I always appreciate your videos. Your understanding & research are both so extensive yet you disseminate the information simply so any who are seeking truth can receive it. My only complaint Professor, is that it’s difficult for me to see the slides. I would love the opportunity to see them better. Perhaps a PDF that members can view from the show notes while listening…? Or a side by side screen with your slides next to the video of you. Thank you again for everything you bring us!
Hello! I've added the Prezis directly to an online class so you can see them directly. Not possible to do that on UA-cam, unfortunately. Click here to see the course: henryabramson.com/course/the-saga-of-sephardic-jewry/
Ancient Romans were at war with many people, including Jews. They were familiar with great variety of strange customs, those of Celts, Germans, Egyptians, Berbers, Arabs, Nabateans, Phoenicians, Persians, you name it… The latter, Persians, not Jews, were their most troubling neighbour for centuries to come. They dealt with Jews, Phoenicians, and Celts quickly and ruthlessly enough to put them in the "done with and forgotten" category. That's not "anti-Semitism," or "anti-whatever." That's just plain conquest. The only reason WE pay it so much attention today is because of Christianity that arose from the events of the first century CE. And this suddenly made Jews more important than other conquered people.
It wasn't mere war. They brought off 90 thousand Jews from Jerusalem to Rome as slaves. They taxed all Jews, even those not in Judea, for being Jews. They did nothing to stop the following massacre of Alexandrian Jews. They renamed Judea to Syria Palaestina. They introduced a legacy of anti-Semitism that persists up to today. For you this is merely a war from two millennia ago. But we remember. We always remember.
Any of the Roman’s conquered people would probably agree that the Roman’s were anti-them. The Roman’s destroyed our temple, killed the majority of our population, exiled our people, then renamed our country after our most ancient enemies. Yes they hated Jews. We fought back, we reconquered Judea with the story of Chanukah, and we were a consistent thorn in the side of Rome. By no means do the Jews claim to be the greatest enemies of Rome, as you mention Rome crushed a LOT of people. But that’s like going to someone who was raped, and attacked, and their family killed and saying, well the criminal who attacked you wasn’t anti- YOU, bc he raped and killed other peoples families as well.
Also, with all due respect, for Jews the reason the Roman conquest of Judea was so important has zero percent to do with Christianity. And has EVERYTHING to do with the fact that Rome displaced us across the world, and destroyed our temple. We mourn this destruction every year on Tishaa Baav. I find the attempt to decenter Ancient Romans war with the Jews and place Christianity in the center to be weird.
@gabriellaw6546 70 CE was not the first time the Temple was destroyed and not the first time Jewish elites were rounded up and exiled. In truth, the Jewish diaspora was already widespread centuries earlier. Many chose not to return from Egypt, from Babylon, later from the various regions of the Roman empire.
People are envious of the successful. If you can categorise the successful into a category like an ethnicity or religious group, easy to find a target.
I always appreciate your videos. Your understanding & research are both so extensive yet you disseminate the information simply so any who are seeking truth can receive it.
My only complaint Professor, is that it’s difficult for me to see the slides. I would love the opportunity to see them better. Perhaps a PDF that members can view from the show notes while listening…? Or a side by side screen with your slides next to the video of you.
Thank you again for everything you bring us!
Hello! I've added the Prezis directly to an online class so you can see them directly. Not possible to do that on UA-cam, unfortunately. Click here to see the course: henryabramson.com/course/the-saga-of-sephardic-jewry/
thank you Sir
Hello: As you approach the camera, it sounds like we are hearing you more proximally... via the camera mic... maybe we are not hearing the new mic?
Thank you so much for your illuminating lecture.
Thank you so much for this video. I really enjoyed it.
I am very gratified!
Your voice is melted butter over the heart of a cinnamon roll so it should be treasured.
“host” is not as host in English but from latin “hostia” as the wafer; with meaning of sacrifice
Person typing, hitting the keys hard.
I don't believe the Jews desecrated the Eucharist of that would of been the case the holy of holies showbread would of been desecrate as well.
Ancient Romans were at war with many people, including Jews. They were familiar with great variety of strange customs, those of Celts, Germans, Egyptians, Berbers, Arabs, Nabateans, Phoenicians, Persians, you name it… The latter, Persians, not Jews, were their most troubling neighbour for centuries to come. They dealt with Jews, Phoenicians, and Celts quickly and ruthlessly enough to put them in the "done with and forgotten" category. That's not "anti-Semitism," or "anti-whatever." That's just plain conquest. The only reason WE pay it so much attention today is because of Christianity that arose from the events of the first century CE. And this suddenly made Jews more important than other conquered people.
It wasn't mere war.
They brought off 90 thousand Jews from Jerusalem to Rome as slaves. They taxed all Jews, even those not in Judea, for being Jews. They did nothing to stop the following massacre of Alexandrian Jews. They renamed Judea to Syria Palaestina. They introduced a legacy of anti-Semitism that persists up to today.
For you this is merely a war from two millennia ago.
But we remember. We always remember.
Any of the Roman’s conquered people would probably agree that the Roman’s were anti-them. The Roman’s destroyed our temple, killed the majority of our population, exiled our people, then renamed our country after our most ancient enemies. Yes they hated Jews. We fought back, we reconquered Judea with the story of Chanukah, and we were a consistent thorn in the side of Rome. By no means do the Jews claim to be the greatest enemies of Rome, as you mention Rome crushed a LOT of people. But that’s like going to someone who was raped, and attacked, and their family killed and saying, well the criminal who attacked you wasn’t anti- YOU, bc he raped and killed other peoples families as well.
Also, with all due respect, for Jews the reason the Roman conquest of Judea was so important has zero percent to do with Christianity. And has EVERYTHING to do with the fact that Rome displaced us across the world, and destroyed our temple. We mourn this destruction every year on Tishaa Baav. I find the attempt to decenter Ancient Romans war with the Jews and place Christianity in the center to be weird.
@gabriellaw6546 70 CE was not the first time the Temple was destroyed and not the first time Jewish elites were rounded up and exiled. In truth, the Jewish diaspora was already widespread centuries earlier. Many chose not to return from Egypt, from Babylon, later from the various regions of the Roman empire.
People are envious of the successful. If you can categorise the successful into a category like an ethnicity or religious group, easy to find a target.
The audio stinks
Wow! It's crazy how hate spreads like gosip and fuels morbid imagination!
❤❤❤ Thank you😊
You are welcome!