The Destiny Project Episode #25 The Philistine Occupation

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Yaakov Yosef Reinman’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

Welcome to the Twenty-fifth Episode of the Goldenberg Destiny Project. A thousand years before the Common Era there was a power vacuum in the Imperial Quadrant. The great empires of Babylonia which we encountered in the time of Abraham, where they invaded Canaan, those empires were in decline. The Egyptians were also concerned with attacks that they were facing from the Nubians to the south, so they were distracted and they were not able to project their power into the center of the Imperial Quadrant. The Hittites who had an empire that was based in the north, in what is today Turkey, and it reached down into Canaan, the Hittites also were in decline because they were having internal problems with I don't know what, and they were also facing attacks from the Sea Peoples, who were these marauding people who are related to the Philistines. They came from the islands, the Philistines themselves used to be Sea Peoples, so they had their hands full, so they were in decline. They were not in their full strength. The Greeks and the Romans were still running around in the forest, barbarians. Who else was there? There was nobody else, it was a vacuum. Philistia, the Philistines at this time rose up and became the dominant regional power. In the center of the Imperial Quadrant, which is not into Babylonia, but in Canaan and in Lebanon and in those countries, Philistia was the power. There were all the Ammonites and the Amalekites and the Moabites and the Syrians, the Arameans, all those countries were dominated by the Philistines who are the most powerful country. Philistia was a militaristic society. What does that mean? It

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1. 0:17Welcome to the Twenty-fifth Episode of the Goldenberg Destiny Project. A thousand years before the Common…
2. 2:37means that you have certain societies, their focus is military power. Like Sparta is very famous.…
3. 5:30in the Torah. Avimelech was the king of Gerar, who was also a Philistine, you know…
4. 7:48their weapons and fighting and everything, it's very difficult to deal with them. So when the…
5. 10:36he will help the Jewish people and he has to be a Nazirite. A Nazirite is…
6. 13:24one time he went to a place called Timna and he saw a Philistine woman. Her…
7. 15:33with a Jewish rabbinical cloak, and he's able to do these fantastic things. How does he…
8. 18:31this was a major event. And he prayed to God and he said please give me…
9. 20:41and the Jews were not allowed to have blacksmith because they should not make surreptitiously they…
10. 23:35after he became Judge, the Philistines were not having such an easy time having the Holy…

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