I am a 70 year old woman, a Christian and an avid bible student who loves learning daily from the Scriptures. I have been listening via UTube to your lectures and find them so interesting and profitable to me in my studies. Thank you for your commitment to teach us all!
@@HenryAbramsonPhD can you please delete this user's remark to Jim Ahmed about his religion. It is a lie. It is disrespectful. I am a Muslim and I am listening to your lectures as well. There should not be any hate speech here. Thanks ❤
Thank you so much for this series. Twelve years of compulsory religious education had pretty much killed any interest and curiosity I would have had about this history when I was younger, but now having gotten it out of my system, I can approach it once again with a more open mind. Your lectures are incredibly interesting and motivating to delve deeper.
Just came here from the channel Blogging Theology *which was a very interesting discussion you had with Paul* can’t wait to immerse myself in Jewish history 👍🏾😁
Thank you so much for your lectures Dr Abramson. You have enriched my knowledge and your humour is outstanding. Learning should be fun and you make it so. Best wishes to you from a fellow Jew in New Zealand.
I do alot of family tree work in my spare time and I found out a couple weeks ago that my great great grandmother came from a line of sephardic jews. It's been strange learning about this history that my family has that I didnt know about because it was hidden. Anyway your channel is great at giving me history connecting to our people!
This youtube was my first venture into your studies. I am overwhelmed with interest in the ancient world of Jewish history and this provides!!! I can not wait to delve into more of your project! YHWH provided me with His Wisdom today when I hit the play arrow!!!!
Your videos are so interesting that I wouldn't care if they were each 3 hours long! Your knowledge is obviously prodigious. I am lucky to have found your videos while quarantined in the Dominican Republic for 6 months! I am considering conversion. It just feels right. I can't quite explain it.
Thank you for this wonderful series. I was fortunate to visit both Israel and Jordan a few years ago and saw the wonderful Madaba map. I love this part of the world.
Dear Dr. Abramson. B''H! Mazal Tov on signing for the series with Koren. I’m a big admirer of your lectures here on UA-cam and look very much forward to reading your work. Koren is a great publisher that I also like a lot, so have a feeling that this will be excellent. Your lectures so far on this series is very interesting and engaging, looking forward toward the next videos premiers. Thank you for your positive and engaging attitude you are kindling an interest in Jewish history for everyone. I wish you all the best and looking forward to more to come! Huge thanks and best wishes / Eric, Sweden
You are one of my heroes. I'm a(n aspiring) baal tshuva with a liberal arts education who became an HVAC/refrigeration repairman, and I've been watching your lectures for a few years now. I was on the fence between two worlds and a terrifying Lightning Strike last year allowed me to jump into the "garden of emuna" and never look back. Thank you for enriching my Learning with such rich informational and personal context. Now that I am a more serious student than I was, I can appreciate your scholarship even more, especially having recently seen that you go into Gemara, and how your soul reacted while you were telling the hospital story of Rabbanit Margalit Yosef. Thank you for your Service, from an LA Jew in Montana. Very intellectually stimulating stuff, such a thrill to see a living Chacham!
Thanks for the over-the-top kind words--not sure how to respond to such praise! Wishing you success in your spiritual and intellectual journey (not too many of us have the benefit of a lightning strike to set us on a positive trajectory). P.S. I'm an aspiring Ba'al Teshuvah too.
@@HenryAbramsonPhD Thank you very much for your reply (a real-time [or even delayed] response from a hero and public figure is an unusual and exciting experience). May you never need a "lightning strike," chas v'shalom! Nevertheless His rod and staff are genuinely a comfort to me, BH, and I'm grateful for that perspective. Thanks again and Shavua Tov!
@@HenryAbramsonPhD and my highest hope for your response to such praise is any minute non-negligible increase in your appreciation of the importance and value of your work. 👍👍
Much Hatzlacha to you with this project as well as all the others that you've already completed. I am enjoying it all immensely and I MUST express my Hakaras Hatov - appreciation for the many many hours I have spent learning our Jewish history from you "with a smile!" Thank you, Thank you, Thank you so deeply! I am so looking forward to this series! Yossi Gee
Really enjoy your work , by far the best resource I’ve found to educate myself on Jewish history. Thank you so much would love to read the physical copy eventually too, but having it in a video format is perfect.
many of us are not familiar with Geography of Israel. it would be very helpful if you can illuminate a particular area on the map as you talk out it in your lecture. As you are describing the regional area, it would be nice if you can put up a dynamic map how the area change (culturally & geographically) over time,
I am an eclectic historian studying military history as well as 1st Century C.E. Israeli history. I have to be honest, I find the geography of Israel to be very confusing (as small as it is). I have used and liked the first physical map that you showed in that it made clear, graphically, how you are able to have a green coastal plain, yet have the stark desert-like mountains nearby. I have found the mountains usually get the publicity, without explaining why they occur. I know this was an introduction to the geography of Israel, but with a book, a deeper explanation (including Samaria and Galilee) may be possible. I love your videos and I have learned so much from them. Thank you.
