Episode 6: The First Kings of Judah

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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.

the Jewish Game of Thrones part six. So this this week we're going to go through the kings of Yehuda and talk about all the different stories that happened in the kings of Yehuda. But uh before we start, I just wanted to make a few points about in a few general points over here when we talk about the kingdom of Yehuda. The first point is that one of the one of the one of the things that we saw when we talk about the kingdom of Israel was that there were it happened many times that there were it happened many times that there was a conspiracy against the ruling king and they killed him and overthrew him and then they started a new dynasty and so that's not something we're going to find over here when we talk about the kings of Yehuda. The kings of Yehuda is going to continue in sort of more or less a linear way going down the descendants from David Malik. Son, son, son, son, son, son, son all the way down to the almost to the end. It was son, father, son, father, son, father, son. There weren't any conspiracies that started new dynasties. But you will find that there were conspiracies that they that there were conspiracies that they assassinated the king, but they didn't start a new dynasty as a result. They just had like the king's son take over early. That's one point. The second point is that because of this idea that it was it was a continuation. It was one set royal family that was ruling the entire time. So it was harder to change things that were instituted in the palace than would otherwise be because once it's already in the palace and it became, you know, the tradition became like the min

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