The Four Kingdoms: An Introduction (Ep. 309)

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

But Assaretes is the day that it all went wrong. That was the beginning of the end. And as you know, the basa mikdash was set on fire towards the end of tishab and mostly burnt on the tenth of and nonetheless we celebrate the ninth of because we always go by the beginning of the tragedy that is worse than the tragedy itself in many ways. the beginning of the tragedies of the the beginning of the tragedies of the Kurban and you know of the days that commemorate the destruction of the base of Mikdash there are four days in chronological order it's when Bavl established the siege around Jerusaleim which was the beginning of the end and Shivas Batamu was when they broke through the walls of Jerusaleim broke through the walls of Jerusaleim and Tishab when they burnt down the base of Mikdash and Sadalia when finally the last remnants of the Jews in Israel ran away or were destroyed after Gdalia was killed. So this is really the beginning of the process. It set into motion everything that later became the daled gullus. And the Maharal speaks about this at length of course in their mitzvah. The idea of of course in their mitzvah. The idea of the daled gullus. This was alluded to in the creation of the world. Those four words are references to the malos. When we look at the story of the brisman of Sarim, you see Abraham there, there are four terms referring to the four golas. In Nebuchadnezzar's In Nebuchadnezzar's vision that Dono explains of the stature with the gold head, right, and the silver and the copper and the uh feet of clay, making reference also to the daled malos. The idea of these uh four nations that are going to exile the Jewish people is built into creation. And the number four, we've spoken about

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