Tisha B'Av 1492: The Spanish Inquisition and the Discovery of America

this torah class is brought to you by torahanytime.com okay welcome everyone we're already holding in the uh the uh nine days ready beyond the period of the three weeks we're already close to kabbalah and the dna available the laws of mourning are intensifying we try to bring into focus a little bit what khorben means to us what tishb means to us and uh the gemara tells us that that on that faithful day on that ominous day of tishbov the gemara says the mission says five tragedies happened the mission says there was a terrible decree that the six hundred thousand men between twenty and sixty none of them would make an entirety straw because of the hidden and then the kharav habayas for resharing the first base amigurus was destroyed ubishniya the second base amigos was destroyed the nilkada beta beta was captured the city was plowed over many tragedies five tragedies happened on tisha now this is a mishna the mishnah was redacted by rabbi annosi lived in the in the second century in the year 188 of the common era but even since that time there have been many tragedies that also occurred on tish above the great city of alexandria which was even bigger than beitar was also destroyed on tishbov and it's brought down over here from the safer hat that from the destruction already the first place hamikdash when jews left eretz israel many jews of course went to bavel but jews already made their way to europe after the destruction of the first base hamikdash and in fact many jews went to spain ezra comes back to build the second mesa mikdash ezra nakamura and not all the jews returned many jews remained in europe many jews remained in spain but upon the destruction of the second mesa mikdash as many jews that had already been in spain even more jews came to spain after the destruction of the second base hamikdash approximately in the year 68 of the common era so here you have these two groups of jews in spain jews who had been there already for 480 years since the time of foreign bias re-shine you have jews who can make their way since uh byuni and for fourteen hundred years there was a major jewish community in spain approximately in the year 600 of the common era upon the fall of the great academies in baval surah and pumpadisa spain became the epicenter of torah jewry now i wanted you to get a little picture for a moment there's an expression the golden age of spain right everybody knows the golden age of spain it's a scam it never happened there's no such thing the golden age of spain you have to know jewish history is relative the golden age of spain from the year 600 to the year 1492 there were massacres pogroms non-stop hundreds of thousands of jews were burnt murdered converted so when we say the golden age of spain there was a very small window ironically as long as the christians maintained control of spain we were tortured persecuted and murdered the only peace we had was a small window 200 years when the mohammedans overtook spain so you know this that's what we're dealing with you know throughout history there's always the great debate who's better and who's worse where are we better off are we better off in the christian world are we better off in the in the uh arab world the muslim world and today we can answer the question very definitively where we're better off and yet at other times in history it was the exact opposite that the christians were bloodthirsty the definition of christianity is murder so is the definition of islam but over certain periods of time the golden age of spain was only a 200 out of the 1400 years that we were in spain from approximately the year 68 of the common era until 1492 it was one persecution one massacre one fourth conversion after another so why is it called the golden age of spain says this is a classic jewish phenomenon and that is when we look back at golovks we say oh how wonderful it was over there like when we were when we left mitsrayim ah egypt it was wonderful in egypt the cucumbers in egypt i never had such good right cucumbers in egypt they murdered our children they built them into the walls only four four fifths didn't make it what are we remembering so fondly about mithrian the answer is that's jewish nature you look back at a certain period you focus in you hone in on a few good years and you say ah it was wonderful back then spanish jewry was one person one massacre after another and you have to remember that the golden age of spain is somewhat of a misconception it was really a very small window what we're going to do tonight we may know a lot of information about the spanish inquisition we may know information from secular sources but what we would like to do tonight is examine through the writings of the acronym through the writings of the shouse of chuvas the historical background based on the writings of various godola israel who lived during that period to try to get a true understanding of what happened and maybe also get a little bit of an understanding why did it happen what did the la usa have to say about why these tragedies were happening and we're going to start off with the writings of the abar banel rabbi don yitzhak who lived from 1508 he he passed away he was born in 1438 1438 to 1508. basilice writes about the abarbanel in our image he calls him was a prolific writer wrote a trilogy about