@@HenryAbramsonPhD Firstly... Palestinians have a right to live in that land without oppression, Exodus 22 v 21 and Leviticus ch 19 v 33-34, but Islamic Fundamentalist ideology and Jihadism and Arab Anti-semiticism are also reasons which have historically made groups attack. Jews were subjected to being inferior as dhimmis, Muhammad, the founder of Islam said the following: "The Day of Judgement will not come about until Muslims fight the Jews , when the Jew will hide behind stones and trees. The stones and trees will say O Muslims, O Abdullah, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him. Among the lies being spread is an effort to undermine Israel’s legitimacy by accusing it of being a settler-colonial state. Those spreading this lie argue that Jews have no historical connection to the land of Israel and that Zionists - those who support the right of Jewish self-determination and national homeland in the land of Israel - came to colonize the land, taking it from the Palestinians beginning in the late nineteenth century. However, this claim ignores the thousands of years of deep connection between the Jewish people and the Land of Israel. The Lord promised a regathering of the nation of Israel, after diaspora judgement and the city of Jerusalem as he had sworn it unto Abraham, Isaac and Jacob (Israel), Jeremiah 31 v 38-40, Amos ch 9 v 11-15, Genesis 35 v 12, Exodus 32 v 13, Deuteronomy 1 v 8, Deuteronomy 30 v 1-5 and Joshua 21 v 43. Luke 21 v 24 says: 24 And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations. Well guess what? Israel as a nation is no longer under Roman or Muslim control. Timeline of Israel and Jerusalem from the 7th Century to 1948: Romans, Byzantines, Persians, Caliph Omar, Umayyads, Abbasids, Saladin, Crusaders, Mamluks, Ottomans and British have all laid claim over Israel and historic record of massacres and pogroms for all Jews without a homeland, including the Holocaust worldwide up until 1948 and still continuing, including October 7th 2023.. Diaspora Jews yearned to return to the Jewish homeland and the holy Jewish city of Jerusalem, both of which are mentioned multiple times in daily Jewish prayers. Traditional Jewish religious thought stated that the Jews had been exiled from their homeland as a punishment from God. They could only return in Messianic times. This belief kept most Jews from thinking about a return to living in Israel. But, in the nineteenth century, as European Jews suffered from growing antisemitism and violence against them, a new ideology was born - Zionism, a national liberation movement of the Jewish people. Zionists saw a return to the Jewish homeland as the path to Jewish redemption from thousands of years of oppression. Small groups of Zionist pioneers began returning to their ancient homeland in the late nineteenth century, joining the community of Jews who had never left. Jews consist of much diversity aside from European Jews or Russians and Ukranians: "Thus, among such Mizrahim there are Iranian Jews, Iraqi Jews, Egyptian Jews, Sudanese Jews, Tunisian Jews, Algerian Jews, Moroccan Jews, Lebanese Jews, Libyan Jews, Syrian Jews, and various others. Other Asian groups that evolved separately from Sephardim include the Georgian and Mountain Jews from the Caucasus, Indian Jews including the Malabar Yehuddim (Cochin Jews), Bene Israel, Bnei Menashe and Bene Ephraim, the Afghan Jews and Bukharan Jews of Central Asia, and Chinese Jews, most notably the Kaifeng Jews. Palestinian forces, though not all people, having largely Islamically inspired have been involved in the 1947-1948 Civil War against Israel (which they lost) which picked up in aggression in January 1948, after the U.N. Resolution for a partition of the Land of Israel. They were also involved in The 1948 Israel-Arab war, when 5 Arab nations which attacked the newly formed Israel after its statehood Declaration lost the war. The PLO were founded prior to the 1967 Six Day War and they openly engaged in acts of violence against Israeli civilians, both within Israel and outside of Israel. The PLO formally came into being during a 1964 meeting of the first Palestinian Congress. Shortly thereafter, the group began to splinter into various factions. Ultimately, the largest faction, Fatah, would come to dominate the organization, and its leader, Yasser Arafat, would become the PLO chairman and most visible symbol. All the groups adhered to a set of principles laid out in the Palestine National Charter, which called for Israel’s destruction. The PLO’s belligerent rhetoric was matched by deeds. Terrorist attacks by the group grew more frequent. In 1965, 35 raids were conducted against Israel. In 1966, the number increased to 41. In just the first four months of 1967, 37 attacks were launched. The targets were always civilians. Most of the attacks involved Palestinian guerillas infiltrating Israel from Jordan, the Gaza Strip, and Lebanon. The orders and logistical support for the attacks were coming, however, from Cairo and Damascus.. 1973 Yom Kippur War: The war began on 6 October 1973, when the Arab coalition (led by Egypt and Syria) jointly launched a surprise attack against Israel on the Jewish holy day of Yom Kippur, which had occurred during the 10th day of the Islamic month of Ramadan. The October 7th 2023 Al Asqa Flood Attack comes roughly 50 years and a day after the 1973 war. Why would this all matter? Jesus is now the new High Priest for Jew and Gentile but man and Satan would still want to nullify God's promises and covenants to Jews and salvation for them, one tactic being to keep them constantly hostile, at war and unforgiving, Jesus says unless you forgive you cannot be forgiven, Matthew 6 v 14-15. Secondly, if nuclear war were to break out and destroy every human on the planet virtually, then future Prophecies regarding Israel, such as the Millennial Reign or Jesus coming to defend Jerusalem, Joel chapter 3, Zechariah 12 and Zechariah 14 might be rendered invalid
Dearest, not a Rabbi, Dr Abramson, Had the Congregation of my childhood had historians & not just Rabbis...I wouldn't have dropped out in Alef. Now, in my 60s, your lecture series are invaluable for me. Also David Solomon's history crash courses. Earlier today I searched for videos of Sh'ma being chanted from different places in Diaspora... moving beyond my capacity to describe. In closing, I love your lectures!
@@HenryAbramsonPhD Why you guys lie too much ? ............. Why do you always started your history with your present at the holly land ? ........... I'm a proud African hebro, and living at the area where Prophet Moses (PBUH) came from ............ You pretend to be European, becaouse you are ashame to tell the truth about you were slaves in Africa? or what is it all about
Looking forward to this. Hoping to learn how many Jews were in the land in the middle ages, who were they, how did they get there or were they ones who stayed after Roman expulsion? Were all Jews forced out by the Romans. How many Jews converted to Christianity and Islam. Were there aliyot before 1880s? So many questions.
All of the founding adherents of Christianity were Jewish and many of them probably remained in the Levant where their forebears had lived. I would suggest that the Palestinian Muslims and Christians currently present in the Land are largely descended from the indigenous Israelite/Jewish/Samaritan, Canaanite and Philistine inhabitants, and that Arabian incomers were marginal. It's probably not an opportune time for a wide-ranging DNA survey.
Yes, there were. 1300s, 1400s, 1500s… etc… in and out.. in the case of the 1500s, for example, they were driven out during the mamluk ottoman war into Beirut.. then made their way back 15 years later or so… they faced pogroms and expulsions much beyond the Romans… in and out… there were always Jews making their way back.. when ottomans took over, they were forbidden from owning land so they circumvented the system and bought land from Arab land owners and found ways to go back… but basically, many examples of returning to rebuild as much as they could much before Herzl was even a fetus.
@@rolandscales9380not true. Under the ottomans there were no “borders” so you had tons of little colonies of ethnic groups migrating… for work, mainly. The crusades killed so many most of the population were driven out… during Ottoman Empire you had Turks, Armenians, Circassian’s, samaritans, Jews, Arabs of Christian or Muslim faith, Sudanese migrations, moors, etc… after fall of Ottoman Empire huge influx of Arab peoples were sent in to fight or settle. Egypt alone funnelled few thousand of their citizens to what is today Tel Aviv… that is the historical record… that is why the Palestinians tout how “diverse” they are.. their collective identity wasn’t solidified until the 60s, for example. the territories are also quite different from village to village.. arabization has them all speaking a dialect of Arabic but they are very diverse bc they migrated from all over. So some can very well have Canaanite DNA but main Canaanite DNA was actually found in communities of Lebanese, who are not Arab but arabized at this point. Maronites, for example. So… it’s a common talking point to legitimize the “indigenous” origin of Palestinians but it’s a fallacy.
