Erev Shabbos Parashas Chukas is a terrible day in Jewish history. On this day, around the year 5000 from Creation, corresponding to 1240 CE, on Friday of Parashas Chukas, the ninth of Tammuz, an apostate Jew named Nicolas Donin advised King Louis IX that if he wanted to rid France of the Jews, he should begin by destroying the Talmud.
The king gave the o…
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