Apocrypha #1: Understanding Tanakh

[@raf_abreu]

Baruch HaShem! Thank you for another amazing lecture!

[@EfraimPalvanov]

My pleasure!

[@Julia-vm8je]

Спасибо вам огромное. Вы точно перевернули мой взгляд на Библию. 7 лет я управляла ходом богослужения в Православном монастыре. Библию знаю почти наизусть. Песни царя Давида читаю каждый день в течении 20 лет. Наверно именно древние пророки привели меня к вашим лекциям 6 дней назад. Совершенно другой взгляд на вещи. Моя свекровь Мальтийка, принадлежала к Испанскому Еврейскому роду Formoza - Ta Staferata. Который до сих пор управляет Мальтой. Только благодаря её поведению и отношением ко мне, я стала интересоваться древними писаниями. Хотя в нашей семье соблюдались все правила. Спасибо вам за вашу удивительную работу.

[@EfraimPalvanov]

My pleasure! That's very interesting, thanks for sharing. Hope to visit Malta some day :)

[@Bah1357]

Christian wannabe here. This is amazing information. So grateful I was led to it🙏

[@EfraimPalvanov]

Glad to hear, thank you!

[@victorianoah6572]

A huge thanks to you for your ingenuity, dedication and continuously enlightening us. Love all your teachings 💖

[@EfraimPalvanov]

Thank you so much!

[@Grandpajoe24]

Thank you for the study.

[@EfraimPalvanov]

My pleasure!

[@clemdouglas5529]

Amazing lecture ! Please share it around with your family and friends around this world.

[@EfraimPalvanov]

Thank you!

[@HeyMan101]

So glad I kept listening and went back and investigated things !! And glad to know Daniel is History ❤🎉

[@KrochmalResnikoff-ou5qs]

Important books that give a sense of context to second temple judiaism.

[@asafgozlan]

Amazing! Thank you Efraim!!!

[@EfraimPalvanov]

My pleasure!

[@biblestudent4726]

Rabbi Palanov, I have a question regarding 2 Maccabees 12:44. The men who died where Idolaters, yet Maccabee prays for them that they may not die in their deception but be saved to the resurrection of the dead to the Judgment. Does ancient Judaism believer in praying for the dead? Thank you for your answer.

[@EfraimPalvanov]

Yes, see the following for a detailed analysis of the Jewish belief in a Resurrection of the Dead: www.mayimachronim.com/understanding-resurrection-of-the-dead/

[@biblestudent4726]

@@EfraimPalvanov Yes, the print-up goes into the Resurrection of the Dead, but I had a more specific question about 2 Maccabees 12:44 and whether BCE second temple Jews believed in praying for the souls of the dead.

[@Jasn_Chvz]

These are amazing

[@EfraimPalvanov]

Thank you!

[@caljoshdisofyah496]

Good teaching !!

[@EfraimPalvanov]

Thank you!

[@capricornyearofthetiger]

I have several questions about how the Tanakh was composed. First off, I assume that the additions to the Septuagint (LXX) were discarded. When was that approximately? Likewise, in another talk you mentioned how the Ethiopian Jewish community makes use of the book of Enoch, was this at all influenced by the Coptic Church's use of Enoch; especially since no other body Jewish or Christian considers the text as canon. Lastly, does the bible "end" with Ketuvim or can one consider everything that came after (Mishnah, Midrash, and Talmud) part of the full of the biblical narrative.

[@crystalshelton223]

*Discussion on Song of Songs: *Realism in King and Queen love poetry.(1 Peter 3:4) *Over the years, individuals portray this book as too intimate, but in reality it is not the case. *It focuses on the closeness between husband and wife. *It also portrays a very high spiritual connection within the Creator and man. *This is highly informative video on certain matters.

[@Saul8564]

Hi i just found your channel and been binging your content. Finally something to really understand history and philosophy. Which book collection of Josephus and the books not mentioned in the Tanach are worth reading/ studying. Anyway for comprehensive list that i can work with?

[@EfraimPalvanov]

Glad to hear, thanks. There is a recent publication called 'The Jewish Annotated Apocrypha' which you might like. I think all of Josephus is fascinating, and there are many different publications of "complete works" of Josephus out there.

