79. Jews in the Land of Israel, 132-1492 (Jewish History Lab)

Brief survey of the experience of Jews living in the Land of Israel from the Bar Kochba revolt to the Spanish Expulsion.
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[@kathleeenmcclintock4931]

Again I want to thank you for this course! Have learned so much! Not just Jewish history, but also world and church history! You have taught me about things I have always wanted to know about. Can't wait for the next class! Again thank you!

[@HenryAbramsonPhD]

I'm glad you enjoyed the videos!

[@144Donn]

Another QUALITY lecture by Dr Abramson! Continued thanks!

[@tallmikbcroft6937]

A continuous Jewish presence in Jerusalem.. who knew? Amen שלום

[@HenryAbramsonPhD]

שלום!

[@miriamewaskio793]

Toda raba!!!💖

[@johnmaisonneuve9057]

Always instructive from these lectures, also quite interesting. I wonder whether there are books can also cover these events, topics, history. A bibliography would be so nice. Thanks again.

[@penitoanikeve7288]

Thank you, at last we have a documented lecture on the proof of continued Jewish presence in Jerusalem.

[@HenryAbramsonPhD]

TY

[@paulettemcquay4026]

Thank you for sharing your knowledge. I'm enjoying this lab series. I'm definitely being educated.

[@ezraorlofsky7809]

in the golan heights where i live thre are many ancient synagogues in the area, i helped with archeaolgical digs. if someone reading this is interested i can provide info how to take part in a dig.

[@HenryAbramsonPhD]

Thanks!

[@OxFromPhilly]

GREAT VIDEO! Very concise and thorough for the small time allotted in this video. Thanks again for all your informative videos Rabbi and have a great week ahead 👍❤️🇮🇱

[@Es97Coqui]

I have 3% European Jewish (Poland) and I’m Puerto Rican. Ive been asked if I’m Jewish plenty of times. What’s unfortunate is, there’s a strong possibility my Jewish ancestor that came to Puerto Rico with Colón, forced himself onto my indigenous Taino ancestor if you know what I mean. It couldn’t have been my Spanish ancestors from Spain because the actual Spaniards arrived much later to PR.

[@HavenNemiroff]

It depends, it could be that the truth is what you've said, or your Jewish ancestor took a Taino bride. I do know that in judaism at least from some sources I've read it is believed that forcing yourself on a woman would create a rebellious child. This would give a secondary reason beyond basic humanistic values and respect to not commit such an act.

[@Es97Coqui]

@@HavenNemiroff Well only recently have I broken my ancestral/generational trauma. It might sound bizarre but I can feel and hear my Taina ancestor, it’s a bad form of karma I’ve cleared in this lifetime.

[@georgesmihaies4172]

Useful and timely. Thank you!

[@HenryAbramsonPhD]

You're welcome!

[@lizmills3214]

Good information, always learning

[@HenryAbramsonPhD]

Thanks for watching!

[@davidtzohar6693]

I enjoyed your lecture which gives the lie to the Palestinian libel that there were no Jewis in Israel between the Bar Kochba revolt and the beginning of the modern Zionist return. I was wondering about the relations between the Jews of the Talmud Yerushalmi and rhe Babylonian acadamies. From my studies of the Yerushalmi it seems that there was a lot of tension(R"Zeira vs Rava- bavlai tipshai) BTW I am a Rav at yeshivat Machon Meir. I also have an MA from HU In Ancient Jewish History-Archaeology-Assyriology. I look forward to more of your lectures. Yasher Koach!!

[@mushitori123123]

Palestinians and all arabs know very well and have always said and maintained that there have always been jews in Palestine and in fact in all the middle east and we always coexisted before the colonial evil terrorist and genocidal state of israel emerged. ur obviously making this BS up so you can argue and lie that the Middle easterners say that but they never did. to be clear it was a jewish minority in Jersusalem mainly old retirees the rest of the middle east and europe had the young and majority of jews. if all jews or the majority of jews lived in jersusalem at the time then how come after WW1 and after WW2 there were major and mass immigration from eastern europe by the jewsish people? more than 40000 before 1918 supported by the brits and many more after WWII

[@y.9704]

don't be empty. There may be a handful of Jews, but their numbers are negligible. You are a menace to humanity. especially zionists. You think that you will not pay the price for the crime against humanity you committed. You are very wrong. everything has a price. No matter what, the reckoning will come one day. Let's see what happens then. You won't always be strong.

