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Rabbeinu Yonah wrote an amazing book
called Shaarei Teshuvah.
Rambam came out with a book, I believe
it was Moreh Nevukhim,
Guide to the Perplexed,
that included a lot of the
wisdom or teachings of the Greek, the
philosophers, Aristotle, uh Plato, and
so on.
Different Greek teachings and so on.
And at first look,
rabbis didn't like it.
Big rabbis, the latter didn't like it.
Rabbeinu Yonah said this is kfirah. This
is heresy. This is Hashem Yerachem. This
is Yeshua. This is uh Haman. This is
Hashem Yerachem. Now, in those days, not
like printing houses, 5 minutes you have
15,000 books. And every book was
handwritten.
To finish one book took a long time. The
Moreh Nevukhim was a big book.
And handwriting it took a long, long
time. They start taking all of his books
and burning them in the street.
And Rabbeinu Yonah is the leader.
Burn the book. Burn the book. Burn the
book. Hashem Yerachem.
Rambam.
Then, Rabbeinu Yonah
saw that the Greek
shortly later
went to a kollel, went to a yeshiva,
start taking Gemara.
Start burning that, too. Like, look, the
Jews are burning their own rabbis'
books. We're going to start burning
Gemara, too.
Let's burn the Jews, too.
And Rabbeinu Yonah, "Hashem let me see
this
because I made a mistake. I should have
read the whole book before I said it's
kfirah. [music]
Hashem made me see it.
And I have to read the book. And he read
the book. And he says, "Not only was I
wrong,
that it's not kafira, but Rambam is
gadol hador.
Rambam is bigger than all of us. Now,
how can I fix this? I just burned all of
his books. Everyone thinks he's a rasha.
Now, everyone that was there at the
burning book session,
who knows if they're still here? Maybe
they went to a different city. Maybe
they told somebody else Rambam is this.
Maybe How am I going to fix this? For
the rest of his life, Rabbeinu Yonah
traveled from city to city, took a vow,
he took a neder, traveled from city to
city to go to every community and say,
"Rambam is right.
>> [music]
>> His Torah is holy. I was wrong." And
throughout this time, he wrote
the book Shaarei Teshuvah. How to do
teshuvah.
Now you know why it's such a special
book.
>> And say thank you to Hashem for more
Torah. One, two, three.
One, two, three.
>> B H Kids.