[@mypronounismom1056]

I'm an Ortodox by birth, but open minded by the grace of God. Happy to hear that there are Jewish folk out there that have had certain books forbidden. To me this is: the truth is out there, brothers and sisters, no matter what religion you practice........

[@vrab.]

I believe the megillat Esther was up for debate for multiple reasons which a few you addressed. But there are others: - the story parallels a similar story of Ishtar and Marduk (Babylonian gods) and was replaced by Esther and Mordacai suggesting Jews in the Babylon took a babylonian holiday and made it their own (which goes against Moshe’s words in parshat Reeh (Devarim 12:30-32) which says not to inquire how the nations worship their gods and do that to HaShem. - it adds a holy day Purim which is not listed in Parshat Emor. On which its commanded to get drunk to the point you confuse Mordacai with Haman. Drunkenness always appears in a negative light throughout the Torah. - there is no other collaborating text to support King Ahasuerus ever existed questioning the historical integrity of the megillat. - the pole on which Mordacai was to be hanged is extremely exaggerated and very unlikely would have been used - the megillat really does not glory HaShem at the p’shat level

[@Thehaystack7999]

Have you done a video about the relationship between David and Jonathan, and what this teaches us for our day? Is there 70 layers to this? Is it a foreshadowing of Messiah? Or what should we understand from that?

[@EfraimPalvanov]

Not yet. Hope to start a series on Nevi'im (the Books of the Prophets) soon.

[@pamelasue73]

I have always wondered why the Zohar has been restricted to men over 40 until recently. The religious leaders “rated it X “ to protect the people from falling into sexual immorality. Wow! Once again the light bulb comes on through your brilliant teachings! Thank you!

[@EfraimPalvanov]

Very welcome :) There's a lot more to the story of restricting the study of Zohar/Kabbalah. (Also, it never really applied to Sephardic Jews.)

[@pamelasue73]

Am I understanding correctly that the Sephardi’s have always taught the Zohar ? The Ashkenazi Jews are the ones who not only restricted but also persecuted those who taught from the Zohar ?

[@EfraimPalvanov]

@@pamelasue73 Ashkenazis also studied Zohar, but it was generally more concealed and restricted. Sephardis engaged in it openly, and generally didn't restrict it. Spoke more about it in the class on Sephardic Jews here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/oJ69mp6AoL6FjKs

[@lightleaker7045]

According to R Tovia Singer the original Septuagint was only the Chumash with the remainder of the tanach being translated into Greek by Origen (sp?) in…third century CE? Memory is fuzzy on exactness.

[@marklevy9314]

Fragments of the Book of Esther were recently discovered to be part of the Dead Sea scrolls.

[@egipad9037]

Sir, I have a question. Can you please explain to me where I can find proof that gematria was used in Biblical studies, Tanahk, Torah etc. Not Talmudic studies. In plain Biblical studies, If Gematria (Kabala) Is only of Talmudic studies I need to know this. I need to know that what I have been told is wrong or right. Please explain.

[@EfraimPalvanov]

Please see the following, where I discussed the foundations of gematria: kzbin.info/www/bejne/aZyWgpiVaNipe5o

[@avnerstein]

Rabbi Tovia Singer holds that the Septuagint rabbis only translated the Pentateuch, not the whole Tanach (3:46). The rest of Tanach was added to the Septuagint by Christians, mistranslated to support the New Testament.

[@matmay47]

What about Hagar?

[@textov1]

I'm not sure it's correct that the whole Tanach was translated first but only the 5 Books of Moshe. Also it could have been either 70 or 72 chosen Rabbaim that did the retranslation. I think the complete Tanach was done later but can't remember the source for that.

[@AtholRowsell]

My understanding would be that it should mean to show clearly that the source should not be questioned on matters. In this sense inspection becomes irrelevant because it is not in question and so as no study should be conducted as the pertinent question of the student.

[@carolreid4821]

Todah

[@egipad9037]

How do or did they get books or writings from small pieces of papyrus. I mean everytime I see biblical writings its always on a small broken off piece of papyrus and how do they manage to get a whole chapter or even a paragraph off of it? Its mind bogeling.

