Melachim Part 9: The Capture of Ashmaday - Rabbi Leeor Dahan

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

into his kingship, is ready to build the Beit Hamikdash. Now, there were several things Hamelach needed to do to prepare for the building of Beit Hamikdash. He needs a lot of money, right? He needs a lot of workers, and he needs professionals. You need to build something that fancy, that great, you need a lot of professionals. So, he asks he asks the king of Egypt, Paroh. Paroh sees a letter written by Hamelach and says, "Please send me your professional workers, the craftsmen that know how to do very, very sophisticated work, so that they could teach us in this work." And Paroh is no tzaddik. Everybody knows this is All the Parohs are no good. All the Parohs are no good. And Paroh wanted to stifle Hamelach in the building of Beit Hamikdash. So, what does he go do to stop him? How is he going to stop Hamelach in the building of Beit Hamikdash and the same time seem like he's a good friend, because he doesn't want to be upset at him? He turns to his stargazers, the astrologers, and he says to them, "I'm going to send Amelech all of the workers that he needs. the workers that he needs. Send me every single person who's going to die this year. Look in the stars, see whose mazel is it to die this year, and tell me who they are, and I'll send them." That way, when Amelech begins building Bet Hamikdash, and all the workers that come to him start dying, so what's Amelech going to say? He's going to say, "Oh, no, Bet Hamikdash is killing off people."

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1. 0:31into his kingship, is ready to build the Beit Hamikdash. Now, there were several things Hamelach…
2. 4:08That these people that were sent to him are going to die in the year. He…
3. 8:12be something else happened to them that was like death. And all of that would be…
4. 11:47there. He doesn't have the eagle of HaMelech. There's no way he made it that far.…
5. 15:54can exist and the shamir although it has not yet been found it was able to…
6. 19:31This chain has a collar on it with the name of God written on it. It's…
7. 23:37Okay. Now, Ashmadai is still in the yeshiva, and Benayahu ben Yehoyada finds a tree next…
8. 27:13As they're walking, Ashmadai does several things that are very interesting. First of all, it says…
9. 31:23Amelech, he wanted him to suffer. He says, "Ashmedai was telling you give him more wine.…
10. 34:59have the shamir. What are they going to do now? So, they decided the best way…

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