אל תשמרו את התוכן הזה רק לעצמכם, שתפו אותו ותנו לו לעזור לאחרים.

חזק וברוך. כמה הערות: -מאוד שמחתי שהדגשת את ההבדל בין אנוסי ספרד ופורטוגאל. יש לציין שגם רוב האנוסים שיצאו מספרד במאה ה17 ו18 היו צאצאים של היהודים שנוצרו בכוח בפורטוגאל. הרבה מהם עברו לספרד, בעיקר אנדלושיה, בזמן שהחקירה שם ירדה קצת מרדיפת היהודים במאה ה17. עוד דבר לציין הוא שרוב היהודים שהגיעו לפורטוגאל ב1492 לא התכוונו להשאר שם. -בפורטוגאל לקחו את הילדים של כל היהודים ונצרו אותם כדי לשכנע את ההורים גם להתנצר, כי לפי הכנסיה הטבלה בכוח של מבוגר לא תופס. אחר כך מצאו לזה תרוץ. -זה לא ממש נכון שיהדות האנוסים היתה סוג של קראות. זה רעיון שהמציאו על בסיס הסיפור של אוריאל דא קושטא, אבל הוא מקרה מיוחד שלא מיצג את הרוב. היהדות בסתר של אנוסי פורטוגאל הועברה בעל פה ולא הייתה מבוססת על ספרים. ד''א, לאנוסים שלמדו באוניברסיטה כן היתה גישה לתלמוד וכתבים רבניים אחרים. -הכתבים של נתניהו מדברים רק על הגל הראשון של מתנצרים בספרד, ורק על כמה שו''תים בנושא, זה לא מחקר רציני. מעניינת התשובה של הרשב''ש, כנראה השאלה הגיעה ממאיורקא, כי crespells הם עוגיות טיפוסיות שעד היום אוכלים שם בתקופת פסח. -הסיפור של "שודדי הים" זה נחמד אבל לרוב זה סיפורים ומיתוסים, לא היסטוריה. -הקהילה הפורטוגיזית באמשטרדאם שנשרדה שמה ק''ק תלמוד תורה, לא נוה שלום. נוה שלום הייתה במאה ה17. אני ממליץ לקרוא את הספר של François Soyer, The Persecution of the Jews and Muslims of Portugal וספריו של יוסף חיים ירושלמי

Beautifully presented! Thanks🌻

Up untill today, in Most parts of Israel, most Jews and Arabs and other faiths do integrate and live quite peacefully in Israel. When we lived in Tsfat, our local butcher was selling kosher meat to local Muslim customers calling them "Habibies". So all these recent and past conflicts are only among 'small' minorities-mostly who are poorly educated with 'tribal' awareness. There seems like more problems about this integration peace outside Israel than Inside, mostly related to lacking in halahik and or shariya ethics and subsequently moral awareness. Rabbi Joseph explained this very kindly! With regards to the aspect to beauty as given and we are talking not just רָחֵל who was represented as 'Tzdkh' which is the 'lower' level of what 'we' know, despite we all see it as 'high', in the concept of 'kblh', it is represented as a complete formation visually presented as perfection we all seems like strive for, however is lower when comparing to לאה on the bigger canvas. Kind regards, Oksanah 🌺

Beatifull! Thanks for sharing

Merci beaucoup pour ce cours en français

מרתק

12:57 He marries HER** sister Leah

תודה רבה על השיעור הזה! Such a vital subject given so well One thing i feel goes unnoticed by the mefarshim is regardless of the witch's conjuring Sh'muel Havi's spirit or faking it or HaShem brigning his soul forth, Shaul HaMelekh believed she could do it. Id assume we could just chalk it up to him being desperate and not thinking logically? In regards to the machloket in the Gemara, i think the fact there was a machloket in the first place reveals its not part of our Masoret to believe in its efficacy and thus just as with the medical advice of the Gemara, we hold by the science of our times (which unanimously agrees magic doesn't exist).

Has Rav Yehudah Sloss written any sephorim?

חזק וברוך!