@rolandscales9380 The ancient Arabu tribes actually lived in the areas of Gaza Sderot Ashkelon Ashdod Negeve Sinai. So Arabs aren't new to that region. The Prophet Ismaeel alay salaam was about 16 years older than Isaac alay salaam, which makes the Arab nation older than the Israelite nation.
Good question! Many, including part of my ancestral family were not exiled by the Romans, but rather remained here. In many cases the descendants of exiles reunited with their families upon return. I know from my family what a great joy it was. The exchange of history knowledge between those who remained and those who returned was amazing.
Dr Abramson, as always, what a joy to learn the rich history of our people. Thank you for touching on the Talmud. In a former lecture you spoke on this and, inspired, I dug deeper. The text opened a whole new world of understanding and changed my life forever. Thank you for bringing faith and history together as it was meant to be from the beginning!
First time I have heard someone mentioning the similarity between Islam and Judaism. Of course, I am still wondering why this is not mentioned more often.
First time? Maybe its your first time, hearing it come from someone like this guy. I have heard of this ages ago. It was someone Muslim in Lebanon that I first heard say something similar.
Both religions require circumcision, both have dietary laws that forbid pork and require certain methods of slaughter, both pray to cities in the East, and Islam not only recognizes the Jewish prophets but also considers them Muslims. Muslims pray 5 times a day, Jews 3 times. Both practice headcovering in different contexts. Both religions recognize that they worship the same God, just disagree on how to worship. Really the major difference is the notion in Islam that it is the supreme religion that the whole world must submit to, as opposed to Jews, who are fine with other religions and recognize their merits, but see themselves as obligated to worship the one God their own way.
Thank you for making such an accessible and interesting channel on all aspects of Jewish history….I’m a US Army Foreign Area Officer specializing in the Middle East and I think you can’t be successful in this field without understanding 1) Military History, 2) Regional History, 3) Islamic History, and 4) Jewish History. There’s plenty of sources for the first 3, but you’re the best and most comprehensive source I’ve ever found for the last. Thank you and never change!
I like the picture of the bride at the Pact of Umar section. Reminds me of the depiction of brides in some of James Tissot's paintings. He was a French artist who went to the Holy Land to paint in the 1880s, and painted a bride like that in his depiction of The Wedding at Cana.
So what has changed comparing what’s happening now, the war in Gaza to what happened in Spain when Jewish, Christian, and Muslims lived together in peace, why we can’t have this now what’s wrong with all of us?
Learn more about Islam and you'd know why. Muslims can live in peace with jews so long as they rule over jews. Look up the words Dar al Islam and Dar al hurb
@@yossibendovid7607 It’s the other way around, learn about Christianity and the politics of the United States of America then you will know the reason why Arabs and Jews cannot leave in peace.
@@alfapaul5593 it's not political it's all religious, look at what the Nigerian Muslims are doing to the Christians and what the Muslim Sudanese did to the Christians there, now what's the excuse?
The problems came when the Eastern European Jews emigrated to Palestine in the 1940's. Read the history books. They kept coming through immigration and too many came and the Arabs felt threatened because they were taking over. The Arabs couldn't stop their coming and so they went to war. Also, the Jews received help from the British the French and others so they got the upper hand, they had weapons. The Arabs had been left out of negotiations as well. Read the history. Hence, the Arabs/Palestinians have been having problems from the Jews and subsequently placed in a open-air prison for over 75 years, by these people who emigrated there from Eastern European Jews.
Firstly... Palestinians have a right to live in that land without oppression, Exodus 22 v 21 and Leviticus ch 19 v 33-34, but Islamic Fundamentalist ideology and Jihadism and Arab Anti-semiticism are also reasons which have historically made groups attack. Jews were subjected to being inferior as dhimmis, Muhammad, the founder of Islam said the following: "The Day of Judgement will not come about until Muslims fight the Jews , when the Jew will hide behind stones and trees. The stones and trees will say O Muslims, O Abdullah, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him. Among the lies being spread is an effort to undermine Israel’s legitimacy by accusing it of being a settler-colonial state. Those spreading this lie argue that Jews have no historical connection to the land of Israel and that Zionists - those who support the right of Jewish self-determination and national homeland in the land of Israel - came to colonize the land, taking it from the Palestinians beginning in the late nineteenth century. However, this claim ignores the thousands of years of deep connection between the Jewish people and the Land of Israel. The Lord promised a regathering of the nation of Israel, after diaspora judgement and the city of Jerusalem as he had sworn it unto Abraham, Isaac and Jacob (Israel), Jeremiah 31 v 38-40, Amos ch 9 v 11-15, Genesis 35 v 12, Exodus 32 v 13, Deuteronomy 1 v 8, Deuteronomy 30 v 1-5 and Joshua 21 v 43. Luke 21 v 24 says: 24 And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations. Well guess what? Israel as a nation is no longer under Roman or Muslim control. Timeline of Israel and Jerusalem from the 7th Century to 1948: Romans, Byzantines, Persians, Caliph Omar, Umayyads, Abbasids, Saladin, Crusaders, Mamluks, Ottomans and British have all laid claim over Israel and historic record of massacres and pogroms for all Jews without a homeland, including the Holocaust worldwide up until 1948 and still continuing, including October 7th 2023.. Diaspora Jews yearned to return to the Jewish homeland and the holy Jewish city of Jerusalem, both of which are mentioned multiple times in daily Jewish prayers. Traditional Jewish religious thought stated that the Jews had been exiled from their homeland as a punishment from God. They could only return in Messianic times. This belief kept most Jews from thinking about a return to living in Israel. But, in the nineteenth century, as European Jews suffered from growing antisemitism and violence against them, a new ideology was born - Zionism, a national liberation movement of the Jewish people. Zionists saw a return to the Jewish homeland as the path to Jewish redemption from thousands of years of oppression. Small groups of Zionist pioneers began returning to their ancient homeland in the late nineteenth century, joining the community of Jews who had never left. Jews consist of much diversity aside from European Jews or Russians and Ukranians: "Thus, among such Mizrahim there are Iranian Jews, Iraqi Jews, Egyptian Jews, Sudanese Jews, Tunisian Jews, Algerian Jews, Moroccan Jews, Lebanese Jews, Libyan Jews, Syrian Jews, and various others. Other Asian groups that evolved separately from Sephardim include the Georgian and Mountain Jews from the Caucasus, Indian Jews including the Malabar Yehuddim (Cochin Jews), Bene Israel, Bnei Menashe and Bene Ephraim, the Afghan Jews and Bukharan Jews of Central Asia, and Chinese Jews, most notably the Kaifeng Jews. Palestinian forces, though not all people, having largely Islamically inspired have been involved in the 1947-1948 Civil War against Israel (which they lost) which picked up in aggression in January 1948, after the U.N. Resolution for a partition of the Land of Israel. They were also involved in The 1948 Israel-Arab war, when 5 Arab nations which attacked the newly formed Israel after its statehood Declaration lost the war. The PLO were founded prior to the 1967 Six Day War and they openly engaged in acts of violence against Israeli civilians, both within Israel and outside of Israel. The PLO formally came into being during a 1964 meeting of the first Palestinian Congress. Shortly thereafter, the group began to splinter into various factions. Ultimately, the largest faction, Fatah, would come to dominate the organization, and its leader, Yasser Arafat, would become the PLO chairman and most visible symbol. All the groups adhered to a set of principles laid out in the Palestine National Charter, which called for Israel’s destruction. The PLO’s belligerent rhetoric was matched by deeds. Terrorist attacks by the group grew more frequent. In 1965, 35 raids were conducted against Israel. In 1966, the number increased to 41. In just the first four months of 1967, 37 attacks were launched. The targets were always civilians. Most of the attacks involved Palestinian guerillas infiltrating Israel from Jordan, the Gaza Strip, and Lebanon. The orders and logistical support for the attacks were coming, however, from Cairo and Damascus.. 1973 Yom Kippur War: The war began on 6 October 1973, when the Arab coalition (led by Egypt and Syria) jointly launched a surprise attack against Israel on the Jewish holy day of Yom Kippur, which had occurred during the 10th day of the Islamic month of Ramadan. The October 7th 2023 Al Asqa Flood Attack comes roughly 50 years and a day after the 1973 war. Why would this all matter? Jesus is now the new High Priest for Jew and Gentile but man and Satan would still want to nullify God's promises and covenants to Jews and salvation for them, one tactic being to keep them constantly hostile, at war and unforgiving, Jesus says unless you forgive you cannot be forgiven, Matthew 6 v 14-15. Secondly, if nuclear war were to break out and destroy every human on the planet virtually, then future Prophecies regarding Israel, such as the Millennial Reign or Jesus coming to defend Jerusalem, Joel chapter 3, Zechariah 12 and Zechariah 14 might be rendered invalid
There are those who claim there were no Jews in Israel prior to 1948. The next time any of you visit Jerusalem, check out the Old Yishuv Court Museum in the Old City. It documents Jewish life in Jerusalem over 100 years ago.
