Why Did the Church Burn the Books of Maimonides?

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi YY Jacobson’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

even among jewish histories filled with people of piety scholarship sages philosophers thinkers writers writers geniuses of all forms and colors and i don't have to tell you how many authors we have in our history we are called not in vain the people of the book the amha safer and yet from such a long and rich incredible history a nation that has produced so much talent talent so many people who contributed to the jewish world and to civilization among all of these giants their stands above them all like the shamash by the hanukkah menorah a tower towering giant on whose tombstone in tiberius israel is engraved the epitaph administration from moses to moses there arose no one like moses meaning from the first moses like moses meaning from the first moses moshe rabbenu who made us up molded us into a nation emancipated us from egyptian tyranny gave us the torah the greatest prophet and leader of jewish history until moses moshe ben meinman who lives thousands of years later in the 12th century nobody like moses there was a famous jewish poet his name was rabbi yehuda al-kharisi and he once wrote about maimonides he says it was because of an individual like you it was because of an individual like you for whom god said in genesis let us make man in our image and in our visage in other words he saw maimonides as the ultimate human being the ideal of what a human being can become somebody who truly reflects the divine image what was it about this individual even in his lifetime the jews of yemen inserted into the kaddish his name they would say you know we say yes god always

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