Origins of Sephardic Jewry Dr. Henry Abramson
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- Brief overview of the origins of Sephardic Jewry, from earliest settlement through the Visigothic period to the Muslim Conquest of 711.
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I'm a Brazilian-Italian/Portuguese of partly both Sephardic and Ashkenazi Jewish descent, and I couldn't be more proud of my heritage! 🇺🇸🇧🇷🇮🇹🇵🇹❤️🇮🇱
dasilverwelshman
What is your Y-DNA Haplogroup?
@@someone-wi4xl I-PF4088
dasilverwelshman
So from I2 .. i suppose then you are Jewish from your maternal line ?
I’m Arabian from the Arabian Peninsula
Under J1-M267 Haplogroup “J-P58” mutation
I know that there are Cohanim Jews under same Haplogroup but under ZS227 mutation
And we meet with them ~5000 years ago
I thought you are one of them
But still .. Haplogroup I is the brother of J :)
@@someone-wi4xl You are correct, it is, indeed from maternal line. By the way, you sound like a very knowledgable person, someone I could probably learn a lot from.
@@mrdasilver Can you tell us from which company you got your haplo info from? TY & warm regards fm 🇵🇹
I have recently discovered my Sephardi roots. It looks like my ancestors escaped Portugal to France and Britain. Then they lived in Britain firstly as openly Jewish and then crypto Jews for quite a few hundred years until they converted to Christianity.
It looks like we’re descended from António Fernandez Caravajal. Thank you for uploading this lecture 🙏🏼💖🌟
Yep, same.
@@bec5250 Hi, same story here: Toledo, Spain (openly Jewish 1400s) to Britain (crypto Jews 1500-1600s) then to America in 1636 as Christians. Descendant from the family of Diego Garcia de Toledo de Ayala. The origin of the family was a Rabbi Solomon ✡🥰🕎
Me too.
Wow. So some Jews went to Christianity?
Dr. Abramson, thank you for this lecture. I am Sephardi, living in Galilee, Israel. Today is 29 Elul 5781 and Rosh Hashanah begins in a only two hours. So, this will be the last lecture that I get to hear before the new year begins. Thank you for your work to help people understand aspects of Jewish history. שנה טובה
Iam a indian christian working in Saudi Arabia and this lecture was very resourceful to us. God bless
Peace of christ w you my friend. May the Lord protect you there
@@magaman5154 from what?
Hinduism is the most absurd religion in the world because they believe in millions of God, now you believe in 2. You are very close to believing in 1 God. Don't stop learning about all religions of the world. There is 1 true religion and it is out there. Keep seeking. Your efforts will not be ignored by the Most Merciful, God.
Papa Joe ''1 true religion'' my ass...LOL !!!
@@CaptainHarlock-kv4zt I do not want to debate, I would just like to understand your perspective of many. Do you mean god in all things and nature like essence?
As a Muslim born in Australia I found this lecture very interesting especially since I visited Andalusia southern Spain a few years ago and visiting the Jewish Quarter in Cordoba
My family is African,Nordic,Spanish,Portuguese and Turkish Jew. We are Jamaicans. Our Jewish family ended up in Cuba,then spread to English islands for protection,after the inquisition came in affect. Meeting people and DNA research,led me here. Thanks a lot "Cousin"
We should link, given that our pedigree is similar. Jah Love.
I’m American of Arab descent and really enjoy your lectures. It ended well with hope when you mentioned Muslims and Jews living together for 500 years in peace. Inshallah we have 500 more.
Inshallah
What a magnificent lecture Dr. Abramson!
Being from Spain, I have always been taught about this matters from a Christian perspective, so thank you so much for giving me a different point of view of my country History.
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Tremendous ability of narration , interesting choice of topics, enjoyable , and instructive at the same time.
Sepharad was located in Mede where Iran is today (i.e., the land of the 3 wise Magi who paid homage to the infant Jesus). Therefore, people from Sepharad 👉WERE NOT descendants of Abraham, because the Medes of Northwest Iran were not Semites but Madaites, of 👿MADAI son of Japheth, 👉uncle of Ashkenaz.
BIBLICAL PROVE;
The sons of Japheth: Gomer, and Magog, and 👿MADAI, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras. And the sons of Gomer: ASHKENAZ, and Riphath, and Togarmah. And the sons of Javan: Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim. By these were the isles of the GENTILES👈
SHEPHARI / MADAI
ASHKENAZ / GOMER
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BOTH ARE CONVERTED JEWS. CONVERT MEANS TO CHANGE. BOTH ARE GENTILES ACCORDING TO GENESIS 10:2-5
@@darrylthomas4216 Shalawum Ack!!
My grandmothers aunt (who raised her after her mother died) confessed on her death bed that she was Jewish, and told my grandmother never to tell people. She was very afraid of persecution. My grandmother was born in Mexico, but remembers strange looking furniture, and photos that didn’t look like Mexico. She said it looked European. My family by blood (dna test) says we are from the Iberian peninsula, with some Arabic. I would suppose we are Sephardi, but I have no idea how to trace things back. There is so little I have to go off of.
