Rabbeinu Tam

In or around 1160, a [[synod]] was held in [[Troyes]] as part of the ''[[Takkanot Shum]]''. This synod was led by Rabbeinu Tam, his brother and his father, and [[Eliezer ben Nathan]]. Over 250 [[hakham]]s from communities all over [[France]] attended as well. Several communal decrees were enacted at the synod covering both Jewish-[[Gentile]] relations as well as matters relating internally to the Jewish community.{{Cite web |title=Synods |url=https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/synods |access-date=2022-08-17 |website=www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org}}

In or around 1160, a [[synod]] was held in [[Troyes]] as part of the ''[[Takkanot Shum]]''. This synod was led by Rabbeinu Tam, his brother and his father, and [[Eliezer ben Nathan]]. Over 250 [[hakham]]s from communities all over [[France]] attended as well. Several communal decrees were enacted at the synod covering both Jewish-[[Gentile]] relations as well as matters relating internally to the Jewish community.{{Cite web |title=Synods |url=https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/synods |access-date=2022-08-17 |website=www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org}}

According to the chronicler Ephraim of Bonn, during the Second Crusade in 1146 (or 1147), Rabbeinu Tam was the victim of a violent assault in Ramerupt by a passing mob of Crusaders. On the second day of Shavuot, the Crusaders burst into his home, looted his property, and destroyed a Torah scroll in his presence. He was dragged into a field and stabbed five times in the head, an act the attackers claimed was retribution for the five wounds of Jesus. His life was saved only by the intervention of a passing nobleman who knew him; the nobleman persuaded the mob to let him take custody of the rabbi under the false pretense of converting him, allowing Rabbeinu Tam to escape to Troyes. While traditionally identified as Ramerupt, some modern historians like Norman Golb argue the attack actually occurred in Reims. {{cite book |last=Ephraim of Bonn |editor-last=Habermann |editor-first=A.M. |title=Sefer Gezerot Ashkenaz ve-Zarfat |year=1945 |publisher=Tarshish |location=Jerusalem |pages=121}}. {{cite book |last=Eidelberg |first=Shlomo |title=The Jews and the Crusaders: The Hebrew Chronicles of the First and Second Crusades |publisher=University of Wisconsin Press |year=1977 |isbn=978-0299070601 |pages=121–131}}

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