The Destiny Project Episode #42 The Fourth Kingdom

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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.

[music] Welcome to episode 42 of the Goldenberg Destiny Project. Before we get to the story of Khanekah, [snorts] it's important to uh talk about the background of the world at the time so we could understand the story of Khaneka in the context of everything that was going on. There are many details to this uh to what we're going to talk about. There are different dates and places and I'm going to keep those to a minimum, but they're important. And if you'd like to uh to know about them, you can go to the full chapter which is on the website and over there you get the entire fleshed out story over here. I'm going to just try to give you the framework of what went on. So when Alexander died, it's in 3:23 B.CE and his deathbed, he was asked who is going to be um your successor. He said the strongest and then he died. Now um so now he had all his generals and now how are you going to decide who's strongest? they're going to they're going to go around like killing each other. Like how are they going to decide what's the strongest? So they did something called the partition of Babylon where everybody all the the big players the major players were given different parts and you over there and then from that base then you will try to conquer the rest. But right now standing around around you know with the dying Alexander what are you going to do? you know, there's no way that you're going to work this out. So, that's what they had. The partition of Babylon and people

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