Henry Abramson thank you!
Hi Alyssa, to know how the Sephardic Jews ended up in Mexico, look into the new Documentary about Christopher Columbus life, where his descendants explain that he was born in Cuba Portugal, not Italy, from a Jewish mother and Catholic father and together with the Rabbi's in Spain, made a way to save the Sefardic Jews on the Voyage across to America.
There's another lady from Cuba who has a similar story. She traced her Jewish lineage all the back to Portugal and Spain in the XVI century. She lives in the US now, I believe. You should do your genealogy :)
I'm here from my 23andme test, where I have a lot of Sephardic matches, most of which say their roots are from Syria and Morocco. I'm from the Caribbean and had no idea of any Jewish connection in my family. This is all quite interesting~
Many sephardic jews came to South America and Central America, running from The Inquisition. There's a lot of south and central americans who descend from sephardic Jews.
Probably they converted to Christians to avoid problems and that's why many of us may have sephardic roots and don't even know about it.
He is saying everything but that they were black and that the Sephardic Jews are bloodline Hebrews and the Ashkenazi Jews are proselytized Jews. Don't believe the lie. He is only speaking partial truth.
@@MoufAll-Mighty Why would that matter? A convert is 100% Jewish and you aren't supposed to bring up their past.
My family is from the Cabo Verde Islands and many of us have some Sephardic ancestry. Jews were amongst the Portuguese and Spanish who founded the islands and some emigrated later, as well.
@@MoufAll-Mighty What you say has already been genetically proven to be false.
I have Sephardic roots myself and I really enjoyed to learn your views about our origins. Thanks for sharing your knowledge and time ! God bless you !
Glad you liked the video!
Shalom there!! Find out more about your heritage and check out the 2500 years diaspora,
history, origins, biblical connections, worldwide Jewish communities, and fulfilled prophecies of
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Sephardic. Or shepherds Jews ring a bell.
I just wrote an essay on the Sephardic diaspora recently for one of my last ever undergraduate papers, and I wish I had seen this lecture a few weeks back. Would have included and cited it as a source. Such a good lecture.
Thank you for the kind words!
I have been waiting for something like this for quite some time. The fact that the Sephardi produced Yosef Caro, who wrote the Shulchan Aruch and so much other literature but have few resources in English left me starved. And just the right man stepped up to take on this monumental task. I am ecstatic about this and hope it is the beginning of more detailed and distinct lectures that open us up to the minhag of the Sepharad.
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I found out that I'm Sephardic jew descdant last year, but still feel Spanish by the end of day. My goal is to visit the holy land where everything began and trace my remaining relatives with Sepharsic background. Now I know why Mom remembered my grandfather wearing a small black round cup on his head at all times not knowing herself that she was staring at a black kep pa.
@@dripeedrop I hope that you understand that it's great to be a Spaniard, but the contradiction is with Christianity. Spanish Catholicism was less a religion than a plague on your ancestors. Come home.
@@dripeedrop My Mom found out she had Shephardic Jewish descent also
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What a fascinating lecture. The Sephardim simply don't get enough attention.
I’m Muslim and I love my Jewish people and I wish both Jewish and Muslims can live in harmony like they use to to and give eachother respect and value in the same government in Israel 🇮🇱 .. although the settlement in West Bank is not a nice thing to do... as when Jewish people who came to Israel or Palestine what ever u want to call it after ww2 Palestinians and Muslim brothers and sisters accepted them with love ... let’s get this love back
Hello, I’m Catholic and I love to learn about my Jewish brothers and sisters. I believe it is so important to learn and understand our beginnings.
Well done! Thank you!
True I'm pentecostal
I’m proud of the oral history my family has kept alive regarding our Shepardic Jewish ancestors. My Benoliel ancestors lived in Morocco then went to Gibraltar as merchants. Eventually my great-grandfather’s grandfather moved to England and his son came to America.
Fascinating
I love your light-heartedness and modesty. Makes your brilliance shine all the more. your scholarship impresses and inspires me.
Thank you so much for your kind words! I'm glad that you enjoy the classes.
@@HenryAbramsonPhD I do enjoy them. Judaism is lost if each generation is not continually educated. In fact, civilization itself is lost without our roots in the values and lessons of those who went before. Besides, learning is fun, and history (despite so much tragedy) is entertaining. I can see it as I "attend your classes. Your joy, sharing what you know, and bring it all together.
Even though my father's family came to America from Kiev and and my mother's family came from Warsaw, I felt most "at home" in Toledo. I had an uncanny feeling of connection to the Jewish life there in the 15th century. My wife and I were sitting on a veranda overlooking the ancient city at sunset and I had a revelation about having lived there before. I share this with you on the eve of Halloween.
Anyone can be jewish but not have bloodline/lineage of the Hebrews/israelites. Ashkenazi's are converts
@@mr.renaissancemts4083 you could not be more incorrect I repeat incorrect. Ashkenazi Jews are mostly descended from the northern tribes and has nothing to do with conversion of masses of people
@@michaelstein2317 not the 12 tribes of Israel. Ashkenaz are gentile nation according to Gen 10.
