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Cedars of Lebanon: The Debate on the Messiah at Tortosa
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This is a copy of the epistle that the great sage Abu Astruc sent to the holy congregation in Gerona, in the year 5173 [1413 C.E.], to the effect that the great men in Israel were distressed, and in trouble with the pope, because of a demand of Joshua ha-Lorki’s, whom the Christians, after he had been converted to Christianity, called Maestro Geronimo de Santa Fé—which, taking the initial letters, spells megadef, that is, “blasphemer.” For he had requested the pope [Benedict XIII, successor to Clement VII, the anti-pope, residing at Avignon] to summon the wise men of Israel before him, so that he, Maestro Geronimo, could then prove to them that the Messiah had already come, and that Jesus was he; and this he intended to prove from the Talmud. Now these are the exact words of the epistle:
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