American Jews refers to Jews of Central America he doesn't have any predictions of the Jews of Borough Park and Flatbush he writes the book penne rabba an index of the matter shrabah he writes the book Israel he writes a book conciliador so I have the title page over here conciliador reconciled all of the difficult passages in the Tanakh now Menasha and Israel comes to Amsterdam and in a certain

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1. 0:32Murano family his family is from either Madeira or from Lisbon and they were crypto Jews…
2. 1:04corrupted Christian views that Jews had maintained and held on to very strongly so Menasha and…
3. 1:37number languages into Latin into Portuguese into English Menasha and Israel believed that the American Indians…
4. 2:07with their money he says so um but some say American Jews refers to Jews of…
5. 2:40sense he would he was shortchanged because the leading Rabbi at the time was rabbi shul…
6. 3:10himself even his writing wasn't enough to support himself by the way he opened up the…
7. 3:43has offered the rabbinette in Brazil which frees up the assistant Rabbi job here in Amsterdam…
8. 4:16England he had audience with Oliver Cromwell and he petitioned for the return of the Jewish…
9. 4:48premature death at the age of 53 here in Amsterdam however the petition of um master…
10. 5:19times so he was a synthesis of emuna and Tamir babli and in desire akadash he…

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