 These aren’t the famous stories.These are twelve stories that few have heard. Stories that will fascinate you and bring you into a rich and beautiful past you didn’t know you had. You’ll hear astonishing stories of converts, hostages, remarkable women, and Jews who impacted wider society. Meet people who did incredible things. Like the Torah scholar who led Muslim armies, the printer who influenced Oliver Cromwell, the woman who outfoxed the Inquisition—and many more When:
4 Tuesdays,
Chabad HGS Instructor: Rabbi Bentzi Sudak COURSE OVERVIEW
Lesson One A Roman prince outwits his uncle to study Torah, an Italian priest studies his way to a new life, and a Polish noble meets an old Jew studying Talmud on a Paris park bench—see their journey to Judaism and what came next. 
Lesson Two Spain’s top Torah scholar leads a Muslim Army, an Amsterdam rabbi with a printshop talks England into readmitting Jews, and a rabbi teaches a Catholic scholar and saves Central Europe’s Jewish books— how did they integrate Judaism into their influence? 
Lesson Three A businesswoman saves thousands from the Inquisition and rebuilds Jewish life across the Mediterranean, and a female Torah scholar shapes Halachic discourse while raising a family, feeding students, and caring for the sick—see the secret ways women shaped Jewish history. 
Lesson Four Four rabbis are captured by 10th-century pirates, Germany’s foremost Jewish leader is held for ransom, and thousands of East European Jews languish in Ottoman slave markets—how did Jewish communities respond? |
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