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Charlie Harary discusses the story of Rabbi Akiva's students and the mourning period.
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The opening of this shiur, in Charlie Harary’s own words— taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.
okay so what's happening here so let's let's pull back because there's no way that we have National mourning for 24 000 students we've never met there's no way that these 24 000 gets everybody to stop what they're doing and to mourn but no one else does something else is going on here so let's pull back and understand the context of where this is where this is picture if you can the temple based on big bush right the you the the the unifying point of the Jewish people Jerusalem right the sacrifices the kohana the Levee and everything 70c the Romans come in and destroy the place remember serbite during that period of time there's a fateful meeting between the leader of the diamond review and the emperor of Rome vespacia vespacian is leading the charge in the Army he's the general who surrounded Judea review sneaks out through an incredible Way by hiding himself basically in a coffin meets this this Vespasian and says to him Peace On You the King now the station goes man that's death right I'm not the king so if you call me the king and there's a king in Rome that's not good when that happened the camera tells us that his he couldn't put a shoe back on because he grew in stature and someone came in and said you know Emperor you're the new emperor
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- 0:00okay so what's happening here so let's let's pull back because there's no way that we…
- 0:32the Jewish people Jerusalem right the sacrifices the kohana the Levee and everything 70c the Romans…
- 1:02Judea review sneaks out through an incredible Way by hiding himself basically in a coffin meets…
- 1:33the Emperor died in Rome and they pointed you to be the emperor so now he…
- 2:35years of Judaism along the way was a man named Akiba he was a shepherd and…
- 3:09Romans Who are the occupiers they push the Romans out or be a Kiva and the…
- 3:41and they actually declare National Redemption they mint coins they have an army and they start…
- 4:46more Jews die in Batar as the rabbis tell us then in the Temple's destruction the…
- 5:21in the Spiritual armor of the Jewish people represented in the 24 000 students that caused…
- 5:51with national mourning because that's Redemption that we almost had and we lost something happened that…
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