in the 10th century merchant and scholar moses colona miss left his home city of lucca in italy and cameto mind as . he helped to usher in a new era here this is his german rudest hope the jews would help to modernize minds since the jewish merchants were well connected well educated and business savvy. little honest family produced many famous rabbis and mines developed into a center of jewish scholarship but above all it was rabbi guest from ben yehuda who really put mines on the map. he drew students from across europe. during his tenure gash introduced modern laws forbidding bigamy and making it a sin to open and read other people's mail. he also decreed that a woman had to agree before her husband could divorce her. after mines vance became another center of jewish learning on the rhine. at one synagogue this study will and share serve as reminders of the famous rabbi rushy as does this modern sculpture in the in a courtyard rushy studied here in the 11th century. in the city of speier bishop settled to use near the city's famous cathedral around the year 1048 he said he did it to i