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Journey to Ramsgate: The Venom of Nesivos Olam, the Curse of R' Yaakov Emden, and Moses Montefiore
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okay friends
friends
countrymen romans
here's the grand finale as the sun is
about to set i want to share with you a
story
literally one of the most frightening
stories i ever heard
and it involves moses not to fury
about a hundred and thirty years ago a
five volume work called nasiva soilam
was written by max cole
the jewish apostate and anti-semite and
it was disseminated throughout england
the work is basically slander against
the oral law the jewish people and
judaism in general
it trips venom and hatred against all
things jewish
it appeared in english
in hebrew
and it affected english jewry very
sorely
and there was a major conference how to
plan a counter attack to this five
volume work this eva
who was able to attend the meeting sir
moses found the fury he was about to
leave he was about to go to damascus to
defend the jewish people from the blood
libel of 1840 by the way from damascus
he went to russia to intervene with zara
nikolai the first against the religious
persecution in russia
so moses mounted fury had the following
suggestion they're going to finance the
writing of a book that would be a
counter argument would rebut all the
claims
of anti-semitism now this rebuttal had
to be scientific had to be
logical had to be precise and that the
fury suggested that they speak with some
russian scholars and finally somebody by
the name of yitzchak bear levinson
composed a book called zuru baval
and zurubovel completely shattered the
nasiva solom
and uh it sort of restored jewish pride
and rumor has it that as a result of
this book which was the fruit of uh
montefiore's imagination
the author of the siva solomon did shiva
and he died
the kharatta and he died in shiva but
only a few people know about it and
after the story you'll know about it as
well
fasten your seatbelts
the rov of gradna
rav bin yaman diskin the son of the
great guy in bishop diskin he conducted
his rabbinical court with uh an iron
hand and he was admired throughout the
world for the strength of his besides
you see the members of his president sat
in the outer courtyard and they handled
every small shiloh and when there was a
bigger shyla they allowed entrance to
rabinyam and diskin
and when he gave up sac it was like the
kailgado reading from the urimbatum
but not anybody could just get into
rabbinya mendiscan
one day a coach
it looked pretty much like this coach
stopped in front of the rob's house from
there hastily emerged a distinguished
looking woman of wealthy appearance she
enters the bezen's chambers
she says she's a citizen
of prussia she needs to see the rabbi
it's an emergency they told her people
don't just see the rabbi she said this
is a
emergency of the highest proportions
she tells the rev she came from germany
she was raised a very god-fearing woman
and she lowers her voice and she
tremblingly
trapping
tremblingly began
the story
she said
my father
was the
debased author
of nasiva soila
the apostate the nasiva solam
let me explain to you how he wrote that
book in his youth
he was a rebbe and a yeshiva in lita
he was paid very poorly
it all starts from
bad salaries for the rebbe
then the villagers started to accuse him
of kalos reush and making fun of minhage
israel
and even though he was a good rebbe they
stopped paying him he had to leave his a
livelihood he had a wanderer and he left
our house no we didn't know where he
went we lost communication with him
we didn't want to believe what we heard
but we had heard that he converted to
christianity and he's joined a sect of
missionaries in london
london is a dangerous place
when the nisiva soilam appeared in
london
and we heard that the author of this
asylum was none other than the rebbe of
lita our father
my mother was horrified
everybody was embarrassed we were
ashamed people began to collect money
for us my money my mother opened up a
store
she remained her whole life a modest
god-fearing woman and she
somehow retained the respect of her
neighbors
all the years this woman said
the goal of my life was to wipe out any
vestige of memory of my father i married
a tamil
i established my own family and nobody
at any time would ever want to remember
our father the apostate in a siva solemn
until the woman burst into sobbing
one day i received a letter from
london
when i opened it my world turned dark
it was a letter from my father who i
hadn't heard of
for 30 years
i've been begging hashem to take his
memory away from me so that his memory
did not sully my soul
the unopened letter arousing me feelings
of disgust and i couldn't bring myself
to open it and finally when i opened it
it read as follows
you ready for this dear daughter
well do i know how basic and despised i
am in your eyes and in the eyes of all
the jewish people
do i know the extent and gravity of my
terrible sins to god his torah and his
nation but i wish you to know my dear
daughter that after many years during
which i transgressed the most serious
sins and sank into the quagmire of
depravity the jewish spark was again
rekindled in my heart
my conscience began to plague me
feelings of regret began to gnaw away at
me i realized that my good friends the
christian the instigators they tried to
take advantage of me for my own purposes
and as soon as that book is rhubarb was
written that debunked everything i wrote
they realized i was not so valuable they
realized that i did not add to their
ammunition and they forsook me they
mocked me
and i had to leave them completely now i
live in a village old and ill broken in
body and spirit not knowing where to
turn or how to find shelter
in my helpless position
in my trouble i appeal to you my dear
daughter save me admit me into your
house and support me
in my degraded old age in the way that
you see fit
this letter the woman said shook me to
the core
we discussed this with great tamir
khachamim