@@SatanYahoo and this is why the contention that Israel is a European Colonial state is false. There is also the matter of the expulsion of Jews from Arab states at the founding of the state of Israel. More than a million Jews were forcibly removed from their communities throughout the Middle East and fled to or were sent to Israel. I’ve heard many people claim that anti-Zionism is not anti-Semitic, based on belief in the Marxist-Leninist concepts of colonialism. Anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism, based on falsification and ignorance of history.
@@SatanYahooWhat many people don't realise, is the majority of today's Palestinians are decendants of Jews and Christians who reverted to Islam, then again I'm just a conspiracy theorist
BTW the still image shown at around 16:00 is from a rather good film called Arranged, which is about two young teachers in Brooklyn, one muslim one orthodox jewish, who bond over their respective mishaps related to arranged marriage.
Perhaps you can lecture on the Book of Deuteronomy the Blessings and Curses of God and how God put the Israelites out of Canaan Land and placed his Curses on them as described in Chapters 27, 28, 29, 30, and 31. The Jews that are in Israel now, they came from Europe. God said his people would be scattered to the uttermost parts of the Earth. Where are the other Jews that were scattered? They were yellow, red, brown, and Black skinned. The people living in Israel are Atheist, non-religious and secular. They are not semitic people either. They are not the Holy chosen ones. God's people are supposed to be HOLY and live holy.
Hi Dr. Abrahamson. Wonderful work as always. I wanted to bring your attention to something, however. On your website, the links and thumbnails for recommended reading no longer work. I hope it gets fixed soon, as I wished to go through it to aid me in some research
Hi love the lecture! I think it is worth a mention of the fascinating failed attempts to build the third temple in the times of Julian, Eudocia (Empress of Theodosias) and Heracules
I would love a video from you about who are the Palestinians (who don't identify as Jews) and if some of them may have originally been Jews (religiously, ethnically) and converted to Islam after being conquered by various empires and regimes over the past couple thousand years
Well I know many are Arab from Arabian peninsula originally who came over with the Ottoman Empire and earlier Muslim conquests, but yeah I imagine some folks have been there all along w Jewish ethnic roots.
@@jessicajoy8751 since Israel/Palestine is actually part of the Arabian peninsula, it does not make sense to talk about them "coming over" from the Ottoman Empire. The Ottomans conquered the Arabs, who were already there! Also, there were other peoples besides the Hebrews in Palestine in both biblical and Roman times, and some genetic testing of ancient remains identify "Arab" genes, so it is safe to say that Arabs have been present in Palestine/Israel/Judea as long as the Hebrew/Jewish people. We know that the earliest Christians were Hebrew/Jews, and it makes sense that some of the early converts to Islam in that area were also Jewish. For many, many, years Jews, Christians, and Arabs - along with other ethnicities and religions - lived in and shared the lands now called Israel.
@@lornamackay4069 It’s gotta be most likely a both/and answer - some folks have been there all along and became Christians and Muslims, some folks came in with the different conquests (even from ethnic and geographical neighbors/cousins) as others were expelled. I would like him to make a video on his understandings of this in particular. As people have toxic debates on who are the “real” indigenous peoples of the land and who are the “real” Jews ethnically, I am wanting to consume more grounded history on the subject. Israel/Palestine is its own place between Egypt and the Arabian Peninsula countries throughout history with its own specific peoples from all research I’ve done. It does make sense to talk about and ask about.
@@jessicajoy8751 I am sure you are right - some of the Palestinians are descended from the ancient inhabitants of the area (including Hebrew tribes) and some have immigrated there over the centuries (including descendants of Crusader, Greek, and Roman occupations). But rather than Israel/Palestine being "its own place between Egypt and Arabian Peninsula", Palestine has always had strong ties to the Mesopotamian area. In the Old Testament/Torah stories of the Hebrew patriarchs, many (including Abraham) came from what is now Syria and Iraq. Pre-1948 establishment of Israel, Syria was an important supplier and consumer of goods to and from Palestine, and no doubt the populations mixed not only in commerce. Trade with Lebanon is mentioned in the Bible, and continued over the centuries. So, Palestine/Israel probably had strong ties to the larger "fertile crescent" since pre-history.
@@Klopp2543The return of the Jewish people to their historic homeland in larger numbers, and Ottoman/Muslim fear that Jews would reclaim the land as a Jewish State which is exactly what happened in 1948! The rest, sadly, is history....
@@mcorry6072 crusaders also came with a lot of chaos and disruptions. The west along with Ottoman's weakness, the boundaries and leaders they imposed and the discovery of oil too didn't help
That soil went through a restoration process; including water. Israel, the land; and, Israel , the people make a "whole". They are meant to exist together.
They weren’t farmers in Ukraine. They were townspeople: merchants, craftspeople, financiers, innkeepers, brewers and distillers, tradespeople, etc. In many places they weren’t permitted to farm.
Very much looking forward to your next video, I always find your lectures to be both edifying and illuminating....in particular I love your ability to navigate the difficult terrain where verifiable historical facts and religious traditions intersect. My understanding of the word Rabbi is that it means teacher, and if my understanding of the word is correct then I have no issue with according you that very respectful title.....even if it's not official. Blessings as always, both for you and for Israel, the land and its people.
So what happened to the 700k Jews that went to Israel after the Spanish expulsion in the 1500s? How did they decline to just 4% of the population in the early mid 1800s? (Perhaps they weren’t treated so well under the Ottomans)
Who told you that they went to Palestine? (That time there was no Israel) The Jews ( Sefarads) were taken from Spain and Portugal by Ottoman fleet and setler in Istanbul, Izmir and Saloniki. There was no itinenary like Palestine. Their number was around at max 600000. In the nineteenth and the early w-twentieth century they moved to other countries such as USA, the ones in South America and France, etc. After the foundation of Israel they moved to Palestine territory along with the ashkénaze who fled in the 19 and 20 centuries from Russian pogroms to Türkiye. When Europeans catholics and orthodox massacres the Jews the Turks always help they… make séarches!!!
@HenryAbramsonPhD I have and always referred to Palestine as Land of Israel, even when the word Palestine was used, you dismissed it as a mistake. People like you
10.47. Hi thanks fir a very onteresting question. I knew about the period in Spain when Jews, Christians and Muslims co-existed in peace. In fact members of my family are descended from Jews who had to leave Spain after that period, but I always thought it ended when Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand kicked the Moors out of Spain and took over the country, bringing in persecution of anyone not Christian.
(6:09) it is not clear how the justification for departing from the moon sighting is achieved in 359 ?? דחיית חודש קדוש מהשנה Sounds like a departure from prophetic guidance !! It also means that celebration are really out of place on the true lunar calendar 📅 (7:52) Actually it is an ancient term which appears in Psalm תְּהִלִּים (60:8, 83:7, 87:4, and 108:9) (10:45) But was it not seen at the time that opening the door for reinterpretation in this manner would result in complete misunderstanding of the original intent of the Scripture ??
Thank you! Very helpful review of history. Especially for pointing out periods where co-existence actually happened. Our world today badly needs to seriously think of such a possibility and how we can make it happen. Which very likely to require some compromise and ego reduction. For the sake of this Earth we share and the future of our children.
People watching a lecture from a highly accredited historian and then writing in comments section how he is wrong and that Jews were not treated well by Muslims. 🤦🏽 why bother? Just continue with the Koolaid.
Excellent lecture as usual. I feel I have to point out the Mosques although people do congregate there are not classed as places of congregation, but places of prostration, because of course when prostrating to God this I’d the high point of the ritual pray.
