How Sephardic Jews Shaped the World

[@elieshasteffanson5758]

This was very informative. Thank you. I recently discovered that I have Sephardic ancestors from Spain that fled to the Netherlands. I really didn't know much about Sephardic Jews. You're right most people talk about the Ashkenazi Jews. Thank you for helping me get to know who my ancestors were.

[@MercedesCruz-qe1nj]

My maternal grandfather was a zephardic Jew from Malaga, Spain. I don't know much about him since he died when my mother was a child. Her mother disappeared from the picture, and she was raised by another family. Thank you for making me feel closer to a grandfather I never met.

[@michaelweymouth4015]

My new study partner is Sephardic, what a love for HaShem. I’m learning so much and glad I had already purchased a Sephardic Chumash as I felt I am Sephardic not anything else. Today for visiting Shalom.

[@pamelasue73]

Every class is so amazing this one is the best ever! I am learning and understanding so much from the education you are providing g and it brings a tremendous sense of peace.

[@EfraimPalvanov]

Glad to hear, thank you!

[@fredk9999]

Christian gentile here. Masterfully researched and presented. Thank you to our host presenter

[@EfraimPalvanov]

My pleasure! Thanks for watching :)

[@IamHumanWoman]

AMEN. Everyone on earth says it. That’s all I want to point out.

[@elishevabarenbaum5319]

Another gem! Toda Raba! I would just mention that I am Ashkenzai from all sides, but am not white. All my life in chul people asked me where I was from, thinking I was mediterranean, hispanic etc. The concept of white is a construct that changes. During the Shoah Ashkenzi Jews were very much not considered white but Asiatic.

[@sephardic]

Fantastic lecture! Hazak uBaruch for sharing such valuable insights on how Sephardic Jews shaped the world. Rabbi Marc Angel shared the link, and we watched it together as a community this morning - everyone was truly inspired!

[@EfraimPalvanov]

Really glad to hear, thank you!

[@morriskalef8944]

Hazak baruch Rabbi. I am a descendant of Spanish Sephardim that lived in the Balkans after being expelled from Spain. My mother was a direct descendant of Abraham Cappon , the Sarajevo poet, journalist and writer. You shed significant more light in the Sephardi luminaries from Spain that I learned after writing a book about my family. I could never find an answer that satisfies me why the Spanish Sephardim disappeared and are so few today? Why such incredible saga came to an end? Sure there is the expulsion, but is it that they mixed with the people of the regions they went and they lost what they had? I am regaining all this history as I tell of my family’s saga from 1755. But the question still remains. Congratulations on your knowledge and ability to convey it. I would to love to establish a channel of communication with you . As a final thought. I obtained my Spanish citizenship due to my heritage and move to Spain. There is home. Like my great grandfather Abraham Cappon’s poem A España. Hazak Baruch again.

[@EfraimPalvanov]

Thank you Morris. Would be happy to continue the conversation. My contact information is on my website here: www.mayimachronim.com/about/

[@morriskalef8944]

This makes sense. In 1492 as the Jews were expelled from Spain, the Ottoman Sultan , Salim II said that he would gladly receive all the Jews. An there they went. The Ottomans controlled the Balkans for about 400 years and during that period the Sephardi civilization would continue. @praywithoutceasing4939

[@theamatthews4431]

Haym Salomon was a slave owner and I wish that was acknowledged because the intersection of slavery between Jews and Africans runs very deep...

[@joelbitton]

As a Moroccan Jew, I would suggest we are less cruel and arrogant and we love being amongst others, Jews or not. Sorry for my blunt honesty.

[@jamesault7832]

Shalom, Rabbi. Thank you for clarifying the Sephardic viewpoint.

[@AnyahEMB]

The Sephardic names in my family are Valverde (Brazil and Barbados) and Navarro (Porto). Not until a few years ago did I discover the history of my Caribbean Sephardic ancestors. My Barbados branch was Christianized about five generations ago, but I have always leaned towards Judaism- drove my family nuts. Now I know why.

[@judethedudeisrude16]

The names in mine are also Navarro like you on my fathers side as well as De La Garza, Montemayor, and Treviño on my mothers side

[@Bread_Butter]

I am a Barbarian of African descent with a tinge of Irish and Scottish ancestry via slavery; however I am a devout Torah student and was learning biblical Hebrew With a Sephardic Jew from Morocco. I have a book on the Sephardic Jews of Barbados. I am willing to send it to Ephraim.