and we decided to respond to my father
as follows
we agreed to let you come and live with
us on condition
that you remove every vestige of your
previous status you must grow a beard
grow long peas wear jewish attire and oh
one more stipulation you may never speak
to anyone else again in your life
and then you could come live in our
house and die in the room
my father received the letter and he
immediately accepted his conditions he
began his journey broken debilitated ill
debased
he went into the room he cried like a
child for days on end he withered away
he basically
died a slow death
he was lying on a sick bed one day too
weak to lift up his head
we could already discern the signs of
approaching death when he called to us
and in a voice a week he said now let me
reveal to you my children
why i became a heretic
this is my duty as they lay on my
deathbed a secret which please reveal to
the
rabbis of the generation perhaps this
will be a mitigating factor for me in
the world to come
dear children you may know that our
family originates from altona one of the
three famous german cities where
ravionis and ibishot served as the rev
when my father was a young man
as you may be aware a heated controversy
sprang up between riviacovenden or
rionos it's about the kameos
charms inscribed with holy names
and ibis ibishuts with excellent
kabbalistic information was proficient
anne
in
and revyak of ending the ivitz suspected
many of the of consorting with the false
messiah
against whom his father
had battled violently and in his deal
accused anybody of suspicion of being
a member of the inner circle of shaab
taitsv
and the heads of the community said
then we respect you of uh being a big
tom mclachlan but if you go to the main
show the moment you hear one joshua from
abundance in ibishits you're going to be
all over him you're going to call him
out it's going to create great
macholicas do us a favor please start
your house minion even though house and
yanum are the root of all evil in the
world nevertheless
we don't have a choice you can't darven
in the main show
by the way friends don't dive and
enhance many other it ain't good for
anybody but by the way
so they told rabbiakavemden that he
would have be able to have his house
minion
and
my father
the nasiva solemn said
your grandfather he says to his daughter
was
the scribe of rabbiakov emden he was
blessed with exceptional talent of
expression and use of writing
and when when rabbiakov didn't accuse
rabianis and ibishuts
of sibelianism
it was my father who was the scribe
to record the safer akitsas akrav that
accused robionis and ibishits of all of
rabbiakovdin's accusations
now
here's what happened
well
oh here it is
this is the main paper
one of the pamphlets called akika akitsa
sa akrav
lashed out violently against venus and
ibishits
and it was published on the day of
mybrismila so my dad published the
akitasa akrav against the venus and
abhisheks at the day my brilla
and it was disseminated at my bris after
the circumcision and everyone came to my
father and said mazel tov double
mazeltov
birth of max
and mazel tov on the publishing of
akitas akrav what an amazing work for
claudius round
this is incredible may your child grow
up to fight the same battles that you
fight
and my father heard those words with
great delight
and he turned to her viacom then new
zeal gibber what do you say about such a
bracha that my son should grow up to be
such a good writer than i am and
ravyanka vandan said
amane
kanye he wrote sign may your son
write works
as you wrote against fibonacci bishops
i did not hear that story until the day
of my bar mitzvah but on my bar mitzvah
my father told me the story of harav
yaakov and gave me a bracha that i
should grow up to be like my father who
wrote against ubianis and ibishets
but here my dear children begins the
murky shameful chapter of my life
from the day of my bar mitzvah and on
i tried to subdue those thoughts that
took over me
but i couldn't help but constantly think
about my father's battles against the
saintly robinus and ibishits and here of
yaakov and the truth sadik gave me a
bracha that i should write such works
and slowly feelings and thoughts of
abikarsos took over me that i should
write works against the torah against
hashem against
israel
and even though i know a person always
retains my free choice i feel that my
free choice in this world was mitigated
because my father solicited the bracha
of rabbiak of emdin and even though he
was at sadiq and this is not what he
meant but because there was an element
of hashem involved and this bracha was
given
that is why i ended up writing the work
and therefore i beg you please tell the
story to the israel that they should
pray for my soul so that when i get up
to the best in somalia they accept my
shiva with an understanding that in a
certain respect i was coerced
to write this work
this is the story that this woman told
rabbinyamin diskin
rabbenu the woman concluded as soon as
my father had spoken these words
he breathed his last breath i am
impelled to fulfill his last will and
that's what brought me to your house to
come to you rabbinyamen and ask you
please pray
that my father soul having an elevation
in the world to come
rabbinyamin promised to fulfill her
request
he walked out into the courtyard he told
over the story to the besden
and he added my friends this story
should serve as a rousing example
of the length one should go always to
avoid controversy
even when you think you're doing it
and even when good people tell you to
get involved
the entire chapter of this heretics
repentance
and return to the fold had many causes
but the
israel believed that the primary cause
of why this individual the nasi lasolam
eventually did shiva is because of the
efforts
of harav moisha ben haravyose
through the efforts of sir moses
montefiore who hired rev levinson in
russia to write the work as arubaville
which put an end to the silva salam and
ultimately to his chuva
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