11:39 Eklesia- εκκλησία- means called out ie: chosen. Re 15:29 Maimonides wrote “God has entangled us with this people, the nation of Ishmael, who treat us so prejudicially and who legislate our harm and hatred…. No nation has ever arisen more harmful than they, nor has anyone done more to humiliate us, degrade us, and consolidate hatred against us.” ref: Quran 9:29
Thanks for the video. Maybe you could do a video all about the Ottoman "edict of toleration" that was passed in 1844 and how that shaped current Israel.
Thank you, Dr. Abramson, for another educational and very informative video. I myself studied for a Degree unique to Israel called Land of Israel Studies, where an entirely new universe of information is given compared to what is taught even in the Israeli state-run education system, which is such a shame. The studies cover pre-, ancient, and modern history, all religions of the land, geology and geography, climate, and in-depth studies of specific regions. Through evidence from archaeology and texts, I was exposed to a somewhat more controversial theory of the early Muslim period in the land, the Umayyad or Golden Age. More and more evidence shows that the Umayyads in the entire Levant embraced Greek culture and architecture. We discovered from texts(Arab sources) that on the eve of the arrival of the Crusaders, the actual Muslim population was still a minority, the majority was still Christian with a significant Jewish minority, and Greek was still at this time the main language of the population slowly giving way to the emerging Arabic. To jump towards our modern times. My wife's family from Tiberias had been there for many generations and were part of Aleppo and Damascus Jewish communities before that. There are many stories about just a generation or two marriages of their Jewish daughters being done with local Arab landlords. There are studies done on the genetics of certain Palestinian populations along with family stories of "forced" conversions of large Jewish populations done by the Ottomans in the land of Israel, hence explaining the rapid decline starting three hundred years ago of both the Jews and Christian population and a rise in the Muslim one. What are your thoughts on this?
however, Judaism and Christianity share the same text, even though in translation. Islam in this regard is totally other entity. Also, Christian communities would use "Old Testament" as a code of behavior.
Excellent overview of late Jewish history. The Bilu immigration, indeed, came in 1882. According to Wikipedia: "On 6 July 1882, the first group of Bilu pioneers emigrated from Russia and arrived in Ottoman Palestine. The group consisted of fourteen university students from Kharkiv, etc." Few may realize it, but the Yemenite Jews also began to immigrate to the Land of Israel in 1882. According to Wikipedia: "This immigration was popularly given the mnemonics, aʻaleh betamar (literally, 'I shall go up on the date palm tree,' a verse taken from Song of Songs). The Hebrew word "betamar" = בתמר has the numerical value of 642, which they expounded to mean, 'I shall go up (i.e. make the pilgrimage) in the year [5]642 anno mundi (here, abbreviated without the millennium), or what was then 1882 CE."
I often find myself pondering why the Jewish faith has historically experienced conflicts with its surrounding communities. When we trace back through history to the very beginning, Jewish people have frequently clashed with other human families. One tale that particularly stands out is that of Ishmael and Isaac, where Ishmael was banished to the desert and later founded the Islamic faith. Initially, I was skeptical of this narrative, but upon studying Arabic and Hebrew languages, I was astonished to discover striking similarities in pronunciation-up to 74% identical, such as 'Blood' = 'Dam' in Arabic and 'Dam' in Hebrew. Furthermore, the linguistic similarities extend far beyond what one might expect, even encompassing familial terms such as mother, father, and other family members. Have any of you ever considered investigating whether Arabs and Jews share a familial bond through bloodline, stemming from the same father? I urge both Jewish and Arab communities to explore this notion and realize that they are connected, and to cease perpetuating hatred towards one another for the sake of their common ancestor, Abraham.
@@MR-dm1gx What about the Amalekites, Canaanites, or Babylonians? Were they East/West Europeans? Not at all. They had conflicts with whoever lived near them long before Christianity or Islam came into existence. Furthermore, they even had conflicts with their own God for not following his guidance. I guess God turned against them when some of them began worshiping the golden calf, which resulted in the destruction of their temples. I don't think the conflicts began with Christianity or Islam.
THIS material good. I am not Jewish but Catholic. Educating young Jewish and other Nations on evidence-based history help to sober up emotions running high and put things in perspective
@@HenryAbramsonPhD may I add, sir - history teaching like what you do is better when it influences decision-making among authorities to avoid mistakes in the future. In geo-politics, I'm wary of the possibility of having a Palestinian state which could be a precedence, say, for mainland China to legally claim all of south China Sea for the reason that the sea was named after her (China as point of reference) Philippines' right to exploit natural resources at our West Philippine Sea through UNCLOS becomes moot and academic.
I noticed you beginning your history in the land in 135 AD. What about before then? If you came into the land at that time, where did you come from and where did the people of the land go? I’m waiting to hear this account!😅
@@HenryAbramsonPhD I did, yet it doesn't show you all as those people. I hear you all say you from tribes of Judah and Benjamin and Levi, yet descriptions are given of the tribe of Judah and it doesn't fit with you. Make sense of the doctrine and history you believe in because I can't find references in the Bible describing you all being mistaken for Ethiopians, or Moses arm being changed to leprous as snow and than arm being changed back to his original color, Solomon's description, job, jews who were called Niger, Joseph living in caanan amongst the dark races of the hamites, plus the fact that we have been blessed with God given ability in every way! What ability has he given you all to make the claim that you can out perform other nations of people that shows being above because of God given natural ability, natural physiques, the gift to just do it better, that's the real children of Israel. Why you think all these machinations are being used in the world? Because the truth is being uncovered and the world can't be fooled, manipulated and lied too with false narratives. The jig is up and people don't see it or choose not to believe real prophecy
@HenryAbramsonPhD still, how is it that you are the people of the land?! We were scattered, and the converts were allowed to stay and claim the identity. Let's keep it real! The people than were people of color, brown and darker. There was a nation removed from mankind, who might that nation be? Considering you definitely couldn't have living amongst the Egyptians, descendants of the dark race of the hamites. Explain Moses skin changing from his normal color to The Almighty changing it to white like snow and then back to his normal color? I'm waiting for a response that I doubt I'll now receive from you bc you have no explanation, so , you'll ignore this response as you so good at doing when this truth is facing you directly, and you have no truthful answer. Waiting
@@HenryAbramsonPhD Mr Abramson, I have to mention this, if it hadn’t been yt people showing all this contention and anger out of pure hatred, like those Karan videos that people started video recording, showing them act out on their hatred, I would have never came across a Hebrew camp! So, I thank you and your people for continuing to do harm, and evil deeds bc as it woke me up, so shall it continue with other slave descendants. 😃 😊
So now you ignore after responding to my first comment. Why is it always hard to dialog by answering questions asked? This is why people can't move on and make things better bc people still refuse to deal with issues created by the very people running from history ( his story)
Speaking of Arabian Jewish community and how their story inspired many Muslims while most of Jews didn't heard it before at all "بسم رب خيبر نبدأ وبسيف ذو الفقار نضرب" "In the name of the God of Khaybar we start, and by the sword of Dhu al-Faqar (The sword of Ali Bin Abi Talib, the commander of the Muslim army) we strike" This sentence was found in the pocket of one of the Hamas fighters who stormed Israel on Oct 7.
🤔Jazia was equivalent to zakat which Muslims paid. So there was no description here. It's just state tax. 2nd. Jews And Christians didn't get to fight in wars. So Muslims were protecting Jews and Christians in Muslim lands. Another huge benefit.
@0786AHA he is right. Read the sahih bukhari hadeeth. Muhammad specifically asks Ms to humiliate when collecting jizya. Also jizya was compulsory while zakat is voluntary.
