The period of Lent leading up to Easter was hazardous for Jews in the Middle Ages falsely accused of the killing of Jesus by ignorant people
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Category: Templar History
Tags: Ancient, blood libel, crucifixion, diaspora, Easter, ill, jesus, jews, king, knight, knights, Lent, Medieval, pogrom, prejudice, queen, synagogue, Talmud, Templar, Torah, treatment
The fervour of the Crusades often saw public anger turn against Jewish people in medieval Europe. There were brutal assaults and even murder. Though the horror experienced by medieval Jewish people would not equal the industrial scale nightmare that we…
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Category: Templar History
Tags: allah, blood libel, christian, christianity, Islam, israel, jews, judaism, knights, middle ages, Muslims, pogrom, portugal, spain, Templar, Torah, william of norwich
To Jewish people, Safed – or Tzfat – has a special significance as the home of the Kabbalah. That is the mystical secrets believed to be contained within the five books of Moses otherwise known as the Torah. DISCOVER MORE:…
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Category: Templar Mystery
Tags: Al-Andalus, Isaac Luria, jews, Kabbala, kabbalah, Knight Templar, Knights Hospitaller, Madonna, Safed, Templar, Torah
The relationship between the Jews and the Knights Templar was complex with the knights protecting Jewish people
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Category: Templar History
Tags: alheira, anti-semitism, blood libel, Edward I, england, hugh of lincoln, jew, jewish, jews, Knight Templar, Koppin, law, lending, Lincoln, medieval, middle ages, money, Murphy, Oliver Cromwell, persecution, pogrom, return, Rex Deus, sausage, sephardic, Templar, templars, tomar, Torah, usury, Wallace, zion