[@st0nexyns0undz14]

Jewish "souls" are a real thing fyl

[@IronJazz99]

My people are Sefardi.My family was Turkish Safardi,British Military and Sierra Leon Krios. My dad was Jamaican.

[@sleeprasta7055]

Im Ashkenazi

[@caliinalaska9806]

Hello, I’m interested in purchasing a Sephardic Siddur. Which would you recommend that includes English translation and transliteration? I inadvertently purchased the Ashkenazi version of a Sephardic Siddur and don’t want to make the same mistake again. Thanks for your help. I’m so glad I found your channel! Your teachings are so interesting and enlightening.

[@EfraimPalvanov]

Thanks so much for the feedback! There are many great Sephardic siddurim out there. The yeshiva where I teach uses the 'Tefilat Shmuel' siddur that looks like this: shop.israelisource.com/siddur-tefillat-shemual-hebrew-english.html I like it a lot, though it is simpler and doesn't have much in terms of mystical additions. A more popular siddur would be the Orot publication: www.judaicaplace.com/orot-sephardic-weekday-siddur-kol-sasson-hebrew-and-english-small-size-hardcover/bkorspw/ Also, ArtScroll has a new one with a lot of commentary and explanations: www.judaicaplace.com/artscroll-weekday-sephardic-siddur-hebrew-and-english-mid-size-blue-hardcover/9781422625408/ They all have good translations, but I don't think any of them have transliteration, unfortunately. Hope this helps!

[@isasalaam5055]

Wonderful information and delivery yet again. Delighted you are getting more subs as well. Thank you.

[@EfraimPalvanov]

Thank you so much!

[@maxheadrom3088]

My anthropology teacher in college - I studied engineering so it was special class - told us that roughly 20 thousand Sephardic Jewish families emigrated to Brazil in the 16th century. Most of them had already converted to catholicism but the Inquisition was not a child's play. Later, when the Netherlands invaded the northeastern region arount the turn from the 16th to the 17th century a lot of Sephardic Jews followed John Maurice of Nassau to Pernambuco. The occupation lasted from 1630 until 1654 when with the help of the local indigenous peoples and enslaved Africans, the Portuguese managed to expell the Dutch. According to Will Eisner, after the Dutch were expelled many of the Jewish families followed Maurice of Nassau to another Dutch colony called, at the time, New Amsterdam - today's New York. The invasion had a huge positive impact in the region, btw. I'm a great fan of Maimonides, btw. Obs: the digitss are called Hindu-Arabic. 1 to 9 are Arabic and the tremendously important zero is from India.

[@barbararouwendal8708]

this is so interesting as I read our royal family, the house of orange in the netherlands (creeps by the way, we hate them) used the knowledge and skills of the sephardic jews to make their fortune to do their business. And later used, or abused, the ashkenazi jews to do their banking.... this is how they became the richest royals at the time of the world. queen wilhelmina... then in WWII, they helped the nazis to kill thousands of jews in holland. This is terrible, but interesting to know.

[@dr.louierossique3667]

Your presentation was very enlightening in many ways, the richness of thought and interpretation explains volumes between Talmud and Zohar. The richness of Sephardic thought balances my Ashkenazi comprehension of Judaism.

[@EfraimPalvanov]

Thank you!

[@noahtylerpritchett2682]

absolutely love sephardic culture.

[@Bishvileinu613]

I love your shiurim. In my humble opinion, I think the reason why the learning of Gemara is the main focus in yeshivas is because it allows bochurim the opportunity to become so engrossed in it; and, in a world where there are so many distractions it helps people truly fulfill the last line of the Rambam in Hilchos Isurei Biyah that the yetzer hara can only reside in a heart free of chachma. And the whole back and forth of the Gemara and grinding it out with others makes it l’havdil into a team sport.

[@blueberry20250]

extremely appetizing shiur for jews and nonjews alike

[@anaroxoa6732]

I am from the North of Portugal (a small village ) and only recently did I find out about the Sephardi Jews who were forced to convert to Christianity, I went through the list of surnames that the Sephardi were forced to take, and from both my mother's and father side, all surnames are the Christian surnames given to the Sephardi, and not only that all my neighbours and school friends surnames were also on the lists.

[@tameraalvarez6438]

Can you share that list or where to see it? Thanks!

[@pamelasue73]

I need to purchase Maimonides Mishna Torah -any recommendations where to purchase this?