[@shainazion4073]

Certain words are only used a few times in Torah. They can figure passages by the words and words next to those words.

[@montysouther-f9i]

My question is how could MOSHA WRITE ABOUT HIS DEATH???

[@EfraimPalvanov]

There are generally two opinions on this: either he wrote about it himself prophetically, or Joshua wrote the last verses in Deuteronomy.

[@montysouther-f9i]

@@EfraimPalvanov my vote is that JOSHUA WROTE IT - because of what was written later about Joshua . I Have a whole lot of faith in HASHEM ONLY. As I think you do too.!

[@mikebee6786]

BARUCH HASHEM SHABBOT SHALOM 😊

[@reuvainnaftullah5534]

There were hundreds of thousands of prophets in in temple and Mishkan times however their prophecies were limited to their time and not applicable to future generations

[@mojohand3165]

Hello Efraim, Job was in Egypt in the time of Joseph. Joseph told them leave Egypt when he died and Job listened. It isn't a great leap to think that Moses met Job at some point and Moses could of told him of his troubles. So then Job told Moses I hear you, now let me tell you about what happened to me. Now I can't think for you so you'll just have to decide. It is not terribly important just interesting............All Love IndieJamimaMojoHand

[@handlenumber707]

Before the flood 360 days made a year. After the flood, things went askew: the Earth was in precession (tilted and spinning erratically). Four days had been added to a year. How? Well. Think about a figure skater. She's elegant, balletic, and she's making a spin. At first it's a graceful rotation, but she's going to put some speed. She draws her stabilizing outstretched arms inward, and spins faster. The same thing happened to the Earth. During the flood (after the fountains of the great deep burst open) she lost mass; material escaped the atmosphere. This lightened the load and so the Earth span faster, meaning more days in a year. At first this was 364, but because of imbalances in the mantle, fractures, which marked where raqiya material disappeared, prompted adjacent internal shearing. This melted rock. Molten rock is a compressible material, meaning it can be more or less dense than its surroundings. In the case of the former it expands, causing shallow earthquakes and volcanoes. When it's lower down and under more pressure it compresses, creating deep earthquakes. Compression of magma leaves a void in surrounding rock which snaps shut, and causes shearing elsewhere. Over time the accumulation of these deep quakes causes the Earth to contract, and, consequently, speed up. When men in our epoch learned how to calculate things, they realized the number of days increased over time, hence the need for new calendars every few centuries. Today you can do these calculations with atomic clocks and observe this speeding up every time there's a major earthquake.

[@tasfish1]

Song of Songs is a song to the goddess

[@hendrikdebruyn2092]

Shalom. I am very surprised at the demeanor of the guy in the video, i am not sure if he is a rabbi or not. Maybe i could ask on this channel, because no other Jewish channel ever, would answer my question. Why would Jewish people not teach the gentiles about God? Why does it seem to us gentiles that the Jewish people want to keep God to themselves? And why would Jewish people have gentiles convert and make them follow another set of laws, while The Torah teaches that the same law will be for the sojourners?

[@EfraimPalvanov]

The Torah does not require gentiles to follow all of its laws. It clearly states that the law is part of God's covenant with Israel specifically, and God only expects Israel to observe all of the Torah's laws. However, the Torah does advocate for gentiles to follow the seven Noahide Laws. Those who wish to convert to Judaism and formally join the Israelite nation and observe all Torah law are certainly welcome to do so.

[@hendrikdebruyn2092]

@@EfraimPalvanov Good morning. Thank you for the reply, i enjoy your lectures and your knowledge. But where in the Torah does it state that gentiles are required to first obide by the Noahide laws, and where in Torah can we find Moses giving these laws for gentiles to follow.

[@EfraimPalvanov]

@@hendrikdebruyn2092 There are a few sources for it, the main one being Genesis 9 (where God explicitly instructs Noah about the laws for all mankind) as well as Genesis 2:16, from which the Sages derive the laws by breaking down the verse word-by-word. Hope to give a class on it soon. Stay tuned!

