The Destiny Project Episode #47 The Second Destruction

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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 47 of the Goldenberg Destiny Project. In this episode, we are coming to the last century before the destruction of the Holy Temple. This is the first century of the common era. So before we talk about what happened during this century, we need to talk about Josephus. Josephus, there is a lot of history, there are historians that wrote about the ancient times. There were Greeks, a number of Greeks wrote about it, some Romans, but the Jewish history that we know is mostly because of Josephus. Josephus wrote a few books. One of them is called "Antiquities of the Jews" where he goes through the entire history of the Jewish people from the beginning. Then he has a book called "The Jewish War," the Bellum Judaicum, the Jewish War, where he writes about what happened during the revolt of Judea against Rome. Now the first part that he wrote, so his sources were sources that we don't have, but I guess there were certain sources that were available to him because he lived at that time. So about the Hasmoneans, we know very little about the Hasmoneans outside of Josephus. We know what the Gemara tells us. A few little places there are some mentions of the Hasmoneans. Otherwise, we really don't know anything about it. But Josephus gives us a fully detailed history of the Hasmoneans, and everything we've been talking about till now, the main source for that is Josephus. Who is Josephus? Josephus was a Kohein (priest). He was from the Hasidim, the Pharisees, he's one of them. And during the revolt he was a general

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1. 0:17Welcome to Episode 47 of the Goldenberg Destiny Project. In this episode, we are coming to…
2. 4:54thing. And another thing, there are places that he mentions, like he mentions Lombardy. Lombardy is…
3. 9:40getting captured. So he was afraid that if they kill him, they're going to kill his…
4. 14:41reason was. So he divided it into different parts, hoping that whoever took those parts would…
5. 19:51from the very beginning. Right away from the first, as soon as he became king, there…
6. 24:51Greek tutors and Greek writers and everything Greek. So they were Hellenized. So when they were…
7. 29:20And then the people revolted. They wiped out the entire garrison of the Romans in Jerusalem…
8. 34:23Judea he's working on Judea, but he had, and he figured that he has the ability…
9. 39:20And he also asked for Yavneh and its Sages, that was the Sanhedrin. So the Sanhedrin…
10. 44:22okay, but the Gemara just gives that as an extreme example. But how did unwarranted hatred…

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