Journey to Spain 2023: The Prowess of the Rashba and the Cherem of 1305 Against Learning Philosophy

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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.

Barcelona in 1310. he did not originally start off as a rabbi he spent a number of years as a financier and he was called upon by the community in Barcelona to be their Chief rabbi just to tell you a little bit about the Eminence of the rashba and his prowess in learning I want to share with you the comments of the Bal Tara tumima I tell you I was very startled when I saw this to the point where I didn't think I could say it over I even asked the Shyla whether I'm allowed to say it the Shyla whether I'm allowed to say it over I went to the penthouse with Friedman I said the way the macarbar writes this I don't think I'm allowed to say this he said say it but say it with the following explanation the Makar Baruch writes Angelic review that there's a basic difference between the writings of the rambam and the writings of the rashva the writings of the rambam you read them and you're confronted with many questions questions there are things that don't seem to be understandable there seems to be many difficulties and yet every time you learn a rajba it's so clear the argument the logic is so Crystal Clear there are no challenges you can't ask anything on it why is that says the macarbara and he says it's because when the rambam Learned he did not teach in Yeshiva he learned and therefore there's room for question but when the rajba everything the rajva

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