Firstly... Palestinians have a right to live in that land without oppression, Exodus 22 v 21 and Leviticus ch 19 v 33-34, but Islamic Fundamentalist ideology and Jihadism and Arab Anti-semiticism are also reasons which have historically made groups attack. Jews were subjected to being inferior as dhimmis, Muhammad, the founder of Islam said the following: "The Day of Judgement will not come about until Muslims fight the Jews , when the Jew will hide behind stones and trees. The stones and trees will say O Muslims, O Abdullah, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him. Among the lies being spread is an effort to undermine Israel’s legitimacy by accusing it of being a settler-colonial state. Those spreading this lie argue that Jews have no historical connection to the land of Israel and that Zionists - those who support the right of Jewish self-determination and national homeland in the land of Israel - came to colonize the land, taking it from the Palestinians beginning in the late nineteenth century. However, this claim ignores the thousands of years of deep connection between the Jewish people and the Land of Israel. The Lord promised a regathering of the nation of Israel, after diaspora judgement and the city of Jerusalem as he had sworn it unto Abraham, Isaac and Jacob (Israel), Jeremiah 31 v 38-40, Amos ch 9 v 11-15, Genesis 35 v 12, Exodus 32 v 13, Deuteronomy 1 v 8, Deuteronomy 30 v 1-5 and Joshua 21 v 43. Luke 21 v 24 says: 24 And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations. Well guess what? Israel as a nation is no longer under Roman or Muslim control. Timeline of Israel and Jerusalem from the 7th Century to 1948: Romans, Byzantines, Persians, Caliph Omar, Umayyads, Abbasids, Saladin, Crusaders, Mamluks, Ottomans and British have all laid claim over Israel and historic record of massacres and pogroms for all Jews without a homeland, including the Holocaust worldwide up until 1948 and still continuing, including October 7th 2023.. Diaspora Jews yearned to return to the Jewish homeland and the holy Jewish city of Jerusalem, both of which are mentioned multiple times in daily Jewish prayers. Traditional Jewish religious thought stated that the Jews had been exiled from their homeland as a punishment from God. They could only return in Messianic times. This belief kept most Jews from thinking about a return to living in Israel. But, in the nineteenth century, as European Jews suffered from growing antisemitism and violence against them, a new ideology was born - Zionism, a national liberation movement of the Jewish people. Zionists saw a return to the Jewish homeland as the path to Jewish redemption from thousands of years of oppression. Small groups of Zionist pioneers began returning to their ancient homeland in the late nineteenth century, joining the community of Jews who had never left. Jews consist of much diversity aside from European Jews or Russians and Ukranians: "Thus, among such Mizrahim there are Iranian Jews, Iraqi Jews, Egyptian Jews, Sudanese Jews, Tunisian Jews, Algerian Jews, Moroccan Jews, Lebanese Jews, Libyan Jews, Syrian Jews, and various others. Other Asian groups that evolved separately from Sephardim include the Georgian and Mountain Jews from the Caucasus, Indian Jews including the Malabar Yehuddim (Cochin Jews), Bene Israel, Bnei Menashe and Bene Ephraim, the Afghan Jews and Bukharan Jews of Central Asia, and Chinese Jews, most notably the Kaifeng Jews. Palestinian forces, though not all people, having largely Islamically inspired have been involved in the 1947-1948 Civil War against Israel (which they lost) which picked up in aggression in January 1948, after the U.N. Resolution for a partition of the Land of Israel. They were also involved in The 1948 Israel-Arab war, when 5 Arab nations which attacked the newly formed Israel after its statehood Declaration lost the war. The PLO were founded prior to the 1967 Six Day War and they openly engaged in acts of violence against Israeli civilians, both within Israel and outside of Israel. The PLO formally came into being during a 1964 meeting of the first Palestinian Congress. Shortly thereafter, the group began to splinter into various factions. Ultimately, the largest faction, Fatah, would come to dominate the organization, and its leader, Yasser Arafat, would become the PLO chairman and most visible symbol. All the groups adhered to a set of principles laid out in the Palestine National Charter, which called for Israel’s destruction. The PLO’s belligerent rhetoric was matched by deeds. Terrorist attacks by the group grew more frequent. In 1965, 35 raids were conducted against Israel. In 1966, the number increased to 41. In just the first four months of 1967, 37 attacks were launched. The targets were always civilians. Most of the attacks involved Palestinian guerillas infiltrating Israel from Jordan, the Gaza Strip, and Lebanon. The orders and logistical support for the attacks were coming, however, from Cairo and Damascus.. 1973 Yom Kippur War: The war began on 6 October 1973, when the Arab coalition (led by Egypt and Syria) jointly launched a surprise attack against Israel on the Jewish holy day of Yom Kippur, which had occurred during the 10th day of the Islamic month of Ramadan. The October 7th 2023 Al Asqa Flood Attack comes roughly 50 years and a day after the 1973 war. Why would this all matter? Jesus is now the new High Priest for Jew and Gentile but man and Satan would still want to nullify God's promises and covenants to Jews and salvation for them, one tactic being to keep them constantly hostile, at war and unforgiving, Jesus says unless you forgive you cannot be forgiven, Matthew 6 v 14-15. Secondly, if nuclear war were to break out and destroy every human on the planet virtually, then future Prophecies regarding Israel, such as the Millennial Reign or Jesus coming to defend Jerusalem, Joel chapter 3, Zechariah 12 and Zechariah 14 might be rendered invalid.
@@HebrewsvJohnv Thank you for posting this. I’m an agnostic, so the scripture based arguments have less effect on me, but the historical facts you related comport with what I know. I think that there should be more emphasis placed on the expulsion of Middle Eastern Jews from Arab states at the time of Israel’s founding. This historical fact undermines the anti-Semitic argument that Jews are European colonizers. Imagine you and your family are kicked out of your home in Syria under threat of violence and forced to flee to Israel, AND THEN being told you’re a dirty European colonizer. I abhor much of what Israel is currently doing in Gaza. I repudiate the Netanyahu government and the voices of the bigoted Israeli ultra conservatives. But I won’t protest alongside anti-Semites and closet anti-Semites hiding behind the label of anti-Zionist.
Dr Abramson, Except for an unprepared student trying to distract the teacher what difference does it make if Columbus was a Jew, Portuguese,or Hyperborean
I am sorry, but what Jews in Muslim regions went through wasn't far less than it was for Jews in Christian ones. The story of it being benign, even relatively, disappears when one studies the lives of Jews there. By and large it was a nightmare. In particular the lives of European Jews began improving in the middle of the 18th century, and kept improving. While the lives of Middle Eastern and North African Jews stayed essentially unchanged. But even before that it was on average just as bad for one as for the other. Pact of Umar and the jizya were very demeaning and brutal. It wasn't just about what colors one is allowed to wear. Jizya in particular was supposed to be paid "with willing submission and sufficient humiliation," which in some places meant that Jews were stamped with "Paid" on the foreheads. Not to speak of all the sexual violations and mass killings. In general, similarity between cultures or religions tells nothing about how well people get along with each other. People often do horrible things to each other over the tiniest differences. Jewish history was written by European Jews. I think this is where this bias came from.
@@HenryAbramsonPhD May Allah blessed you professor, These Christians just hate the fact that your presentation is unbiased. They want the world to believe that Allah is moon god and not the same God of Israel yet most rabbis that I know agree that Allah has Hebrew and Aramaic roots. These Christians and their missionaries are one of the causes of the current conflict between Arabs and Jews. I used to tell people that Christians will never support the the creation of the state of Israel if All Arabs including Saudi Arabia are Christians. Christians will never even support the rebuilding of the third temple because there will not be any need for Jesus blood as means of atonement soon as the temple is built and animal sacrifices resume.
Jews who believe Jesus do not become non-Jewish, they only recognise their need for a saviour from their sins and ...............when the sacrifice of animals became a feeble and ineffective sacrifice, GOD came and was sacrificed HIMSELF for all who would receive HIM as such ❤❤❤
Dean, thank you for the video. I found the discussion on pre-Umayyad empire revolts particularly insightful. Do we have any information about the Jews who were taken as slaves to the Roman Empire and what became of them? It seems to me that this aspect of Jewish history is relatively undocumented.
We have a fair bit of archaeological evidence of the nature of the Jewish community of Rome in the centuries after the Great Revolt: a synagogue in Ostia, some gravestones, fascinating catacombs.
@@HenryAbramsonPhD Oh. That is very interesting. Thank you. I wonder if you give classes live in Touro; but anyways, I should probably email you directly about that from school email.
I regret that I can’t cite where I heard that the very first mother and father as identified thru DNA were the same parents for the Israeli and Palestinians in the area of Palestine approximately 12000 years ago. Interesting if true.
No that's true though. It's bigger than Israeli & Palestinian. All Arabs and Jews can be biologically traced through DNA to a specific individual. He's culturally referred to as a man called Abraham.
