The Destiny Project Episode #39 Dark Days in Alexandria

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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.

Welcome to episode 39 of the Goldenberg Destiny project. So in the previous episode we spoke about Alexander the Great and how he basically conquered the world and Hellenized his empire. After he died there was a he had successors, his generals, and they fought over the empire. Who's going to be the successor? Um Alexander was asked at his death, "Who should be your successor?" and he said, "The strongest." So each one tried to be the strongest and nobody was able to be strong enough to overcome the others. And basically the empire was divided up into three parts. There was a fourth also, but basically three parts. The Antigonid and kingdom in Greece and Macedonia, the um Seleucid empire in Syria, and the uh Ptolemaic empire, Ptolemaic kingdom it was called, in Egypt. Now, the way that it was divided up was that Ptolemy in Egypt had Egypt. He also had, it's called Coele-Syria. That means he had like lower part of Syria. He had Judea. He had Phoenicia, which is Lebanon. He had the southern part of Syria, which uh with Damascus was in his part. And Seleucus Seleucus had Syria and its capital was Antioch. He also had Babylon and Babel. He also had Persia and he had Bactria, which is Afghanistan, and he had the northern northern Persia, which was Parthia. So, he had a vast vast empire. It reached all the way to India. But in Syria, he only had the northern part. He didn't have the southern part

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1. 0:17Welcome to episode 39 of the Goldenberg Destiny project. So in the previous episode we spoke…
2. 2:27and he didn't have Judea. And for the next 100 years, the Ptolemaic kingdom and the…
3. 5:07transported here, you know, but that's And then the Torah over there also in Yuma says…
4. 7:21them. And they invented library science of how you catalog books. And they had by, you…
5. 9:56island of Pharaoh's, I think. And he put them in separate sequestered them in separate rooms,…
6. 12:02Greek translation of the Bible of the Torah was there able to read and understand and…
7. 14:42all contained in the pasuk. So that gives so but he says when you translate it…
8. 16:49And we have the Romans. The Romans are um look like they're they're um you know,…
9. 19:35Judeo-Christian, Islam, but all of them believe in God and the and the after so by…
10. 21:37one. And it was the attack of Greek culture on Judaism. No Shabbos, no milah, no…

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