Episode #1: Jericho: Breaking Down the Walls

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

Jewish game of conquest part one. So today we're going to discuss the history of the city of Jericho. So if you hear look on your map over here, this is from Google maps and I made a custom places. So the city of Euro is not far from the Dead Sea. It's sort of in the I'd say Middle East of uh the Holy Land. Get it? Middle East. All right. So that's where the city of Jericho that's in the it's can it's in Jericho that's in the it's can it's in the northeast part of the territory of the tribe of Binyamin of of Benjamin. So that's the the city of Eureka right next to the Jordan River. Actually it's also right next to the Jordan River. Um interestingly in Hebrew the city has two different names. We call it in English Jericho, but in Hebrew it's named in in some places where it appears in the Bible, it it's called and in some places where it appears in the Bible, it's called Eureo. appears in the Bible, it's called Eureo. The general rule is that in the five books of Moses when the the name of this city appears cuz happens to be that in the last year of the Jews traveling in the desert. So they camped in a place called the plains of Moav Arvos Moav al- Yardino right on the Jordan River across the Jordan from Jericho. So the last year they spent over there right right about to cross the Jordan to go and and get into Jericho. So like that that that so that's why it appears in in the

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1. 0:01Jewish game of conquest part one. So today we're going to discuss the history of the…
2. 3:36dates that were growing in that vicinity. So it had a nice smell. So it's called…
3. 7:12picture or whatever and it said on the inscription shalom. So because of that they call…
4. 12:22about this and so he wants to do something about it. He hears that these spies…
5. 15:54going to be crossing the Jordan River in in 3 days. I had this for you.…
6. 20:02of the things. And so, of course, as I said, the walls come down. They they…
7. 23:37There's different hints to the name of Yeshua in the prayer of Aleno Shab. It says…
8. 27:12themselves. Yeah. How big is that piece supposed to be? How big is the piece supposed…
9. 31:17earthquake or thunder light or you see lightning or you see the you know the Mediterranean…
10. 34:53layer that would predate when the story happened because it was it's supposed to be underground,…

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