It took me many years to find the correct Indo-Dictionaries with the definitions for Israel and Jew. All I can say is wow 😲 I wish English speakers would speak in English instead of mixing ancient Creole with New English would save people a lot of time on research. I ask you with no disrespect what is White Afrika called and what's the relationship between Jew(s) and Djoe(ka)?🧐
English is a mongrel language. It has many parent languages. Many words and usages in English from times when the English were conquered and times when the English or English speaking nations conquered. Besides all the conquering, the use of Latin or Greek as languages of scholarship also had an impact on the development of English. Even Arabic shows up in words like “algebra”.
@@MarcosElMalo2 Originally Engelisch was for the most part was the same as Holländisch-Deutch. But once they gained their freedom they started venturing out and corrupting every nation's language, religion, history, and culture with lies in order to gain access to their resources. And even though they gained their freedom the slave population was still 50% English people and most were tossed overboard at sea.🧐 Due to the amount of corruption they did to Christianity it will never be a branch of government ever again.
10:01 Genius ambiguity in Talmudic manner. The same word can be used in two opposite direction. After feast Matthew 3. Satan quote the word of God, yet it altered it in a subtle way to perverse the direction of the Spirit. Thus one can not read the word of YHVH without the help of His Holy Spirit. Spirit - Wind - ruach - direction
I think he has missinterpretate the Islam . Shafia and Halacha has nothing in common. Halal and Kashrut has only one thing in common moslems dont eat pork and blood thats it. The moslems persecuted the jews at least as much.1938 there where 18millions jews in the world but only 1million in the moslem world.
Ernst Gustav Schultz a Prussian Consul in Jerusalem in the 1840's conducted a census on the demographic makeup of the City, his results showed that Jews had a slight majority over the Muslims of Jerusalem. James Finn a British Consul in Jerusalem in the 1860's also conducted a census in which his results concurred with Schultz's previous census that Jews were the majority population of the City of Jerusalem at that time. 20 years before the First Zionist Aliyah Wave in the 1880's had even arrived.
Why can't the State Of Israel afford to grant Dhimmi to the Muslim population within greater Israel ? and to grant citizenship to all Muslims who are willing to integrate.
Now I understand why the muslim dominated areas in Northern Nigeria have unwritten rule to make it difficult to get permission to buy land for building churches
About Jewish emigration to Israel you didn't mention the Hasidic and litvish movements to go to Israel and they have been before the Zionist movement and they also build Petah Tikva that you mentioned. the Zionist that hate religion obviously don't mention all that and they call Bilu the first migration (עליה ראשונה).
super interesting. thank you. I would like to know more about Sephardic immigration to the US and the fascinating subject of "Crypto Jews" in Northern Mexico.
The Khazar leaders adopted the faith. Khazaria was in a critical location- between the Byzantines and Muslim caliphates and it was a political choice to choose Judaism. The Khazari folk were not forced to change their beliefs. See Arthur Koestler's "The Thirteenth Tribe".
The Turkish census of Jerusalem in the mid-1850s found 25,000 Jews, 5000 Christians, and 2,000 Muslims.Most of those Jews had been there since time immemorial. They were not Ethiopian Falasha as the heading photo to this video incorrectly illustrates.
1.well i thought that the word "jew" is a new word that started its first use in 16th century France. and were called Judeans. 2. as you stated the followers of Mohamet that started in mecca and media expanded and invaded former Roman Lands that converted to Catholicsm. Catholics are the original Christians, Catholic leaders and Kings especially in Jerusalem and Antioch and other cities were Catholic and were invaded by moslems from mecca and medina. 3. The Crusaders didn't just decide to prance down and start a war, with moslems. 4. they were asked to help and keep the invading mohametians away. And it worked for hundreds of years. thanks, and peace be with you.
FYI Umar was a disciple of Mohamed, when he entered Jerusalem he sent his army to request 80 Jewish tribes to come and inhabit Jeruselum again after they were previously expelled by the Romans / Christians. He also refused to take over the Churches of Seplica because he wanted to show tolerance to the people of the books ie Jews and Christians. Sad to see these gestures uforgotten now by extreme elements.
I'm a Muslim and I listen to your lectures passionately and learning so much! thank you sir!
I am from Egypt, I love listening to you ❤❤
Thank you!
Henry is fantastic, wish he’d been my history teacher!
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Firstly... Palestinians have a right to live in that land without oppression, Exodus 22 v 21 and Leviticus ch 19 v 33-34, but Islamic Fundamentalist ideology and Jihadism and Arab Anti-semiticism are also reasons which have historically made groups attack.
Jews were subjected to being inferior as dhimmis, Muhammad, the founder of Islam said the following:
"The Day of Judgement will not come about until Muslims fight the Jews , when the Jew will hide behind stones and trees. The stones and trees will say O Muslims, O Abdullah, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him.
Among the lies being spread is an effort to undermine Israel’s legitimacy by accusing it of being a settler-colonial state. Those spreading this lie argue that Jews have no historical connection to the land of Israel and that Zionists - those who support the right of Jewish self-determination and national homeland in the land of Israel - came to colonize the land, taking it from the Palestinians beginning in the late nineteenth century. However, this claim ignores the thousands of years of deep connection between the Jewish people and the Land of Israel.
The Lord promised a regathering of the nation of Israel, after diaspora judgement and the city of Jerusalem as he had sworn it unto Abraham, Isaac and Jacob (Israel), Jeremiah 31 v 38-40, Amos ch 9 v 11-15, Genesis 35 v 12, Exodus 32 v 13, Deuteronomy 1 v 8, Deuteronomy 30 v 1-5 and Joshua 21 v 43.
Luke 21 v 24 says: 24 And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations.
Well guess what? Israel as a nation is no longer under Roman or Muslim control.
Timeline of Israel and Jerusalem from the 7th Century to 1948:
Romans, Byzantines, Persians, Caliph Omar, Umayyads, Abbasids, Saladin, Crusaders, Mamluks, Ottomans and British have all laid claim over Israel and historic record of massacres and pogroms for all Jews without a homeland, including the Holocaust worldwide up until 1948 and still continuing, including October 7th 2023..
Diaspora Jews yearned to return to the Jewish homeland and the holy Jewish city of Jerusalem, both of which are mentioned multiple times in daily Jewish prayers.
Traditional Jewish religious thought stated that the Jews had been exiled from their homeland as a punishment from God. They could only return in Messianic times. This belief kept most Jews from thinking about a return to living in Israel.
But, in the nineteenth century, as European Jews suffered from growing antisemitism and violence against them, a new ideology was born - Zionism, a national liberation movement of the Jewish people. Zionists saw a return to the Jewish homeland as the path to Jewish redemption from thousands of years of oppression. Small groups of Zionist pioneers began returning to their ancient homeland in the late nineteenth century, joining the community of Jews who had never left.
Jews consist of much diversity aside from European Jews or Russians and Ukranians: "Thus, among such Mizrahim there are Iranian Jews, Iraqi Jews, Egyptian Jews, Sudanese Jews, Tunisian Jews, Algerian Jews, Moroccan Jews, Lebanese Jews, Libyan Jews, Syrian Jews, and various others. Other Asian groups that evolved separately from Sephardim include the Georgian and Mountain Jews from the Caucasus, Indian Jews including the Malabar Yehuddim (Cochin Jews), Bene Israel, Bnei Menashe and Bene Ephraim, the Afghan Jews and Bukharan Jews of Central Asia, and Chinese Jews, most notably the Kaifeng Jews.
Palestinian forces, though not all people, having largely Islamically inspired have been involved in the 1947-1948 Civil War against Israel (which they lost) which picked up in aggression in January 1948, after the U.N. Resolution for a partition of the Land of Israel.
They were also involved in The 1948 Israel-Arab war, when 5 Arab nations which attacked the newly formed Israel after its statehood Declaration lost the war.
The PLO were founded prior to the 1967 Six Day War and they openly engaged in acts of violence against Israeli civilians, both within Israel and outside of Israel.
The PLO formally came into being during a 1964 meeting of the first Palestinian Congress. Shortly thereafter, the group began to splinter into various factions. Ultimately, the largest faction, Fatah, would come to dominate the organization, and its leader, Yasser Arafat, would become the PLO chairman and most visible symbol. All the groups adhered to a set of principles laid out in the Palestine National Charter, which called for Israel’s destruction.
The PLO’s belligerent rhetoric was matched by deeds. Terrorist attacks by the group grew more frequent. In 1965, 35 raids were conducted against Israel. In 1966, the number increased to 41. In just the first four months of 1967, 37 attacks were launched. The targets were always civilians.
