Jewish History - Yahvism: the God of the Hebrews (4a of 20 sessions)

The God of the Hebrews has a fascinating biography, beginning long before the burning bush. His followers wrote Biblical history, and our task is to discover the truth behind their perspective. And what happened to his wife?
Rabbi Adam Chalom, Dean - North America of the International Institute for Secular Humanistic Judaism, continues his exploration of ancient Jewish history. This class is based on the adult education curriculum "An Introduction to Jewish History," available through www.iishj.org.
See the other videos in this series at • Introduction to Jewish... .
The recommended reading in Rabbi Sherwin Wine's A Provocative People: A Secular History of the Jews for this session is pp83-113. Available in print and e-book - more information at iishj.org/publ....

[@Boricua-tn7ve]

As a Christian who understands the Jewishness of the New Testament find this lecture very interesting. I stand with Israel against this absurd worldwide antisemitism.

[@foxsparrow8973]

I'd like to see this guy debate Tovia Singer

[@jg228]

All of these presentations have been very interesting. Thank you for uploading them, Rabbi.

[@MrMarianoamigo]

Great material

[@williamding2910]

It’s still worth to learn how ancient Israelites ever reverence the name of God.

[@ow2750]

thanks so much for ur effort to teach the world with words of angels easy to listen

[@ingemeyertjejamba9766]

Thank you

[@annalink4351]

As someone with a an ultra Ortho Yeshiva background, (off the 'derech' now), I find your perspective interesting and broadly comprehensive. Thank you.

[@bobomaigret5430]

Mazal Tov! Based on stories I've heard from people at Footsteps, I bet you have tons of courage...

[@Yunque2009]

Thanks for this wonderful class. Greetings from São Paulo, Brazil

[@donham7142]

I would like to thank you Rabbi for this great lecture. Even though I'm not jewish I was always curious about the history, origins and beliefs of the Jewish people especially when I hear about them so often in news, politics and history. One thing I wanted to correct though is that Carthage is in nowadays Tunisia my country and not Libya. And by the way in southern Tunisia we got a synagogue located in an island called Djerba where many jews come to visit.

[@mango1322]

wonderful info about Yahw and Asherah and monotheism ,,,,, thanks a lot for sharing

[@ALBERK0]

Very inspiring and informative. Thank you. 1. It's worth mentioning that Adonay is plural, like lords or masters 2. I would speculate that the progression from polytheism to henotheism and on followed the creation of empires, where a new type of ruler, namely a "king of kings" emerged, implying that heavens follow human structures

[@markdeegan7268]

Well Spoken

[@theburningelement.6447]

Its meaning is mercy

[@bobomaigret5430]

Elohim creates the land and Earth. Yahve is the god who meets Moses and eventually supplants Elohim. Elohim from the north-east, Yahve from Edom in the south. They are two different deities. -- Israel Finkelstein -- Thomas Romer

[@elanone1]

No they are not.

[@klausjackklaus]

Elohim is similar to Allah as they both are "plural" but represent God as a single person, and could be connected with Jewish Aramaic, the common language at the time. I believe it stemmed from Al/El which was a pre-Abrahamic god, and that is how you get Ba'al as well (Ba' + Al). This is a reason why some Christians do not recognize Muslims as they do not have a unique name for The LORD (Adonai) like the Jewish people do

[@salvadordubon3549]

So do you believe in the Torah? I am wondering or are u an atheist??

[@chrismichaelmoore]

Hmmm... I think you are reading too much into the image with "and his ashera"... it appears to be disparaging graffiti such as might have been drawn by a follower of the Baals making fun of the followers both of the god of the Israelites and the ashera worshippers. Basically, just as a Charlie Hebdo depiction of Mohammad says nothing about Islam, this image can hardly be taken to prove anything about early Jewish beliefs.

[@theburningelement.6447]

Yud-Hei is YAH we don't pronounce vav hei VH it is to holy

[@Aj-zr8dz]

YHWH was adopted by the Hebrews from neighboring people like the Midianites from what is today Jordan. YHWH is the archaic old proto Aramaic/Hebrew third person form of Ehyeh (I am.)

[@MAKDÁVID-KRIŽ]

What does Hebrew,Aramaic or Jordan means according to you?

[@bigfel3240]

Ba’al just mean Lord, Baal Zebub means Lord of the Flies. And they just to all the Canaanite Gods and

[@MBEG89]

The same can be said of the god el, we know it was a deity but later became a general title for lord/lords. Baal was most likely the name of a specific deity earlier in time.

[@jeffmax4108]

Are ashkanazi jews just european

[@helgividar]

Yahvism didn't evolve from polytheism into monotheism. It was brought about through politics of the Persian Empire. King Cyrus ordered that temple and fortress should be built in Jerusalem. The priests Ezra and Nehemiah were sent to "restore" a proper religion in the province of Yehud and Ezra brought with him a law book from Babylon. Ezra read the law out lout and the Levites clarified to the people what it meant. "And the rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the porters, the singers, the Nethinims, and all they that had separated themselves from the people of the lands unto the law of God, their wives, their sons, and their daughters, every one having knowledge, and having understanding; They clave to their brethren, their nobles, and entered into a curse, and into an oath, to walk in God’s law, which was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of the LORD our Lord, and his judgments and his statutes." (Neh 10:28-29). This is the conversion from Yahvism to Judaism and the law "of Moses" came from Babylon.