[@chrisshonga]

Your teaching are so good especially for my SPIRITUAL life, and for many years I have been looking information such information in order to find the truth concerning division of my ancestors when I find through DNA test that they were a Muslim before and some part of my family who still live West Africa majority they are still Muslim until now but those who live in East Africa majority we are Christian. GLORY be to GOD who use your life in order for me to understand clearly what happened. GOD bless you! Christopher Shonga Swahili service-LONDON

[@billyhw5492]

I love the ancient synagogue iconography.

[@HenryAbramsonPhD]

Me too!

[@iprogramplus]

great lecture - thanks,

[@HenryAbramsonPhD]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@wdobni]

how and when did the ten tribes of israelites come to be lost and disappear from history? were they exterminated? or did they convert to some other religion?

[@chrisshonga]

@wesley8173 Thank you for this information GOD bless you

[@mainstreet3023]

Much appreciated, Dr Abramson

[@JoseAngelFlores]

Thank you so much for these incredible series. I continually read about rabbis and characters born in Jerusalem or in the Galilea region in the 15th and other centuries, (I am thinking about Isaac Luria, for example) it does strike me as a sign of a significative Jewish presence there, as opposed to a marginal Jewish population, which would not have produced such works and contributed so much to the practice and thought of Judaism. At the same time, to the extent of what I have read, I cannot recall any significative contribution on the Muslim part, by Muslims inhabiting the same region, which allegedly were in the majority during those centuries.

[@HenryAbramsonPhD]

After the Spanish Expulsion there was a significant surge in the Jewish population in Israel.

[@nazmul_khan_]

what's with all these post-hoc rationalizations for erasing the Arab presence in Palestine?

[@christofferraby4712]

​​@@nazmul_khan_before 1948 Arabs, Jews, and Armenians living in Turkish ruled and then British ruled 'Palestine'(what was ancient Israel/Judah 2,000 years before).... were all referred to by the term 'Palestinian' prior to 1948. After 1948 when independent Israel was created and the independent 'Palestinian Territories' (West Bank and Gaza)were created, from that time on 'Palestinian' only referred to Arab Muslims and Arab Christians. People who used to be called 'Jews of Palestine' became classified as 'Israelis' along with Arab Muslims, Arab Christians and Druze who agreed to a self ruling Jewish/Israeli state and were part of it.

[@christofferraby4712]

Doctor Abrahamson doesn't deny that the Jewish population was reduced to a small number once most Jews were expelled from colonial Roman ruled Judah which the Romans named 'Palestine'. He also doesn't deny that Muslim Arabs became a majority after the Muslim Arab conquest once the Byzantine Empire weakened. All he states is that even though the Jewish and other Israelite(Samaritans) populations became a small percentage in ratio to the Muslim Arabian populations they were still present.

[@Asdfhjkl998]

Samaratan always there

[@christofferraby4712]

Bene Israel(sons of Israel) is the real name of the "Samaritans".

[@baburo101]

Why are the Ethiopian Jews' video comments disabled? 🙋

[@chrisshonga]

very good question

[@WINKlerEnterprises]

Thanks so much! One correction: There were not really native Arabs in Lebanon. There were, after the Arab invasion, Arabic-speaking Syrians in what, in the 20th century became Lebanon (and Syria), as well are Arabs who intermarried or otherwise "became" natives of the region in subsequent generations.

[@Radio_Mango]

Outstanding Professor!

[@petermurphy3756]

Love your lectures..great jokes too. May we one day have peace in the middle east.

[@HenryAbramsonPhD]

Amen!

[@y.9704]

You are so naive. There will never be peace in the Middle East. You still need to know their (Jewish) religious beliefs well. You especially need to know the Zionists well. of the jews Your religion says you will not leave any living thing in that area. He tells them that he will kill including animals. Now come and wish for peace in the Middle East. You want more peace with this ignorance. but it never happens.

[@danielpalmer643]

Wonderful lecture as always!

[@HenryAbramsonPhD]

Ty!

[@richardglady3009]

Wonderful overview. Thank you.

