Who Was Yehudah Ha-Levi? The Jews of Sepharad by Dr. Henry Abramson

Brief overview of the life of Yehudah Ha-Levi, Hebrew poet and thinker of the Spanish Golden Age.

[@tommyodonovan3883]

I look forward to all your seminars Dr Abramson. But why no jokes?

[@amandaestellehugo8139]

I absolutely love your lectures.I have been able to add so much knowledge about the Sephardic Jews.I look forward to the next lectures.

[@juanverhelst871]

A pleasure to listen to this lecture about YL! Thanks for sharing!

[@HenryAbramsonPhD]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@briankelly5828]

A very interesting lecture, thank you. I seem to recall that Heinrich Heine wrote about Judah Ha-Levi, so it was very helpful to have this account of his life. The touching poem about his dead daughter reminded me of Joseph von Eichendorff's poem 'Auf meines Kindes Tod'.

[@ispinozist7941]

Closed my eyes and listened...I think you nailed the accent!

[@100kenman]

Welcome back, it has been a long 2 weeks

[@zackminkowski902]

Another great lecture. Thank you Dr. Abramson.

[@HenryAbramsonPhD]

You are very welcome

[@PathOfAvraham]

Beautifully done. One minor note @51:18 The 1054 Schism was actually between the western Latin church and the Eastern Byzantine church. The Roman catholic church would only emerg as a distinct enitiy with its facing against the reformation as well as the growth of dozens of other non-Roman catholic church's that recognize the bishop of Rome as thier head (ie. The Marionites, Chaladeans, Melkite's etc) Also it was All of the non-Oriental Orthodox churches that went into excommunication with The west not just the Greek Orthodox church. These Non-Oriental Orthodox Churches (Including the Greeks ) would be then known as Byzantine or Eastern Orthodox.

[@aminaz1778]

May God bless Dr H. Abrahamson

[@ArnaGSmith]

Dr. Abramson, what is your personal method of reading/studying history?

[@daledheyalef]

You say in your lecture that the protagonist of the Kuzari is not a Rabbi but a Haver. What do you mean by that? I only know the modern Hebrew connotation of that word which is "friend" or "associate".

[@kiriwest165]

Searching for my Family. (Levi ha Ha Levi). Is there anyone here who can point me in the right direction. May many blessings be upon you.

[@martafarlin1264]

My grandfather... 19-10 years back.

[@76olimpo]

thank you

[@HenryAbramsonPhD]

You're welcome

[@mariabishop6143]

@@HenryAbramsonPhD he is my grandfather in some point I found his name and this video in the family tree of my line of genealogy

[@wesleyclayswank6732]

Henry Abramson, it I recently read an interesting Book by Joseph Telushkin in which he claimed that the last Rabbi of Chabad counseled one of his followers to give up Platonic thought in favor of the more Godly Aristotelian philosophy. From my brief encounters with Chabad from what I understand they are heavy into the Rambam. Do you think that this counsel from Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson is a reaction to the writings of Maimonides?

[@wesleyclayswank6732]

vibatigor I wasn't saying learning wasn't good. The context of the advice given by the Rebbe was to a philosophy student. As I understand back in the day Plato was held up as the prime philosopher. However Rabbi Schneerson told this student that Plato was cruel and advocated children being wards of the state. However, the Rebbe did have some rather complimentary things to say about Aristotle. I was simply commenting to solicit the opinion of anyone who might know better than I on the subject of weather I would be correct in assuming that this was due to the Rambam's fondness for that particular philosopher. I hope that clarifies what admittedly could be seen as a confusing post due to the incompleteness of the story.

[@ArnaGSmith]

13th Century: A Distant Mirror ...

[@ElleMonzon]

According to Wikipedia, the history of the convenience store chair 7-ELEVEn is not connected to the Islamic conquest of the Iberian Peninsula. Wikipedia is not academic, but it is a starting place. I would like to see your evidence, please, that The chain was named to commemorate Spanish history.

[@HenryAbramsonPhD]

I was joking.

[@ArnaGSmith]

The Cairo Geniza -- that's the spot high up in synagog where they just discarded stuff, right? that those two Scottish sisters found, right? OMG!

[@HenryAbramsonPhD]

Yes

[@christopherdalpe6888]

Amos 9:7 Fact?

[@ArnaGSmith]

Ghee - I hate it when somebody tell you about the entire movie! Don't you? But nothing is worse than having somebody tell you a about a big, fat book, giving you the subject and the published but not the title and no spelling of author's name! UGH! Sheer Shear Sheir Shier Adam?????????

[@84tonikk]

Can they bypass Jerusalem altogether from the historybooks or something? The founders must have had something totally different in mind for that city. Do people learn to listen to themselves in there?