I’m not Jewish but I always find your lectures very interesting. I’m looking forward to following your videos on your new journey through Jewish History.
congratulations! definitely will be looking for these books. i think there is a serious lack of accurate jewish historical content from a beliving person point of view. so it's great we have you!!
Mazal tov! I have been watching not in order the lab lectures and they are really cool and full of really interesting historical material. I bet the book will be fantastic too. All the best, Shabbat shalom!
Congratulations! I couldnt think of anyone else more deserving of this, amazing. Please when you get to the middle ages dont just focus on the jews of Europe like so many other books. There was so much jewish activity in Iraq/Iran, East Africa-Arabia, Syria, North Africa, even China and India. Oh and the golden era of Bukharia! No one ever talks about these in the scope of broader jewish history..
Wow Dr. Abramson, as always-- I remain a happy and satisfied follower of your work. Excellent content (I'll be watching the next videos immediately) and I look forward to the opportunity to pick up another definitive history of the Jewish people.
Pleased to hear that your work will be taking book form. I look forward to your discussion of Kenneth Kitchen's work as I knew him when doing my research in Old Testament and I've read his On the Reliability of the Old Testament.
How long did it take for a caravan to make it's way, via both routes, to get from the Nile Delta to Damascus? In grade school we never learned how truly small this area was.
I have watched a few videos, here and there, but though my preference may be to go to what attracts me most, do you think I would learn more and better by taking a linear approach? Enjoying filling in my significant gaps here and elsewhere!
Listening your exceptional lecture about the land of Israel, I remember a joke from Efraim Kishon: a friend of him comes from the USA to visit Efraim and Israel. - Please my friend, show me the whole your beautiful land, I have a two week vacation for this. - Wonderful! Tomorrow morning we'll start the sight seeing. But, what should we do afternoon..?
Hello, I just found your videos today and they are excellent! I subscribed to your channel because I love your contents so much. You are very well spoken and knowledgeable about the subjects. I am Christian, and have been trying to understand the Bible more, and so I found the Talmud to be an excellent source to give me insight into some Bible passages, such as the significance of the Fig Tree, which is discussed quite a bit in the Talmud! Thank you for all your work! And congratulations on the publication opportunity!
Where can I get Rebbe Avraham Dov-Ber Kahana Shapira’s Esh Kodesh? I have found three places that have it, but only in Hebrew. I would like to find it in English. Comments were not allowed under your video about him. There is a video in UA-cam of his comments that were read in the Eichmann trial.
You have his name wrong, here's an a Amazon bibliography in English. www.amazon.com/Books-Kalonymus-Kalmish-Shapira/s?rh=n%3A283155%2Cp_27%3AKalonymus+Kalmish+Shapira. I do not allow comments on my Holocaust videos because they end up being a platform for antisemites.
💙💙💙💙💙Wonderful lecture. I would like to know if it's still possible to enrol in the course "Biblical Jewish History". I remember a video where you mentioned that the course would be closed soon. Thank you very much and best from Spain / Dr. Antonia Tejeda Barros
@@HenryAbramsonPhD Great, then I'll start ASAP. Thanks a lot (BTW I wrote a couple of emails, but I don't think you got them -just to offer myself as volunteer for correcting Spanish words or sentences in your new book if you need (there are normally mistakes in accents) -I'm a Doctor in Philosophy and Holocaust researcher) 💙
Kings highway in Brooklyn is called that Bec it connects the southerns towns of kings county today's Brooklyn. It is called kings county as it sits adjacent to queens county. Named for the then king and queen of Britain who ruled the land. That may be the connection to kings highway.
Now that I have sorted out the sequence of the lectures, I love them! I’m Jewish but am now first interested in my Jewish heritage. Maybe you can interview the eminent biblical archaeologist William Dever who I’m told converted to Judaism. He discovered the Tel Dan Stele that verifies King David.
I want to join and buy. But my card is not working for international use. Is there any other way to access to your material please. I'm from India extreme North Eastern part of India.
