Journey to Spain 2023: Disputation at Barcelona - The Ramban's Humility Even in Debate

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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.

he passed away in 1270. in 1263 Pablo christiani submitted to King James of Aragon that he could prove from the talmud itself that the amaran believed that the Messiah had already come in other words he was going to support his beliefs in Christianity from the talmud itself as we mentioned the most venomous enemies and opponents of Judaism are always the Jewish apostates as we mentioned the greatest threat to the Jewish people are Jews not Gentiles this has been throughout our history whether it was the Messiah name in the times of Hanukkah and there are many uh examples of this whether it was the Bolsheviks you know the Bolsheviks were more successful in eradicating Judaism in 10 years than the Russian government in a hundred years and the ramban was the only one suited for this job to be able to debate Pablo christiani and the the debate took place in that Public Square where we just were in Barcelona and you can imagine King James of Aragon was sitting there and the condition was the ramban said he had to have complete freedom of speech and it was a very dangerous for the ramban to defend traditional Judaism in front of all of these monks and Cardinals and not only did the ramban do a valiant job and not only did he defend traditional Judaism but the ramban moved to the offensive he straightforwardly attacked the Trinity he said the Trinity is an insult to human intelligence said worse Christianity was hypocrisy is Christianity a religion of love and kindness from the time of Yeshua until today the world has been filled with violence

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2. 1:00always the Jewish apostates as we mentioned the greatest threat to the Jewish people are Jews…
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4. 2:01Cardinals and not only did the ramban do a valiant job and not only did he…
5. 2:32and Injustice with the shedding of more blood by his followers than of any other Creed…
6. 3:03leave garona for two years and he had a six-month grace period and the ramban did…
7. 3:33and he said but you people think that it's fulfilled with you rabbis you rabbis don't…
8. 4:06means someone who teaches Torah and then the ramban says I am neither of sovereignty nor…
9. 4:37tenets of the religion is this a time for the ramban to downplay his worthiness is…
10. 5:08by the extent of the humility of the ramban that here he is he's publicly debating…

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