You must be joking? When Moses completed the Torah the word ashkenaz had not been invented or created. You need to stop learning Judaism from Christians
@Mr Renaissance MTS you must be kidding? When Moses completed the compilation and dictation of the Holy Torah the word ashkenaz had not been invented or thought of. You need to stop learning Torah from non-Jews.
Thank you very much, Dr Abramson, for this lecture. I am researching about a certain Sephardic topic in musicology and history is very important for the proper understanding of my subject.
Check out the music called Mento .
Listening to these lectures makes me so happy. Chag Sameach
Dr. Abramson, can you please give a lecture on the origins and history of Jews in Persia?
Thank you!
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Dr Abramson you are the real deal and I love you. Thank you for all your fascinating scholarly lectures that I listen to when I'm in my art studio. Also, please continue with the jokes!
24:30 It's actually well-established that Sepharad is Sardis (Sefardetis), in Western Anatolia. Tzarphat is Sarepta in Lebanon.
Thank you Sir. I've been listening to your lectures for some time(2-3 yrs.) now and will make a contribution. You're also a talented comedian (comedy from the Latin: comida=food) so thanks again for feeding us your food for thought❗😁🍷🍞📯🙌🕎📜🌴📖🦁 Muchas Gracias Don(Don from hebrew Adon meaning Lord/Sir/guardian of the bread, ("House of the bread=Beth-Lehem") term of honor/respect) Don Abramson. Todah Rabah.
Glad you found it useful!
@@HenryAbramsonPhD useful? I love it. Keep doing Ibad/service/work people are hungry for this knowledge. Thanks again.
I would like to discover and attend one of your session.
I very much interested in studying the history of sephardic cultures in our Jewish community. I come from Sephardic ancestors that have been in Spain. I have a friend that she is a professor of sephardic religion history, she lives in Sevilla Spain.
Great lecture on the presentation of Sephardic heritage.
Than you for your scholarship and your kindness.
My pleasure!
Very important for Judaism Today
I was raised a Catholic and had no clue of my Ancestry. I discovered I am a Sephardic Jew and from the Ha Levi Line. So I am on a quest to discover my history.
Good talking crap
So was I. Luckily, I started studying Judaism and am now practicing it. I have not converted to Judaism. I do not see a need to do it.
Me too I just found out about my saphardic jew Ancestry I would like to find out more but I dont know where to start.
@@darrylthomas4216 then why do they call jews fron spain Sephardic jews? Spanish jews supposedly came from Judea.
@free citizen01 LIAR!!!! DNA RESULTS SAYS THEY FAILED
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ASHKENAZI Jews have substantial ancestry in 👉Europe. www.google.com/amp/s/www.the-scientist.com/daily-news/genetic-roots-of-the-ashkenazi-jews-38580/amp
Who are the descendants of Ashkenaz?
Hebrew Bible. In the genealogies of the Hebrew Bible, Ashkenaz (Hebrew: אַשְׁכְּנַז, 'Aškănaz; Greek: Ασχανάζ, translit. Askhanáz) was a descendant of Noah. He was the first son of Gomer and brother of Riphath and Togarmah (Genesis 10:3, 1 Chronicles 1:6), with Gomer being the grandson of Noah through Japheth.
JEPHETH IS THE FATHER OF EUROPEANS! #GENTILE
READ GENESIS 10:2-5
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Greetings from Tamil Nadu India.
Thank you professor Dr.Henry Abramson for sharing extensively and in depth.
Great lecture, always a pleasure. It could be argued that the Jewish authority in the Diaspora moved to Cordoba during the Califate in the 10th century. Abraham ibn Daud has a book that chronicles (albeit mythically not necessarily historically) the transfer of religious authority from Babilonia to the Iberian Peninsula. It begins with the capture of four of the most prominent talmudic scholars by Cordoban pirates and their arrival in the periphery. Interesting how just the location the the wisest rabbis can dictate these things.
Here is a wonderful academic. Bright, great sense of humor and sensibility which makes you a great historian, wish is a why, it makes a bit said while referring to the Iberian Peninsula, you prefer to use the word Spain. That causes a lot of misunderstandings, for example, while explaining that passage by 31:17 (going to Spain) since there are so many different names for the Iberian Peninsula (Still is the geographical name of that region today) throughout times in history:
Prehistory: Iberia (often mention it in by the Greeks)
Roman Empire: Hispania (from at 218 B.C- 409 AD)
Reconquista:
Portugal (founded in 1128 AD)
The Kingdoms of Castela, Asturias, Galiza, Leon, Aragon that, after a lot of battles, marriages and alliances became Spain 1469 AD, long after allt those documents and events.
That might seem a small detail to many, but while studying history, it is crucial, especially while analysing historic documents.
Other than that, loved watching the video, you are a wonderful speaker . Sephardic jews are part of Portugal and Spain heritage indeed.
Thank you so much!