the muslim shia he wrote migdal yeshua's three volumes yeshua mayan he was the direct descendant of david the ababanel begins his introductions by writing he is a descendant of david milk of king david barbanel starts off his career in portugal he's the finance minister for king alfonso of portugal king alfonso dies and he's taken over by his son j-o-a-o wow with a little zarka on top of the top of the a whale the second and way of the second he comes into power and he begins to execute all of his father's ministers the only last standing ministers at barbanel where upon barbanel gets you know a little an email right he says uh whale would like to speak to you and he gets word that uh whale doesn't want to speak there and whale wants to cut off his head so he runs out of the palace he runs for his life out of portugal he makes his way into spain just as the persecutors are about to grab him so abarbanel comes to to spain in the year 1484. comes to spain 1484. and nobody knows who he is which is always a good thing for a rabbi it's not good if people know who you are you're always better off being undercover okay and that vabranil tells us take a look we're going to glean from various commentaries of the barbanel from his writings on safer hoshea from his writings on safer year miyahu and from his writings on safer malachi says we all know that many tragedies happen to the jewish people on tish above the alexandria was destroyed but says abnel what else can i say he says on the seventh line at number three this last persecution we compared it to the exile from eushalayim because the king and the prince and the queen they made a decree that in three months the jews have to convert or they're out of here says about ominously the end of that three-month period fell out on guess what date and how do we remember what date of the jewish calendar this came out on well in the year 1492 regis nun bayes which is the gematria of the pasik and yemiya mizzare israel yikabsenu the scattered jew he will gather missouri is the gamatria in other words ms array is 252 252 in the jewish calendar i'll tell you a little trick whenever you see a hebrew date if you want to if you want to translate it into a secular date you add year to 1240 so 252 you add 1240 to it is 14.92 how do you remember what year missouri israel yesterday as we're going to see various acharonium would find different muslim in the to this ominous year of 1492. on this very day the day of tish above yatsu called sivois hashem mikhail artsa is fired every last jew remained inside if you're jewish and you remained in spain you had denounced your judaism he had become a murano anyone who claimed to be a jew had to leave says this is the meaning of the passage the month will consume the remnants which means like this tish above the first time will destroy a majority of the jewish people tish above the second time will knock off a big part of them but they'll still be a remnant in spain and tish above again will come in and knock off the remnants of the jewish people says abner abraham continues in his commentary as safer yamaha he adds that aside from all the tragedies mentioned in tinus he says there's an island if you look again on the seventh line in number five there's an island on the other side of the land hanikara ingallatira what's ingallatira in french england is called angela terra anglo terra is referring to england the jews were expelled from england on tish above on that year that day in the year the year kala garesh kala the word kala kala is right 55 in the year 1295 we were chased out of france says abanel on tisha 1492 king ferdinand decreed that that will be the macabre patis that will be the final blow on that day every last jew has to leave spain says barbanel what king ferdinand learned the gemara untightness he was he was familiar that he should have got kicked the jews out on tishmov how do we explain this says it was as if the hand of god guided him unknowingly to somehow make this decree to end on tish above he didn't know about it says that bravo now this is the fruition of the navua look at number four the posix says in yermia the end of the puzzle will always be found her sins will always be visited on that fateful month on that fateful day the ninth day of comes about in a third place and he gives us perhaps the most extensive and authentic account of the spanish inquisition of any other israel and in the ababa now in his introduction to safer tells us what prompted him to write a commentary on these four books says [Applause] i compare myself to shield base ho ely who's ellie was the one who violated the curse of yahushua yeshua said whoever builds up the city of urichal will lay the foundation with the death of his oldest son and will put up the gate with the death of their youngest son says abarbanel i am the exact opposite of base hoely very mysterious comment in what way is abarbanel like this individual says abarbanel let me tell you my life story he says i was sitting in portugal i was at peace i had security i had serenity and i embarked upon a mission to write a commentary on tanach however suddenly the emperor the king of portugal was turned on me he considered me an enemy to the point where i had to flee for my life and i run away to malchus castellaia to castile the region of castile and i'm there nobody knows who i am a lot of jews had beards back then