Sorry for being nearly 4 years late to this mini lecture. I would suggest that you may have overstated the importance of the Jerusalem area in those times. Until just 200 years ago and the invention of the railway, all bulk trade went by sea or navigable river, only compact high- value items such as spices would be worth land transport such as by the route from the South to the Dead Sea (controlled by the Nabbateans, I believe ). I assume that trade from Mesopotamia would have taken the shortest route to Gallilee and then through the gap in the hills to the Mediterranean ports, nowhere near Jerusalem. In the wars between Egypt and what is now Turkey, the armies would have used the coastal strip where they could get food and be resupplied by sea. Indeed I'm wondering whether the attraction of the hills of Judah to the Jewish people was that the 'big powers' would leave them alone there, they were unimportant.
Very nicely presented, Henry. I am reading the Tanakh in Robert Alter's wonderful translation and commentary which I heartily recommend to all students of this amazing work. BTW, you look like a tennis buddy of mine. He's a rheumatologist which makes sense since, if you didn't become a professor, you likely would have been a doctor. lol
Great news about the books, can't wait to buy them. I know you'll give a more culturally balanced version of Jewish history than the books currently on the shelves, that barely mention Jews outside of Europe.
Dear Henry Abramspn thank you so much for your clever lections and you job of telling us about the history og jrws and israel , lord our god bless you and mazal tov for you, for your students , for the usa people and for you family thank thatt we can think and thank belkosta shalom
Is it true that the phrase "land of Israel" is only used outside the Bible? It didn't sound correct when someone said that. It isn't a dispute about the authenticity but more about corroboration of apocrypha to the era using a (possibly?) extrabiblical phrase.
Not likely. Some etymologists look to two of the three letters in the traditional three-letter root, and will consider different letters with slightly different sounds, but I haven't heard it applied to these two words.
Mazel Tov Hillel, the best to you from a fellow Northerner. By the way I ran across Bernie Levison's name in my studies. A fellow South Porcupiner who has done us proud. I wonder if you know him.
Just started listening, as a Christian I hold that Jesus is the Seed (spiritual) of Abraham while Isaac was his earthly son. So for me all the promises that the Almighty made to Abraham come in the birthright to the Christ. Thanks for your work.
y0ur lectures are so cool! What a shame that u had to disable comments on the Khazar video, some people are such jerks!! Keep going I l would love to see a vid on the MacABEES and Elijah the Prophet
@@HenryAbramsonPhD could you be a lamb and link me to the Elijah videos I cannot seem to find it any of the titles! Sorry for the trouble enjoy your night sir
This video leaves the viewer somehow unclear about where the historical and theological borders of "The Land of Israel" exactly are, which leads to the question as to where these borders should ideally be. As to the opening statement that the geography of current Israel is so small, well yes it is smaller than Canada but isn't it bigger than neighboring Lebanon? So it feels somehow the question remains to be answered: where is The Land of Israel?
Correct--bear in mind that this is a History series; the "where these borders should ideally be" question is more appropriate to a Prophecy, or maybe Political Science channel. The boundaries of the Land of Israel (note: not the State of Israel) changed significantly over the centuries, so it's impossible to say with precision which territories are "Israel" and which are not, unless you also answer the question of "when" (and perhaps "for whom"). If you watch more in this series you'll see what I mean.
@@HenryAbramsonPhD thank you Dear Hillel. The hard work is obvious and appreciated. I wonder if you could try to take a more definite perspective on the 'where exactly is the Land?' topic in one of the future episodes. But maybe this is better to be left as a 'read between the lines'? Not sure. Thank you anyway for the extraordinary work.
The Land of Israel sits at the center of the world; Jerusalem is in the center of the Land of Israel; the sanctuary is in the center of Jerusalem; the Temple building is in the center of the sanctuary; the ark is in the center of the Temple building; and the foundation stone, out of which the world was founded, is before the Temple building. (Midrash Tanchuma Kedoshim 10)
>>Dear Professor: This I love. The book(s) will be a delight. If you could bring the two media of video and printing together, it would be an astounding feat. Best of luck, break a leg. >>This week I am hoping to start a mini course (thorugh the auspices of the Senior Adult Learners' Center as an auditor) in anti-Semitism with Professor Natan Meir Ph.D. here at the Portland State U. Jewish Studies Department which was, in large part conceived of by the late Rabbi Abraham Stampfer z''l, in the last 20 years. The Schnitzer family fund is, funding. Respectfully, NHG
The Land of Israel is mentioned in our Quran as the portion of the beni Yaacob. Allah allocated it to the children of Israel and even ordered them to enter it and possess it. (Sorat AlMaida v21).
