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Great Debates in Jewish History - Lesson 4
Category: Religion & Spirituality
Duration: 01:36:05
Publish Date: 2017-11-30 13:07:43
Description: In the Wake of Expulsion Was the Time Ripe to Reestablish the Sanhedrin? In 1538, the rabbis of Safed announced that they had decided to reinstitute the practice of ordination, which had fallen into disuse centuries earlier. But soon thereafter, word came from the rabbi in Jerusalem that they were opposed to this initiative. Why did the rabbis of Safed want to reinstitute ordination, and why did the the rabbis of Jerusalem oppose this? Dissecting the halachic polemics, we will learn how this debate was a product of the unique historical circumstances of sixteenth-century Jewry still reeling from the Spanish Expulsion, and we will see how this story is relevant to modern attempts to reinstitute the Sanhedrin.
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