nobody knows about so babinelle says it's a perfect opportunity i have peace i have serenity i'm gonna write a commentary on yahushua why yoshua because god saved me why shoft him because god is a chauffeured ms why shmuel because this is my request from god says abanello i came to spain in the year 1484. and i began to write a commentary not only on yeshua sheikhtim and shmuel but i want to try to calm down and say from elohim and all of a sudden i'm summoned to the palace of the king and king ferdinand and queen isabella say yeah you're the new finance minister of uh you know what should we invest in what stocks should we buy how should we should we put our cash where should we invest what real estate should we buy says the abarbanel i made them successful i made them wealthy i elevated them to the great level that they were on however in 1492 in the year missouri israel king ferdinand won a great victory he attacked granada and the great city of granada and he conquered granada king ferdinand conquered granada and returns from war victorious this was one of the greatest victories in world history the conquest of granada he annexed grenada to his to his mouse and this arrogant king says to himself how can i ever repay my god how can i ever show gratitude to the newly embraced christianity we know that uh in 1492 very uh pretty recently spain had embraced the christian religion and says that asap rome christianity king ferdinand said by myself how can i appease my god the only thing i could do is gather all of those miserable jews all those jews that walk in darkness and bring them to the true religion and if they don't accept i will kick them out and the law went out than anyone living in eretz farad and sicily was a part of the spanish empire or miyorika or sardinia any jew either leaves or converts ababranel says i was sitting in the palace couldn't keep my mouth closed i risked my life i screamed to the king king save these people what do you want for them three lines from the end llama tasa koilava why are you doing this you want money you need more money we will pay you a hefty ransom for every jew money is not an issue says that babenel i pleaded with the officers i pleaded with the officials by the way you should know that on the last day before the uh inquisition was formally signed barbanel pleaded with ferdinand and they were really about to reconsider we're upon the great and terrible inquisitor torquemada torquemada was the confessor of queen isabella he comes running into the palace room with a big cross ranting and raving and he shook king fernando and queen isabel to their core they got so scared they asked that babanel to step out the edict was signed and it was completed tish above august 2nd thursday 1492. [Applause] as bad as king ferdinand was it's always the wife yeah look three lines from the top he says she's sitting there on the side she's inciting him sababano blames her says about banel since gallus yerushalayim we never had such a tragedy says abarbanel how many jews were forced to leave spain in that three-month period primarily between yaziah and thomas and tish above 300 000 jews had to leave spain how many jews converted hundreds of thousands we're going to learn that 101 years before the inquisition there was another fourth conversion 200 000 jews converted to christianity the first time in history there was almost any conversion to a different religion two hundred thousand and this is something that did not go unnoticed by the israel first time in history first time in history jews converted to another religion why what was it about spanish jewry what was their weakness two hundred 000 jews in 1391 hundreds of thousands 1492 30 000 jews were murdered in 1492. now you should know you know we talk about the muranos the secret jews well in 1492 there were more than 250 000 new christians muranos the muranos had it much worse off than the jews by the way the word murano you know what the word murano means a pig a hazard why did they call them khazarim well ahazir gets fat on other people's efforts so these jews that converted christianity they were so upset with them as if they're having success because of all the hard work of the christians and also they call them khazarim they call them pigs because a pig only has use when you kill it they call them muranos they gave them they dubbed them the title murano in other words you jews you'll never be us you only have value when we slice your necks you only have value when we burn you in the fire so the muranos had a much worse off because the jews who remained jews they had a choice either conversion or expulsion but the muranos were not given the opportunity to leave anymore once they converted to christianity they were spied on they were followed day and night making sure they would never utter a word to any other jew they were followed to make sure they were not performing any jewish rituals they weren't going to shul they weren't even looking at jews and their lives were miserable the worst thing that they did was that they converted openly now you should know that many of the muranos eventually came back and were makadeshi but unfortunately in that sense that 101 year period from 1391 to 1492 aside from 300 000 jews that left the country we lost neba hundreds of thousands of jews to christianity no so it's from the from bias we shine by switching and