It’s crazy to me how black Hebrew Israelites suggest that west Africans are the Israelites who would have apparently crossed 4000+ km of desert after the bar kochba revolt…….lol And here is rabbi Abraham suggesting that walking 800 km across the Syrian Iraqi desert for commerce and trade is too difficult
The 'potato shaped' holes covering the humans in the boat I don't believe were a sign of disrespect (defacing) but a sign of respect because they were probably depictions of Jesus and another saint or 2 Old Testament prophets (Jonah? Don't know, b/c I haven't examined their context in the map). In the eyes of Islam, Jesus (Yeshuah) is considered a prophet and garners respect as do the other prophets of the Torah. This is due to Islam's doctrine of not depicting the Prophet Mohammed and the prophets of the "People of the Book" (Jews & Christians).
How is depicting people inherently disrespectful though? A small correction: Muhammad was against depicting any living beings (not just prophets). He cursed artists and stated that on Judgement Day, Allah will challenge artists to try and put life into their depictions (which is senseless because artists do not claim their ability to draw a likeness is the same as a creator god's ability to create life).
@Dr. Abramson - REQUIREMENT of your forthcoming book. You MUST do the reading for the audio book. You are too captivating as a speaker, needs to be done. Will buy the audio book bli neder
Interesting. If you calling this Jewish History why would you start with a church? And why would we care about the Christian view? Shouldn't thr focus be primarily on Jewish sources or even Arab sources (who lived there) rather than the Catholic and Christian and depictions. (Is the book targeted to Christians?) The rest is nice.
I am a 70 year old woman, a Christian and an avid bible student who loves learning daily from the Scriptures. I have been listening via UTube to your lectures and find them so interesting and profitable to me in my studies. Thank you for your commitment to teach us all!
Glad you find the lectures useful! Enjoy in good health.
@@HenryAbramsonPhD can you please delete this user's remark to Jim Ahmed about his religion. It is a lie. It is disrespectful. I am a Muslim and I am listening to your lectures as well. There should not be any hate speech here. Thanks ❤
@@xilandrizezero2352 don't call him Mr. Rabbit .
Congratulations on your new publishing venture! Mazal tov!
Thank you very much!
@@HenryAbramsonPhD I second that! Koren is delightful! The Jerusalem Bible is my go-to.
Thank you so much for this series. Twelve years of compulsory religious education had pretty much killed any interest and curiosity I would have had about this history when I was younger, but now having gotten it out of my system, I can approach it once again with a more open mind. Your lectures are incredibly interesting and motivating to delve deeper.
I am so glad that you find these lectures meaningful!
Just came here from the channel Blogging Theology *which was a very interesting discussion you had with Paul* can’t wait to immerse myself in Jewish history 👍🏾😁
I'm very grateful I found this series and discovered Dr. Abramson!
Dr Abramson…thank you so much for everything youre doing for us to understand and be educated in Jewish History!
Thank you for the kind words!
What a wonderful teacher, honest and playful to reduce stress... thank you Henry Abramson.
Thank you Dr. Abramson for such a wonderful, accessible-but-rigorous series of labs/lectures!
Thank you so much for your lectures Dr Abramson. You have enriched my knowledge and your humour is outstanding. Learning should be fun and you make it so. Best wishes to you from a fellow Jew in New Zealand.
Thanks for the kind words!
Thank you for these lectures. I have Jewish ancestry from Poland, it's been extremely interesting hearing what you have to say, I'm learning alot.
Great! I'm so glad that you're finding the videos useful.
I do alot of family tree work in my spare time and I found out a couple weeks ago that my great great grandmother came from a line of sephardic jews. It's been strange learning about this history that my family has that I didnt know about because it was hidden. Anyway your channel is great at giving me history connecting to our people!
I am learning so much from these lectures, Sir, and am looking forward to purchasing your book.
This youtube was my first venture into your studies. I am overwhelmed with interest in the ancient world of Jewish history and this provides!!! I can not wait to delve into more of your project! YHWH provided me with His Wisdom today when I hit the play arrow!!!!
Enjoy in good health!
Your videos are so interesting that I wouldn't care if they were each 3 hours long! Your knowledge is obviously prodigious. I am lucky to have found your videos while quarantined in the Dominican Republic for 6 months! I am considering conversion. It just feels right. I can't quite explain it.
Glad you like them!
I also found Dr. Abramson during the lockdowns. I live in Israel. Welcome
Thank you for this wonderful series. I was fortunate to visit both Israel and Jordan a few years ago and saw the wonderful Madaba map. I love this part of the world.
Dear Dr. Abramson.
B''H!
