The Spanish Inquisition On Fire

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

[music] >> A couple summers ago I had the great privilege of going to [music] Spain. And Spain has a territory called Tarragona. And I got to learn a lot about the chief rabbi of this territory called Rebi Yitzchak Arama. He was one of the great Rishonim. He lived many hundreds of years ago. The Akedat Yitzchak. >> [music] >> And he was the chief rabbi of this region during the time of the Spanish Inquisition, a very difficult time for the Jewish people. And one day he gets a knock on the door that a whole group of Jew of of people in his kehilla are there and they say, "Rabbi, we [music] are becoming Christian. We're not asking you, we're telling you. We have one question for you though. When we become Christian, because it's just way too hard, are we like still Jews and we're going to like be held responsible for all not doing all these things or like once we

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1. 0:00[music] >> A couple summers ago I had the great privilege of going to [music] Spain.…
2. 0:32region during the time of the Spanish Inquisition, a very difficult time for the Jewish people.…
3. 1:33We never agreed to any of this. It is way too hard. Our great great grandparents…
4. 2:04from me? What does my nishama know about me and my physical world? Me in 1492…
5. 2:34It knew all about your upbringing. It knew about your neighbors. It knew about your parents'…
6. 3:34>> [music] >> that was designed for your lifestyle to make it the absolute best, to…

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