Journey to Greece 2024: Athens - Alexander the Great and the Cessation of Prophecy

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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.

for 40 years we were in a Israel 440 years before they built the first B mikdash the first B mikdash was built 480 years after they left MIM first B of mdash stood for 410 years 70 years in B the gamar tells us Alexander Rises to power 34 years into Bay sheni and in the 40th year which is a thousand years from is the main ascendancy of Alexander the Great so I want to read to you what the rambam writes the ramam gives us his calculations of how he formulates it's called he intercalates the calendar and the ramam is so to speak excusing himself he's being misel because the the r makes are not based on Jewish sources he says the calculations he makes the Greeks compos many books these are books that the Jewish sages have in their possession so the Rah says why didn't I come on to Jewish sources the Jewish sources would have been from the sh the PK says we know specialized in intercalation so the r is bothered why is he coming on to Greek sources why doesn't he use the sources of uh the Jewish people he says the the Jewish books we never got them so says ran but still how am I allowed to rely on Greek sources maybe they're distorted maybe they're miscalculated says the rambam this is mathematics it's a measured formula this is not a matter of ideology or philosophy it's something that could be counted measured and we know how they arrived at these calculations therefore it's irrelevant where it comes from let's let's look at the content let's not look at who presented it so the raham is so to speak

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1. 0:30for 40 years we were in a Israel 440 years before they built the first B…
2. 2:05still how am I allowed to rely on Greek sources maybe they're distorted maybe they're miscalculated…
3. 3:36and that's because the Jewish calculations we would have understood how they're derived from the toyra…
4. 5:07prophecied from Alexander and prophecy ceased tilt your ears and hear the words of the sages…
5. 6:42when he met shadik he wanted to put a okay this is the only Mar of…
6. 8:16this concept of Minion what's the meaning of it why would we continue to practice minion…
7. 9:50apparently he created a m the m is Greek ideology Greek ideology says we only believe…
8. 11:32one of the reasons we fast on they translated the T I have a question for…
9. 13:05divine origin anything of the supernatural they would discard their purpose in translating the Torah was…
10. 14:37there's a new era in world history before now there was prophecy there will no longer…

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