Rabbi Berel Wein The Spanish Inquisition Expulsion

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[Music] today I wanted to discuss with you last time the barber Nell and today I want to discuss so to speak to fall out of what happened gamers swore out of the Jews being expelled from Spain its effect on both the smiting and on the Ashkenazi both the smiting and on the Ashkenazi because it had a profound effect I would say that until the Holocaust until World War two after the hoarding by usury shown on now kumbaya Shanee I mean after the destruction of the Second Temple the two main cataclysmic terrible events in Jewish history that occurred would be the expulsion of the Jews of Spain and Zahra stalked Fatah the destruction of Eastern European Jewry in 1648 and 1649 Eastern European Jewry in 1648 and 1649 in terms of numbers and in terms of the effect now we're talking about a time of constant persecution you know like pogroms but that's like the regular you know like we get used to the Intifada so that you know yeah a few bombs that they mortars in Gaza and all of these things so we're accustomed to it so it really doesn't do you know five it so it really doesn't do you know five years ago or ten years ago where 20 years ago it may have shocked us today when you're accustomed to it so it doesn't have that effect so the pogroms didn't have that effect either they don't have a Cadiz rule cataclysmic effect on the Jewish people though it says the world is coming to an end because the the the Christians make a pogrom and Easter are on Good Friday but these two events are so large and they cover such a an enormous event because

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