Ask Hard Questions (Experiment!)

Hello Channel Members! I'm inundated with questions, many of them hard ones, and I figured I should provide some outlet to discuss them. I'm going to try to cull questions from the previous week, and you can post them here as well. Channel Members will be able to participate with live chat as well. This is an experimental livestream, let's see how it goes!

[@phinellahenderson745]

Very good! A wide variety of questions and great answers. Look forward to learning more about Clement of Alexandria! On a superficially different topic, have been watching videos about various Ukrainian regions which of course lead back to Jewish history. Everything is connected somehow.

[@pascalepeltier8534]

Dear Professor Abramson, Thank you very much for all your hard work. I am at the very beginning of trying to understand my Jewish backgrounds, which I have only just discovered in my late 50s! Two lines of ancestry from my great grandmother and great grandfather, both Sephardic. So it has been fantastic and fascinating to find a KZbin channel like yours!

[@jamessanborn3043]

Dear Professor Henry, I am a Christian and love your channel. Glad you got the kinks out of your first “live “ Q & A. I’m watching, post “live “. Hope you’ll do more! Shalom. ☺️

[@kathrynludrick4821]

I'm a Christian in Texas. Thank you.

[@karlschreiber9286]

Thank You. Many experts. The greatest expert Dr. Abramson. I have to learn a lot.

[@Nancy_S68]

I missed the announcement of your Q&A live. This one was great. Hope to catch the next one & submit a question.

[@AOE2_Private_Lounge]

On a practical level it feels logical that the matrilineal/patrilineal transition comes down to a shift in the approach to propagating judaism. When jewish men were warrior/conqueror types (like basically all ancient peoples), judaism was spread externally, and thus men who went off to war took both their seed and religion to new lands, and whatever women they had relations with likely stayed with them. By the medieval period jews were a nesting people who propagated internally. A jewish man might go off on business and have an interfaith relation but he likely didnt bring the woman back home, and the child of a foreign relationship would stay with his foreign mother to be raised in a foreign culture. Conversely if a jewish woman had a relation with a foreigner, the child would still end up raised within the jewish community since women stayed closer to home. So it basically coincides with a natural shift from promulgating judaism to insulating judaism.

[@olebrgesen795]

Dear professor Abramson. I hear you. Please make lectures as for exam. art. You can help a lot of students in both US and Europe get starting with their studies. As you did earlier, me included. I can’t have enough studies of Jewish history with you.

[@Ukie88]

As a Ukrainian Canadian, I appreciated your map of Ukraine and Jewry and comments about Zelenskyy.

[@Iconicbitch666]

Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge 😊 I enjoyed and learned so much from this Q&A

[@englishfrog]

Thanks for the chuckle...in responding to the quesiton about Jesus being Jew or Gentile, you quipped that because he stayed close to home and "clung" to his mother....that this PROVES Jesus was Jewish....I genuinely laughed out loud to that one.

[@MegaAnimeforlife]

Could you do a video explain the differences in chronology In genesis 5 and 11 between the masoretic and Septuagint texts and Samaritan

[@englishfrog]

I wish I knew this was on when it was live..hope you do it again.

[@averynunley8872]

Can you discuss the life of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Morosov? Thank you

[@user-kw2sp3gq4d]

Hello, I have asked you 2-3 years ago when will the new Titus come? What do you think? Is he close?

[@JohnLindquist-du5wr]

Have a controversial Matrilineal question. I am 65 years old. Seeking answers or insight, about my heritage, like who am I ? Read half the Old Testament, researched Halaka. In 2016, found out my Mother, who is Southern Italian, was born to Jewish parents, her maternal grandmother and paternal grandparents were also Jewish. When she was born, she was raised as Jewish, in Brooklyn, until she was 8 years old (in 1931); they had to pick up and move. She lived to 100; a survivor , of sorts. . My mother’s family practiced Judaism in secret; in my opinion this had inherent contradictions; it was hypocritical; and contributed to some of them falling away from Judaism (except my maternal grandfather, as far as immediate family). Suspect this is the legacy of the Benui Anusim.(spelling?) This situation is analogous to Madeleine Albright situation except the reality is not poignant or inspiring. My Mother was very smart, and, I am ashamed to say, anti semetic. When my maternal grandmother entered the final stages of her life; my Mother went through my Grandmother’s documents and destroyed anything that was Jewish; she was proud of this; I am shocked. I am also far from perfect. I cannot ask around. I was raised Catholic. In hindsight, it was like things were hidden, there was a lot of evidence of a Jewish heritage. There is no documentation. I cannot do a DNA test either. Only have a testimonial from my mother when she was 96, with Alzheimer’s; and my maternal grandmother’s wedding gift (wine glasses with a Star of David on the bottom.)

[@annickmathe9463]

Yes Trancoso is near Guarda/ Viseu , near the Spanish frontier...far from O Porto or any Douro city

[@fbrtnrsthf]

Thanks for streaming! Too bad I did not catch it live.

[@mikeklein9923]

Good answer to the calendar question

[@lindarosenthal6646]

Thanks. I enjoyed it and learned quite a bit.

