The Destiny Project Episode #45 The Hasmonean Dynasty

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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.

[music] >> Welcome to episode 45 of the Golden Ring Dynasty project. Um we are right now we're up to um where Shimon who was the last of the Hasmonean of the sons of Matityahu he took over the country and um and he gained full independence from the Greeks. And after he gained the independence he um solidified the country. He drove out the Greeks that were still in Jerusalem. He destroyed pagan strongholds. He renewed his alliance with with Rome. He um he made the roads safe cuz during the times of chaos and turmoil there were many robbers and highwaymen and you really couldn't travel on the roads but that he improved the economy. He um he captured um Yafo and that was then made into a port. They were able to export their agricultural products and they were gaining prosperity and then he also um renovated Beit Hamikdash. Beit Hamikdash was an assembled from the time of the Hurban. They didn't even have a golden menorah. They had a wooden menorah all the years. And he he was spent you know um a lot of money and manpower to completely renovate the Beit Hamikdash and besides having you know a beautiful gorgeous Beit Hamikdash which is what we should have it also very much drove the economy. That now people had jobs, they were able to buy things. So, other people that were able to manufacture, the importers, and you know you know how it goes. That the more the more you you more you do, the more the economy grows. So, the country was really in a very

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1. 0:01[music] >> Welcome to episode 45 of the Golden Ring Dynasty project. Um we are right…
2. 2:14good place. He renewed his uh his uh alliance with Rome. And if I mentioned that,…
3. 4:58Shevet Yehuda, it's just not practical, it's not feasible that's that a Kohen Gadol who's busy…
4. 7:41At this time, Shimon went out with his family, and he went out to inspect the…
5. 9:48conspiracy here that before he had made up with Antiochus he's going to kill Shimon. I…
6. 12:25was Jewish. But we will get to him when we get there. And and this is…
7. 15:12And he had four brothers. He imprisoned three of them and the fourth one he didn't…
8. 17:22with the purple robes and this and he has his ministers and his courtiers and and…
9. 19:58And she was the sister of Shimon ben Shetach, who was one of the Zugot, one…
10. 22:38used it. And we will talk a lot about Josephus later, but right now just what…

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