by your shining it's not part of the diagonals okay so says how many jews left spain 1492 300 000. he says and i'm among them because barbanel was given exclusive rights to be the only jew to remain in the country and he was able to remain as the finance minister of spain and instead he chose to go along with his fellow brethren as we're walking and we're leaving the country says malcolm with nayan bashem barusham our king walked ahead of us that is god almighty was leading us out of out of this galas and where did we go says abba now we had no idea where we're going some went to portugal otherwise went to navarre not the pharmacy on ellen ocean right but a different way navarre and says ababanel we suffered we were broken we were hungry many of them took ships many of the ships sunk many of them were capsized many of them burnt i myself says that i chose to take a ship and where did i end up i ended up in italy in napoli now very interesting abarbanel had lost his manuscript on seifer devara he goes to napoli he makes his way to corfu in corfu he finds a yid who had accidentally one time made a copy of his manuscripts of zavaram and he was able to reprint his safer antivirus says the abarbanel what happened i arrived in napoli in the year 1493 the year gerim haisem gerem 1493 and i said to myself now i have to pay up my debt i promised god i was going to write yeshua i did that shoved him i did that now i have to write a commentary on seifer says i'm like from base ellie kiyo base ellie lost his oldest son when he put up the foundation of eureka he lost his youngest son when he put up the gates on the exact opposite i wrote my first commentary in the youngest of the gulas in the most mild of the galas when i had to leave portugal and i wrote my most important commentary in the bachara galas in the great galas of galas safarad so this is the writing of the babanel was the talmud of the drama very interesting from david gans from david ganz was born in germany as a little kid he walked from germany to krakow one day he had a chuuka to learn from the rama so he left his home and he walked from germany to krakow not from kew garden securing hills germany to krakow he made his way to the rama's house by the way was a master of many disciplines mathematics astronomy by the way he corresponded with the great astronomers of the time taiko braha johann kepler there's correspondence between the senate david he was encouraged by the rama to write a historical work says you want to remember what year the spanish inquisition was the passage 252 1492 again another remiss to the spanish inquisition we have over here they say for cedar haddai royce of rabbi hill halpern hill happened was a great historian his historical work is so important that the ghidar wrote footnotes on the sader hadiros and the rabbi hill halpern writes by the way he was a descendant of the marshal descendant of rashi a descendant of the tana raviolanasana and he writes the following the jews were exiled from all the great cities in spain and the residents of toledo yeah holy toledo they say to the inquisitor what do you want from us don't you see what why were they killing jews because we killed their god but we didn't the romans did yeah but we were there we didn't protest but the residents of toledo said don't you know we've been here since bias rishon it was even engraved in the stones of toledo that the jewish community never even saw the isil they were they've been there since vice versa they didn't want to hear from it they left that barbados writes they left but they couldn't take their money with them you know how much money they had you know we get uh german reparations and we need we need somebody to get money back from the from the spanish this community in toledo had 30 million duquettes it's a lot of money it's a lot of money and they had to leave says this the entire taikaka was fulfilled to the gerusevarat says let me tell you an incent that happened there was one particular person who left on a boat with his father with his age father and little son they land on a desert island there's nothing to eat nebuch the grandfather is dying of hunger the father doesn't know what to do he has nothing to feed his his father he takes his kid to the baker tells the baker the father's dying i need to feed him he trades in his kid for a loaf of bread to bring to his ailing father comes back to the father the father had already gone to the next world goes back to the baker give me my kid back the baker said no keep the bread the baker says keep the bread says the cedar adora is one of the terrible things i ever heard the jews are leaving spain they're coming to portugal three hundred thousand if you want to read about it he says there's a great historian the jews in portugal go to the king of portugal they said we don't want these uh jews coming from spain we don't want them coming they're gonna jack up the prices right now i have room at the shear you know i could sit back one and one portion per person maybe sometimes two portions per person right if those jews from spain come that's it maybe i'll get one french fry at this year the jews of portugal asked the king do not let them come do not let them come and the god on portugal done yosef ben he said what are you doing you're going to close the doors to your brethren they didn't listen to him and the jews of spain cannot enter