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Expulsion Decree March 31, 1492
L I Kings Ferdinand and Isabella, by the grace of God, King of Castile, Leon, Aragon and other domains of the crown, the prince Juan, to dukes, marquees, counts, religious orders and their teachers, ... lords of the castles, cavaliers, and all Jews, men and women of any age and anyone else this letter may concern, health and grace unto you.
is well known that in our dominion, there are some judaised bad Christians and committed apostasy against our Holy Catholic faith, being responsible for most of the relations between Jews and Christians. Therefore, in the year 1480, ordered that the Jews were separated from the cities and towns of our domains and that they be given separate quarters, hoping that by such separation the situation would be remedied, and we ordered the establishment of the Inquisition in these domains, and in the end of 12 years has functioned, the Inquisition has found many guilty persons also are informed by the Inquisition and others that the great damage that persists for Christians to relate to Jews and in turn these Jews trying by whatever manner to subvert our holy Catholic faith and trying to draw faithful Christians hinder their beliefs.
These Jews instruct these Christians in the ceremonies and observances of their Law, circumcising their children and giving them books to pray, and declaring them the days of fasting, and meeting to teach the stories of its laws, notifying them when the celebration of Passover and how to observe, giving them the unleavened bread and ceremonially prepared meats, and instructing them to refrain things with regard to food and other things requiring follow the laws of Moses, making them understand that there is no law or truth out of this. And they made clear based on confessions from such Jews as well to which they have perverted that it has resulted in great damage and detriment of our holy Catholic faith, and because we knew the true remedy of such damages and difficulties lay in the interference of any communication between the said Jews and Christians and sending out all our domains, we are content with ordering the said Jews from all cities and villages and places of Andalusia where it appeared that they had done the most damage, and believing this would be enough so that those and other towns and villages and places in our reigns and holdings would cease to commit the above. And because we have been informed that neither this, nor is the case nor the justices made for some of the said Jews found very culpable in the said crimes and transgressions against our Holy Catholic faith have been a complete remedy to obviate and to correct these crimes and offenses. And the Christian faith and every day it appears that the Jews increase in continuing their evil and harmful purposes wherever they reside and converse, and because there is no place more offend our holy faith, and to which God has protected to the today and those who have been influenced, the duty of the Holy Mother Church to mend and reduce the matter to its previous state due to the fragility of human beings could be that we can succumb to the diabolical temptation that continually fighting against us, so that, if being leading cause calls Jews if they are not converted will be expelled from the kingdom.
Because when a powerful detestable crime is committed by some members of any group is reasonable the group should be acquitted or destroyed and children are punished by higher each other and those that allow good and honest in the cities and Villas by contact may harm others should be expelled from the group of people and despite minor reasons will be detrimental to the Republic and the most by the majority of their crimes would be dangerous and contagious so that the Council of eminent men and gentlemen our kingdom and other people of conscience and knowledge of our supreme council and after a lot of deliberation it was agreed to issue to all Jews and Jews should leave our kingdoms and is not allowed to ever return.
We further order in this edict that all Jews and Jewesses of whatever age that reside in our domains or territories that they leave with their sons and daughters, servants and small or large families of all ages at the end of July this year and did not dare to return to our land and do not take a step forward to pass on the way that if any Jew who does not accept this edict if anything is found in these domains or return shall be guilty of death and confiscation of their property.
And we ordained that no person in our kingdom, regardless of social status including noble hide or keep or defend a Jew either publicly or secretly since late July and subsequent months their homes or other site in our region as punishment risk of losing all their strongholds and fortresses, and hereditary privileges.
Get the Jews to rid their homes and all their belongings on time therefore we provide our commitment to the protection and security so that the end of July they can sell and exchange their property and furniture and any other items and dispose of them freely at its discretion during this period no one should do them any harm, hurt them or injustice to their persons or property which would be unwarranted and that violate this will incur punishment those who violate our royal security.
We and give permission to the above mentioned Jews and Jewish to carry off our property and belongings regions by sea or by land except gold and silver or currency coined or other items prohibited by the laws of the kingdom.
So order all councilors, magistrates, knights, guards, officers, good men of the city of Burgos and other cities and villages of our kingdom and dominions, and all our vassals and people, to respect and comply with this letter and all what is contained in it, and give the kind of assistance and support necessary for implementation, subject to punishment by our sovereign grace and by confiscation of all assets and properties to our real home and this is notified to all and neither intends to ignore it, we order that this edict be proclaimed in all the squares and meeting places of all cities and major towns and villages of the diocese, and is made by the herald in the presence of the notary public, and none or anyone else to do the opposite of what has been defined, subject to the punishment of our sovereign grace and the cancellation of their offices and confiscation of their property to do the opposite.
and order that are evident and proven to the court with a signed testimony specifying the manner in which the decree was carried out.
Given in this city of Granada on Thirty-March 1 the year of our Lord Jesus Christ 1492.
Signed I, the King, I Queen,
and Juan de Coloma, Secretary of the King and Queen who has written in order of their Majesties .
Response Isaac Abravanel
Their Majesties:
But it is a great misfortune when the King and Queen of Castile and Aragon and of course in Spain has to seek their glory in people harmless.
find it very difficult to understand how every Jewish man, woman and child can be a threat to the Catholic faith.
Very strong but too heavy load.
Do we trashed?
is just the opposite. Are you not admit in this edict Vos to confine all the Jews in many places restricted and limited in our legal and social privileges not to mention being forced to wear humiliating riots? Were not enough oppression imposed, not terrorize us with their diabolical Inquisition? Let me make this matter perfectly hard for everyone here will not let silence the voice of Israel on this day.
