The Hidden Story Of The 10 Martyrs(Asarah Harugay Malchut) Part 1

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

Okay. So, during this time of the year, uh it's it's a time of very obvious uh mourning. And we mourn for the loss of the Beit Hamikdash, but at the same point in time, we also mourn for the millions and millions of Jews that unfortunately uh were brutally murdered throughout during the time period of the destruction of the Beit Hamikdash and throughout the generations. The story of throughout the generations. The story of the 10 martyrs, the Asarah Harugay Malkut, this story begins at the end of the second Beit Hamikdash, at the end of the second temple. Uh during this time period, prophecy began to, you know, move away from uh you know, from the prophets. The the sort of the the feeling of the presence of of God began to wane. And while there was Ruach Hakodesh, this uh um this this phenomenon of of divine um this this phenomenon of of divine proph- the divine like intuition of knowing things also like that are not visible to the to the eye or knowing things a little bit in the future, was still around. An example that is actually related to our discussion is from a uh something from from Shmuel Hakatan. So, Shmuel Hakatan, he got his name because he was almost as pious and almost as prophetic as Shmuel Hanavi, Shmuel the Prophet. Uh and that's why it compares him to Shmuel

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