spain they had to pay two duquettes ahead to allow them in and to portugal what happened was they come to portugal there's so many jews there's pestilence people are dying everybody wants to leave portugal the king gets word you want to leave portugal now the king makes an investigation if everybody paid the two ducats whoever didn't pay the two duquettes the king says now i'm not taking two ducats now i take your kid any kid between six and ten king of portugal took parents never saw their kids again rabbi avraham sabah one of the great geruses farad he wrote the commentary tsar amar he had two sons taken by the king of portugal never saw them again what happened the king of portugal sees everybody is leaving the country he makes a big reception for all the wealthy balabatim in portugal he says come to my palace he serves them a big course he locks the gates of the palace and he says the following you're not going anywhere he has water poured on every kid's head he forcibly kidnaps baptizes every child in portugal under the age of 18. if you were a father if you were a mother living in portugal in the year 1497 you never saw your child again without exception without exception there are many sorts of ram saba writes about this if you were a parent in portugal take two somewhere else you never saw your kids again says they say there are deuteros they took ships they took boats where did they go they went to italy many went to italy the jews in italy didn't want these jews so they went to the pope they said pope what are you kidding me you're gonna let these uh immigrants in you know what the pope said so what you don't have mercy on your own brethren i'm going to take in the geruche farad and you guys you're out of here and he put a decree on all of the all of the residents of rome it was mcgowarism and they had to pay thousands and thousands of ruble of thousands of thousands of silver coins in order to in order to extricate themselves from this zero okay by the way one of the other great gadoli israel who lived in safari in the time one of the other great geruses farad was somebody by the name of rabbi yosef yavitz now he has no relation to rabbyakovden in fact yaiwitz of the khasidyava stands for yitain itsa the eisara yages he was your go-to councilman if you needed advice you went to the khasid khashoggis wrote a great work called the such an important work that the author of the saskatchewan of sri lanka i once heard from one of my rosh yeshiva who heard from one of the ballet muslims of zaichik that if somebody wants to gain yirashimayam they should learn in the one of the footnotes on it's also another remnants of the year 1492 there's a pasta in tanakh that says [Applause] the to the spanish inquisition says by the way why did he write the say for him was written in distinction to argue with the approach of the philosophers was very against the study of philosophy and rabbi yosef yavitz wants to know very simple question in his farad what did they do wrong what did they do what was there aveira so amma of the horowitz he says we can't even begin to speak about the desperation in the year 1492. says of yosefi the same way the navi yermia says al-azvam as tairasi that they forsook the torah in spain they forsook the torah how did we forsake the torah says class of 1492 there were never so many yeshivas in spain or anywhere in the world as they were in 1492. says the khafsanyavits let me go through the situation he said you had some tell me then that would stay in the yeshiva six or seven years but after that they would move on to more sophisticated disciplines they considered secular disciplines more advanced more scholarly more sophisticated and to some extent they forsook limana torah that's why they were punished there were other jews he said who after leaving the yeshiva they forsake the torah entirely but he said even the great talmud they were not learning for the purpose of learning what's the purpose of learning he said the highest purpose of learning is to learn to be misdavik hashem to be a righteous individual but they were not even learning to know what to do they were only learning to gain honor to gain titles in fact you should know that barbara now writes that when he came to naples in he writes this in the beginning of the sixth paragraph of prakash he he saw a very strange phenomenon that they were jews that call themselves rabbi he says to them what's a rabbi what you have smikha from moshira bainu so they said no we have smiha yeah brothers is something that's far into the jewish people he says you know where it comes from it comes from the secular world where they have doctors so we try to mimic them we have rabbis but either you know the torah or you don't know the torah either you know the or you don't know the what's a rabbi says abba okay obviously that was his opinion but it's a very interesting thing says the sin was that the learning was not lashing it was to make a career to get a title says you can never trust yourself he says this is this is a response to those who say yeah i've mastered torah now let me master us let me master other disciplines says you can never trust yourself enough to say that you've already learned enough and now you could try mastering other things and then he makes a very frightening comment says in 1492 all the jews who studied philosophy and were and investigated proofs