[@hendrikdebruyn2092]

@@EfraimPalvanov Thank you, i will switch on notifications because i really need to try and understand this, and especially why Jews do not teach gentiles about God, unless one converts to Judaism

[@hendrikdebruyn2092]

@@EfraimPalvanov And because both Jew and Christian, and i think also Islam, teaches that gentiles do not have to obey Torah, while God clearly says otherwise in Isaiah 56:6, saying the gentiles that joins themselves to God, not to Jews or Judaism, but God, will be welcome on His mountain if they keep from profaining His Shabbat, and hold fast to His covenant. He never says to 1st convert to a religion.

[@the.mr.nobody]

Enoch is vitally important.

[@marciphillips8682]

Most definitely

[@barbarza]

Oyyyyy....Ester is hidden so HaShem is TWICE mentuoned in chapter 5 by Ester herself.

[@willielee5253]

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[@MasterSophiaChrist]

If the most high spoke Aramaic and he is the WORD that became flesh and the promised one, who is to say prophecy is only received in another language for all eternity. There are millions of prophets across the globe today. They can all see glimpses of the future depending on their soul cleanliness and metabolism. That was the whole point in building the Davidic Dynasty. It starts with a man and it ends with a planetary civilisation that then goes back to its roots to upgrade them as well. It is how the Messiah (Mother God) upgrades the universe. Hands on. Messy business. Those who fall though are Gog/Vlash/demons portals and they go straight to hell where they belong. Everyone gets their chance to side with one master or the other.

[@davidsavage6324]

If we dont derive laws from NaCh, why do we keep dont buy and sell on Shabbat and call it a law not a custom even though its non-d'oraita biblical minhag/rabbinic decree?

[@EfraimPalvanov]

Not engaging in commerce on Shabbat is a Rabbinic prohibition, but there is a clear proof ("asmachta") for instituting it based on verses in 'Nakh. In other words, the law is not taken from the 'Nakh directly, but it is a Rabbinic fence that is strongly supported by descriptions in 'Nakh.

[@Emet441-z8r]

​@@EfraimPalvanov catholic preserved all book of tanach

[@ILOVEYESHUA1ST]

Why would Daniel that clearly prophesied not be included in theNevi’’m

[@musicman1770]

Answer is around the 35 minute mark

[@nickinurse6433]

Christians should remember that well Jesus never broke a law of Torah and while he respected and quoted the prophets he intentionally broke the rabbi man-made laws because the rabbis were skewing the word of God. Think of the Torah as the book and Jesus was the movie acting out how God wanted us to live. He said all the law and all the prophets come down to love the Lord your God with all your heart and love you fellow man as yourself. But he broke every man-made rule intentionally teaching us that the talmud the black hats none of that is part of the word of God. Fortunately those of us who have accepted Messiah are under the New Covenant paid for with his blood whereas the law is written on our hearts. Many who call themselves Christians have no connection to the Holy Spirit but Jesus is still alive and those of us who know him recognize that he smiles that his Jewish children studying the word knowing it will Point them to him

[@ramiroamaya7666]

This is confusing. Rabbis can accept Enoch (a simple man) becoming an angel (Metatron). But the idea of HaShem taking on a human form (seperate from the Father) is inconceivable.

[@EfraimPalvanov]

Those are two very different things. Men and angels are both creations of God - both temporary, finite, and insignificant in the grand scheme of the cosmos. One becoming another is not a particularly big deal. But for the Creator Himself - the eternal, infinite, omnipotent and omnipresent One - to take on human form is absurd and indeed inconceivable.

[@ramiroamaya7666]

@@EfraimPalvanov Genesis 18:1, פּתח ישׁב והוב ממרא באלני יהוה אליו וירא היום כחם האהל HaShem appeared to Abraham. HaShem ate with Abraham. So the Torah shows that HaShem can appear in human form.

[@davedaves3489]

@@EfraimPalvanov He also says multiple times in His Tanach such as in Samuel that He will NOT take human form.

[@beefymario88]

@@EfraimPalvanovWhy is something/someone with unlimited power temporarily becoming something he created inconceivable? Why limit God?

