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The Rabbis sent Todos a message, saying: If you were not Todos (a great scholar and respected personage in the community), we would have excommunicated you because you are causing Jews to eat kodashim - sacrificial meat, outside of Yerushalayim.
But Todos was a powerful man leader and benefactor of the Rabbis….
This leads us to an investigation of the Jews of Rome past and present and the fascinating case of Rabbi Israel Zolli of Rome who converted.