Journey to Italy: The History of the Abarbanel - Prince From Shevet Yehuda Part 1

this store class is brought to you by torahanytime.com that graced the areas that we're traveling through now to be able to visit his camera but the truth is he doesn't have an actual cover is the ababanel now in order to throw today there's a big uh fad you could call it but it has uh yes that's on the unlockable you know many people go to the camera there's actually a very interesting State Fair by one of the Grill volume which is all about lagboamer so he he speaks about the idea what about people who can't make it to the camera of the rashvian like blamer so the difference itself the person needs to be misspelled it's not even necessary to go to the cover you learn the words of the Sadiq and those words themselves are amaka in colors so we hope by saying over some of the history and the return of barbanel we could take the opportunity see misspello and it's even a more of an ace Russian than the cover itself for me it is great to close to have the opportunity to tell you that one of the all-time great leaders and princes and call yourself yeah this is someone who I personally feel a very deep connection with well his name was we we call him in the more scholarly circles he's called the abravenel but certainly most well known for his magnum opus for his great commentary antenna but what many are not aware of is the comment of robyakov kamenetsky the biakov kamineski once made the following comments says was actually part of the halachic Messiah of kaly Israel so for instance you look in the Ramones quotes the halachic ruling of the barbaranel or the basic himself by the way safe was published right here raise the question on the rambam and who was present it was in front of the Great Eagle referring to where we don't need began his career in Portugal he was born in Lisbon in the capital of Portugal in the year so for those of you who are on the bus with us yesterday how do you translate that into the secular dates who remembers the formula you just add what 12 40. 1438 and because of that avenel's manifold talents he becomes the treasurer of King Alfonso said that King Alfonso was a righteous a righteous ruler however gentlemen this is very interesting yeah that in 1481 1481. in 1481 King Alfonso dies and he's taken over by his son wow j-o-a-o with a little zarkon on the eighth and wow the first thing he does is he basically executes all of his father's advisors he falsely accuses them of treason and then gets a message that King wow would like his advice the only thing is King wild did not want the advice of the other quinoa wanted to chop off the albino's head so the barbarell makes a dash out of Portugal and his pursuers are on his back he crosses the border into Spain literally seconds ahead of his pursuers avonell comes to Spain penniless and complete anonymity which is always a good thing for a rabbi and he arrives in Toledo he arrives in Toledo now for the first time in his life he has some respite he begins to write his commentary on safer Yeshua say for sure schmuel now very important to know that the barbarella's literary output was kimat Supernatural begins his commentary on severity what year is that 1484. he completed it amazing wrote the entire Parish in 16 days he wrote his entire appearance on Yeshua in 16 days he starts his commentary on safer searching begins with when does he finish Hanukkah so he wrote his whole parents on shaped him 25 days his commentary on schmuel is much longer it takes him two and a half months however it is not long before he summoned to serve as the Finance Minister to King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella and in this capacity the abarinel here helped Spain it raises Spain up to become the world super power financial position uh yeah we're we're almost there yeah but the people not last long Ferdinand and Isabella began their ambition of something called reconquesta what's reconquesta to reconquer the entire Iberian Peninsula from Arab control the Arabs came in they crossed the Strait of Gibraltar in the year 7-Eleven well King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella they want to reconquer the Iberian Peninsula so in 1487 Malaga falls to the Christian monarchs with only one Arab stronghold remaining on the entire Iberian Peninsula and then the ominous here 1492 arrived January 2nd 1492 King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella they won a great victory this is one of the historic battles of all time they attacked Granada the Battle of Granada one of the greatest military victories in history they completed reconquesta and this arrogant King returns to his Palace says and I'm sure many of us have heard a lot of information about the Spanish Inquisition but what I'm about to tell you is considered the most authentic first-hand account of the finishing position based on the writings of the vabernel himself in its commentary to yahushua malachim and hoshaya well this arrogant King returns to his Palace the passage how can I ever repay God it's not to gather all of the miserable