[@beefymario88]

@@davedaves3489But then he realised that he would have to take human form to pay for our sins, so did it anyway, even if he thought it was gross. He changed his mind, had a second thought. And before you say He doesn’t do that, what did he say after the flood? Didn’t He regret what He did?

[@kkKey-py7lk]

after yonan Assyrian all became as religion jew and ester she Assyrian

[@colleenwerth6350]

In Jesus' parable of The Prodigsl Son He describes two sons. The younger demands that his father give him his portion of the inheritance. He doesnt have the patience to wait for his father to die. His parable goes on to say what happened to that son. Arthur E. Bailey, in his research of Middle Eastern life & practices quotes Ben Sirach's forceful argument against giving one's property to (anyone) during one's lifetime. Jesus would have known of Ben Sirach's work, which made his parable even more shocking in light of the father's response (Luke 15:12 - 32).

[@ILOVEYESHUA1ST]

What’s interesting is the Dead Sea scrolls match the Septuagint more closely than the Masoretic text. The sages not only forbid these sacred books, they also edited the Tanak to create Judaism without Yeshua / Jesus

[@peter-audreybird2819]

What is your source for this fallacy? This is an absolutely false statement.

[@shawnwatson1419]

The original Septuagint was only the Torah (first 5 books). Then it was destroyed in the Alexandria fire. Centuries later Christian scribes totally butchered bad copies of it. So like Septuagint 100, 200, who knows. I'm familiar with the Christians, who don't know Hebrew, that believe what you said. There's little proof of this in reality. Many Christian scholars, just as with Tanakh itself, see things that clearly aren't in the DSS. Their imagination runs amock so to speak.

[@davidwenger9821]

​@@peter-audreybird2819I guess he didn't have an answer to your question. 😅

[@WillOne-lh7pm]

​@@davidwenger9821he? Bichplease

[@BarakYisrael]

​@peter-audreybird2819 he also doesnt understand that the septuigent they have today or read today isnt the same Rabbi Singer breaks this down eAsily. TORAH IS ETERNAL BARUCH HASHEM

[@7thheaventruth]

I’ve never heard of so much shit in my life. Listen when the prophesy, God speaks many languages, and he promised all Nations to Abraham he followed the true God, not the false God like moses

[@operationgreyscale]

Please visit a Catholic Church already!

[@chrishart3718]

I don't understand how you could know the Torah so well and yet missed the biggest truth. Jesus is the one Isaiah 53 spoke about when Jesus takes our stripes. That's just one many Prophecies of Jesus he is the way the truth and the life

[@longsilver1]

Not talking about Jesus… issaiah 53 like the passages before , and after, are talking about Israel… the suffering servant.

[@HeyMan101]

Amen ​@@longsilver1

[@JaneH3675]

If you're filled with the Holy Ghost you won't read that enoch book. And the apocryphal books are historical documents, and should be read as such; not as the inspired Word of God.

[@godsgrace7777]

The bible quotes Enoch.

[@no2mob889]

Yes why not read Enoch.

[@shawnwatson1419]

The real problem here is the books of Enoch (3) are so far removed from what the original written in the 3rd century BCE. The copies from some book store or website in a foreign language aren't accurate. Needless to say it was written by mystics, several authors, and of course not by Enoch. 99.9% of the time when the Book of Enoch gets brought up it's by a Christian.

[@Klindohaffle]

Just toilet paper.

[@dianefester9663]

A lot of superstition here.

[@bewarethelocusts8558]

Research Flat Earth please...Job 38

[@DDDothager]

Jesus told the priests, you do not know the scriptures, and you do not know the spirit of God.

[@scars73]

What’s your point?

[@arcangel...798]

Gen 5:23 says ALL THE DAYS OF ENOCH..WAS 365 YRS THATS HOW LONG HE LIVED HE DIED LIKE ALL MEN DO ISAIAH 51:12, Ecclesiastes 9:2 But he was not meaning he was not found Taken up to heaven where the clouds reside or in space where the sun and moon reside not the HASHEMS PLACE HE WAS BURIED LIKE MOSES WHERE HE ALSO WAS NOT (FOUND)