[@EfraimPalvanov]

You can access it in English online through Sefaria or Chabad.org

[@ffnly4148]

Interesting because I always thought Sephardic Jews were the most common everywhere, for example most famous Jewish American actors are very Sephardic (middle-eastern, iberian) looking. I guess it depends of which part of the USA or which country of Europe. Here in France all Jews are Sephardic, there is little to very few Ashkenazi here. Never met one, and I've met dozens of Sephardic. Maybe a few known intellectuals here are Ashkenazi. Even a lot of people knows about Sephardic and Ashkenazi differences although there is an absolute majority of Sephardic, ir's something most people got to learn through TV programs or friends in school or work etc, like something basic. And iIt's even commonly onsidered that only Sephardic are "real Jews" because of their middle-eastern appearance and ancestry. I don't know how is it in other western countries but in France it is like this. Very interesting stuff.

[@raf_abreu]

Baruch HaShem for this shiur Torah !

[@muchimi]

thank you so much!! what an AWESOME shuir. love you!!!! HAZAK U BARUCH

[@EfraimPalvanov]

Thank you! Really appreciate it!

[@jgfaulisi5162]

Interesting lecture I am the E-SK863 ydna project administrator on FTDNA. There is only 19 us in the world that tested positive for that SNP. I asked a geneticist why I have a rare ydna haplogroup he told my my dna is from an ancient Jewish tribe that travelled through North Africa and was forced to convert to Catholicism. Before I even took a dna test I converted to Judaism and my first wife was an Israeli.

[@iknowthetruthcommonsense3643]

That Y chromosome is Berber , its ismael Israel is Y dna E-M2 it has 12 subclades and originated in the bronze age. My Y chromosome is Of Judah Y E-L485 , Im Sephardic Also the dna of Leah and Rachel is L3e2a aka Leah and L3e2b aka Rachel

[@jgfaulisi5162]

There Berber Tribes that converted to Judaism long before the rise of Christianity and Islam.

[@iknowthetruthcommonsense3643]

Exactly

[@richardpage7323]

is Baruch Spinoza still considered a bad apple？

[@IandThou-wt2ui]

Just wondering about the fellow painting the chapel ceiling. Were strict I&O's kept? I'm wondering how well he hydrated and urinated. If this was not done for a long period of time I'm supposing it could be rough on the kidneys and general urinary system. Maybe he didn't drink much so he wouldn't need to urinate much.

[@maxheadrom3088]

Abraham bar Hiyya Ha-Nasi was the first to publish the solution in Europe but the first solution that can be called "general" was developed in India. We learn the equation as Bhaskara Formula after Bhaskara II from India. AFAIK, there was a really productive interaction between the Arabs and Sephardic Jews in Spain at least until the end of the 12th century.

[@EfraimPalvanov]

That is correct, I actually spoke about it in another class here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/qIi1qH-XhLB0fJIsi=ubC04FsAQm2b9DGa

[@capricornyearofthetiger]

Do you give actual classes? I learn so much and it enhances my existing knowledge.

[@EfraimPalvanov]

Yes, in Toronto.

[@es1653]

My father was Sephardic and my mother was Ashkenazi ... sometimes I couldn't figure out how they got together. Ashkenazi Jews, my mother's family, seemed to be much more modern while my father seemed much more old fashioned.

[@barbararouwendal8708]

in Amsterdam, there was a jewish quarter named vlooienburg, now known as waterlooplein, in the 40s this was the poorest area of Amsterdam, this is also the quarter were rembrandt lived. I know there were a lot of fights between the sephardic and ashkenazi families, who came later. 7000 jews lived there.... till the dutch government, working close with our royals and the nazis, which is basically the same as our royals all married nazis, put them all on a transport to Auschwitz.... Nobody came back. Now our city council is built on that place. It is a disgrace, our government was always supporting the nazis... and our "royal family" supported that. A shame, terrible. at the time mixed marriages were not common, only later this was accepted. Now, when we say the russians saved us from the nazis, people look at you weird... we are supposed to believe the americans saved us from the nazis. all propaganda.

[@YeshuaIsTheTruth]

This was incredibly interesting and informative and I enjoyed it very much. I will say though that Rambam was not the first to introduce Greek philosophy into Christian thought. In John 1:1 there is the Greek philosophical idea of the Word as embodied wisdom and truth. "In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God..."