Jews who walk in darkness and force them to embrace the true religion says King Ferdinand and if they don't they will be banished from the entire Iberian Peninsula says and what year did it happen 1492 now very interestingly many they search for ramazim and Tanakh for a Remus to this ominous year of 1492. himself and his commentary to hashaya says that the year 1492 is maruma's in the pasok in yemia the we land on Rosh Hashanah and mizare Israel akatseno Missouri is the gamatria of what 252. what year is 252 who remembers the formula yeah you add 1240 1492. Missouri I'll tell you another REM is there's a safer called semach David because unbelievable story that samath David lived in Germany as a young boy he has a tremendous paycheck to learn from the Rama so he took a walk he decided to walk from Germany to Krakow imagine a young boy walks from Germany to Krakow to learn from the Rama Grandma encourages him to learn history to write a work on history says that some abdovid the remedies to 1492 is in the possum Robin by the way amazingly we mentioned yesterday from reviewz one of the garage is far out he wrote a safer or hakaya IM is a philosophical work where he explains the reasons why he thinks the Spanish acquisition happened unbelievably who wrote footnotes on the safarakayam the last person who you'd ever expect to write footnotes on a philosophical safer wrote footnotes on by the way aside from being a historian was a great astronomer we actually have correspondence between and Taiko Braha and Johann Kepler they actually corresponded with the temas David on astronomy well says that barbadell the decree went forth then in three months any Jew who would not accept the Christian faith would be banished from the Iberian Peninsula and in what month did this fall out on the ominous month of Av but frighteningly says ababanel the dagger on the heart was not only did the day fall out in the month of ab but it was scheduled for Thursday August 2nd 1492 Tish above Tisch above was the date selected for the Spanish Inquisition did King Ferdinand the Queen Isabella know about Tish above they never heard about tishov says they were clueless they didn't know it was going to be Tish above some guy to them like the gemara says about the qurani how do we know what happened on Tish Above So to the vanishing position fell out on Tish above and says about Ronaldo the law went out that any Jews living in safari in Sicily in Mallorca and Sardinia invert or be expelled and now they have our no rights possibly his most moving words says the babanel I was sitting in the palace I couldn't keep my mouth closed I risked my life and I screamed with every fiber my being and I said to the king save these people from them you want money money is not an issue I will personally raise a hefty ransom for each and every Jew I pleaded I pleaded with them I begged them and you know right before the edict was about to be signed Ferdinand and Isabella they had a change of heart barbell was successful in moving them and storing them what happened we're upon the great and terrible Inquisitor turkomata Thomas D turcumata came running in waving across ranting and raving he shook Ferdinand and Queen Isabella to the court they got scared they got frightened took him out and said God is not happy with you God will take revenge against you for having Mercy on the miserable Jews they asked barbarinal to leave the room the edict was signed it was completed Thursday August 2nd Tisch above and the Obama says as bad as King Ferdinand was it wasn't even him it was Queen Isabella she was the Satan she was the Satan standing on his right side by the way turkomata before he was appointed the grand Inquisitor he was the official Confessor of the Inquisition what does that mean they would take you then they would put them on a wooden bench and they would stretch them out like in sedim they would then drive Rusty screwdrivers up their fingernails and up their toenails either convert or die enter kamado was the grand grand Confessor within a few years of turkomata's assumption of his position the acquisition already took thirty thousand lives the smoke of the auto defeat hovered over Spain like a dark cloud now many of us are familiar with the expression the Golden Age of Spain right it never happened there was no golden age of Spain Spanish Jewish history was one long recurring torture chamber people burned on every street corner so why do we say the Golden Age of Spain says it's a classic Jewish phenomenon the colors we remember fondly the good imaginary times that never happens look at us in the Triumph we left from the Triumph oh they had sushi they had it Sushi it was a holocaust they put our babies in the Nile they've built our babies into the pyramids there was a very small 200 year reprieve by the way ironically only under the the rule of the Muslims of the Arabs but under Christian rule Spain was a holocaust this is a classic Jewish phenomenon we look back longingly at a golos where times were never good and we looked back at imaginary times well Cesar barbanell since golos hero shalayan we never had such a