Brilliant I’m half Sephardic I love Sephardic Jews
Sepharad was located in Mede where Iran is today (i.e., the land of the 3 wise Magi who paid homage to the infant Jesus). Therefore, people from Sepharad 👉WERE NOT descendants of Abraham, because the Medes of Northwest Iran were not Semites but Madaites, of 👿MADAI son of Japheth, 👉uncle of Ashkenaz.
BIBLICAL PROVE;
The sons of Japheth: Gomer, and Magog, and 👿MADAI, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras. And the sons of Gomer: ASHKENAZ, and Riphath, and Togarmah. And the sons of Javan: Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim. By these were the isles of the GENTILES👈
SHEPHARI / MADAI
ASHKENAZ / GOMER
🚫🚫🚫🚫🚫🚫🚫
BOTH ARE CONVERTED JEWS. CONVERT MEANS TO CHANGE. BOTH ARE GENTILES ACCORDING TO GENESIS 10:2-5
We love you too
Shalom there! Find out more about your heritage and check out the 2500 years diaspora,
history, origins, biblical connections, worldwide Jewish communities, and fulfilled prophecies of
Sephardic Jews th-cam.com/video/rqU6EZ8WnXA/w-d-xo.html
Great lecture, Dr. Abramson. Poetry was the highest artistic expression of the Spanish Sephardic/ Muslim culture. Poetry is still the crown of Spanish literature.
Even though it's 6 years old, this is such an interesting and informative lecture. As Crypto-Jews for over 400 years, it's amazing my family retained any vestiges of our Jewish Heritage. My family has emerged from the darkness, and we have embraced our Jewish identity. Hard to explain, but I feel complete.
Thank you so much for this lecture. My name is Stacy, I am from Texas and recently discovered my Sephardic ancestry. I am learning so much. Thank you sir. Also..... when I just listen to your voice... you sound just like Geraldo Rivera!! Lol
Shalom there! Find out more about your heritage and check out the 2500 years diaspora,
history, origins, biblical connections, worldwide Jewish communities, and fulfilled prophecies of
Sephardic/Mizrahi Jews th-cam.com/video/rqU6EZ8WnXA/w-d-xo.html
I enjoyed this history lesson. Thank you for the information presented in a clear, and precise way.
It's not a History lesson,Its An internet talk!
Thank you, Professor, I just discovered your channel and I am fascinated with your lectures in English. I am from South America, so I listen to some outstanding Spanish scholars in the subject, in Spanish, based on historic records and the Spanish history which without the history of Sephardi Jews will be incomplete. My Spanish ancestors came to the New World about 150 years ago and I grew up with many old interesting Spanish traditions. I also grew up with the concept of the Sephardi being completely embedded in the Spanish identity, by blood and culture, considering them part of an original or vernacular settlement in the peninsula. Many of us, may be by the hundreds or thousands believe there is jewish blood and ancestry in us, and in my living in Spain and my many visits (we consider it our motherland) I always find out how Spaniards are so kind to the Sephardic ways, from their last names to the different customs throughout the different regions of Spain. It is like they have the jewish culture embedded in their traditions, herein the catholic background.
In 1492 many came to the New World and to this day we have kept in our countries some customs surprisingly Spanish (perhaps of Jewish descent?). I come from a catholic family, but we never ate pork in our home as kids. My father did not like the idea of eating pork because it was unsanitary, and he did not eat pork growing up. I had two aunts, who were both teachers and never married, the way they lived and ate was so similar to that of a kosher way of life, that I could not believe as I learned this at a latter day, being acquainted with a jewish family when I came to the United States. I was fascinated to see this and my point is that Spain or the history of the Iberian Peninsula will be not without the history of the Sephardic people.
English is my second language so I apologize for the errors. I just wanted to share these light notes with you and thank you.
What a wonderful and informative lecture. Thank you 🙏🏽
Glad you enjoyed it!
I enjoy so much your videos here in Mexico, I watch them every day and they helped me so much because I want to study jewish history
I am sephardic on my dads side coming from Gallego (Galicia)spain, and also happens to be my maiden name. My family came to the americas and settled in New Mexico. Interesting fact in San Luis there is a catholic church which looks very much like a catholic church and has all the Catholic services, in the basement was where the Jews met. I was mesmerized when my dad showed it too me and explained the history of it.❤❤
I am half Jewish was never interested in religion ,but I love history & Jewish history is one of the oldest most global
It's so nice to have your thought provoking lectures back!!
In terms of distinct Sefardic/Iberian Peninsula Jewry, you assert two ideas that I think are least debatable...
1. You argue, that when faced with a choice between conversion or death; the Ashkenazi way was to choose death, whereas the Sefardim "believed in" life/Christianity. "Accommodation when pressured", fake conversion, and crypto Jews.. was "their way", and not a series of terrible blunders, miscalculations, and weaknesses.