[@HenryAbramsonPhD]

Glad it was helpful!

[@virgisignotierra]

Thanks! Great video. In the book of Daniel, it mentions that they didn't take all the people to Babylon, just the strategically the princes, the elite as a way of conquest. Maybe I remember wrong...

[@HenryAbramsonPhD]

Correct

[@globaldottools4432]

Read ‘Passovers of Blood’ by Ariel Toaff

[@user-qr2gd7me6c]

"Urdun" is the Arabic way of saying "Jordan". In the map you used of the early Islamic division of Israel, Amman is reckoned as part of Falastin, and the division called "Urdun" occupies Galilee and the east bank of the Jordan. Later (but I don't know when) that name came to refer to "Transjordan". The modern country of Jordan is called المملكة الاردنية الهاشمية\אל-ממלכה אל-ארדניה אל-האשמיה "al-Mamlaka al-Urduniyya al-Hashimiyya" in Arabic, or "The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan" in English.

[@moraemepasikhani9153]

Thank you so much for this education.

[@HenryAbramsonPhD]

Glad you found the video useful!

[@kristoffliftoff9316]

Great topic! Especially in our current times.

[@HenryAbramsonPhD]

Thanks for listening

[@heshamgalal68]

Great lecture, but it raise one question: You said that Sanhedrin (( abandoned)) calculation of lunar calendar, and started in year 358 CE to introduce the (( leap month )) of nowadays Jewish calendar. The question is did prophet Mosis Pbuh or the Torah did that !? Is it an invention that the most holy days like yum kippur is lost throughout the new invented calendar !?

[@HenryAbramsonPhD]

The Torah, as explained by the Mishnah and later the Talmud, explains how the lunar month is declared by visual sighting; the astronomical calculation was determined later.

[@DuNguyen-my4rq]

Thank you, Sir

[@HenryAbramsonPhD]

You are welcome

[@helderchimbalandongohelder7475]

I'm reading the book Israelis claim, it's great book.

[@HenryAbramsonPhD]

Enjoy in good health

[@beliefinjustice448]

Such a great lecture, thank you. You really knocked it out of the park with this one that is such a critical but elusive period in time and geography from a Jewish History perspective. כל הכבוד!

[@HenryAbramsonPhD]

Glad you found it useful!

[@lilianawolosin109]

Thank you.

[@HenryAbramsonPhD]

I'm glad that you enjoyed the class! Thank you for being a public subscriber!

[@shmujew4791]

I GUESS ABRAHAMSON DIDNT READ THE 1911 ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA WHICH HAVE 2/3 'S OF JERUSLAM , JEWISH

[@cliffwoodbury5319]

Indonesia - largest Muslim population in the world

[@beliefinjustice448]

Btw, the Land of Urdun = الأردن, which is the Arabic name for the country of Jordan today.

[@HenryAbramsonPhD]

Thanks!

[@aa-zz6328]

@@HenryAbramsonPhD it's the Arabic version of the name Jordan or originally Yarden!

[@SionTJobbins]

Do we have any idea how many of the resident population in Roman-Byzantine Palestine were Jews who'd converted to Christianity and then later to Islam so as to have an easier life (... or simply to stay alive!)?

[@adamflamm4444]

Good question. From what I have read, there were no documented mass conversions of Jews to either Christianity or Islam. There were large number of Samaritans that converted to Islam, though. But I am no expert.

[@christofferraby4712]

​@@adamflamm4444there are written records by the Bene Israel ( known more commonly as 'Samaritans') of the family trees in the areas where they primarily resided near Shechem (later called 'Nablus' in Arabic). The Palestinian families that are descended from these Israelites who officially converted to Islam and no longer studied ancient Hebrew are not many. There are a few though. One of them is the 'Al Atrassi' family.

[@dms555]

“Urdun” sounds like Jordan

[@jackiecorley8942]

I thought that the Abraham bought the Cave of Macpelah!

[@HenryAbramsonPhD]

Me too

[@fay1298]

Thank you sir, “mamlka” means “kingdom”, the origin most likely is either Aramaic or Hebrew, so “state” can fit in nicely.