tragedy just a question for your thought you know on Tish above we recite many Kines we talk about the Crusades we talk about the burning of the talmud we speak about that and to me it's a great mystery why of all tragedies the one that actually happened on Tish above there is no mention of isn't the Spanish Inquisition glaringly omitted where is it why is there no mention of the Spanish Inquisition and the Kenneth of tishov and I'll share with you the reason that that I I believe but says three hundred thousand yiddin are forced to leave Spain says that barbanel and I among them I was given the exclusive rights to remain in the country to be to be finance minister of Spain but instead I chose to go into Exile with my brethren and says as we were leaving we were comforted by one thing and one thing only the yaza Malcolm with snayam Hashem we felt the presence of the Sheena going into Galas with us and where did we go we have no idea someone to Portugal someone to Navarre we suffered we were broken many took ships many of the ships sunk many were capsized I myself made my way by ship and I ended up in Naples by the way one of the great rebels in Europe many centuries later made his way to Naples went to the great aquarium in Naples unfortunately we're not going to be able to see that aquarium this trip where it's Hashem our next ens trip to Italy we hope to schedule the great aquarium in Naples okay yeah okay amazingly during the course of the barbarino's travels babinel lost his only manuscript on safer davara well half of a fella the barbarinal comes to Italy he comes to Corfu and in Corfu he meets Aid who had made somehow a copy on his manuscript of davarium and now Barbara now is able to republish his safe roundavara vanilla I arrive in Naples in the year of 1493. gay Rim garim is gamatria 253 that's the Camacho 1493. in South Italy finally 1503 that ranel comes to the great city of Venice in Venice La Barber now publishes many of his works so I've ever now published the safer Royce Amana on the rambam El published the trilogy three volumes on the coming of mashiach what are they called number one number two mayone hayashua and number three Yeshua he wrote A Commentary to percivals called nakhalas avoice let me share with you something that baronelle writes in the sixth character it's mamish says about vanilla I come to Italy and I can't believe it in Italy I saw something that I never saw in my entire life it doesn't make any sense listen to this what did Adam see in Italy that he never saw before rabbis what's a Rabbi says I've ever known what's a rabbi either you know the Tyra oh you're an Amorous what's a rabbi what's the person doing sitting in the front of the Shoal facing everybody else you know I once sir there are two kinds of you then and then there I bought him um there's no such thing as a rub listen to what he says I saw a very strange costume says the barber now I know there's something called the summer but what color is where does it come from well yeah the Jews were jealous of the goyam they wanted to have clergy so they have rabbis that says there's no such thing as a rabbi either you know the Torah or you're in amaras okay another great work of the labyrinel he wrote the hagoda PESA now amazingly yesterday we took a secret trip to Lido Island where we wanted to visit together of one of the great rabbana in Venice well none other than reviewed Arya Modina wrote a kid sir on The Barbarians Medina calls it Sally aish now let me tell you something very interesting about one of the garushes farad you have somebody by the name of Ravi Abram zakuto from zakuta we're going to be at the cover later today of the ramonesha zakuto no relation was a great astronomer in fact there's something called the Astro lab invented by Rabbi Abram zakuto one of Roberto's great talmudim was Christopher Columbus in fact half of a fella writes of a Victor Miller in the safer rejoicing youth the greatest book in English ever written says Victor Miller of the Spanish Inquisition was on August 2nd Friday morning August 3rd Christopher Columbus set sail to discover the next great Jewish Haven as ships were taken in and out to Africa to all over the world fragalos Christopher Columbus and the Nina the pinto the Santa Maria passed by all these hidden going in tagalas because always paves the way before he brings the gullahs for the next great Haven for the Jewish people now let me tell you a little story about Christopher Columbus that is published in the safer Hayes Christopher Columbus was somewhere in the Americas and he was captured by cannibals and they took him and they put him in agrosa pad and they put a fire under him and they were going to cook him for supper out of the deep recesses of Christopher Columbus Minds he remembered what his rabbit taught him he had with him the safer of Abraham zakuto called the Perpetual Almanac and in the Perpetual Almanac Christopher Columbus predicted a lunar eclipse says Christopher Columbus to the cannibals if you don't release me immediately I will pray to my gods and I will blot out the light of the Moon so they gave him a shot