Why Were Maimonides’ Works Burned and Banned? | Show & Tale: YU Maimonides Exhibit | Pt. 3

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The opening of this shiur, in 18Forty’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

our series show and tell will take you inside some of the great libraries both public and private to explore books and treasures from Jewish history you divided this whole exhibit up into like three parts and the room that we were just in was called luminaries luminary luminary Commodities now we're stepping into this new this is almost like the biggest room looks like it has the most manuscripts etc etc so what room is this this is called Radiance and what are you trying to show in this room so this is the expansion of his legacy in the other room which was luminary we had maimonides himself and his immediate impact and those following two centuries here this Radiance it's now outside of maimonides as a person which gets back to sort of where we are today and how we imagine the ways the the impact the influence and um simply the expansion of his writings and his legacy itself so show me here where do we see that I mean I see something gorgeous manual so we have we have two main parts to this okay one is this is really covering the 15th and 16th until through the 18th century it's What's called the early modern period that's what that's what academics refer to it as the most important element of that is the the invention of printing with

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1. 0:00our series show and tell will take you inside some of the great libraries both public…
2. 0:30the most manuscripts etc etc so what room is this this is called Radiance and what…
3. 1:33movable type that means now the printing press Johannes Gutenberg invents the printing press with movable…
4. 2:34centuries there starts to be a diverse diversification a compartmentalization of these ideas so then you'll…
5. 3:36so that means the printing press is what it can do besides spreading knowledge is that…
6. 4:39printing Story the importance of print and the development of Technology by the mid 16th century…
7. 5:40his commentary that is Rabbi mayor katzen allenbogan pulls his commentary exactly went to a rival…
8. 6:43their orders this goes back and forth churches is like enough there's a cons there's a…
9. 7:44destruction because it was a commentary on the mission Atara written not printed this is from…
10. 8:44we're now binding used in our on shelves today uh used as part of bindings of…

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