2. Iberian Peninsula Jewrys' openness to wider culture was the direct cause for their later mass-conversion r'l.
I've never heard anyone present the choice that the majority of Sefardic Jewry took, in such a positive way! Of course it is true that there were a very small amount of the conversos that did in fact hold on to a small portion of Judaism against terrible odds for centuries. And we all know about the unimaginable cruelty they endured in the hand of the Inquisition. However, the fact is, that the vast majority of Spanish Jewry were lost forever (until והשיב לב אבות על בנים ). They mistakenly thought the decree was a fad that would quickly pass, but is was a tragic error, not an "alternative position".
In terms of your second point, (openness=leaving Judaism) many agree with you...
-The "official Chareidi position" agrees with you, both in modern day living, and in their understanding of the Spanish tragedy.
-Many Sefardim themselves agreed with you. Which is probably why they all but abandoned that way of life after they were expelled.
Finally, anyone that agrees with this position of "openness=leaving Judaism" should be forced back into the ghetto. Not one of us should be open to the outside world if it will ultimately lead to ourselves or our children abandoning Judaism.
Henry Abramson Wow, quick replies!! That is really nice. Good Shabbos.
I know a lot of Sephardic Jews that kept our traditions. The extremity Ashkenazi went through is daunting. Yet a large number of Ashkenazim are secular. So it didn't work as well as you thought.
What a great approach to knowledge and sharing. Thank you for being an educator.
Glad it was helpful!
I am an Ashkenazi Latviak as well Dr Abramson and I will listen to this topic with a great interest...
I think that after many have discovered their Jewish identity there ought be a way to facilitate conversation or a kind of return. Many may like to return to the tribe. What I find so wonderful is the many matches I have in the hundreds if not thousands of Jewish cousins.
Interesting idea
Subscribed! This is a part of the Spanish history we never studied deep enough in Spain. Many of us are of Sephardic origen without knowing it, I know for sure many of Jews in my village "converted" to Christianity in order to avoid expulsion or Inquisition.
Olga L.P.
Not really. Its a myth.
Englight me Suso, give at least some references because there are many of us who believe we might have anusim or benei anusim ancestors but we are not sure (at least in my case) as all we have is too vague.
Please, be more specific and provide some references.
Remarkable lecture regarding to Sepharad history.
Shalom there! Find out more about your heritage and check out the 2500 years diaspora,
history, origins, biblical connections, worldwide Jewish communities, and fulfilled prophecies of
Sephardic/Mizrahi Jews th-cam.com/video/rqU6EZ8WnXA/w-d-xo.html
6 years later you’re at 106k subscribers, a clean 10x from what you had at the release of this video
Nice to see that people enjoy talking about Jewish history
I was excited to listen to this lecture, having had a lifelong interest in this topic, even when I visited Córdoba and Toledo in 1970 and witnessed the artifacts of the peaceful coexistence of the three monotheistic faiths back in the day. However, the world has changed, and I have changed, since that long ago day. Since Jesus Christ IS the Messiah, (read Isaiah 53 for more insight), this changed the way I could receive your well-prepared lecture. There are some things I feel I must share with you regarding what you have taught here. Number 1 is, if Sephardic Jewry was so intertwined with the Islamic and Christian faith in Spain, why not study more on those subjects so as to present a more in depth look at the situation, instead of glibly riding over it? I can only speak to the Christian side of things, so, kindly permit me to share a few items. First, by the time Rome made Christianity it's official religion around 300 AD or so by Constantine, it had already begun it's sad decline into heresy and paganism which continues to this day. There is a big difference between Roman Catholism, and Christianity, as per the actual Bible and the scripture that came from Jesus and His disciples, not to mention the Tanakh and the Old Testament which is a prefiguring of the coming of the Messiah and moving from law to grace for salvation. The Old and New Testaments were presided over by Latin speaking priests who would execute people who even tried to understand scripture. So to say "Christianity" for RCC is not true. You also mentioned Paul as "trying to convert Jews" when, if you took time to read the book of Acts, and Galatians, just to name 2 books in the New Testament, you would find that Paul was "the Jew of Jews, a Pharisee, from the tribe of Benjamin, etc" who was converted on his way to Damascus to kill more Christians, by an intervention from Jesus Christ in a supernatural encounter who asked him "why do you persecute me?" Saul, later known as Paul, devoted the rest of his life to The Messiah, and specifically, was focused on the Gentiles for conversion. Peter was the apostle dedicated to the conversion of the Jews, which again, I direct you to the Book of Acts in the New Testament for more detailed information. I felt these items were important to pass on, since they are key elements in this story. Remember, those who have accepted Jesus Christ and follow His teachings (the younger brother) have been grafted into the olive tree of elder brother Israel. Shalom and Maranatha!