[@YeshuaIsTheTruth]

I do think that Rambam is notable for re-introducing Greek thought into Christian thought though

[@carolreid4821]

VERY INTERESTING Would like to be in your math class

[@Cyberchic2]

If it weren’t for Ashkenazim, you’d still be in Arab and European countries fighting for a homeland. Ashkenazim established the modern State of Israel.

[@EfraimPalvanov]

Actually the early Zionist movement was founded by Sephardim (like Rabbis Yehuda Alkali and Yehuda Bibas) and some of the major early investors were Sephardic (like Sir Moses Montefiore). See the class on the 'Hidden History of Zionism' here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/haLci4ijZZqibdk

[@robertmatch6550]

Extremely interesting. Is it fair to say the first Jew on the US Supreme Court, Cardozo, was also the first Hispanic?

[@EfraimPalvanov]

Yes, Cardozo was a Sephardic Jew. However, he was not the first Jew on the Supreme Court. That would be Louis Brandeis: www.jewoftheweek.net/2012/10/03/jew-of-the-week-louis-brandeis/

[@joshuabeldo2656]

I’m a Muslim and I love this hidden well known Sephardic lecture rare because the Ashkenazim always overshadows the Beta Israel,The Teimani,and The Sephardim…

[@benjaminb5455]

Loved it. Enjoyed every minute of it. Baruch HaShem ❤

[@EfraimPalvanov]

Thanks!

[@albertsrour8687]

The Shulkhan Aruch was written in Salonika, not in Tsefad.

[@RG-pj1tt]

Depends which Shulchan Oruch you’re talking about. If you google Shulchan Oruch you will see that original one will come up. It was finished by Yosef Cairo in Tzafad or commonly written as Tzfat.

[@toilnblood]

@7:30 ish.. always united ? Same nusach? In principle maybe..in practice? I've seen so many almost fist fights in sefardi batei kenesset over the way the Shatz does something slightly differently than the minhag hamakom, it's always hillarious though

[@margueriteamaya3298]

The amount of research in this episode is amazing ! Wow. Thank you rabbi for this educational work. I feel I’m in university. My late husband family name is AMAYA and he always felt drawn to Judaism We studied the Torah and Hebrew for decades. I’m a k Noahide.

[@EfraimPalvanov]

Thank you! Just posted a new video about the Noahide Laws here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/rGLJdqOlmZVkfNk

[@shoshannafachima1306]

Wonderful lesson,and heartwarming Thank you so much🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🙏🙏🙏

[@bambam971-y6k]

I really enjoyed this! I found out about 4 years ago through dna and then Surnames, while doing Geneology Research on my moms mothers side who are Southern Italian and Sicilian that I have Sephardic Ancestry. I started to research Sephardi and get all the books I could and I read the Torah and Tanakh for the first time and I felt an immediate connection ( I had never read the Bible when I was Catholic and had stopped practicing 15 years ago). I have been doing Weekly Torah and Jewish Holidays and Customs zoom classes with a great Rabbi, that lets B’nai Anusim be a part of them and I enjoy it. I have observed Holidays the last 3 years at home and I light Shabbat candles every week. I was curious if you could recommend any good KZbin channels to help me to learn to pray , wrap Tefilin the Sephardic way? I am fine with most of Judaism, only the keeping Kosher part really isn’t for me, so I pretty much just have to observe at home and conversion isn’t really an option and there are no Sephardic Congregations in my City any way. I figure re embracing as much of Judaism is a good thing and many Jews in America don’t keep Kosher or are even Religious, so I’m not that bad lol.

[@dawnemile7499]

You need to follow what the Bible recommends, not some particular sect. They are all incorrect at some level. Only by personal study of the Bible and watching various preachers will you learn the right way to worship God if that's what's important to you and not just being Jewish. I recommend "Torah Class" with Tom Bradford on KZbin also "Messiah 2030". It 's lovely to learn that one is a member of God's chosen people but their religious ceremonies did not make them accept what God wanted them to do and believe. Not all Jews are the true sons of Jacob (Israel), Isaac and Abraham because it is based on an attitude and not a lineage.