sure enough two days later the moon disappeared ah all the natives get down on their hands and knees and their care to Christopher Columbus because he blotted out the light of the Moon with the help of zakuto well this if you go to the museum in Portugal today you could see the Perpetual Almanac of Rabia from zakuto with the hagois of none other than Christopher Columbus well we moved back to the about benell was nifter in the year 1508 the year why do we call that your kasar because we lost two great godella Israel and five days later we lost they are buried right next to each other in near Venice we missed the cover yesterday but but I just want to share with you we're doing good so far when did I have time to make this up let me share with you one Diva Terra foreign struggle what in the world is what is it is it a bracha it can't be a brother you're impetuous what kind of bracha is that gracious Reuben you lost all power that's a brother hello Mario say it's not a brothel Jack levino just speaking his mind so to Ruben he speaks to Rita and he speaks so lazy he speaks then what's Jacob doing seems to be just real estate advice so what is it a bracha is it a claw is it real estate advice is it just random thoughts that are passing through yakovino what is I remember in third grade I had to memorize versus yaka very good I'm sure we all have it memorized but nobody has any idea what is pasture's is he what is it what's yakubovino doing and he breaks through pastor's life he like lightning in the Darkness says laying on his deathbed and he sees 12 kinderlocks with different personalities with different what's going to be with Claudia thrall how are they going to be unified you know what they're missing they need a melach is going through his Kindle love one by one and saying why nobody could be a meleth other than Yehuda ruvin you're a great guy your Sonia there's one problem you're impetuous a king cannot be impetuous the King has to be disciplined the King has to be methodical a king has to sing sings through clearly Shemin Levy or apov you have a temper but you can't be a malach but Yehuda let's talk about the villain for a moment you're a great guy too but you're a business businessman imagine if somebody would come to the king and at the throne the king opens up his jacket he says oh you want to buy a watch I have a few watches I might want to sell you what's wrong it's not the personality to be the Kings the villain doesn't have the personality Usher you're a baker gavaldik you're baked for the king but you can't be the king what about Joseph you're safe you have the quality for maluka we're getting close but you don't command the respect of your brothers they didn't like you you didn't have the quality to but Yehuda Arya Yehuda Whenever there was a controversy whenever there's a difficulty who did the brothers listen to mabetsa they listened to Yehuda Yehuda you have what it takes to be the Mela you have the qualities it's not a kloa it's not business advice it's establishing mouthless recall Israel throughout Jewish history leadership always rested in shave at Yehuda specifically from David amelach whether it's David himself whether it's shleima himself whether it's all the nasium by the way what's the difference between the Nasi and the race galusa Thai Swiss says in Hungry Eyes one came from one came from [Music] all came from he argues with ramban the ramban says we're killed out because they usurped the maluka says no they didn't usurp the militant there was always a nothing in yerushalayim that was the leader of Israel says whether it's in France whether it's in Spain whether it's in Italy Ruba deruba deruba of the godolly Israel come from Yehuda and David but what's very meaningful to me personally is the fact that the Fida writes about the barbaniel that himself was a bennach and who more than that exemplified maluka and Claudia what's had every opportunity to remain the Finance Minister for for Ferdinand and Queen Isabella but no he was a Melech Israel he was with he led us out of the golos he led us out of Spain into Italy now I want to tell you one final fact of that barber now on August 2nd 1492 as Claudius was being led out of Spain 300 000 years in La Barb that they should play music on tishimov why and the reason is because as terrible as the Spanish Inquisition was we never cry when we leave Galas because we don't belong in Dallas in the first place and I believe that's the reason why on Tish above even though we mention all the Jewish tragedies the one tragedy that happened on Tish above we omit we omit the Spanish Inquisition and that is because of the great teaching of that arbanel that we never cry when we leave Gallos we didn't belong in Spain we didn't belong in Italy we didn't belong in Portugal and we don't belong in America today and the great should be making all of all of us enough we also don't belong in the five towns Ellie saying to mention that I didn't mention that you know I know there's a question about should be making on us at biasco outside you've just experienced another Torah class brought to you by torahanytime.com