Mazal Tov on signing for the series with Koren. I’m a big admirer of your lectures here on UA-cam and look very much forward to reading your work. Koren is a great publisher that I also like a lot, so have a feeling that this will be excellent. Your lectures so far on this series is very interesting and engaging, looking forward toward the next videos premiers. Thank you for your positive and engaging attitude you are kindling an interest in Jewish history for everyone. I wish you all the best and looking forward to more to come! Huge thanks and best wishes / Eric, Sweden
Hello Eric! Thanks for the kind words, and I'm glad you are enjoying the videos!
You are one of my heroes. I'm a(n aspiring) baal tshuva with a liberal arts education who became an HVAC/refrigeration repairman, and I've been watching your lectures for a few years now. I was on the fence between two worlds and a terrifying Lightning Strike last year allowed me to jump into the "garden of emuna" and never look back. Thank you for enriching my Learning with such rich informational and personal context. Now that I am a more serious student than I was, I can appreciate your scholarship even more, especially having recently seen that you go into Gemara, and how your soul reacted while you were telling the hospital story of Rabbanit Margalit Yosef. Thank you for your Service, from an LA Jew in Montana. Very intellectually stimulating stuff, such a thrill to see a living Chacham!
Thanks for the over-the-top kind words--not sure how to respond to such praise! Wishing you success in your spiritual and intellectual journey (not too many of us have the benefit of a lightning strike to set us on a positive trajectory). P.S. I'm an aspiring Ba'al Teshuvah too.
@@HenryAbramsonPhD Thank you very much for your reply (a real-time [or even delayed] response from a hero and public figure is an unusual and exciting experience). May you never need a "lightning strike," chas v'shalom! Nevertheless His rod and staff are genuinely a comfort to me, BH, and I'm grateful for that perspective. Thanks again and Shavua Tov!
@@HenryAbramsonPhD and my highest hope for your response to such praise is any minute non-negligible increase in your appreciation of the importance and value of your work. 👍👍
Hero and Chacham ? Ok you're smart and could probably kick my ass
Do you worship Baal?
So much better, without commercial interruptions.
Members get advance viewing without ads, also UA-cam Premiere viewers.
Much Hatzlacha to you with this project as well as all the others that you've already completed. I am enjoying it all immensely and I MUST express my Hakaras Hatov - appreciation for the many many hours I have spent learning our Jewish history from you "with a smile!" Thank you, Thank you, Thank you so deeply! I am so looking forward to this series! Yossi Gee
Enjoy in good health!
Really enjoy your work , by far the best resource I’ve found to educate myself on Jewish history. Thank you so much would love to read the physical copy eventually too, but having it in a video format is perfect.
Superb initiative. Mazel tov!
many of us are not familiar with Geography of Israel. it would be very helpful if you can illuminate a particular area on the map as you talk out it in your lecture. As you are describing the regional area, it would be nice if you can put up a dynamic map how the area change (culturally & geographically) over time,
I am an eclectic historian studying military history as well as 1st Century C.E. Israeli history. I have to be honest, I find the geography of Israel to be very confusing (as small as it is). I have used and liked the first physical map that you showed in that it made clear, graphically, how you are able to have a green coastal plain, yet have the stark desert-like mountains nearby. I have found the mountains usually get the publicity, without explaining why they occur. I know this was an introduction to the geography of Israel, but with a book, a deeper explanation (including Samaria and Galilee) may be possible. I love your videos and I have learned so much from them. Thank you.
I love good maps.
I absolutely love this. So concise and so well explained. A true jewel for us who are eager to learn
Glad you enjoyed it!
I’m not Jewish but I always find your lectures very interesting. I’m looking forward to following your videos on your new journey through Jewish History.
Thank you!
congratulations! definitely will be looking for these books. i think there is a serious lack of accurate jewish historical content from a beliving person point of view. so it's great we have you!!
Enjoy in good health!
Mazal tov! I have been watching not in order the lab lectures and they are really cool and full of really interesting historical material. I bet the book will be fantastic too.
All the best,
Shabbat shalom!
Glad you like them!
The journey begins, thank you so much. Al
Enjoy in good health!
Exciting news, mazel tov... looking forward to buying the books!
Thank you! The books won't be out for a few years, but your feedback will be helpful.
Congratulations! I couldnt think of anyone else more deserving of this, amazing.
Please when you get to the middle ages dont just focus on the jews of Europe like so many other books.
There was so much jewish activity in Iraq/Iran, East Africa-Arabia, Syria, North Africa, even China and India.
Oh and the golden era of Bukharia!
No one ever talks about these in the scope of broader jewish history..
Absolutely! Thanks for the kind words.