Most of the attacks involved Palestinian guerillas infiltrating Israel from Jordan, the Gaza Strip, and Lebanon. The orders and logistical support for the attacks were coming, however, from Cairo and Damascus..
1973 Yom Kippur War: The war began on 6 October 1973, when the Arab coalition (led by Egypt and Syria) jointly launched a surprise attack against Israel on the Jewish holy day of Yom Kippur, which had occurred during the 10th day of the Islamic month of Ramadan.
The October 7th 2023 Al Asqa Flood Attack comes roughly 50 years and a day after the 1973 war.
Why would this all matter?
Jesus is now the new High Priest for Jew and Gentile but man and Satan would still want to nullify God's promises and covenants to Jews and salvation for them, one tactic being to keep them constantly hostile, at war and unforgiving, Jesus says unless you forgive you cannot be forgiven, Matthew 6 v 14-15.
Secondly, if nuclear war were to break out and destroy every human on the planet virtually, then future Prophecies regarding Israel, such as the Millennial Reign or Jesus coming to defend Jerusalem, Joel chapter 3, Zechariah 12 and Zechariah 14 might be rendered invalid
Dear Dr Abramson, I'm a non-Arab Muslim. I love listening to your lectures and recently started reading one of your books.
As a Christian I find this kind of content both interesting and useful. And Dr. Abramson is a delight to listen to.
Thank you very much
Dearest, not a Rabbi, Dr Abramson, Had the Congregation of my childhood had historians & not just Rabbis...I wouldn't have dropped out in Alef. Now, in my 60s, your lecture series are invaluable for me. Also David Solomon's history crash courses.
Earlier today I searched for videos of Sh'ma being chanted from different places in Diaspora... moving beyond my capacity to describe.
In closing, I love your lectures!
Thank you!
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Why you guys lie too much ? ............. Why do you always started your history with your present at the holly land ? ........... I'm a proud African hebro, and living at the area where Prophet Moses (PBUH) came from ............ You pretend to be European, becaouse you are ashame to tell the truth about you were slaves in Africa? or what is it all about
Looking forward to this. Hoping to learn how many Jews were in the land in the middle ages, who were they, how did they get there or were they ones who stayed after Roman expulsion? Were all Jews forced out by the Romans. How many Jews converted to Christianity and Islam. Were there aliyot before 1880s? So many questions.
All of the founding adherents of Christianity were Jewish and many of them probably remained in the Levant where their forebears had lived. I would suggest that the Palestinian Muslims and Christians currently present in the Land are largely descended from the indigenous Israelite/Jewish/Samaritan, Canaanite and Philistine inhabitants, and that Arabian incomers were marginal.
It's probably not an opportune time for a wide-ranging DNA survey.
Yes, there were. 1300s, 1400s, 1500s… etc… in and out.. in the case of the 1500s, for example, they were driven out during the mamluk ottoman war into Beirut.. then made their way back 15 years later or so… they faced pogroms and expulsions much beyond the Romans… in and out… there were always Jews making their way back.. when ottomans took over, they were forbidden from owning land so they circumvented the system and bought land from Arab land owners and found ways to go back… but basically, many examples of returning to rebuild as much as they could much before Herzl was even a fetus.
@@rolandscales9380not true. Under the ottomans there were no “borders” so you had tons of little colonies of ethnic groups migrating… for work, mainly. The crusades killed so many most of the population were driven out… during Ottoman Empire you had Turks, Armenians, Circassian’s, samaritans, Jews, Arabs of Christian or Muslim faith, Sudanese migrations, moors, etc… after fall of Ottoman Empire huge influx of Arab peoples were sent in to fight or settle. Egypt alone funnelled few thousand of their citizens to what is today Tel Aviv… that is the historical record… that is why the Palestinians tout how “diverse” they are.. their collective identity wasn’t solidified until the 60s, for example. the territories are also quite different from village to village.. arabization has them all speaking a dialect of Arabic but they are very diverse bc they migrated from all over. So some can very well have Canaanite DNA but main Canaanite DNA was actually found in communities of Lebanese, who are not Arab but arabized at this point. Maronites, for example. So… it’s a common talking point to legitimize the “indigenous” origin of Palestinians but it’s a fallacy.
@rolandscales9380 The ancient Arabu tribes actually lived in the areas of Gaza Sderot Ashkelon Ashdod Negeve Sinai. So Arabs aren't new to that region. The Prophet Ismaeel alay salaam was about 16 years older than Isaac alay salaam, which makes the Arab nation older than the Israelite nation.
Good question! Many, including part of my ancestral family were not exiled by the Romans, but rather remained here. In many cases the descendants of exiles reunited with their families upon return. I know from my family what a great joy it was.
The exchange of history knowledge between those who remained and those who returned was amazing.
Dr Abramson, as always, what a joy to learn the rich history of our people. Thank you for touching on the Talmud. In a former lecture you spoke on this and, inspired, I dug deeper. The text opened a whole new world of understanding and changed my life forever. Thank you for bringing faith and history together as it was meant to be from the beginning!
Thank you for the very kind words! Glad you found this video helpful.
Another engaging, edifying lecture - thank you for all your work, Dr. Abramson!
You are very welcome!
First time I have heard someone mentioning the similarity between Islam and Judaism. Of course, I am still wondering why this is not mentioned more often.
First time? Maybe its your first time, hearing it come from someone like this guy.
I have heard of this ages ago. It was someone Muslim in Lebanon that I first heard say something similar.
Most Jews recognize the similarity in ONE God.
Both religions require circumcision, both have dietary laws that forbid pork and require certain methods of slaughter, both pray to cities in the East, and Islam not only recognizes the Jewish prophets but also considers them Muslims. Muslims pray 5 times a day, Jews 3 times. Both practice headcovering in different contexts. Both religions recognize that they worship the same God, just disagree on how to worship. Really the major difference is the notion in Islam that it is the supreme religion that the whole world must submit to, as opposed to Jews, who are fine with other religions and recognize their merits, but see themselves as obligated to worship the one God their own way.
Thank you for making such an accessible and interesting channel on all aspects of Jewish history….I’m a US Army Foreign Area Officer specializing in the Middle East and I think you can’t be successful in this field without understanding 1) Military History, 2) Regional History, 3) Islamic History, and 4) Jewish History.
There’s plenty of sources for the first 3, but you’re the best and most comprehensive source I’ve ever found for the last.
Thank you and never change!
I like the picture of the bride at the Pact of Umar section. Reminds me of the depiction of brides in some of James Tissot's paintings. He was a French artist who went to the Holy Land to paint in the 1880s, and painted a bride like that in his depiction of The Wedding at Cana.
Me too! I am a big James Tissot fan as well.
Yemenite Jewish bride?
@@alexandersiagianspan7308 yes, I guess so. Looks like that's what she is.
So what has changed comparing what’s happening now, the war in Gaza to what happened in Spain when Jewish, Christian, and Muslims lived together in peace, why we can’t have this now what’s wrong with all of us?
Learn more about Islam and you'd know why. Muslims can live in peace with jews so long as they rule over jews. Look up the words Dar al Islam and Dar al hurb
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It’s the other way around, learn about Christianity and the politics of the United States of America then you will know the reason why Arabs and Jews cannot leave in peace.
@@alfapaul5593 it's not political it's all religious, look at what the Nigerian Muslims are doing to the Christians and what the Muslim Sudanese did to the Christians there, now what's the excuse?
@@yossibendovid7607Islam saved you
The problems came when the Eastern European Jews emigrated to Palestine in the 1940's. Read the history books. They kept coming through immigration and too many came and the Arabs felt threatened because they were taking over.
The Arabs couldn't stop their coming and so they went to war. Also, the Jews received help from the British the French and others so they got the upper hand, they had weapons. The Arabs had been left out of negotiations as well.
Read the history.
Hence, the Arabs/Palestinians have been having problems from the Jews and subsequently placed in a open-air prison for over 75 years, by these people who emigrated there from Eastern European Jews.
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Greetings and bestcwishes to you too.
I was fond of Saladdin who fought off the crusaders and specifically invited Jews to return to the Holy Land.
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Firstly... Palestinians have a right to live in that land without oppression, Exodus 22 v 21 and Leviticus ch 19 v 33-34, but Islamic Fundamentalist ideology and Jihadism and Arab Anti-semiticism are also reasons which have historically made groups attack.
