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the Undisputed disputed most powerful
and infu influential Jew in the country
of Spain during the reign of Ferdinand
Isabella at the height of the Spanish
Inquisition was the great Ron the
abarbanel with a net worth by the way of
an estimated billion dollars his wealth
and his wisdom were sought out first by
the leaders in Portugal where he
originally was from and then by
Ferdinand and Isabella in Spain who
developed a nice relationship with him
despite their ferocious and almost
unparalleled
anti-Semitism and eventually they
decided on Tish August 2nd 1492 to
officially expel all the Jews from Spain
but they didn't want to lose out on the
wealth and the wisdom the ab aranel so
ferdin and Isabel invited him on the day
of the expulsion into their inner
chamber and offered him the chance to be
the only Jew allowed to remain back in
Spain and he looks at them and he says
if my people go I go and They begged him
and they pleaded with him and they even
offered to allow a minion of 10 men to
stay with him in Spain nothing worked my
people go I go and he turns around and
he storms out of their palace and he
runs into the street and he's met by a
sight of a stream of sad and broken Jews
who were just dragging their few
possessions and heading towards the gate
to leave the country and there were old
people and there were young people and
there were babies and poor people with
nowhere to go and rich people who were
leaving everything behind and people who
just had looks of dispair on their
faces and the abara looks at this scene
and he quickly runs runs down the street
to a local bar and he runs to the back
where there was a band playing and he
runs up to the band and he gives the
each band member some of his remaining
money hands each one a handful of gold
coins he says follow me and he runs out
of the bar and he brings them to right
in front of the gates of the city where
everyone was going through and he
instructs them to sit down and start
playing joyous happy music and the Abino
then got up in a crate and he made the
following speech he
says my holy Jewish brothers and SS I am
well aware that today is Tish and I'm
well aware that on Tish it's prohibited
to listen to music but I'm also aware of
the momentous occasion that we have in
front of us the for reasons we will
never know decided to leave Spain and is
heading to another place the Jewish
people are about to pick up and begines
somewhere new my holy brothers and
sisters the same way the Jews leaving
Egypt saying and the Jews in the desert
saying and the Jews leaving y sing so
too we must sing for the only follows
people who sing it says in
the if destruction comes from lack of
sim and Sh then our only chance of
rebuilding and survival somewhere else
is if we lift our heads up high and sing
and so in one of the most surreal
moments in all of Jewish history the
Abel antio forms a circle of yiden on
the very day they were expelled and
dances his way out of
Spain that is our secret
we don't walk through life we dance
through life and amongst the onlookers
that day watching in awe as the Abel
dance the Jews out of Spain was a little
boy named YF Caro a little boy who was
four years old who would grow up to be
the greatest decider of Jewish law ever
a little boy who would write a safer
that would change the course of Jewish
history and he begins the entire Shar
with the words his Gaber Kari a Jew must
roar like a lion a Jew must be able to
fear l ly sing God's song no matter what
and no matter when no matter the
apparent danger or discomfort that lays
in front of him for Shir and
a isn't an addon it's not a cherry on
top it's the very Foundation of Who We
Are