תודה על השיעור הזה! I find it interesting the Maharil (Ran & others) would claim there's kedusha at kivre sadikim when the halakha is clear cut all metim impart tuma. It reminds of what Hakham Faur in Horizontal Society vol 1 wrote about the folly of making our rabbanim into heroes and choosing zeal over halakha

Very compelling compromise and conclusion. Hazaq! Those who are obsessed with going to the Ohel and write letters to the Rebbi, it sounds very much that that has become their Judaism/mahut and qualifies as "lefanot" and therefore problematic. If that is not Doresh el HaMetim I'm not sure what is.

Thank you for the great session! Very good idea to fragment questions by time frames as it helps to recap and revise. Good pace and amazing variety of questions. Thank you

Timestamps: 5:08 Does the potential existence of aliens detract from Tora? 10:59 How did the generation of the Exodus and David haMelekh, despite their closeness to God, sin so greatly? 25:40 Can we determine the kashrut of a product based on ingredients? 30:10 Is it permitted to turn on LED lights on shabbat (in one's own home)? 36:09 Why does 'Erub Tabshilin apply to all kinds of preparation from Yom Tob to Shabbat? 41:39 To what extent is one allowed to pick and choose between halakhic opinions? 44:54 How should the loss of a Rabbi be interpreted? 47:49 What are the definitions of a minhag ta'ut and a minhag shetut (a mistaken/silly custom)? May one 'opt out' of such minhagim? 53:33 Why was Eve tempted by the snake?

חבל על דאבדין ולה משתכחין זכותו תגן בעדנו

תודה למארחים ותודה לפרופ גמליאל, שחולק איתנו את הידע הרב שיש לו בנוסף, כמה טוב לשמוע דברים המבוססים על מחקרים

This is such a powerful reflection on what it means to experience Rosh Hashanah. To truly see oneself from outside oneself is a difficult task. To peer so far inward - one must be almost Divinely outside of themselves. Thank you for this shiur

What a wonderful shi3ur!

It’s hard to believe that every occurrence of a miracle in Tanakh is purely logistical and not meant to induce belief. That’s simply not how most people throughout history have related to miracles, nor how they do now.

I never understood ״יש בלבו דופי״ that way at all. Rambam isn’t saying that if you believe because of a miracle, you have a crooked heart. He’s saying that when someone believes because of a miracle, they don’t believe wholeheartedly, because they think to themselves, “Maybe there was some sleight of hand involved.”

שיעור מועיל מלמד ומעורר מחשבה. תודה ל'החבורה'

על שיעור נפלא כזה - ושאר שיעורי חכם אברהם פאור שליט''א בסדרה הזאת - יש לברך ברוך פוקח עיוורים!! ממש מאיר עיני חכמים בשורשי התורה שבעל פה לעומק ביסודיות ובהירות נפלאה

שיעור ממש מעניין!

Amazing

The very Jewish presence among Christians is an affront to Christians.. that's the problem. Jews by their very existence attack Christian beliefs and sentiments by denying the theology of Jesus Christ.. To live among us and then to hold the position that the God of the Christians was a fraud and a poor excuse of a Messiah and deserved his cruel fate is unacceptable and by reasoning cannot continue to exist with Christians whose belief and faith is wholly centered on the person of Jesus Christ. Other faiths ,while denying the dogmas of Christianity nevertheless show respect and admiration for the one who changed the course of history in the Western World if not everywhere. Jews pretend they just cannot understand why and where the hatred comes from.. they should learn the real truth.

You don't have to be Sephardi to agree with the good Hakham.

Can someone please do a video on the Yemeni orphans decree? I don't have access to Hebrew language sources

נתקלתי בסרטון זה במקרה (חיפשתי פרשנות לפיוט כתר מלכות של ר'אבן גבירול) חייבת לציין שתענוג להאזין לדבריך גם מבחינת התוכן הכה איכותי ומעניין ומעשיר והן מבחינת צליל העברית היפה והמתנגנת. תודה לך 🙏

Constantine didn’t make Christianity the religion of Rome, he merely legalized the religion and removed the possibility of persecution of Christianity by the state. It was the Theodosian decrees that effectively outlawed Christianity starting around 390.

Alot of modern antisemitism comes from propaganda and ignorance. Same type of propaganda that was pushed in WW2 seems to be being pushed now. Many Christian churches may have been infiltrated by "wolves in sheep's clothing". Lots of propaganda is pushed by muslims and other antisemitic forces, but to claim the gospels are antisemitic is silly. Has this woman read the new testament or the quran for that matter?