[@joelbitton]

I am a 73 year old man and I have spent the better part of my life trying to understand why I seem to always feel a certain sadness in my heart. Then I thought, maybe this had something to do with it. Hopefully this story brings out others like me. In 1963 Zionists came to my home in Casablanca Morocco, to convince my parents to send me and my little sister to Israel without them. I was 12 and my sister 9 when we started our miserable journey to the "Promised land". It destroyed our family and left me and my sister with long lasting scars neither one of us has been able to heal. Being from Morocco made it even more difficult to live in a more racist country than Morocco ever was. We had a very peaceful life as Jews living amongst Muslims in Morocco. We understood each other and helped each other. To this day, the principal advisor to King Mohamed is a Jew. But the Zionists needed boddies to fill Israel and slowly claim more and more land from the Palestinians they kept displacing. The people running Israel are not Jews. True Jews would have helped the Palestinians evolve and share in their fortunes, like we did for centuries in the Arab world. Israel claims it is defending itself? Against whom? The people they have been displacing and opressing for 80 years? Israel, my advice to you, if you want to survive, get rid of the religious zealots who run your government and join the 21st century.

[@chrismontaigne6288]

1:03:55 you say in another video how living in the pale of settlement under Russia is why that movement started?

[@EfraimPalvanov]

It's not why it started, but it did accelerate the movement dramatically.

[@jannekedebrie598]

I really am not able to find any history or info on the Jews or Turkey. The little info I find is only on the Sephardic community in the west. But what about the Jews in the east of Turkey?

[@albertsrour8687]

Pico De La Mirandola, was a Jew who converted to Catholicism and incorporated Christian ideas into Kabbalah. The Zohar is pure abodat Zara

[@palmettokid54]

Efraim, Is there not a cross at the bottom of the rear wall that christians use to make the center fresco about Yeshua?

[@EfraimPalvanov]

Not sure what you are referring to.

[@palmettokid54]

In the Sistine Chapel work by Michelangelo? Not the ceiling but the later wall at the bottom?

[@ayrsine]

You have no idea what you’re doing for this non-Jew, ex-Christian. Thank you for being a light in my sky Efraim, the promise of Hashem. Zechariah 8:23.

[@EfraimPalvanov]

So glad to hear, thank you!

[@MarianKnowlton]

I, too, recently discovered my Sephardic ancestors. Many from Curaçao. One of my ancestors was a Hazzan in Curaçao, St Thomas, and Charleston. Our names were Cohen and Peixotto

[@MarjorieBernal-v5b]

I'm so blessed to be able to listen and learn from you! Thank you!

[@EfraimPalvanov]

My pleasure!

[@manuelhurtado7599]

ABRAHAM BAR HIYYA HA-NASI. Se resuelven ecuaciones de primer grado y de segundo, con un método prácticamente idéntico al que usamos hoy en día. Sin embargo, la solución no apareció en Europa hasta el s. XII, en el libro Tratado de Medidas y Cálculos, del matemático judeo-español Abraham bar Hiyya Ha-Nasi. Siglos después, todos los libro de matemáticas de secundaria incluyen la fórmula.

[@maxheadrom3088]

Is it true Maimonides wrote the Mishna Tora from memory while fleeing Spain and going to Egypt? EDIT: it's another book ... not a 12 volume work. BTW, I would love to learn more about some terms and concepts you used in Hebrew. Thanks!

[@EfraimPalvanov]

Thanks for watching! Maimonides wrote his 'Commentary on the Mishnah' over those years in migration, before settling in Egypt.

[@adrianefigtree7297]

Thank you for this wonderful lecture.

[@EfraimPalvanov]

My pleasure!

[@PsychesMuse]

1:10:31

[@AbrahamsBridges]

Gosh, I think you’re correct with studying arguments and the divisions that it causes. The psychology of that makes perfect sense. Possibly, this is what happened with Christianity, as well. The New Testament is full of arguing between Paul and the apostles of Jesus. The writings of Paul have caused huge divisions within the church and a plethora of denominations.

[@BirdieHillFarm]

Amazing. I knew about none of this until now. Thank you

[@EfraimPalvanov]

My pleasure!

[@albertsrour8687]

Is ShAbEtai Sevi, not Shabtay Tzvy. Totally incorrect pronunciation of the zquizophrenic Sevi. He was NOT Sephardic at all ( his followers were). He was a Romaniote Jew and was NEVER regarded as Sephardic. The Donmmehs do consider themselves somewhat Jewish but you are right, they triggered the Turkish revolution and Atta Turk was one of them himself. Sholem was secretly a follower of Shabatai Sevi. In his last years he admitted it and became openly a Sabbatean.

