Journey to Germany : Maintz - The Saga of the Son of Rabbeinu Gershon

this torah class is brought to you by torahanytime.com so as we look at the beautiful countryside and the river we're allowed into a sense of we're enraptured with the scenery and we forget this is the air it's dumb this is the land that is soaked in jewish blood for a thousand years starting in the year tatanu the year 1096 the crusades generation after generation in the ground in the water and let's speak about rabino garchon again because we spoke about his great contributions to the jewish people but there was another takona that he made and that is he forbid yiddin to shame those who renounce their judaism under duress and then returned throughout history there is this there's always been a struggle between the rabbanim and the hamoinam whether to accept back jews who gave up on their religion the jews who who were courageous and would not give up their religion did not always embrace their fellow brethren who renounced their judaism and came back when it was convenient for them but the rabbanim always tried to accept them willingly knowing that if we didn't accept them they would be lost forever and one of the haram of venus because it was common christian tactic to forcibly convert yidan by threatening them with death or explosion there were entire communities in germany and france that gave up their lives but not everyone was able to withstand now rabbino gershon personally suffered numerous tragedies his wife died tragically and then he moved to maine's to first to mets and then to maine's some say his only son or perhaps one of two sons in the year 1012 there was a priest here in maine's who converted to judaism and was burned at the stake and the church of maine's demanded the forcible conversion of the entire community most of the hidden fled but many were trapped in the city and were compelled to convert including rabino garcian's son rabbenu garshan's son they forced him to schmad he had a renounced judaism and he died before he was able to do chuva and when upon the death of his only son rabano gershon is recorded in the mordecai in musaftam and top top it's recorded in the arzaruan rabino garroshan sat shiva for 14 days seven days for the body of his son and seven days for the soul of his son marami rotenberg writes he wasn't required to do that but he was in such pain that his son did not have the opportunity to do chuva this gives us a little bit of the glimpse into the times that rabino garcia lived someone who was able to produce on the level that he did just to give you an example there's a rabbino gershon in the end of massachusetts the gemara says that from tuba of and on it was a day of simcha it was the day of tabar magal it was the day that they would break the sickle because the sun would begin to wane and the wood was no longer dry enough to uh be to be used on the mizbayach one of the reasons why two above is a festive day the gemara says is because they stopped cutting the wood for the mesbah because since the sun stops starts waning on tubal so the wood is not sufficiently dry it cannot be used on this back because it might be wormy so the question is why is there a simcha that they stop cutting the wood why is that a simcha so the rajbam learns the simcha is that from here is the source of making a seam upon the completion of a mitzvah they stopped chopping the wood this was so to speak the seoum of the chopping of the wood and therefore was the day of simcha rabino garcian says an amazing you know why tuba is a young because until tuba of they spent two minutes a day chopping wood for the mizbayach when tuvav comes or an extra few moments a day to learn torah that's a great simcha even an extra moment or two of lima torah even a moment an extra opportunity for a moment or two warrants the day of great simha rabinu um garchon died two years after rev highgoing and that closed the area of the gangnam i thought something interesting you know rabino garcian wrote hey [Laughter] was about to leave this world he said sitzis and he passed away and the ta's brings down in your day are there two interpretations of sitsis number one to remove the census from his talus and number two to take through to take the titties and remove them from the orion so this was the city of maine's where rabino garcia lived and thrived you've just experienced another torah class brought to you by torahanytime.com