Journey to York: The Mystery at the Minster - Divine Retribution

this torah class is brought to you by torahanytime.com okay friends we had a very meaningful day just one last uh thought we're standing here at our not the parking lot the car park here in england and uh we think the day is over and we encounter this uh sign that says this is location of the ancient jewish cemetery of york some of the remains were reinterred eighth of july 1984 the eighth day of time was in the presence of chief rabbi sir emanuel jekovitz and representatives of the jewish community the reinternment site was kindly provided by jay sainsbury plc to whom the jewish community is most grateful so when these bones were discovered there was a lot of discussion in fact do these bones belong to the ancient jewish community or are these just bones of residents of the city of york and ravshali strom showed me a chuva from a folk we have here uh from el revellio in his own handwriting that he brought many proofs that in fact these were the bones of uh early reshinam of york people lived in york over a thousand years ago and some of his proofs were they found the remains of a base tahara where obviously only yiddin performed tara by the kura they were buried in an orion their hands were not folded over their chest like the neutrino are buried and said their hands were on the side shelley showed me pictures of the skeletons the skeletons had their hands on the side also the children were buried on the outskirts of the cemetery which is meno gisro apparently this was from a time of a plague where many children died um the notes rim berry with the matseva standing in the west so that the sun shines on it this was not the case over here one of the clearest proofs is that they found pottery on their eyes and their mouth which was a menagerie here in england and there was no church in the vicinity of this cemetery which is usually the christian practice so for all these reasons the government accepted they also found this this is the hero of the land okay they found in the minster the york minster the document of sale that this area was purchased by the jewish community for a cemetery so for all these reasons they're pretty sure that this was a jewish cemetery there is a very uh frightening legend and perhaps even more than a legend that the very night that they moved these bones when they moved it to press switch manchester that very night there was an unusual light show there was a tremendous lightning in the summer sky and lightning struck the minster the york minster and nearly burnt down the entire cathedral a section of it was completely burned down now you have to know that after the mob um surrounded the uh castle that we were just at so the first place they went they ran was to the york minster because the jewish people were the money lenders and they ran to the to york minster to burn down all the documents of loan so that they shouldn't have any record that they owed money so what goes around comes around this was seen and taken as an act of god of retribution even in the secular press the nations of the world recognized somehow this was a an act of revenge of course uh we we were not willing to accept that as payback but at least there was some degree of mishpot that this cathedral that stood this massive cathedral lightning struck it it took more than 120 firemen to put out the fire and uh the wood the timber and the roof burnt and it actually damaged the stone the massive stone was uh was burnt down so that's what happened on the very night that these bones were moved so you know we're just reporting the facts as they are another evidence was that this street as we saw there was a little circle with the symbol jubari jubri means jews are buried here also indicated that this was the area of a jewish cemetery so we hope by coming back to this area and reconnecting to those great jews who lived almost a thousand years ago it will bring their memory back to us and we could connect with their great legacy of kiddush hashem and you know the ish koidesh writes that at the akidasitraq when yitzhak was willing to give up his life akira shashem the desire of yitzhak to give up his life okay combined with the act of killer hashem throughout the generations and it fused together that whenever ye didn't give up their life al-qaeda it sort of connects with the mysohakeda so here we are it's not harhameria but the act of hara maria certainly fuses together with the act of these kadoshim and the te thank you so much everyone you've just experienced another torah class brought to you by torahanytime.com