to god's existence and god's providence you know what their fate was every last one of them became a christian and the fate of the simple jews who had a moon up was they remain loyal to judaism says the downfall of spanish jewry was they did not first involve themselves enough in shas and poiskin before they investigated the philosophical realms of the torah and the proof is in the results because all the great and all the great philosophy they all met the same faith they all converted they were not able to withstand the great test and the jews who had simple ammuna from the traditions of their ancestors they were the only jews who were able to overcome this great new science rabbi said this is a very major topic we're going to be uh skipping over a number of the mara makaima's hashem if anybody wants to hear part two of this series uh we're going to be giving it in the young israel mr shem friday morning and sunday morning here in the shoal but we're just going to be uh getting a little taste for this for this to kisa 10 o'clock in the youngest one q garden hills okay details i'll let you know i'll let you know more bravo i want to tell you about another great god of israel who lived during that takufa his name was rabbi avram zakuto ravram zakuto was one of the most interesting guidelines it's a name that everybody should be familiar with ravram zakuto lived from 1440 to 1515 a great talmudis a great time a great historian and perhaps the greatest astronomer of all time in fact rabbi ravrum zakuta wrote a great work a classic work called seifer hayookson which he was not zokha to see published during his lifetime the severity of was published after the death posthumously i believe in the year 1566 i'm in spain in the year 1492 right now right but um he was not very good to see the safer published i'm number 18 and he writes about the great merit that he had then when he was exiled from spain in 1492 him and his son were persecuted we're exiled we're captured many times and the revolution gave them the great sukhoth not to give in to be mekadesh and to withstand the new sign says in the introduction to the safer hayoke an amazing story ravram zakuto wrote the most authoritative maritime charts in fact when rabbi ramsay kudo came out with his maritime charts he put to shame all of the earlier maritime charts to the point now he also invented one of the most important traveling tools of the time the astro lab until river rum zakuto the astro lab was a wooden instrument which is very inaccurate wherevrum zakuto perfected the copper astrolab he had many conversations with a man by the name of christoph columbus yeah no that is and before before columbus sailed to america they had a very uh they had a major discussion by the way rum zakuto was offered to be with an instructor in the university in salamanica and columbus study from rabbi ramsey in fact the great astronomer korea writes that the only scholar that believed that columbus would discover new land was rav ram zakuta he actually wrote that it's going to be very hard to get by a certain impasse but once you get beyond it he believes lands will be discussed an amazing story when christopher columbus came to america and actually he was captured by indians maybe cannibals they tied him up him and his men they're going to put them in a pot cook them for supper and and christopher columbus didn't know what to do and remember that in the maritime charts of river rum zakuto a lunar eclipse was predicted almost immediately so christopher columbus said to the captors that if you don't release me i will pray to my god and blot out the light of the moons we're upon christopher columbus was mas palo lelekov and all of a sudden you know these indians were they're looking at the uh the moon disappear and then you know they probably did their dance and there they made their noises and they heaped great honor on columbus they untied him and they assisted him on the rest of his travels as recorded in the safeway by the way by the way i wasn't there i can't tell you more details but if you go today columbus very past very likely he was jewish if you go today to the museum in portugal you could see the maritime charts of avram zakuto with the footnotes of christopher columbus could see today discusses a very important shiloh how he saw with his own eyes 1492 when the jews were threatened either exile or conversion many jews committed suicide and the question is halachically is it permitted to commit suicide to save yourself from great from great distress and stay tuned if you want to hear more about that you could come sunday morning and we're going to see the psa of rabbi ramzakuto as long as other la maison okay friday or sunday both you have two opportunities okay one of the great historians of the time what one of the great historians of the time a big baby yehudah one of the great historians of the time yehuda you the rights to number 26 he says i heard from one of the elders of the gerusefarad of a man and his wife and his two children who are on a boat and the boat capsizes they're stuck on a desert island they're all famished they're all malnourished they're all near death this wife was the uh a wife previous she was married to this guy this guy was a very wealthy man she had never put her bare foot on the dirt in her life the moment she steps in the mud she dies like the gemara says get in