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Episode #2: Hebron: The City of the Forefathers

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Rabbi Reuven Chaim Klein

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The Jewish game of conquest part two. Yesterday in the yeshiva over here they had the shashiva yeshiva came to was in the guest speakers they had over here yesterday. So we're going to be talking about the the city of today the history of the city of so it's what was his name? His name is Kon. He wasn't they had a bunch of guest speakers in the afternoon and he was one of the people. So you know why it's called yeshiva. So actually the yeshiva is not located in it's actually located in Jerusalem in it's actually located in Jerusalem in the Gat Morai neighborhood but originally the altar of Sabbodka started a branch of his yeshiva in the city of and in 1929 the Arabs massacred the city of most of the Jews actually left the city and moved elsewhere and so the yeshiva moved from from in 1929 after that massacre but it's still called yeshiva even though it's in a tidbit of history. Mirror. Yeah. Mirror is called mirror. Okay. So the the the name, we don't know Okay. So the the the name, we don't know exactly what it means or where it comes from, but the name is probably related to the word, which is a friend or which means to attach. Not sure exactly what the significance of the name would be, but it's a that that's that's the name of the city. It's a very old city. In fact, Josephus who's writing in the first century of the common era. So, Josephus writes that in his time was already 2,300 years old. So, that already that even predates Ara. So, was

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  1. 0:01The Jewish game of conquest part two. Yesterday in the yeshiva over here they had the
  2. 4:15says when returned back to the holy land it says moved his tent and he came
  3. 8:58And in the meantime, one of the Yakov's sons, his name was Don. So he had
  4. 14:05here and pray over there. like this this is the source for the for that whole
  5. 18:40going to come up against me in Aramaic means who going to come up against me?
  6. 23:11happened in the time of the judges and the says happened in the time of Yeshua.
  7. 27:14thing. One of the points we said but going back to uh to the verse in
  8. 31:57here. All right, we'll end off with this question. A few we have a few a
  9. 36:32honor Eshko and Mamry. We mentioned Mray a few minutes ago. Honor Eshkol and Mam Bal
  10. 41:13means this the city of Arba. They don't understand that it means for. The problem is

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