[@memdaletpey]

The uniformity of Sephardic traditions across the globe - let me respectfully disagree. The nusachim of Moroccan, Syrian (Halab) and Persian Jews have considerable variations. For an example, one could take an Orot machzor for a major holiday and see the remarks commenting local differences.

[@EfraimPalvanov]

I do use the Orot machzor, and there are indeed variations, but they are minimal. The core text is essentially the same. The fact that you can even have one single machzor for all of those communities is amazing. Compare that to Reform, Conservative, Hasidic, and Litvish synagogues (coming from a much smaller geographical expanse than Morocco, Syria, and Persia!) which have completely different siddurim with major core textual differences.

[@egipad9037]

I not only want to know but I would love to know what the sefardis believed in regards to j.c or messiah. I would love to know and understand what they believed in the new testament. If the enemy wanted them to step away from their belief but take their history and put it in THEIR BOOK and have them follow it~ Its confusing. If the Old testament is in the "Bible" what was it that the Sefardim did not want to comply to when it came to beleif and or religion.Please someone help me! The Old Testament is all about the Most High< God etc and you hear HalleluYah everywhere and in the New Testament is like God is not mentioned or Praised much and most titles is given to the messiah I need answers

[@EfraimPalvanov]

Sephardic Jews, like all Jews, do not believe in J.C. or in the New Testament.

[@mikha007]

the original Hebrew NT has been discovered and sephardic do believe in Yeshua as messiah

[@robertmatch6550]

This is interesting and informative. Probably needs some additional foundational work for people who have no ideas of Jewish history, or that Jews have history. I also suspect your attempt to combine Sephardi and Mizrachi would find some objection among Mizrachis. Your presentation is scattershot, and a great example of the difference between being knowledgeable and having a FIELD OF KNOWLEDGE. Some university should be developing this material for a set of courses. I'm not telling you to stop. I'm telling you to BEGIN. You have some inspirational material here!! PLUS You need way more illustrative materials. Examples of historical portraits, publications, geographical movements and historical interactions with the 'outside' world.

[@RoopkamalSandhu]

Thanks brother for such information.. As per internet it is written Sephardic jews have ABO blood group..is it true or not.. I have haplogroup "R" with ABO blood group.. don't know if i am Jew or not..

[@hyperionsixzeroeight5064]

"shaped" = plundered.

[@nicolesawyer-jm6ir]

Wow! Fantastic !

[@EfraimPalvanov]

Thanks!

[@coutinhoreinier3276]

My a ancestors were Sefardisch jews and came from Portugal to strike down to Jews Savanna in the interior of Suriname. Some of them went to Brasil our neighbour country in South America.

[@naomiburn5289]

Your comment is important but seems like it might contain typos or voice to text errors. Can you expand upon it a bit? Thank you.

[@imana4838]

As a Muslim, I’m supposed to believe in all of God’s books including the Holy Torah…which version of the Torah is the most authentic in your opinion. I’d love to read it in English.

[@EfraimPalvanov]

There is only one version of the Torah. All Jews use the same Torah. You can access an English translation on Sefaria.org

[@wiskysadie]

Pop singer Poppy brought me here. Is it true that Sephardic prayers are sung 😮

[@EfraimPalvanov]

Yes, though many Ashkenazi prayers are sung as well. Jewish prayers in general are sung, as is the Torah itself.

[@wiskysadie]

@@EfraimPalvanov Thanks 👍

[@albertsrour8687]

Chassidism is not a response to Sabbateanism but a continuation!! The Baal Shem Tov was a follower of Sevi a 100000%%%%%, so Chassidims and Sabbateanism is the same. That's why the Gaon of Vilna rejected chassidism. Don't twist his rejection, he clearly said it several times, chassidism = sabbateanism which is true...sadly, Sabbateanism and Chassidism have done a lot of dammage to judaism and that's why we are where we are now....

[@johndixon5668]

not true that people outside jewry do not know about Sephardi Jews I know them have study them for the last 18 years

[@asynchronicity]

Agreed. This is an unfortunately sweeping generalization.

[@miltonsandel383]

I've known about the Sephardim from both scripture and other authoritative sources. According to my studies, they're most likely the true descendants of Edom. Sepharad was also part of Edomite territory, according to Dr. Lightfoot.

[@PsychesMuse]

11:16 🙏😇

[@raindancer3330]

My great-grandmother ancestors came from the Basque country. There is a saying among them. "We know who we are, we were once Jews. We will all speak Hebrew again when we are all gathered.

