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Discussion on the historical and geographical location of Har Sinai, featuring insights from R' Alex Hool.
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contains a extensive list as well as every item individually listed with a picture a title page for each uh item that's listed it's broken up into section the various different sections Etc and on and on uh there's also a brand new section which is C Inon Inon are the that were printed in the first century of print so 1469 to 1500 it's a complete uh in-depth section this this book obviously is about where harai is what are the what's the general idea uh of where it is the general kind of consensus the popular View and what ralex has issue with and what he came up with so he's also the author of a number of other books The Challenge of Jewish history as well as Pharaoh Biblical history Egypt and the missing Millennium which we have a previous podcast on also the desert encampments from saai to the Holy Land we also have a podcast on that as well as his newest book which was the six days of creation the Garden of Eden dinosaurs and the miss billions so thank you ralex for joining me once again yeah I'm delighted to join you again yeah I'm delighted to join you it's a pleasure okay so let's start off harai why a book why write a book why research the topic of where harai actually is um right well we do find actually um in the talwood that does mention of um the location of Hari one of the Amar was actually invited um by by some person in the in the in the wilderness who would to take him to
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- 0:33contains a extensive list as well as every item individually listed with a picture a title…
- 7:17academic um arena is um basically denying the Torah and that has unfortunate influence on the…
- 11:53Ates which was uh uh two months um two months later so um they they didn't…
- 16:36where there's a large expanse of water because if there would be we wouldn't have had…
- 21:20from Barcelona was lived in Barcelona he did surely did not know where har was um…
- 26:28Glory Clouds Of Glory um is interesting why they should receive the Clouds Of Glory je…
- 31:16yam now if um sin was being the Sinai P there we wouldn't expect them following…
- 36:04those are right so we can actually have mathematical um identification as well if you um…
- 40:43which identify with um with the mountain uh number one we are told that uh there…
- 45:25evidence um or in all that um to the synchronization of all the evidence together plus…
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