Journey to France: Paris - The Location of the Burning of the Talmud in 1242

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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.

rottenberg mayor of rottenberg who wrote the kinos chalice rufa baesh so you could stand here in the streets of paris and it seems like a busy city but the stones of paris are crying out for the burning of the talmud that occurred in the year 1242 the king of france at the time was king louis ix he's known as saint louis not for his righteousness but rather for his zealousness against jewish people and especially uh the favor he showed and especially uh the favor he showed that to jewish apostates there was one such jewish apostate by the name of nicholas donon who was especially vicious to his former co-religionists he for he himself personally caused the baptism of 500 jews of anjou and potiers which is by the way which is a rarity in french jewry because rarely did jews of france convert this was something that we read about we read about in spanish story but to have jews in uh france convert and the majority of jews 3 000 convert and the majority of jews 3 000 and all in all converted uh were murdered now this is very important nicholas donan the apostate realized something that even we don't see clearly namely what is the backbone of the jewish people the backbone of claude israel is talmud is the babylonian talmud and therefore he made formal accusations to pope gregory ix that the talmud contains passages heretical to christianity the pope ordered all the copies of talmud to

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1. 0:30rottenberg mayor of rottenberg who wrote the kinos chalice rufa baesh so you could stand here…
2. 1:02and especially uh the favor he showed that to jewish apostates there was one such jewish…
3. 1:34convert and the majority of jews 3 000 and all in all converted uh were murdered…
4. 2:06pope ordered all the copies of talmud to be confiscated and march 3rd 1240 while the…
5. 3:09manuscripts of the talmud were condemned to be burned you have to understand this is 200…
6. 3:39and they made a sheila as i'm sure many of us are familiar with and they…
7. 4:10supernatural response that this was a heavenly decree rabbi hillel of verona stood here in 1242…
8. 5:14so in 1242 when they burned the shas the ashes of the burnt shas mixed with…
9. 5:44that there's no reason for this that it's a mystery it's like a para duma and…
10. 6:14element of hoik an element where we have to abandon ourselves and recognize this is xero…

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