Balak: BAR KOCHVA - Historical Background

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Okay, good morning everyone. So today we begin a very important series in preparation for Shabbas. We discussed in past years a great revelation that there are two great tragedies in the history of the Jewish people. the and the and both of these sins are considered preserved for all generations. Meaning in every generation there is some punishment from which uncovered in every generation there are blood liels because as a punishment from because we we committed the first blood liel we took Yoseph's tunic we dipped it in blood and we said you know is this ben is this the tunic of your son so we created the first blood liel so in every generation the Jewish people suffer from blood liels. And you say, "Really? In every generation?" Yeah. All you need to do is every single day in the news when they accuse, you know, the Israeli army of um being brutal or they they accuse them of indiscriminately killing people. They're the most moral army in the entire world in the history of the world. That's a modern-day blood liel. That's a punishment for and then Rabban also uncovers that every generation there is some remnant of of the sin of the golden calf and the phenomenon of the golden calf also uh appears in every generation. In every generation there is a false messiah. There will always be a person that people hinge their hopes on or an ideology that people hinge their hopes on. One of the first episodes of Msiah Shakar is an episode that very shockingly most learned Jews know absolutely nothing about and it's very important to understand the background of the situation and that is the the the

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1. 0:01Okay, good morning everyone. So today we begin a very important series in preparation for Shabbas.…
2. 2:44Rome when the Romans set out to destroy the second Ba Mikdash was originally Nero Khazar…
3. 5:25Bikdash. By the way, one thing you see is that you could do it if if…
4. 8:41build the base of Mikdash. They just have to build it five off." As everybody knows,…
5. 11:23The community gathered in a in a valley called Bon. When the news came to them…
6. 14:31I'm a bird. I even stuck my head in the the mouth of a lion and…
7. 17:12the Jewish quarter in Egypt. And now Hadrien hears a court case of the Jewish people…
8. 19:57So, Rav Miller says that a lot of modern writers write that at the sedar theim…
9. 23:03heretics. You know the famous gamarra in khaga schlommo the famous gamarra in khaga. The Gomorrah…
10. 25:58Hulsha. So he went from Yav to Usha. He was from the last of the who…

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