As Almohad Islamists Rose Up, Rambam Speaks Up for Jews Forced to Convert - By Rabbi YY Jacobson

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[Music] good morning welcome to all we're going to learn today Basel Hashem part of a historical an extraordinary document a letter that the Rambam wrote when he was a young man 27 years old known as a garis harsh mud the letter of mud of conversion or in other sources it's known as my mare kiddush Hashem the known as my mare kiddush Hashem the essay about the sanctification of Hashem is name I want to put it in context and give a brief introduction anybody who's following the news knows that the hardest probably most important serious and really horrific theme today in the news is the rise of Isis and it's news is the rise of Isis and it's extraordinary success I hope you all won't leave if I dare to say that the issue of Isis is even more serious than global warming nobody left the room Baruch Hashem if you follow the news we always hear about you follow the news we always hear about the conflict playing out across the Middle East and you always hear about the fighting between the Sunnis and the Shiites they are the two main sects of Islam but I think if you'll ask many people Meisner what's the difference between them what other Sunnis what are between them what other Sunnis what are the Shiites few of us have any serious knowledge about it including your speaker this morning but I do want to take a look at some of the history and the geopolitics in order to be able to understand a little bit of what's going on and this you'll see is an introduction to this letter of the Rambam there are around 1.6 billion

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1. 6:41thinkers and philosophers and illogical thora teas and all of our history Mabini moisha Ben Maimon…
2. 12:52and he writes about it he could never make peace with what the almohads did with…
3. 18:57of their coming where they're going unless you were gone Milam you learned Amari see what's…
4. 25:09was asked this question that not experienced the Sh'ma that these Jews experienced in other words…
5. 31:26Shem told moisha he set four times in his heart and then he would tell it…
6. 37:37kya Marshall a Corolla vulva kala Paschal initially the times of Elio one of the all…
7. 43:46making up stories they know the situation they talk about the situation and yet Hashem is…
8. 49:59la semana que no kitano anak neva they say no we would say okay he disgraced…
9. 56:08David Lovitz father was a shy his father was Ovid his mother was Russ the daughter…

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