Listen Oh hear the heavens and awarded the King and Queen of Spain by Isaac Abravanel my address Vos I and my family are direct descendants of King David true royal blood is the blood of Christ runs through my veins. It is my heritage and I will proclaim the name of king of Israel.
On behalf of my people, the people of Israel, God's chosen are declared innocent and guiltless of all crimes reported in this abominable decree. The crime and transgression is for you not for us to support the decree without justice that you have proclaimed today You will defeat and this year in which envisions as the year of the great glory is the greatest shame of Spain.
As this virtue as a reward for individual, being well recognized that the word of honor is the appropriate role for the good deeds so noble further when an inappropriate act was committed the person's reputation would suffer. And when the Kings and Queens make dubious facts are hurting themselves. And it is said the bigger the person who commits an error the error is larger. temporarily if recognized errors can be corrected and brick structure that supports the weak can be put back into the correct position. Likewise if an edict changed wrong time can be corrected but religious purposes have overtaken reason and bad advice just preceded reasoning. The error of this edict will be irreversible as well as those obligations proclaimed King and Queen mine, listen well: Error error was his deep and incomprehensible as Spain has never seen before. You are the only ones responsible as weapons of power in a nation like the arts and letters are the most refined sensibilities guidelines if "you have placated the Muslim Infidel pride with the strength of its army by showing knowledge of art and war that of its internal state of consciousness what right their fields travel Inquisitors burning books by the thousands in public pyres?
what authority Church members now want to burn the huge library of the great Arabian Moorish palace and destroy their precious manuscripts? because his authority is my king and my queen. In the depths of their hearts Your Mercedes have distrusted the power of knowledge, and Your Mercedes have been observed only power. With us, the Jews are different. We admire and encourage the Jews the power of knowledge. In our homes and our places of worship, learning is a practical goal for a lifetime. Learning is our passion that lasts as long as we exist, is the heart of our being, is the reason our beliefs according to which we were created. Our aggressive love of learning could have counterbalanced the excessive love of power. We could have benefited from the protection offered by our real weapons and Vos pudieseis you have benefited from our progress in our community and knowledge sharing, and say that we had helped each other.
As we were reminded of our lack of power so that his nation will suffer from an imbalance forces that Your Mercedes have given their home. For centuries to come, your descendants will pay for their mistakes appreciated this. Your Mercedes verify and transform the nation into a nation of conquerors. For gold and riches, living by the sword and ruling with an iron fist.
And while you will become a nation of illiterate, your institutions of knowledge, then frightened by the strange heretical ideas from other lands and other people will not be respected. In the course of time the name so revered in Spain will become a body whisper nations. Spain, which has always been poor and ignorant, Spain the country that showed so much promise and so little has been completed. And then someday, Spain if you asked yourself: What has become of us? Why we are the laughing stock between nations? And the English of those days will look to his past because it happened. And those who are honest brought to this day and age the same when this nation began. And the cause of its decline did not show to anyone but their revered rulers Ferdinand and Isabella, conquerors of the Moors, expelling the Jews, the founders of the Inquisition and destroyers of inquisitive minds of the English.
The edict is testimony to the weakness Christian. This has shown that Jews are able to win over the centuries. Old argument about these two beliefs. This explains why there false Christians, these Christians whose beliefs have been shaken by allegations that the Jew who knows better. This explains why Christian nation would prejudice as he says he has been. Wishing Jewish silence opposition, the Christian majority has decided not to argue against eliminating the source of the argument. The opportunity to the Jew was not granted.
After today this is the last chance to bring this subject in English soil. In these last moments of freedom granted by the King and Queen, and me as a representative of English Jewry, will rest on a point of theological dispute. I leave you with a starting message even though your worships you do not like.
The message is simple. The historic town of Israel, as has been noted for its traditions is the only one who can give his opinion if Jesus and his claims of being the Messiah, and his destiny as Messiah was to save Israel, so Israel must come to decide when to save. Our answer is the only answer that matters, or perhaps Jesus was a false Messiah. As the people of Israel to exist, while people continue to reject Jesus. Your religion can not be validated as genuine. Your Mercedes can make all nations, all the savages of the world, but until they become the Jew, Your Mercedes have not proved anything except that Your Mercedes can persuade the uninformed.
We leave the comforting knowledge. Why Your Mercedes can dispose of their powers, we possess the truth from the top. Your Mercedes will deprive them of individuals, but may not be deprived of our souls sacred and historical truth which is the only witness to us.
Listen King and Queen of Spain, on this day Your Mercedes have swelled the list of manufacturers of evil against the remnants of the House of Israel if Your Mercedes was bent on destroying us, all have failed. But however, we prosper in other distant lands. And wherever you go, the God of Israel will be with us. And Your Mercedes King Fernando and Queen Isabel the hand of God caught and punished for the arrogance of their hearts.
Get to Your Mercedes authors of this iniquity, for generations to come will be told repeatedly how his faith was not benevolent and his vision was blinded. But more of its acts of hatred and fanaticism, the courage of the people of Israel will be remembered for having pitted against the mighty English Empire and we have adhered to the religious heritage of our fathers, resisting the argument uncertain.
Expúlsennos, arrójennos of this land as much as we wanted to You, per the recall King and Queen of Spain as those contained in our holy books and those who seek our harm. We the Jews with his deeds on the pages of history, and memories of our suffering and incur further damage to his men more than the evil which has caused us.
We remember them and their vile edict of Expulsion forever
LATINO-ISRAELI
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