[@kirosgidey2061]

Look jewish in eritrea jewish in tgray above 50.000hide them selves jewish in local place north and south wello ethiopia no one to know for them but they are jewish but always they call many isrealian people jewish people in ethiopia but not fact that that is better to call gonder jewish

[@Rita1984]

The issue with the skirt shows that we dont really know what is considered to be tzniut these days, and the standards we have today are really oppressing women. Not far from islam either.

[@derekhalpern7179]

Great shiur.

[@HenryAbramsonPhD]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@shazminbahari32]

As a Muslim, your lectures amused me, Dr. Abramson. Why at the time of the Crusades and Muslims conquered the Land of Israel from the 8th to 17th centuries, the Jew at that time didn't have a nationalistic agenda even though they have reached their peak at the time of the Iberian peninsula? Any documentation that supports if that so. Thank you.

[@HenryAbramsonPhD]

Glad you found the lecture useful. It's very difficult to speak of "nationalism" before the 18th century. Jews prior to this period certainly yearned to return to the Land of Israel, but not in the modern sense of establishing a political state. That's something that developed only in the 19th c. as part of the general nationalist awakening of nations, which proceeded from western to Eastern Europe (and in the 20th century to the Middle East). See Lacquer's History of Zionism for an overview.

[@shazminbahari32]

@@HenryAbramsonPhD thank you Dr. Abramson. I really enjoy your lectures.

[@threshingfloor8591]

Yeshua is the Messiah Ben Joseph...Upon his return he shall be the conquering King Ben David. Shalom.

[@Bittzen]

I don't think you pointed out something important that illiterate antisemites need to know: That the Romans first named the region "Provincia Iudaea/Ἐπαρχία Ιουδαίας/Province of Judaea", and Judaea was the region's name by the Romans from 6 CE-135 CE. You only pointed out that the Romans renamed it to Syria-Palaestina around the time of the Bar Kochba Revolt around 132-136 CE. Though I think there's enough accurate information out there and easy to access, like Wikipedia. People just don't want to learn, don't care, and they have low IQ scores. They're also getting paid not to care (pay to slay).

[@overmanonfire]

You stated that the Israelites were the first to have a political entity in the land of Israel. Really? What about the land of Canaan? Haven't you heard of Jericho? a Canaanian city recognized as the eldest city on earth! What about your holy book? Does not mention that there were people you had to fight before taking over the land? BTW: genetic studies shows that those occupied now, have a direct genetic link to the Cannanians even if they speak Arabic and became Muslims.

[@JerryJanoff]

Canannites had city-states, There wasn't a single couyntry called Canaan.

[@christofferraby4712]

DNA testing in recent years show that Palestinian Arab Muslims and Arab Christians as well as most Israeli Jews(I didn't say all), and modern Lebanese and Syrians, all have some Canaanite ancestry which makes sense historically from non Biblical and Biblical sources of intermarriage between these populations thousands of years ago.

[@burtbeanz8876]

Do a little research and you might find out Moses was Akhenaten..........

[@mattnewhouse1781]

Dr Freud beat you to it. But much more evidence against.

[@thefrantasticmissfine]

Do a little more you might just stop using the bible as a history book ( like a putz)

[@allangibson2408]

The problem is that the Israelites moved out of Egypt before Akhenaten was born… (The Semitic settlements like Avaris (later Pi-Rameses) in Egypt were abandoned in his father’s reign).

[@gabrielalexanderkhoury73]

Correction, Land of Canaan-Palestine

[@HenryAbramsonPhD]

"Land of Israel" is a common scholarly term to avoid the complexities of what to call a territory that had so many names over the centuries. Happens to be a translation of the traditional phrase ארץ ישראל, used to distinguish from "the State of Israel," which has a 20th-21st century meaning in particular.

[@jjquinn2004]

@@HenryAbramsonPhD When I made my first trip to Israel in 2016, I had been living in the Arab World for over 20 years and had friends from many different Arab nationalities. When I told a select few about where I was going, it was easier for me to just say "The Holy Land". Very informative video. Shalom.

[@JerryJanoff]

Palestine was a region that j]historicaaly also included most of t5ofday's syria, lebanaon and jordanin additional to israel and the west bank, but did not extent south of beer sheva and the dead sea. The only time that ther is a political entity caled "Palestine" was the British mandate from 1921-1948