Terms In Jewish History - Antisemitism, Chosen People and Others

This is the video number six of the series of terms for the introduction of Judaism and Long Distance Conversion Course these are terms in Jewish history. First term is chosen people, the doctrine from the Torah, the Azier and the harbanu that you God chose the children of Israel. Not a doctrine of superiority by any sense but a special role that Jewish people have and testifying and witnessing God’s word. Anti semitism is the concept of hatred. Actually, Semites are the people from the Middle East but today is usually associated with Jews. A term coined in Germany a couple hundred years ago and describes not only from a few hundred years but all of historical anti-Jewish activity. “Fight to the Nation” is a phrase from the prophet Isaiah that the Jew should be able to Orgoim a light to the nations and have special responsibility to teach God’s ideas. Erich Israel means the land of Israel. The first temple was built by King Solomon in the 10th century BC and destroyed by the Babylonians in 586 BC. The second temple was rebuilt by the Jews who were let back by King Cyrus of Persia in the early 500 BC and then destroyed by the Romans in 70 C and that was the last big temple we had. Kalud is a word for the Jews who live outside Israel, the Diaspora. The bible and there is a youtube on the Hebrew bible consists of three parts, 39 books. The Torah is the first part, the Prophets are the middle and the writings are the third. Judges is the second book of the prophetic section and they were leaders of the Jewish people who rose at various times to help the Jews in trouble like Samson and Deborah. Prophets is the name of a section of the bible and the literary prophets. There were 15 of them, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and then 12 of the smaller ones like Micah, Malachi, Josea, Amos and etcetera. Kings, The first king of Israel was King Saul and then followed by King David, and aside King Solomon after his death the kingdom split in to two and there were many kings in the north and the south after that. The first commonwealth was the Jews sovereignty over the land of Israel as promised by God from the time Joshua all the way until it was lost. First in 722 the Assyrians conquered the North and then in 586 the Babylonians conquered the South. The Assyrian conquest was in 722 when they conquered the north and took away ten tribes and their lost. Babylonian exile that was the Iraqi’s the ancient Babylonians who conquered the temple and destroyed the temple and conquered Judea. In 586 and exiled the Jews and Babylonia. The Persian period followed that when the Iranians then the Persians conquered the Babylonians and let the Jews come back and rebuilt the temple. The story of Ester supposedly took place during the Persian period. Alexander the great then conquered the Persian in 333 BCE and that started the Greek period which did not end until the Romans control later. The Roman period that lasted for several hundred years and that was the Jewish experienced the destruction of the temple in 70. The Romans took over from the descendants of the Maccabees around 63 BCE. There was another Roman massacre of Jews in 132 to 135 and slowly the Roman period ended in other groups to go over the land of Israel. Pharisees, Sadducees and Essenes I have a yourube on that. There are three major groups that lived around the time of the early Rabbi’s around zero. Pharisees ar the the precursors of the modern Rabbi’s, the Sadducees were the ones who maintained the temple Colt and the Essenes were the people who lived in the out skirts of Jerusalem and practice very severe laws of the bible and bodily purity. Crusades were initiated by the popes of Europe and the middle-ages at 1096, there were three of them. Abbe were designed to end the sovereignty of the Muslims over the holy land but they ended up in Europe keep massacring many Jews. Pilgrims is the name for the vicious anti semantic acts especially in Russia and pre-modern times around the 1800’s and the early 1900’s. Muranos is a name for the Jews who in 1492 when the Spanish inquisition occurred and forced Jews, killed Jews, force Jews to flee and forced Jews to convert. Some Jews converted secretly, publicly to Christianity but maintained the Judaism secretly and they are still practicing Jews or something of Jewish blood. So, that ends session six.