Menashe Ben Israel, and the Prophecy of What Will Happen To the Jews of America Before Mashiach

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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.

well everyone in our community and all of our all have to fit into a very specific box and have to act a very specific way and have to teach and learn a very specific method but throughout our history we've had many great sages and who were of colorful personality and had very wide interests and uh up there among them was a great Sage by the the name of Ben Israel and we would like to speak about him today his background his uh what he accomplished during his lifetime and one of the reasons I'm speaking about it because uh we're going to be we're heading out soon in the beginning of July we're going to be visiting Spain and Amsterdam and then Portugal so I want to give you a little bit of a taste of the history of these uh countries and the personalities that grace these countries that was the name that menashev in Israel was born as because he was born to a Murano family by the way we don't like to use the word Murano Morano as a pejorative term it means Pig that was the name that the Christians hurled on us those Jews who practice Judaism and secret were called Murano so his parents were Muranos and they escaped the Otto defe just by the you know just in a split second they were able to escape Portugal the family after short stay in France they settled in Amsterdam Amsterdam had a much more open type of climate where many Muranos uh return were able to find security

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1. 1:31well everyone in our community and all of our all have to fit into a very…
2. 5:15friend his friends he was good friends with Rembrandt and there are a number of sketches…
3. 9:01and you know what was it right of him to you know how could he do…
4. 13:29truth of the words of Ghazal in many areas and he wrote many beautiful swarim and…
5. 17:19this is okay you know what's that going to do for us Menasha and Israel wrote…
6. 21:33will come first to bring your children from Far Caspa Musa with all their silver and…
7. 25:19some of the no question some of the Lost tribes live and some of them are…
8. 29:04and then menashev in Israel says that the almighty left him uh makoim to innovate and…
9. 33:19Cromwell allowed them to stay informally and later on the status quo was preserved and by…
10. 37:13as follows to Oliver Cromwell Legend has it that he was very startled by this question…

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