Josephus: Historian, Traitor or Propagandist?

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Good morning. So start let's start first with the parha. Para this week is [clears throat] one of the hardest paras to pronounce. It means and I prayed or and I begged that he beg that Moshe says I wanted to begged Hashem for permission to go into the promised land but he refused to let me go into the promised land. Then Moshe turns to the people. Thank you very much. Then he Moshe returns to the people and um people and um he warns them about when you go into the promised land and to follow all of Hashem's commandments, not to turn to um idols. Um he says if you do um then you will be destroyed and thrown off the land that um I have um that I that I am giving you. Um he pointed out he points out goes through some some what we could call the Jewish values. speaks about the um how how we saw Hashem took us out of Egypt. Um we saw Hashem so to speak at Egypt. Um we saw Hashem so to speak at Mount Si. Um never before has hashem appeared to an entire people. We spoke about this when we spoke about the truth of the Torah that uh we claim universal um uh so sorry we we claim national um revelation that Hashem revealed himself to the entire people giving us the opportunity to see and appreciate um to see Hashem um directly instead of having to rely on others. Then the Bossha finishes his first speech. He

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1. 0:32Good morning. So start let's start first with the parha. Para this week is [clears throat]…
2. 6:11bathing at all, not um uh not having any affection between a couple and not wearing…
3. 12:16There are many many many more that we have not covered but we've spoken about the…
4. 18:58we have no other comprehensive account. We have bits and pieces here and there, no other…
5. 25:08Romans were gone, the religious Jewish leadership stepped in to um put these groups in place…
6. 31:17on the role of emperor and appoints his son Titus to finish the um rebel the…
7. 37:29against Apen and none of those books survived. So Josephus may well have written other books…
8. 43:37grows up in Jerusalem. He's part of the temple service, the center of Judaism. He seems…
9. 49:47he has is described as a horrible individual. It's hard not to see these things as…
10. 55:55arrogant. He can do no wrong. He's figured it all out. Um he's always trying to…

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