You are most welcome. I will continue to check out your series, and perhaps the conversation, too. In answer to your question, as I pointed out in my reply, that he scripture I pointed out discusses Paul as focusing on the Gentile population, whereas in the lecture, you seemed to indicate that he was going out to the Jews in the Mediterranean journeys. In fact, he had to get very pointed with Peter about new converts not needing to be circumcised, not needing to follow dietary laws, etc., in order to follow the Jesus's words (presaged by John the Baptist) that you must be baptized by fire - God is a spirit. You also seemed to indicate in the video that it was confusing in the beginning of the Church age (commencing with Pentecost and ending with the Rapture of the church prior to the time of Jacob's Trouble, aka The Trubulation and the fulfillment of Daniel's final week). I think it is very clearly laid out in the New Testament what transpired, but of course, as shown by the interactions of Paul with Peter, there were some things to sort out. And, yes, I am sure Paul evangelized Jews as well as Gentiles, since he stated in one of his letters that he had learned to morph into what was needed to preach the good news in the many challenging situations in which he found himself. So glad to hear you have read those books I mentioned! By the way, I was in Mallorca in 2017, which I understand was a main port of the Romans in the Mefiterranean, and that all commerce flowed through there first, similar to say NYC these days. As Inwas walking down one of the streets in Palma, the capital, I saw the remnants of a synogogue that was now a house......very interesting!
Mixed up
Some of us Mexicans have done DNA tests and have discovered we have 4-8 % Jewish ancestry by some genealogy tests, even when we don’t have any known Jewish ancestors. According to Josephus, Jews were sold as slaves to the whole Roman Empire. They were obviously in Spain since ancient times. Since Salomon’s days there was sailing trade with Europe. Proud to have that heritage, no matter how we got it!
Fascinating!
Very informative lecture thank you I’am from the Philippines
Glad it was helpful!
Loved your tie. Amazing lecture. Shared.
Thank you again Dr Abramson for the insight and inspiration
You are welcome!
There is a significant and fascinating - and very detailed - history of Sephardic Hebrews in South Carolina, USA during the 16th through 19th century. They were called 'free people of color' and many owned slaves and/or indentured servants. They contributed greatly to building the economy of S. Carolina and the USA in general.
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Yes...many sefardim arrived in the USA in colonial times as refugees from Catholic regimes. The most famous sefardic Jewish American was Haym Solomon, who was basically among the financial founding fathers of the USA. Ashkenazim did not arrive on a communal basis until the early mid 19th century, first reform Jews from German lands and then increasingly from Poland and the Russian empire after the Civil War.
@@ibnyahud I discovered it through the research of my own genealogy. My own paternal grandfather was a 'blk' Celt who came here with the Huguenots from Ireland in the mid-late16th century. They were Hebrew; Hibernian (derived from from ''eberi" - Iberia also, the great city of the 'blk' Moors).
Via a cousin who did 45 years of study I’ve successfully traced one of my Sephardic lines back to Babylon and Roman era Israel they were Levites and later Rabbis one worked on the Talmud. Next time some anti semite says modern day Jews aren’t related to the ancient Israelites I’ll show them my family tree. And this family line goes back to one of the Kings of Judah it seems before the first exile:)
Yeah right
P C what is your Y-DNA Haplogroup?
🕎💕 Jesus bless the Jews.
@@someone-wi4xl How do you find that out????
If I’m not mistaken, the Prof.has just made a key statement without knowing it.;namely..,”they went from Gallia (Gaul)to Espamia”🎉👍🤓🥰
Thank you soooo much. I have such a strong interest in All things Sephardic. It was through music this happened. Some Arabic some gypsy and some North African Jews have similar Thanks again. Much appreciated💟✝️🕎✡️💟☮️❤️
Dr Will Smith is one of the best lecturers in Jewish history out there. Keep up the good work 😘
Your comment made me laugh!
Hi Henry, I really enjoy your lectures but could you please put the audio on both left and right channels? It's very off putting when listening to you on headphones. Thanks 👍
Perfect. Much better. Thanks.
Random question...Is there any language that looks Hebrew but reads from left to right?
@@rebajohnson8035 Hindi, Chinese, Japanese, etc. are right-left,up-down scripts. Ancient cuneiform is also the same. Check the literature.
Regards
@@tduckering I'm still not hearing it on both the right and the left. From my laptop, I'm only hearing it from the left side. It's irking. It's a shame, because I'm a huge fan of Dr. Henry!
Enjoyed the lecture very much. Recently found out I have sephardic roots. I have been intrigued with jewish history since my late 20's( I am now 69). I have always felt a connection with everything jewish. Have been reading and have a huge collection of nonfiction books based on jewish people and jewish history. Thank you for the lectures Dr Abramson.
Enjoy the videos in good health!
Great Lecture!
Islam is the truth
As an atheist, former Christian, I've been really interested in learning about Jewish history from the point of the Jews. Dr Abramson has made it a very fascinating process
My wife’s family are named “Borrego” which means “lamb” in Spanish. I was told Jews who were converted to Catholicism in Spain often had animal surnames, which means my children have Sephardic Jewish heritage.
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Only $250 for a shiur sponsorship!?! You are obviously not doing this for the money. Thank you so much.
Romero, what makes you think that deserve an education for free? Dr. Abranson's time has no value?
As someone with both Ashkenazi on my father’s side and Sephardic on my mother’s side, I find this stuff fascinating. I grew up raised Christian, but I always “felt” Jewish and abstained from pork and honored the Shabbat, specifically Friday Sunday to Saturday sundown.
