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The Disputation - Nachmanides Debates Before King James.....

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Tag-MehirTzedek:
5 parts (follow the links)
 Woow, soo much great authentic ideas found. I hope Jews hear this and learn what the Moshiah and his role is.
 

muman613:
I am checking this one out...

There were other Disputations also,

http://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/111868/jewish/Rabbi-Jehiel-of-Paris.htm


--- Quote ---The position of the Yeshivah was particularly difficult because of the frequent attacks against the Talmud by the enemies of the Jews, and by various libels against the Jews themselves.

In the year 5000 (1240) king Ludwig IX of France ordered a religious disputation between representatives of the Christian and Jewish religions on the subject of the Talmud. Rabbi Jehiel headed the Jewish delegation which defended the Talmud against the attacks of the apostate Nicholas Donin who was the chief spokesman for the Christian theologists. Rabbi Jehiel answered every accusation made by the apostate, and proved them to be utterly without foundation Both the king and queen and all the notables who were present at this disputation, were greatly impressed by the wisdom of Rabbi Jehiel. But so intense was the hatred of the Jews in those days, that the decree was passed to burn all available manuscripts of the Talmud publicly, an act of vandalism which was repeated only by the Hitlerites of our time. On Friday, erev-Shabbos Chukkath, in the year 5004 (June 17, 1244), 24 carloads of Talmudic manuscripts were publicly burnt in Paris.

For many years Rabbi Jehiel continued to teach the Talmud at his academy in Paris. He wrote "Tosafoth" and served as the leading authority on the Talmud. His decisions on various points of Jewish law were recorded by his disciple Maharani of Rothenburg, and also by the celebrated codifier, Rabbi Mordecai ben Hillel, and others.
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muman613:
Are you sure this is Kosher? The poster is named 'YeshuaYehovah' which sounds a little Christian to me..
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muman613:
I just finished watching it.... It is very good. And it seems to indicate the king was sympathetic to the Jews...

Tag-MehirTzedek:

--- Quote from: muman613 on October 30, 2012, 03:28:15 AM ---I just finished watching it.... It is very good. And it seems to indicate the king was sympathetic to the Jews...

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 No, he was fair. That is the point. But the greater point is the ideas espoused by the RambaN that is much more important for us to take out (for example what and who the Messiah is and his role). That is what I wanted to share with you here.  Also we many times hear of its supposedly only the RambaM  being the rationalist and the one who describes a purely "human" and down to earth Messiah. Here we have an example of the RambaN saying the same views which brings further proof that the Moshiah is literally the "anointed" King (as was King David and others) and not some miracle worker dropping from the sky or anything like that.

 The RambaN here says not to take everything literally and explains many of the aggadic statements an what they mean and their role etc. And by the way the RambaN is many times regarded as the other side of the RambaM. Soo we see the spectrum of Jewish thought of great Jewish sages and their true thoughts of the Moshiah and what will come.

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