LOS CONVERSOS ARE BACK AGAIN

We kissed the bread when falling from the dinner table. When some member of the family died hands were tied with a rope of seven knots uniting feet and hands. If there was a storm we covered all the mirrors in the house with a blanket and prayed for the souls, candles on Friday night, housewives cooked the adafina (olla podrida or rotten stew) meals for the Sabbath. We liked books. All the physicians and apothecaries of he kings and Queens of Spain had a Jewish doctor at the bedside. My practitioner in Segovia was called Don Samuel Betegón. We wrote theological treaties, we invented a new literary genre: the picaresque novel and joined the Catholic Church ( Iglesia, mar o Casa Real) perusing texts like El Lazarillo, La Picara Justina, El Estebanillo, or El Buscón written by Quevedo, even Cervantes, you will find he self-pity, humour, compassion, satire, indulgence, stamina of the sons of Israel. Teachings from the Talmud were in the offing but we were detested al apostates by the great big fat cats the observant priests of Israel depicting us as "renegades" and it was trusts after the pogroms on 1398 in Burgos we asked for the waters of baptism en masse but keeping our ancestral rules and customs. Teh new Christians mixed with old Catholic and moors  and moors. Alfonso The Wise King founded the Translator schools ofToledo an incentive for the reunion of the three religion the Abraham's God, and the monotheist Creeds. I doubt that the Inquisition prosecuted us since all the inquisitors came from the believes of the Menorah and fray Domingo the Torquemada was one of them. There we had to talk not of the Spanish Inquisition but the Jewish Inquisition. We always complain, exaggerated. We are an staunch lot, we always survive, we always land in our feet. When I published a book "Franco and sefarad a secret love" (Franco us Jewish name, like Carrasco, Parra,Moreno, Pérez etc) some tore up raiment and I was not the cup of tea of the Rabbis. They called me "meshsuge" (son of perdition) but stay put. I believe in the Covenant of our fathers, a recipe for survival. Good Jews abhor violence, blood, corpses. It is not licit to lay with menstruating women. We are the last going to war and the first to come back after victory. Israel is not an earthy empire. It is an spiritual reign illuminated the human race with the candles of the sacred oil lamp. Love thy neighbours an forgive their sins. Franco who had studies the law of Doctor Pulido gave Sephardic with Spanish ancestors the nationality. In Spain Jewish have they been coming and going through our history, prosecuted not Because they were Jews but because they were rich — Pedro I el Cruel killed Samuel Levi the Rabbi of Toledo  in order to seize his wealth, the queens mother was from Jewish ancestry— and out of envy ordered his assassination . I hope that Trump fallow suit with Hispanic Americans. They spoke Hebrew in the old days but many, mind you, of the conquistadores were from Islamic extraction. That ought to be considered, too. We are different races mixed altogether but one people very critical with "The Powerful". For me Judaism means freedom. That sometimes means prosecution, now they rule, and hate my guts as I profess devotion for Franco and I harbour some doubts of the institution of the Holocaust as a new religion. Then I shall embrace the cross of my destiny as a journalist. If Trump does not let you in come to us, but Spain is not a bed a roses either you know when there are two Jews put together three opinions come around. What is the reason? Stamina, loving the world by Adonai created. The conversos are back. Good luck for them. Shalom.