15:30 I'm sorry Dr. Abramson but it's irresponsible to say that the Inquisition's effects on Sephardim ended with expulsion-- the Inquisition had offices in Mexico City to keep tabs on converso families and monitor them, often times finding evidence of syncretism or a return to Judaism which would result in further exile or execution. Expulsion was just the beginning
Exactly. I was surprised when he said that.
My maternal grandmother was a Castro on her father's side. I understand the Castro left palestine during the Barkochba revolution ...
Now you say it makes sense if you look at Fidel Castro you can see it in his face & color...he looks more like an ancient Jew than from Spanish+Indegineous mixed origin
Hi there and greetings. First of all I found this very interesting and fascinating for various reasons. 7 years ago on my radio program, I did 2 or 3 shows that talked on Spanish Sephardic Jews and their history. I had well-known scholars on the subject and from that community join me. In the future, if we do another show I would be honored to have you join us. You can look up and hear the show of Live From The Bay with Joey" and search "The Spanish Jews" for the shows. My maternal grandparents and their families were from Andalucia Spain. There were always secrets in our family and we figured it had to do with Moorish and Jewish, and both were correct. On my mom's DNA from Myheritage, she was showing about 17.5 % North African and about 14.5 % of that being Sephardic Jew. I even had people on the show say that they thought I had Sephardic Jewish ancestry. It would make sense for many things in my family, amongst them the majority of my grandmother's family converted to being Protestants, their dislike of the Roman Catholic Church, some customs we had which could be Moorish and or Sephardic. Thanks for your presentation and will look forward to hearing more. J
Fascinating!
I think I have some Sephardic ancestry and found this first lecture extremely interesting. Thank you!
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My right ear would love to hear this.
Also, I love how you indicate to everyone listening that when you claimed "the Vandals" sacked Rome by spray-painting the coliseums you were joking, but earlier in the lecture you let the joke about the lack of Chinese food restaurants in Sefard go unnoticed. Pure comedic genius! laugh out loud.
The results of My Heritage DNA Test showed mostly Iberian peninsula, Greek and west Asia.
my cat always comes to me to watch your videos with me lol. She's purring right now.
"The MYTH of the Andalusian Paradise" is a good read ,by Dario Fernandez-Morera.
Agreed.. an excellent work.
Makes the mainstream academic approach look absurd, and willfully dishonest, by comparison.
I am a belgian journalist travelling worldwide in the traces of jewish heritage writing for the belgian magazine Joods Actueel.For the moment an article about Sevilla. Interesting lecture. Chris Rachel Spatz
My family has sephardic roots. How can I go about getting a verification of which tribe we're from?
ALL YOU MUST DO IS LOOK WITHIN... MIND NEVER DOES FORGET!
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What is your Y-DNA Haplogroup ?
@@someone-wi4xl Do some dna genetic testing. The markers for sepahrdi or ashkenazi will show up in your dna
Shalom there! Find out more about your heritage and check out the 2500 years diaspora,
history, origins, biblical connections, worldwide Jewish communities, and fulfilled prophecies of
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@@someone-wi4xl That would only work if his Sephardic roots are directly down his fathers fathers fathers line all the way back.
Are you still giving live lectures? I’ve been l have been listening for hours on TH-cam. I would appreciate to hear your lectures live
Your idea of Iberian exception is very intetesting. The Sephardi Jews, unlike Ashkenazi, founs ways to embrace both the sacred and the prophane in their intellectual work.
I think we can still see it in today's Israel. Among Ashkenazi, one can be either religious or secular, roighly speaking. Among Sephardi and Mizrahi, one can be both. We call it masorti (traditionalist). The
I wonder if the Askenazi way of thinking is a result of the Chriatian influence, which see material world as fallen.
Love the videos and look forward to the continuation of the sephardic jews series!
Suggest a video on Garcia da Horta, who is very much revered in Portugal with his name on gardens and streets:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garcia_de_Orta
Brilliant men, who was a lecturer in the University and doctor of the King of Portugal and later to the Sultan.
You could also show the story of the crypto-jews from Belmonte, Portugal which is fascinating
Thanks for the tip!
Thank you Dr Abramson. My family are the Catalan/Catalano from Spain. The spoke the Catalan language. Olders from Sicily were crypto. Now they are Catholic except me.
Very interesting!
Well since Sicily belonged to the Crown of Aragon this would seems highly plausible.
My 14th great grandfather is Ambrose Lupo, who was a Sephardic Jew who fled The Spanish Inquisition and went to Italy before being handpicked by William Cromwell to become Henry VIII’s longest serving court musician. I believe Ambrose Lupo had a part to play in developing the viol into the modern Violin
An anthropology professor told us during class that around 20,000 Jewish families came to Brazil fleeing persecution in Portugal and Spain. Later when the Dutch invaded Pernambuco in the early 17th century some Sephardic Jews who had fled to the Netherlands followed Mauricius Nassau and moved to the northeastern region of Brazil. Later the Portuguese, with the help of Tupi indigenous groups, managed to expell the Dutch invaders. Then the WIC sent Nassau to another port city in the northeastern region of what would later be the US. Part of the Sephardic Jews followed Nassau to New Amsterdam - now called New York.