Wow Dr. Abramson, as always-- I remain a happy and satisfied follower of your work. Excellent content (I'll be watching the next videos immediately) and I look forward to the opportunity to pick up another definitive history of the Jewish people.
Enjoy in good health!
Mazel Tov! I look forward to your book. I love this stuff!!!
Congratulations on the book deal! I'll buy it.
Pleased to hear that your work will be taking book form. I look forward to your discussion of Kenneth Kitchen's work as I knew him when doing my research in Old Testament and I've read his On the Reliability of the Old Testament.
Very nice!
Thanks for explaining the Fertile Crescent so splendidly!
Glad it was helpful!
Excellent information. Great for learning.
Glad it was helpful!
@@HenryAbramsonPhD Yes indeed. Thank you again. We depend on scholarly research to help us gain a better picture of the truth.
I'm hooked on watching your videos🎉
Glad you like them!
Thank you for making us part of the experience 😉
It's my pleasure!
I enjoy your lectures.
Glad to hear that!
בהצלחה! אני אוהבת את החומר שלך!
Wow! Baruch Hashem! Mazel Tov on your contract with Koren! Can't wait for your publications! Take my money 😂
Ha! Well, first let me finish the manuscript.
@@HenryAbramsonPhD can't wait!
So looking forward to such books. We all need it. There is not much of a modern authoritative selection
Can’t wait to watch this
Enjoy in good health
Very interesting. Like this lesson very much!
Glad to hear that!
Curious as to why the mosaic depicted fishermen in the Dead Sea. There are no fish in the water. Is this just an artistic depiction?
Hmm. Maybe I shouldn't have said "fishermen." Maybe they were just traveling by boat? I'll have to look into this.
Mazal Tov. Look forward to you More books. Fantastic talk.
Thank you very much!
How long did it take for a caravan to make it's way, via both routes, to get from the Nile Delta to Damascus? In grade school we never learned how truly small this area was.
I have watched a few videos, here and there, but though my preference may be to go to what attracts me most, do you think I would learn more and better by taking a linear approach?
Enjoying filling in my significant gaps here and elsewhere!
Well, as you prefer, but I think the chronological (numbered) approach is best, especially with the Jewish History Lab series.
@@HenryAbramsonPhD Thank you!
This man is unstoppable
Listening your exceptional lecture about the land of Israel, I remember a joke from Efraim Kishon:
a friend of him comes from the USA to visit Efraim and Israel.
- Please my friend, show me the whole your beautiful land, I have a two week vacation for this.
- Wonderful! Tomorrow morning we'll start the sight seeing. But, what should we do afternoon..?
Ha!
Mahal Tov! Looking forward to the book.
Enjoy in good health
Hello, I just found your videos today and they are excellent! I subscribed to your channel because I love your contents so much. You are very well spoken and knowledgeable about the subjects.
I am Christian, and have been trying to understand the Bible more, and so I found the Talmud to be an excellent source to give me insight into some Bible passages, such as the significance of the Fig Tree, which is discussed quite a bit in the Talmud!
Thank you for all your work! And congratulations on the publication opportunity!
Enjoy the lectures in good health!
@@HenryAbramsonPhD I am from Iraq but now live in Canada. So I am finding the Jewish history in Babylon to be very fascinating!
@@001FJ who told you that the tree is fig?
Where can I get Rebbe Avraham Dov-Ber Kahana Shapira’s Esh Kodesh?
I have found three places that have it, but only in Hebrew.
I would like to find it in English.
Comments were not allowed under your video about him.
There is a video in UA-cam of his comments that were read in the Eichmann trial.
You have his name wrong, here's an a Amazon bibliography in English. www.amazon.com/Books-Kalonymus-Kalmish-Shapira/s?rh=n%3A283155%2Cp_27%3AKalonymus+Kalmish+Shapira. I do not allow comments on my Holocaust videos because they end up being a platform for antisemites.
💙💙💙💙💙Wonderful lecture. I would like to know if it's still possible to enrol in the course "Biblical Jewish History". I remember a video where you mentioned that the course would be closed soon. Thank you very much and best from Spain / Dr. Antonia Tejeda Barros
Thanks--I'm having trouble closing it because people keep enrolling. I am probably going to keep it open for another month.
@@HenryAbramsonPhD Great, then I'll start ASAP. Thanks a lot (BTW I wrote a couple of emails, but I don't think you got them -just to offer myself as volunteer for correcting Spanish words or sentences in your new book if you need (there are normally mistakes in accents) -I'm a Doctor in Philosophy and Holocaust researcher) 💙
Do you have a video about the Canaanites?
