Episode #8: Beer Sheva: Of Oaths and Wells

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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.

Jewish game of conquest part 8. Today we're going to be discussing the city of Beer Cheva. So if you look at your map, the city of Beer Cheva is located in the south in the area of the holy land that's known as the negv. Negv means south. Actually literally means dry cuz like in the south is mostly desert arid area. So it's called negv means dry which also means south. So Bees Shaba is located over here in that southern located over here in that southern area of the holy land. We're going to discuss different things about the city of Bees Shaba. There is a theory um that came up with by uh that was come up that was proposed by someone of Moshe the grandson of the Vilagon. He wrote a book called Masau and he writes a theory that the city Kadesh Barnea which is one of the stops that the Jewish people had in the desert is the same as the city of Beesva. This theory is not quite Beesva. This theory is not quite accepted but is a very it's somewhat you know it's a somewhat out there theory but it is an interesting theory about the city of Beesva. It's a Beesv is a prominent city. It's located in the territory of Yehuda. We even find that one of the um the m the one of the queens of the kings of Yehuda was from the city of Beeresa. It says in the in the Bible it says that Yawash the king of Yehuda his mother was named Tivia from Beer Shabba. So she's

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