L'Chaim! (Ep. 300)

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

missing 150 years of Jewish history. What does that mean? Well, if you were born like I was uh BAS before art scroll, then you knew that if you looked at any source whether it was considered orthodox or not, they gave the date for the bias reon at 586 B.CE and the bin of Bay Sheni at 517 B.CE and Bayeni at 70. So that was how all of them reported the So that was how all of them reported the dates and nobody really thought too much about it. But when art school came out with their first publication which was the article McGillis Esther it began with a chronology that's how it started and it worked let's work backwards ifi was 70 the second basda stood for 420 years the kazal say which means it was built in the year 350 BCE BCE and then since There was 70 years in between uh of after the first pdish. It means the first B mish was destroyed in not 586. So my high there's a major discrepancy here. Well, that's because historians say it is impossible for the um Bay Sheni to have been destroyed by the Bay Sheni to have been destroyed by the Babylonians in the year 420. Why? Because we have a lot of historical writings from the time of the Greeks. And supposedly Alexander the Great came to Yusha shortly after Biny Bayeni. That wouldn't have worked because we knew Alexander's rebby was Aristotle and Aristotle's radi rebby was Plato and Plato's rebby was Socrates and that was the time of the Athenians and we know about the Pelpeneisian wars and all of

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9. 48:36people who uh base themselves on uh like the Schlom Kalbach method where he sings a…
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