Kings highway in Brooklyn is called that Bec it connects the southerns towns of kings county today's Brooklyn. It is called kings county as it sits adjacent to queens county. Named for the then king and queen of Britain who ruled the land. That may be the connection to kings highway.
Now that I have sorted out the sequence of the lectures, I love them! I’m Jewish but am now first interested in my Jewish heritage. Maybe you can interview the eminent biblical archaeologist William Dever who I’m told converted to Judaism. He discovered the Tel Dan Stele that verifies King David.
Thanks for the suggestion.
Thanks for the videos. New subscriber.
Hope you enjoy the series!
7:17 - Illustrates perfectly why the Sinai Peninsula should be part of Israel again.
Absolutely excellent!
I want to join and buy. But my card is not working for international use. Is there any other way to access to your material please. I'm from India extreme North Eastern part of India.
Sorry, these extra features are not available in all countries.
Sorry for being nearly 4 years late to this mini lecture. I would suggest that you may have overstated the importance of the Jerusalem area in those times. Until just 200 years ago and the invention of the railway, all bulk trade went by sea or navigable river, only compact high- value items such as spices would be worth land transport such as by the route from the South to the Dead Sea (controlled by the Nabbateans, I believe ). I assume that trade from Mesopotamia would have taken the shortest route to Gallilee and then through the gap in the hills to the Mediterranean ports, nowhere near Jerusalem.
In the wars between Egypt and what is now Turkey, the armies would have used the coastal strip where they could get food and be resupplied by sea. Indeed I'm wondering whether the attraction of the hills of Judah to the Jewish people was that the 'big powers' would leave them alone there, they were unimportant.
I love your teachings!💙🙏🇳🇮
Ty!
Very nicely presented, Henry. I am reading the Tanakh in Robert Alter's wonderful translation and commentary which I heartily recommend to all students of this amazing work.
BTW, you look like a tennis buddy of mine. He's a rheumatologist which makes sense since, if you didn't become a professor, you likely would have been a doctor. lol
Great news about the books, can't wait to buy them. I know you'll give a more culturally balanced version of Jewish history than the books currently on the shelves, that barely mention Jews outside of Europe.
Thank you!
Dear Henry Abramspn thank you so much for your clever lections and you job of telling us about the history og jrws and israel , lord our god bless you and mazal tov for you, for your students , for the usa people and for you family thank thatt we can think and thank belkosta shalom
Glad you enjoyed the lecture!
great video thank you
Glad you enjoyed it
Love it
The literal origin of the “mosaic” effect in censorship! Fascinating
Very informative bless HaShem
Thanks
Thank you very much
Fasinating stuff, you should do a series with the israil Bible inststute.
Thank you
Is it true that the phrase "land of Israel" is only used outside the Bible? It didn't sound correct when someone said that. It isn't a dispute about the authenticity but more about corroboration of apocrypha to the era using a (possibly?) extrabiblical phrase.
The term is used several times in the Bible. See for example Samuel I 13:19.
Thanks for the lecture! I was wondering, is there any connection between the Hebrew name for Egypt (Mizraim) and the term Mizrahi?
They are spelled differently
מצרים = Egypt
מזרחי = Eastener
Not likely. Some etymologists look to two of the three letters in the traditional three-letter root, and will consider different letters with slightly different sounds, but I haven't heard it applied to these two words.
Mazel Tov Hillel, the best to you from a fellow Northerner. By the way I ran across Bernie Levison's name in my studies. A fellow South Porcupiner who has done us proud. I wonder if you know him.
Yes, Bernie is a proud son of the North!
@@HenryAbramsonPhD Who is letting all these Canadians into the USA?
Congrats on your book publishing, history of the Jews seems like a big undertaking, will the series be published in English?
English at first, hopefully translations to follow.
Just started listening, as a Christian I hold that Jesus is the Seed (spiritual) of Abraham while Isaac was his earthly son. So for me all the promises that the Almighty made to Abraham come in the birthright to the Christ. Thanks for your work.
Shoutout Kings Highway Brooklyn NY 👏
The world is too big for all humans, but hearts make it very small.
Awesome
SHALOM MY BROTHER GOD BLESS YOU 🙏 BARUCH HASHEM 😊
You too!
Shalom Rabbi
Greetings to you
Love it !
Glad you enjoyed it
Right on!
TY
I look forward to grabbing a book and some Chinese food! ❤️🥡📖🤣
You should!
I come for the jokes, but I stay for the knowledge.
In Spanish the Kings Highway would be El Camino Reàl
Yes!
