Celebrating Freedom under Captivity in Portugal c. 1500
Sun, Apr 14
|Webinar
Join us for a Passover discussion with Rabbi Shlomo Pereira. To register: https://tinyurl.com/PereiraPassover
Time & Location
Apr 14, 2024, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
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About the event
Join us for a Passover discussion with Rabbi Shlomo Pereira. Passover, the Festival of Freedom, in 1497 was marked in Portugal by serious tragedies for the Jewish people. In 1497 Jews suffered spiritual slaughter through forced conversion and kidnapping of children. Is it that the enemies of the Jewish people - then and now - seem to know exactly when to strike to maximize pain? Pharaoh kidnapped and killed the Israelite children and then worked them almost to death. How were they (and us) able to celebrate freedom in times of tragedy?
To register: https://tinyurl.com/PereiraPassover
About the speaker: Rabbi Shlomo Pereira is a native of Lisbon, Portugal and moved to the United States in 1982. He lives with his wife Elisheva in Richmond, Virginia. They have five children and eight grandchildren who live in the USA and in Israel. His passions, aside from Judaic Studies and Economics, include history…