Episode 8: A Hero's Tragic Death

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

The Jewish Game of Thrones part 8. We spoke yesterday or we spoke last time about the story of Malik. He was the first one of the good kings to get rid of the bumos the private altars. We said a story where he saw through he saw through divine inspiration that he's going to sire descendants who are not going to follow in his path. He married the daughter of Navi to try to counterbalance that prophecy. But as we're going to see today, it didn't work we're going to see today, it didn't work out so well. His son Masha is known as one of the bad or worst kings that we ever see in the kingdom of Yehuda. The Mishna says that three kings don't have a three kings are from the kingdom of Israel and Minasha from the king of Yehuda. So, Minasha is the only king of Yehuda who gets that special distinction to get on the list of the kings that are inhabit. They don't have a portion in the world They don't have a portion in the world to come. There's an interesting story that's brought in the garra when the garumar talks about this Mishna. So, the garra says that raashi ravashi was you know one of the last generations of the sages of the of the garra. Surf Ashi was learning this Mishna and then he like ended off with the Mishna saying that like oh tomorrow we're gonna talk about our friends meaning he was saying that we're going to talk about Manasha and explain like why

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1. 0:01The Jewish Game of Thrones part 8. We spoke yesterday or we spoke last time about…
2. 6:14this? Yet wasn't because they didn't believe in Hashem. They believed in Hashem but they wanted…
3. 12:29the four pictures on the god's chair of glory. Another explanation he says why did it…
4. 18:37revealing of nakedness which refers to sexual sins means the spilling blood a murder and a…
5. 24:50sins and he went back on what he had done wrong and and now when when…
6. 30:58to Manasha. As I said, Manasha reigned for 55 years, the most lengthy um reign of…
7. 37:04Chronicles, in Chronicles chapter 34, it talks about how right when he became in the 12th…
8. 43:16prophetesses. And if you look at number six, you'll find the Kula the prophetess. So she…
9. 49:28scrolls. Others want to say that it wasn't just the fact that they found the scroll,…
10. 55:38fire in a way that doesn't kill him. Whatever exactly that entailed, but it was some…

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