There was no one like Rav Kapach

As always A. Faur shows brilliant ignorance. And cherry picking definitions of terms at his convenience. His abuse of the term lead to false promises so craftly that men fall in it without even noticing it. Here is small quote from guide to the guide. You see, ʿolam does not mean eternal unless linked with ʿad-either after it, as in ʿolam vaʿed, or before, as in ʿad ʿolam. So Solomon’s saying le-ʿolam ʿomadet (endureth forever), is quite unlike David’s words moved never. David was clear as could be that the heavens will endure forever, along with all that they contain-their laws unchanged: Praise the Lord from the heavens. . . . For at His command were they created. . . . He made them to endure forever and set a law never to change (Psalms 148:1, 5, 6), meaning that the order God established will never change. For ‘law’ here means the laws of heaven and earth (Jeremiah 33:25). David says they were created: At His command were they created. Jeremiah says, He gave the sun for light by day and the laws of the moon and stars for light by night. . . . Should these laws leave Me, saith the Lord, then will Israel’s seed cease to be a nation (31:34-36). Although created, He vows, these laws will never lapse. Note on it Maimonides’ commitment to the world’s permanence, once created (subject to God’s grace), bespeaks his commitment to natural law, which he finds attested in the Psalms-a salient instance of the harmony of Scripture with the sciences that reach their assurance under the aegis of philosophy. Cf. the Stoic view cited by Alexander in De Providentia (frag. 1, Riedweg, 282-83). The real meaning of the term not that God was in naturel law which is obviously kefira. But rather he created world that has nature to it, if you want the order and if you follow this order of creation you live happy and good life not destroying your own life. (One example: God created man and woman and this is the natural law so if you decide to go against the world order and marry a man (whatever it means) you will not have kids and your mental and physical health will be destroyed) One of the hints in Torah for this numericals in the creation of the world. Numbers by their definition presuppose order.

Chazak uvarukh Hakham! Thanks for speaking the emeth about how the Geonic/Andalusian derekh ha'limud isn't just an alternative method to the pre or post Tosafot method, but the only authentic method! May HaShem have this original methodology become the mainstream

Shalom R Sina! I am reading your book "Vayiqra in Context" and really enjoying! Is there a way I can contact you?

Excellent lecture. I am a Christian and I am against anti-Semitism and anti-Jew. Christianity is a religion of love because God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. What you quoted from the Book of Matthew was what the crowd did. Your Messiah, our Lord, Jesus did not teach or imply any bit of Jew hatred. Jesus is a Jew himself. Jesus taught us to forgive our brother 70 times 7 times. Whoever, from the church, infer any bit of hatred is against the teaching of our Lord Christ. So is anything indicating anti-Semitism. I stand with Israel. ps: By the way, as I know Paul was not a tex collector but Matthew and they were both Jews.

Excellent lecture. Someone whose in command of this broad topic. It objective and insightful as any lecture should be.

חזק וברוך ותודה רבה על השיעור הזה! Whats the namd of the sefer you and Rabbi Berdugo worked on?

Thought provoking and great way to end the term. I like the willingness to engage in self examination and critique even of our own bet midrash. We should all ponder and internalize this message. Thank you for all the great shiurim.

Thank you very much. It was a very interesting talk

A common error I hear with this type of logic is Truth versus Morality however Morality is an outcome of a communities laws written and how those laws are understood. The reason laws are instituted against Emeth of Torah is to shift people’s moral centre to the point that almost anything can be justified as we have seen in the degradation of western society in areas of Modesty and sexual conduct previous unacceptable is now not even a comment of warrant a raised eyebrow. Case in point Polygyny was banned by Rome via the Roman Church enforcing Monogamy only laws which effectively changed the moral compass of society 1000 years ago in Europe this came through into secular society and even into the Modern STATE of ISRAEL as they continue the European Roman laws in this matter. However polygyny specifically has huge positive benefits in addressing the problems such as non functional wives due to illness dimentia and as well addressing issue of woman unable to be married to to insufficient matches in the monogamous marriage arrangement.

Excellent! And quite Faurian.

Ghata..

Wonderful conversation!

Wow, amazing. Can you please put videos on Spotify

Oh no, my Western sensibilities!