There is no “West Bank”. It is called Yehudah & Shomron. Judea and Samaria.
is it a problem if muslims pray in a synagogue apart from saturday
y0ur lectures are so cool! What a shame that u had to disable comments on the Khazar video, some people are such jerks!! Keep going I l would love to see a vid on the MacABEES and Elijah the Prophet
Discussed Elijah in this series, Maccabees a few times. Glad you are enjoying the videos!
@@HenryAbramsonPhD could you be a lamb and link me to the Elijah videos I cannot seem to find it any of the titles! Sorry for the trouble enjoy your night sir
This video leaves the viewer somehow unclear about where the historical and theological borders of "The Land of Israel" exactly are, which leads to the question as to where these borders should ideally be. As to the opening statement that the geography of current Israel is so small, well yes it is smaller than Canada but isn't it bigger than neighboring Lebanon? So it feels somehow the question remains to be answered: where is The Land of Israel?
Correct--bear in mind that this is a History series; the "where these borders should ideally be" question is more appropriate to a Prophecy, or maybe Political Science channel. The boundaries of the Land of Israel (note: not the State of Israel) changed significantly over the centuries, so it's impossible to say with precision which territories are "Israel" and which are not, unless you also answer the question of "when" (and perhaps "for whom"). If you watch more in this series you'll see what I mean.
@@HenryAbramsonPhD thank you Dear Hillel. The hard work is obvious and appreciated. I wonder if you could try to take a more definite perspective on the 'where exactly is the Land?' topic in one of the future episodes. But maybe this is better to be left as a 'read between the lines'? Not sure. Thank you anyway for the extraordinary work.
Why do people say ashkenazi are khazarians?
Oh and shalom ,Baruch heshem
Have a look at my video on King Bulan.
Isn't there another vid on Ashkenazis
The Land of Israel sits at the center of the world; Jerusalem is in the center of the Land of Israel; the sanctuary is in the center of Jerusalem; the Temple building is in the center of the sanctuary; the ark is in the center of the Temple building; and the foundation stone, out of which the world was founded, is before the Temple building.
(Midrash Tanchuma Kedoshim 10)
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„Smallnes“ of Israel: The only true value, that counts in real estate is L + L + L which stands for Location“. Not size nor anything else.
Valuable observation.
>>Dear Professor: This I love. The book(s) will be a delight. If you could bring the two media of video and printing together, it would be an astounding feat. Best of luck, break a leg.
>>This week I am hoping to start a mini course (thorugh the auspices of the Senior Adult Learners' Center as an auditor) in anti-Semitism with Professor Natan Meir Ph.D. here at the Portland State U. Jewish Studies Department which was, in large part conceived of by the late Rabbi Abraham Stampfer z''l, in the last 20 years. The Schnitzer family fund is, funding.
Respectfully,
NHG
Thanks for the encouraging words!
The Land of Israel is mentioned in our Quran as the portion of the beni Yaacob.
Allah allocated it to the children of Israel and even ordered them to enter it and possess it. (Sorat AlMaida v21).
Can I convert to Judaism?
It’s crazy to me how black Hebrew Israelites suggest that west Africans are the Israelites who would have apparently crossed 4000+ km of desert after the bar kochba revolt…….lol
And here is rabbi Abraham suggesting that walking 800 km across the Syrian Iraqi desert for commerce and trade is too difficult
The 'potato shaped' holes covering the humans in the boat I don't believe were a sign of disrespect (defacing) but a sign of respect because they were probably depictions of Jesus and another saint or 2 Old Testament prophets (Jonah? Don't know, b/c I haven't examined their context in the map). In the eyes of Islam, Jesus (Yeshuah) is considered a prophet and garners respect as do the other prophets of the Torah. This is due to Islam's doctrine of not depicting the Prophet Mohammed and the prophets of the "People of the Book" (Jews & Christians).
How is depicting people inherently disrespectful though?
A small correction: Muhammad was against depicting any living beings (not just prophets). He cursed artists and stated that on Judgement Day, Allah will challenge artists to try and put life into their depictions (which is senseless because artists do not claim their ability to draw a likeness is the same as a creator god's ability to create life).
@Dr. Abramson - REQUIREMENT of your forthcoming book. You MUST do the reading for the audio book. You are too captivating as a speaker, needs to be done. Will buy the audio book bli neder
Thanks! I'm hoping Brad Pitt will agree to play me in the movie version.
Interesting. If you calling this Jewish History why would you start with a church? And why would we care about the Christian view? Shouldn't thr focus be primarily on Jewish sources or even Arab sources (who lived there) rather than the Catholic and Christian and depictions. (Is the book targeted to Christians?) The rest is nice.
I'm working on Jewish history, which actually involves Christians from time to time.