Journey to Greece 2024: Athens - The Historic Encounter of Alexander the Great and Shimon Hatzadik

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

conquest of Israel and Jerusalem recorded in thear I'm sure you're all familiar with the gar the gar says that when Alexander entered the gates of Yim and he invaded Israel he is welcomed by shim sadic appears before him and the gar says that when Alexander saw the face of shim sadik he fell to the ground he bowed down and he said this very face always appears to me in battle and brings me Victory all the tells us is who by the way was which means he's from the very last members of the now this is very important to know cuz we mentioned Alexander Rises to power 1,000 years after we left MIM at the very same time that Mali passes away that NE passes away that ha in zakar pass away meaning at upon the cessation of NAA that is when Alexander the Great rises in power when Alexander Rises NOA ceases when Alexander Rises aoar ceases this is a very important historic piece of information in fact we're going to see based on S that from the rise of Alexander the Great there's something called minion that are now documented dated based on the rise of Alexander which is really the cessation of Prophecy which is really the cessation ofar in any event that's all the gamar tells us the gamar says Alexander sees shimad but in Josephus Josephus adds a very interesting piece of information and the reason the gamar doesn't record this it's not that the gamar is contradicting this it's just not relevant for the gamarra but every Jew must be aware of what Josephus writes

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1. 0:31conquest of Israel and Jerusalem recorded in thear I'm sure you're all familiar with the gar…
2. 1:33at upon the cessation of NAA that is when Alexander the Great rises in power when…
3. 2:33about the encounter of Alexander the Great and shim sadic namely shimad brings Alexander to the…
4. 3:36to Alexander the Great in sael the first one is in per Z does anybody remember…
5. 4:38so you know they don't really um and besides that besides that you know Al the…
6. 5:42at 32 he was likely poisoned but he passes away at 32 he has this leopard…
7. 6:44leopard what is it compared to it's called ISM was a heot why was Greece compared…
8. 7:46Alexander and tus asks what about Alexander what does tus answer we're only talking about the…
9. 8:52Persia Darius and Alexander did not await provocation from Darius he crossed the dardel he penetrated…
10. 9:54Josephus says that shim sadic showed Alexander saer he was showing him these about the prophecy…

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