[@BBWahoo]

That's so beautiful. I would love nothing more for a united diaspora

[@tameraalvarez6438]

I am celtic Scottish and French Basque. After much study, I understand that the Scottish came from Spain, and there are ancient stories that we are Hebrew. There have been dna studies showing middle eastern descent in 5he Scottish peoples. Also, my grandmothers last name was decomps Labadie. The Labadie's live in the Basque area of France and supposedly came from Basque are of Spain. The name means "House of Preist" I have always believed that I have Hebrew blood. I would like to do a DNA test, but I don't trust the governments.

[@raindancer3330]

@@tameraalvarez6438 We are grafted in. But it is very interesting. Mom stood out from the rest of the family, she looked Anglo.

[@dawnemile7499]

This confirms what the Bible prophesied about the sons of Japheth sheltering under the skirts of the sons of Shem.

[@FVG-]

Thanks for your class. Very enlightening and encouraging. You might want to add to the list of Sephardic accomplishments the discovery and conquer of America. You need proof? DNA testing. We are millions, descendent of Sephardic Jews that came to the Americas during the conquer. Problem was the total lost to Jewish education, broken culture because of the inquisition. Lot of potential though to awake those Sephardic descendants.

[@CPHSDC]

Sephardi Rock!

[@MrGavriel1982]

On Your latest Shiur (2024) it seems an underlying theme about the snake and how it represents the fall from innocence or bliss, to act as a catalyst for the next stage of growth, life, death, rebirth, evolution ect. is a tool that God has created. Perhaps the Zohar wasn't incorrect about prophesizing the beginning of redemption in the mid 1600's and Shabbatai Tzvi even though a major false messiah was like the snake in the way that something bad or misleading was needed to kickstart the whole proccess of the idea of redemption and the spreading of Jewish mysticism to all parts of the world and fast forward to today we are it definitely seems we are at the late stage of this age and entering a new one, cosmically, spiritually, and physically.

[@EfraimPalvanov]

Yes, I wrote something like this in my latest book, you can read the excerpt here: www.mayimachronim.com/the-zohar-prophecy-that-changed-history/

[@dovbarleib3256]

2 extinction events in the 20th Century in Europe primarily targeting Ashkenazi Jews radically altered and lowered the percentage of Torah observant Jews in the Ashkenazic world. The Shoah and 72 yrs of forced atheism in Eastern Europe. North African and Mizrachi Jews were spared the death total and Shmad total that European Jews were not spared.

[@MrsHMB410]

Names in my Family on the maternal side: Dosdrowski und Seier.

[@Cyberchic2]

Judaism is a Middle Eastern/Levantine/North African religion, culture, food, language origin, peoples--Semitic, not Indo-European.

[@PC-lu3zf]

Sephardic history is much more interesting than Ashkenazi sad it gets left behind.

[@dovbarleib3256]

From your first picture there is a problem. I do not see a parallel between the history of North Africa and Jews from Iraq and Iran and Jews from Yemen, 3 separate sets of Minhagim with one commonality: The majority culture was Islamic.

[@dawnemile7499]

Islam started in the sixteenth century.

[@albertsrour8687]

The Arizal was an Ashkenaz 100%, all his practices were Ashkenazi.

[@irwinlagare9909]

I traced my Sephardic Jew ancestry. My 7th grandfather is a Roa from Spain.

[@wjdeoliveira3809]

Oh man... I don't know where to start... I'm a Western Sephardic Jew from Amsterdam and I recognise very little here. He gets pretty much everything wrong about Spinoza, for starters. Spinoza was not some sort of misunderstood Jewish Hakham. He viciously attacked Judaism. If any of his ideas resemble Hasidism, that's not a reccomendation for Spinozism but a criticism of Hasidism. The decision for the excommunication btw was not from the "rabbis", but from the lay leaders. That's how it works in European Sephardic communities. This person's attack on the Hakhamim of Amsterdam is a disgrace. And Ramhal was actually excommunicated in Venice, and for good reasons. Another point: We Western Sepharaddim feel at home in each others' communities, from Venice to Rome to Amsterdam to London to Philadelphia. But our nosah tefilla is quite different from the so-called "ʿedot hammizrah". Our pronunciation of Hebrew is nothing like the Israeli sounding Hebrew used by the person in this video. Haym Salomon was a member of one of our communities but he was NOT of Sephardic descent. Hayyim Vital was also NOT of Sephardic descent but of Italian descent, an ancient community closer to Romaniote and Ashkenazi than Sephardic. I could go on and on, also about what he says about mysticism, the study of Talmud, etc., but I'll stop here.