about the man has no choice he grabs his two sons and he schleps them along what happens the two kids faint the man's pulling them he's schlepping them in the desert he also faints he wakes up hours later he sees laying next to him his wife is dead his two kids are dead and the eyewitness testimony is this man raises his hands to the heavens and he says rebinder shalom rebin he says you've done a lot to test me you've done a lot to give me the opportunity to forsake my religion he says i will always be a jew and there's nothing that you could do nothing that will ever happen to me that will stop me from being a jew we have over here number 27 akina very interesting to me that of all the kinus that we say on tishma for the crusades for the burning of the safari there's no there's no kinna for the geruses farad but actually there was a kinah that was written you can take a look at it it was a kin written by the isaac then yakov and he's mekane he's making over the gerushes foreign as the jews are leaving spain passing the very interesting sheila a hirasha because as we know this was taking place the day before tish above when certainly music and live bands would be prohibited that the leaders of the jews that of golosvarad they were led out of gulas by bands by lively music they possibly was permitted for them to dance their way out of spain why is that number one to inspire them to give them hope for the future not so they shouldn't be demoralized so they should not be depressed to give them tikvah to give them hope in addition this was their way of showing gratitude to ribanus shalom thanking hashem that they were zoeka mekade shem and they didn't succumb to this great nissan and finally the gadola you throw unwanted to show that jews never cry when they leave galas we cry when we leave you shalom we don't cry when we leave galas and the jews were led out of spain by lively music so here we have a parallel between the khurban and and this terrible corbin of gerushesvaran three hundred thousand jews hundreds of thousands jews forcibly converted but there's another parallel as well because just like we know on tishbo besides the fact that that was corbin tell us in many places that mashiach was born on that as god brings destruction as god brings devastation banished is already planting the seeds for the salvation of khalisram and by the same token points out however viktor miller's rejoicing he writes the largest and most influential jewish community in history after that which formerly existed in the holy land was in spain in 5252 they were totally expelled cesare miller yes they were expelled and the greatest heaven until there until that point of time which was spain was coming to an end but at that very time at that very same time when spanish jewry was coming to an end christopher columbus set sail to discover what has been historically the greatest haven for the jewish people aside from america so while spanish jewry was coming to an end the same way the ubuntu creates mashiach on tish was already preparing and paving the way for the next great jewish haven says victor miller columbus discovers america in 1492 the most influential jewish community since spain this is the hand of god in history not only that scissor miller the very same king and queen who expelled the jewish people financed the discovery of america we'll credit them the ibansham made them the to finance columbus's discovery even more than that cesar miller even more conspicuous was the fact that on august 2nd on thursday was the spanish inquisition and on that very day christopher columbus was packing his bags to leave on his voyage to america which took place the day right after tisha friday august 3rd 1492. in the archives in seville spain there's a document written by a sailor juan diara aragon who is a cabin boy of one of the boats that took jews to africa he writes that as this boat that took the captives of spain down to africa down the rio tinto august 2nd 1492 on their way to africa they waved and passed by to three great ships the nina the pinta the santa maria which were birthed in the quay of pelos preparing to set sail to america the very next day could anyone have known that on the great disastrous day of the demise of the greatest jewish community that gullis has ever seen the rebellion was already paving the way for the greatest jewish community that was ever in gulath so yes it was a disastrous day and let's never forget that what happened in spain you can never get comfortable in gullah because ibanezham paved the way for us to be here in america but the legendary tells us america is the last stop is the 10th gullis don't get too comfortable writes something very frightening and he writes what was the reason for golov the jews got too comfortable they built big homes they built luxurious palaces as if this is their final destination so we can never get too comfortable we can never feel like this is our home like when the jews left spain the good olymposkin to play music for them because we don't live live leave gullahs in a sad way but just like on tish above the meshech was born so too in 1492 the ribbon islam had his eye on the future salvation jewish people and on that very day columbus set sail to discover the haven that we are in today and we should be zaika to be here you've just experienced another torah class brought to you by torahanytime.com