I would love to see a debate between Dr. Abramson and Dr. Michael Brown on the Messiahship of Jesus. You would have 1 million views on TH-cam, and I would be one. Great video. God bless, MA
I'm not too much into debates, but thanks anyway.
The Spanish are not Christians they are Catholics there is a difference
Catholics are the only true Christians there is a difference.
Tahnn Ju
There really isn’t, Catholicism is a branch of Christianity and is one of the oldest branches outside of the Jewish sects.
False, Catholicism has NOTHING to do with the early church whatsoever. My goodness.
TheRevering
So you’re just going to say that and leave? What is a “false Catholic”? Where did you get this?
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Catholic_Church
History says otherwise, in fact, the Early Church is often times used as a synonym for the unified Christian Church before the Great Schism. You will also find that Early Christianity was still very much a part of Judaism until the development of Catholicism made it a separate religion. You will also find that the organization of the modern Catholic Church is based on Jesus’ instructions to Paul to spread Christianity, even maintaining the Bishop of Rome. There really isn’t any way to claim that Catholicism isn’t a branch of Christianity unless you’re willing to say that “real Christianity” is a branch of Judaism.
what? are catholics budists or what?
most definitely a great lecture ... it is so important to scope history, to better understand the geopolitical situation of today
At least 2nd century?? Ironic. It means those Christian Visigoths immigrated to the Iberian peninsula centuries after the native Jewish population they expelled.
Ferdinand Daratenas they were Aryans non trinitarian Christians and were later forced to convert to Catholic by RCC.
Ferdinand Daratenas Visogoths were nonTrintarain aryans persecuted and burned by the RCC as heretics.
@Ferdinand Daratenas. The Jewish were expelled by the Catholic Monarchs, not by the Visigoths. The Arabs invaded the peninsula during the Visigoths ruling but they stayed there for 8 centuries. The Visigoths faded and their remains were small inoperative realms in the north of Spain and Portugal with little to do with the Germanic culture they had. Eventually, those realms united, shaping the much stronger kingdoms of Castille and Aragon, which in 1492, finally defeated the Arabs, funded Columbus's endeavour and, unfortunately, expelled the Jews. KR.
motorhead, nobody forced us to convert to Christianity we converted because allot of the Catholic priest we knew actually lived the faith.
What? Go learn your history
I'm brazilian sephardi jew. I ' m 12% sephardic (Family Tree Test). My Mt-DNA is X3a (founded in Druze, Tunisia or Asturias, Spain). My Y-DNA is R-m173. Best,
Very interesting!
Rabbi Yosef Yaabetz was at the expulsion from Spain and Portugal, he wrote a book and also traveled giving speaches, saying that the people that did not indulge in philosophy, and the women, were willing to die for their religion, and those that studied secular studies, converted. I reprinted his book.
Dr. Abramson , the Apostle Paul was mistaken for an Egyptian by Greek commander ... what do you make of this...?
isaac Y A DONYINA the only thing to think is Egyptians looked like Paul.
Paul was pervert
@@memcrew1 Nice
What about North African Jews? In the first century, the largest population outside Judea were probably in North Africa. Philo of Alexandria wrote that there were no less than 1 million Jews in Alexandria. Another source says there were about 300 thousand Jews in Cyrene during time of Maccabees. Where did they all go? I doubt they all went to Spain. A certain percentage blended with local area and other parts of Mediterranean.
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I'm a Sephardic jewess, with roots in Northern Mexico. I live in Idaho now.
I'm looking for any relatives in the Santa Fe area!
Amazing! I’m almost in tears, so we’ll done and easy to understand. Thank you. In this era of DNA and technology available to all of us, I was able to do a DNA test a few years ago and find out that I’m 15% Jewish; so I’m searching for knowledge.
Wow, I am so glad that you found this video meaningful!
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Thank you so much for this!!!
I was trying to find his introductory video, but couldn't find it on short notice. lol
I'm reading THE JEWS OF SPAIN - A History of the Sephardic Experience by Janes S. Gerber. Awesome book!
Sentence in Talmud about "boats going from Gallia to Ispamia" sounds like from France (Gallia, the land of the Gauls) to Spain (Ispamia). Interesting.
LOVE THIS HISTORY SINCE MY HUSBAND'S GENEALOGY GOES BACK TO THE BASQUE AREA OF SPAIN. THANKS SO MUCH!
I never heard before of scalping as punishment of the Spanish jewish, but I will try to find some sources in the Spanish records. Thank you, Professor.
Mersi muncho! Fascinating history and fascinating way of transmitting so much valuable information in a very kind and joyful style! Thank you very much Dr. Abramson for this great lecture. It is a pity that we know really little about Sephardic Jews here in Turkey despite great contribution they have done to our culture for many centuries. Hope one day there will be a center for Jewish studies under a university here, so we can have scholarly works in relation to Sephardim.