[@illumencouk]

A anagram of 'oneness' is 'no sense'.

[@albertsrour8687]

Jews from Portugal WERE NOT expel, the were forcibly comverted to catholicism in 1497!!! All of them!!! Again you are wrong.

[@benokaston1440]

Where Joshua, Gideon, Samson, Debora or king David Ashkenazi? I had a dream that king David wore a squirrel skin shtraimel and nee high white socks especially on shabes.

[@gapfenix]

Therefore, the only thing Jews need to do is acknowledge the true Messiah. It is one more step and most of their interpretations will automatically point to Jesus Christ, The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world. No need of new Temple; He wants to dwell within our hearts, which has been His hardest battle when He was walking among us. Whish with all my heart for my Jew brothers.

[@EfraimPalvanov]

Please see the class on 'Judaism vs. Christianity' here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gJjJaJt4fNatgK8

[@gapfenix]

@@EfraimPalvanov thank you, sure I will. Lord bless

[@michellekatz1023]

The European Jews fled Europe for America - due to extreme antisemitism- earlier than Sephardic Jewry so it took a while for people to understand the nuances.

[@Here_For_Now]

😂 "the rotation of the earth was confirmed"...

[@peterk.6930]

Spinoza amsterdam

[@albertsrour8687]

There are 6 continents according to universal geography vs the wrong teachings of 7 continents cutting America in 2, South and north America, that the countries of the former British empire wrongly believe, follow and teach. So, you are scientifically and officially wrong.

[@carolreid4821]

Todah.

[@EfraimPalvanov]

Very welcome :)

[@Back4WhatsMines]

The number 0 … is from the Americas…🏹🌎🦅

[@miltonsandel383]

I've known about the Sephardim from both scripture and other authoritative sources. According to my studies, they're most likely the true descendants of Edom. Sepharad was also part of Edomite territory, according to Dr. Lightfoot.

[@tonyholmes962]

Are sephardis chatholics?

[@EfraimPalvanov]

Sephardis are Jews. However, there are many Christians around the world descended from Sephardic Jews, whose ancestors were forcibly converted to Christianity (mainly by the Inquisition). There is a growing movement today among such "Anusim" to return to their ancestral Jewish faith.

[@BBWahoo]

​@@EfraimPalvanov There are so many jewish berbers descendants in mexico and nobody talks about them. Enrico Macias is an algerian jew for example.

[@MoisePicard-mk1nt]

​@@EfraimPalvanov Is it possible that there were Sephardi Jews who willfully converted to Catholicism?

[@albertsrour8687]

The Zohar is pure abodat Zara and Moshe de Leon WROTE the zohar with his students. Shimon Bar Yohai didn't write it. It has been debunked several times...Aramaic written with Castilian grammar? Really??? Again, more koolaid.

[@mb-rl2ro]

The Spanish (Sephardic) Jews may have the same liturgical tradition as the Central Asian and Middle Eastern (Misrahi) Jews, but otherwise they are distinct communities with different geographical origins and cultural histories. The Misrahi Jews never resided in Europe -- that is Spain or Portugal. It is incorrect to call the Misrahi Jews Sephardic.

[@EfraimPalvanov]

Please see 'What Does It Really Mean to Be “Sephardi”?' here: www.mayimachronim.com/what-does-it-really-mean-to-be-sephardi/

[@comentariosentreparentesis]

Sephardim are drscendants of Misrahi, the Jews from Canaan and thr communities in North Africa that settled even before the Romans at the same time Canaanites (Phoenicians) settled their cities in Spain, from the very beginning it is thanks to them that Gadir (Cadiz) became the greatest port in Spain turning it into the start point of the whole history of Spain

[@ALBrown79]

The Messiah will have Spanish blood. ☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️

[@Jecxwolf]

Arabic jews.. 🤔

[@skillmeup53]

Schneerson was Sephardi???? He was born in Russia (or today's Ukraine); where is the evidence of him actually being Sephardi?

[@EfraimPalvanov]

The Lubavitcher Rebbe was not Sephardi, he was Ashkenazi. (However, Hasidism among Ashkenazim was partly inspired by Sephardic-style Judaism and prayer.)

[@HOWMUSICTV]

Maghrebim 1:00

[@Xfcf-b1n]

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