Episode #6: Beth El: Revelation and Idolatry

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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 conquest part six. So today we're going to be discussing the city of Basel. That's the discussion for today. The the name Basel literally means the house of Al. Al is a term used in the Bible to to describe God. So one of Hashem's names is Al or if you once when you're talking about God, you say kale. You don't you don't you don't say you don't you don't pronounce a name of God just for like just for the fun of it. You say like kale. So bale bass ale it. You say like kale. So bale bass ale if you're saying the name of a place you could say basel is named after god the house of god ale actually in the canonite mythology is also the name of a god. It's like the name of like the supreme god if you look in the ucharitic uh myths um the canonite myths over there. So it talks about how ill was the father of Bal. It's like they have this whole like pantheon of different gods and how they're related to each other, you know, not unlike the Greeks and the Romans. And it's interesting. I've seen I I remember over years I I make I I remember over years I I make t-shirts for for my pronounc so like church sometimes the church will call me called Bethl church or something. Yeah. Something like that. Yeah. Yeah. They told me, by the way, the uh the the head of the store, hey, we asked him once um Refineman Refineman and we we we asked him once, you know, somebody wanted something with a cross and he said, "Yeah, it's not a better Zora." He said, "The He said, "They're paying you. Go ahead and do it." What Jews want to for money, right?

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1. 0:01The Jewish game of conquest part six. So today we're going to be discussing the city…
2. 5:13Basel. He went there one of his first stops in the holy land and then after…
3. 11:03oil on it and he calls the name of that place Bil. this place where Yakov…
4. 16:47it was and this piece of kazal is assuming also that it's because it's talking about…
5. 22:29in an inappropriate way and that was typified by Ishmael and so of Ramavinu he called…
6. 28:14The only thing is that there's a that if the idol, if an idoltor, a gentile…
7. 33:18Basel. So, the next place where the city of Basel is mentioned is in the book…
8. 39:00have to go to the holy temple, the Bushim, they'll worship Hashem elsewhere. And as I…
9. 44:42Yehuda and and and what happens is it says that he got a he got a…
10. 50:22that's what this tradition tells us. And the question is like why didn't people die in…

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