Questions and Answers on Jewish History

Shalom! Rabbi Jonathan Ginsburg. This is number 9 in series of videos about a hundred questions that Jewish should know the answer too. List on about Jewish history. 85 who was Ezra? What was his importance? Ezra lived in the 4th century. He was a major figure in fact that is the book name and after him on the final section of the bible. And he was major figure want Jews came back from the Babylonian dispersion to rebuild the temple. He red the Torah to them in public. He urges the men to abandon their non Jewish wives with just Gorsa Hadishu today? And basically was responsible for girding up people to continue the temple, to renew their Jewish covenantal experience and to focus again on the Torah. 86. Identify Helo on the Pharisees, what are Helo’s famous sings? Helo was a great sage. Lived by the first century, the Pharisees were the pre cursors of the modern Rabbis. The main groups of the time when the Pharisees who believed to the Orlah law and they believe and study Torah and praying. The Sadducees do not believe Orlah law or the after life and they were the one responsible for sacrifices. The Asians will basically the chase and who that level of that said community. The Helus some other famous segments were for example if I am only for myself what am I, if I am not myself who will be, if not now, when? Very many famous segments for this recorded in after vote and according extensively in the Orlah law at the mention. 87. Who is Rabbi Key allow this connection of the Thuma? Rabbi Key I was the greatest sage of the second century. He led a revolt against Rome by [Foreign Language] and 132 to 135, a famous story as student’s starts studying the alphabet until he was 40, became the greatest sage of that century. 88. What is the meaning Midrash? Well it really means to seek and inquire. But the stories about based on a Torah to kind of feel in the Torah. For example in my want about Abraham mention that this sages told the story of that reason God pick him was he pick God. That he is father’s an idol maker Torah is say that and he want destroy his father’s idols and it came that teaches father about the one God. To find the term Halakah. 89. While space in the word Turaf and it means the upper practical apply Jewish Law today. What is the Halakah? What is the law on that matter? 90. To find Diasphrah and draw a map showing chronologically the rise of the Jewish community is outside of the Israel. Now, can a map this way. Diasphrah hired the Jewish community is outside of Israel, and obviously the map looks different today that it is a hundred years ago. Today the largest Jewish population outside of the Israel force United States. Large Jewish community in South America, significant community in France and England, some Jews are moving back to other countries in Europe. Of course, there are still Jewish communities at various countries in Europe. They use to be, before 1948 about 750,000 Jews in the air blends but they were expelled from their without any compensation after Israel became state. Of course before the holocaust, there is a 3.3 Million Jews in calling in Hitler in the Nazis killed 3 Million of them, a 90%. Germany there were 300,000 before the holocaust so the map keep changing. 91. Who is Moses primarily? What did he write and why is he regards the formal Jewish philosopher? Well the book on Jewish philosophy wrote is moral of the book and God for the perplex, great philosophical. They have also some Judaism. He live 11:35 to 12:04, he was a doctor. We also wrote the first major code in Jewish law called the Mishnah Torah, and really Era rationalist certainly one of the great giant of Judaism. He was buried in Tiberius. Now his grave it says from Moses to Moses, there was no one like Moses, from the first Moses, to Moses my manatees. 92. What is the important of the guide book Shekinah can Jew by it today? Shekinah is the major code of Jewish law, following my manatees that really with by Joseph Karo. And it stills basically the major code of Jewish Law. For orthodox Jews of course there some interpretation and there something that were around today that were around of 15 century but still consider the major code of Jewish Law. 93. What is a Hassad? Like did the Hasidic move of the 19 century contributed in modern Judaism? What is the Baveture movement? I have a video Hassad 101 you can watch that, basically modern day Hasidic start on 1700 with Bashemtov. Contributed a great sense of joy, of a basically that the major mystics that are around still today. They have many important concepts for very God focused. Let me clive to God all the days of my life is one of their major ideas or placed God before you on the days of life. The Bavage movement is one sack of Hosidim. They are the main once who dress in modern Garv, they do not wear the first try most example. Today, they were business suits but they are differently Hosidim in at the most the main groups that does outreach that is right that all over the place. They send me on couples to every kind that City can imagine try this stimuli Jewish life. Last question, this section 94, what is the world Jewish population today? American Jewish population, why concern about the declining Jewish population? More population are the newest 13 to 14 Million although, there are many people I have some Jewish blood out their, because Jews of the spread. The very is said practice were about 2% on what we should be, scholars estimate if there have been know mass murder of Jews so offer in Jewish history there be about 700 Million Jews today. Or is we have been allowed to have our own home land. Former Prime Minister Tanyaho how told the Chinese leader of many get billion in the Indian ancient billion in a half in India have a billion, and with be over ransom many time. You said because we did never Homeland for 2,000 years. We have the Jews population, well they just found another million by reexamining that of the last study that is about 6 Million, were concern about declining the Jewish population because the Jewish birth rate is another placing itself, and we need Jewish numbers to be meaningful to continue the survive. This includes this video, the next one on last one be on Israel.