[@BlindTom61]

This is not a question but just a comment. I really, really enjoy your lectures. I studied hard for a few years to convert but realized eventually that that was not the proper way. Anyhow, thank you for the work that you do.

[@AnHebrewChild]

hi there. Just curious what you mean by "that was not the proper way." And yeah, I've very much enjoyed his topical lectures for years.

[@MegaAnimeforlife]

The robot thing is hilarious 😂

[@junetrenholm9810]

Re matrilineal lines, I heard that it related to men spreading their seed far and wide, so self-professed family members could spring up, looking for their part of the family fortune. The women were considered more reliable for carrying on the family line.

[@anthonya.1359]

I can here you.

[@davidtyler3116]

Sorry I missed this Dr. Abramson.

[@theh.o.p.e.channelwhoyouar7614]

Messianic of Jewish heritage...raised christian but converted bc of Jewishness of 2nd Testament love 1st Testament

[@lucyfoster8624]

Dear Professor Abramson ...you said there is no way the wall stone can be dated by an archeologist. Yes. Archeologists can date the wall stone down to the chemicals and elements in the wall stone. By dating chemicals and elements a date of creation of the etching or article can be possible through spectrometry with a specialized radar microscope. The folks searching for pirate treasure on Oak Island in Nova Scotia use the radar to determine if they are close to the right era with the artifacts they find. To date a wall and particularly the etching you will need a forensic geologist. This is their specialty. Scott Wolters of Minnesota and creator of the series "America Unearthed" on KZbin uses this method to authenticate and see if etching are real or clever fakes.

[@MitzvosGolem1]

תודה רבה שלום 👍

[@theh.o.p.e.channelwhoyouar7614]

Love yah

[@franhunter-r9r]

Yes

[@mikeklein9923]

Daniel; I'd like to see a 60 min lecture, I'll sponsor.

[@karlschreiber9286]

I hear you but Im not connected. Hoping useful to all.

[@janbenson1359]

found this too late still listening

[@ringabell239]

I hear you and your echo.

[@ringabell239]

Will I be able to hear you while I am in Israel?

[@sharonlee7111]

✌️ hello

[@theh.o.p.e.channelwhoyouar7614]

Was Sha'ul's religion really "christianity" or was it messianic Judaism???

[@mikeklein9923]

A working definition ? That's another 60 min lecture. Joseph married Dina's daughter. Moses' son was circumcised by his wife with a flint rock. Hope URJ doesn't see this, you've justified patrilineal descent.

[@mikeklein9923]

Abraham / Hagar / Keturah that's another lecture. No they were thrown out into the desert, Hagar was an Egyptian princess whom Pharoah sent to live with Avraham, should have been treated better, could be thought of as converted. Islam belives in 1 G-d, so it's not avoda zara. Up until Mohammed they could've been considered Jewish

[@billcampbell1292]

Hi from Victoria bc

[@daylily7672]

I missed it!

[@lottyblok383]

sjalom, sorry, i have mis the stream..........also, your questions but i watch no, an listening to you.

[@Sabrina96]

Sad to have missed this live but enjoyed the video. I've found out about your channel recently and have been watching and listening to many of the videos. I love history and am a voracious reader and your videos are immensely interesting. Though I'm not religious, I enjoy the history and culture of Judaism. I've studied ancient history and other areas of history as well. I've always had a connection to Israel and Judaism, and found your videos excellent about Judaism in Italy. My background is Italian and it always fascinated me about the close similarities between Jewish and Italian cultures. It is a shame that the large population was reduced through the centuries and so much was lost due to the horrors of those times and the church. The parts of Judaism that got forgotten in part, like the mikvahs in Palermo and Siracusa are fascinating. Thank you for your exceptional work and your clear and enjoyable presentations.

[@levolevo1059]

I have a question,,,,i m turkish and i have Jewish turkish friends in Istanbul,,we always talk about Jewish deportation and mass killings in different period of time since ancient Egypt,,,almost every European country did that ,,romans ,,ancient Egyptian s ,,you name it,,,,,and you always blame those countries,,,is there any academically research,,about you might be mistaken in any of those era.?,,,why it happens only to jew,,,dont thinnk it only religion or money ,,,,,

[@magdas.p.4672]

It s ok

[@lottyblok383]

2. I have had, come up in me mind, the as upperlight an this contact a serie points that become to lightening in dark, room an this After, a piece of land let total land go. In later time, i understand that this as land seems to be the up site down as map ki leolam hasdo. With help staps, to watch i understand that that it can be atlantic ocean (2019) an also ship, russia. But, in current time, it is more awesome because the have seen a extinct whale.............it is in live, in atlantic oceam. I think, the story about what was come up in 2019 isn't ready, yet. But, I am aware, it is albout G'dgift. Kabbalah is far away from stupid, isn' it. This is a positive energy for share in scat, with you.

[@lottyblok383]

whale=walvis...........hebr. name, an solomon.

[@magdas.p.4672]

Can Heard you

[@franhunter-r9r]

Now?