The Destiny Project Episode #43 The First Religious War

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

[music] Welcome to episode 43 of the Goldenberg Destiny Project. Um, in this episode again as in the previous episode, there's a lot of detail and dates and places and and if you really want to get all of them, you money. He needed money. He had to pay this huge indemnity to Rome and he had to fight with the Parththeians. He had to he needed a lot of money. So he was on the verge of capturing Egypt and the Romans intervened and they said they drew a line of the sand around him and they said you have to withdraw and he withdrew. He didn't feel confident enough to defy Rome and he withdrew. On the way back he came to Jerusalem. Now at the time inim was in turmoil. This was this happened in 168 BC BCE and about 10 years before that 7 years before that in 175 um there was a a person named Jason a cyan who went to Antiochas and offered to him that he'll help him get money and he wants to do he wants to be kangled and Antioch has appointed him kayang And basically and he was a helenized Jew. He was not he was not like you know Hish Jew. He was helanized. But now now Dunagula was sold. Anyway 3 years later part of his responsibility in having Dunagula was he had to collect the taxes and send them to uh to Syria. Um in 172 he um he sent somebody called Menaaus.

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1. 0:01[music] Welcome to episode 43 of the Goldenberg Destiny Project. Um, in this episode again as…
2. 2:56Menaaus was not a cayenne. It seems that he wasn't the cayenne according to the sources.…
3. 5:05at that time meant that they were religious Jews they were they were pious you know…
4. 7:44I know maybe he thought it's not possible they're going to fight. Jews usually don't fight.…
5. 9:53accomplish these two things? He needed to outlaw he needed he needed the money and needed…
6. 12:32Greek officer and he and his sons fled into the wilderness into the hills and uh…
7. 14:37armies. Now, Antiocus, he has a problem. He has to go fight the Parththeians out in…
8. 16:50wasn't all local people there were mercenaries there were a lot of mercenaries in in those…
9. 19:36heard that there was a pretender to the throne. Somebody named Philip who wanted the throne…
10. 21:40knew someday you may need a little bit of clean oil. So they so they took…

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