Jews were subjected to being inferior as dhimmis, Muhammad, the founder of Islam said the following:
"The Day of Judgement will not come about until Muslims fight the Jews , when the Jew will hide behind stones and trees. The stones and trees will say O Muslims, O Abdullah, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him.
Among the lies being spread is an effort to undermine Israel’s legitimacy by accusing it of being a settler-colonial state. Those spreading this lie argue that Jews have no historical connection to the land of Israel and that Zionists - those who support the right of Jewish self-determination and national homeland in the land of Israel - came to colonize the land, taking it from the Palestinians beginning in the late nineteenth century. However, this claim ignores the thousands of years of deep connection between the Jewish people and the Land of Israel.
The Lord promised a regathering of the nation of Israel, after diaspora judgement and the city of Jerusalem as he had sworn it unto Abraham, Isaac and Jacob (Israel), Jeremiah 31 v 38-40, Amos ch 9 v 11-15, Genesis 35 v 12, Exodus 32 v 13, Deuteronomy 1 v 8, Deuteronomy 30 v 1-5 and Joshua 21 v 43.
Luke 21 v 24 says: 24 And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations.
Well guess what? Israel as a nation is no longer under Roman or Muslim control.
Timeline of Israel and Jerusalem from the 7th Century to 1948:
Romans, Byzantines, Persians, Caliph Omar, Umayyads, Abbasids, Saladin, Crusaders, Mamluks, Ottomans and British have all laid claim over Israel and historic record of massacres and pogroms for all Jews without a homeland, including the Holocaust worldwide up until 1948 and still continuing, including October 7th 2023..
Diaspora Jews yearned to return to the Jewish homeland and the holy Jewish city of Jerusalem, both of which are mentioned multiple times in daily Jewish prayers.
Traditional Jewish religious thought stated that the Jews had been exiled from their homeland as a punishment from God. They could only return in Messianic times. This belief kept most Jews from thinking about a return to living in Israel.
But, in the nineteenth century, as European Jews suffered from growing antisemitism and violence against them, a new ideology was born - Zionism, a national liberation movement of the Jewish people. Zionists saw a return to the Jewish homeland as the path to Jewish redemption from thousands of years of oppression. Small groups of Zionist pioneers began returning to their ancient homeland in the late nineteenth century, joining the community of Jews who had never left.
Jews consist of much diversity aside from European Jews or Russians and Ukranians: "Thus, among such Mizrahim there are Iranian Jews, Iraqi Jews, Egyptian Jews, Sudanese Jews, Tunisian Jews, Algerian Jews, Moroccan Jews, Lebanese Jews, Libyan Jews, Syrian Jews, and various others. Other Asian groups that evolved separately from Sephardim include the Georgian and Mountain Jews from the Caucasus, Indian Jews including the Malabar Yehuddim (Cochin Jews), Bene Israel, Bnei Menashe and Bene Ephraim, the Afghan Jews and Bukharan Jews of Central Asia, and Chinese Jews, most notably the Kaifeng Jews.
Palestinian forces, though not all people, having largely Islamically inspired have been involved in the 1947-1948 Civil War against Israel (which they lost) which picked up in aggression in January 1948, after the U.N. Resolution for a partition of the Land of Israel.
They were also involved in The 1948 Israel-Arab war, when 5 Arab nations which attacked the newly formed Israel after its statehood Declaration lost the war.
The PLO were founded prior to the 1967 Six Day War and they openly engaged in acts of violence against Israeli civilians, both within Israel and outside of Israel.
The PLO formally came into being during a 1964 meeting of the first Palestinian Congress. Shortly thereafter, the group began to splinter into various factions. Ultimately, the largest faction, Fatah, would come to dominate the organization, and its leader, Yasser Arafat, would become the PLO chairman and most visible symbol. All the groups adhered to a set of principles laid out in the Palestine National Charter, which called for Israel’s destruction.
The PLO’s belligerent rhetoric was matched by deeds. Terrorist attacks by the group grew more frequent. In 1965, 35 raids were conducted against Israel. In 1966, the number increased to 41. In just the first four months of 1967, 37 attacks were launched. The targets were always civilians.
Most of the attacks involved Palestinian guerillas infiltrating Israel from Jordan, the Gaza Strip, and Lebanon. The orders and logistical support for the attacks were coming, however, from Cairo and Damascus..
1973 Yom Kippur War: The war began on 6 October 1973, when the Arab coalition (led by Egypt and Syria) jointly launched a surprise attack against Israel on the Jewish holy day of Yom Kippur, which had occurred during the 10th day of the Islamic month of Ramadan.
The October 7th 2023 Al Asqa Flood Attack comes roughly 50 years and a day after the 1973 war.
Why would this all matter?
Jesus is now the new High Priest for Jew and Gentile but man and Satan would still want to nullify God's promises and covenants to Jews and salvation for them, one tactic being to keep them constantly hostile, at war and unforgiving, Jesus says unless you forgive you cannot be forgiven, Matthew 6 v 14-15.
Secondly, if nuclear war were to break out and destroy every human on the planet virtually, then future Prophecies regarding Israel, such as the Millennial Reign or Jesus coming to defend Jerusalem, Joel chapter 3, Zechariah 12 and Zechariah 14 might be rendered invalid
And the ottomans also.
Salaadin al Ayoubi's chief physician was the famous Jewish scholar Rambam(Ravi Moshe Ben Maimon).
There are those who claim there were no Jews in Israel prior to 1948. The next time any of you visit Jerusalem, check out the Old Yishuv Court Museum in the Old City. It documents Jewish life in Jerusalem over 100 years ago.
There were always Palestinian Jews
@@SatanYahoo and this is why the contention that Israel is a European Colonial state is false. There is also the matter of the expulsion of Jews from Arab states at the founding of the state of Israel. More than a million Jews were forcibly removed from their communities throughout the Middle East and fled to or were sent to Israel.
I’ve heard many people claim that anti-Zionism is not anti-Semitic, based on belief in the Marxist-Leninist concepts of colonialism. Anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism, based on falsification and ignorance of history.
@@SatanYahooWhat many people don't realise, is the majority of today's Palestinians are decendants of Jews and Christians who reverted to Islam, then again I'm just a conspiracy theorist
@@SatanYahoo but jews are very tiny minority, less than 5%.
Not really. There has been large Arab economic migrants simply because they were closer neighbours
Blessings to you, Dr Abramson on this Easter Sunday. Thank you for all the good work you do.
You are very welcome
Dr. Abramson. Thank you very much for this video. Question: what is the title or name of the book from which you obtain the maps in this video?
The Lecture is a real tour de force wonderful summary of our complex experience of other nations
Thank you for the kind words.
BTW the still image shown at around 16:00 is from a rather good film called Arranged, which is about two young teachers in Brooklyn, one muslim one orthodox jewish, who bond over their respective mishaps related to arranged marriage.
Thanks for the reference!
Really looking forward to the next lecture. Thank you!🙏
Perhaps you can lecture on the Book of Deuteronomy the Blessings and Curses of God and how God put the Israelites out of Canaan Land and placed his Curses on them as described in
Chapters 27, 28, 29, 30, and 31.
The Jews that are in Israel now, they came from Europe. God said his people would be scattered to the uttermost parts of the Earth.
Where are the other Jews that were scattered? They were yellow, red, brown, and Black skinned.
The people living in Israel are Atheist,
non-religious and secular. They are not semitic people either. They are not the Holy chosen ones.
God's people are supposed to be HOLY and live holy.
Hi Dr. Abrahamson. Wonderful work as always. I wanted to bring your attention to something, however. On your website, the links and thumbnails for recommended reading no longer work. I hope it gets fixed soon, as I wished to go through it to aid me in some research
This is great, I'm enjoying learning about Jewish history.
Thank you
Hi love the lecture!
I think it is worth a mention of the fascinating failed attempts to build the third temple in the times of Julian, Eudocia (Empress of Theodosias) and Heracules
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Thank you very much, Dr. Abramson.
Most welcome!
I would love a video from you about who are the Palestinians (who don't identify as Jews) and if some of them may have originally been Jews (religiously, ethnically) and converted to Islam after being conquered by various empires and regimes over the past couple thousand years
They’re basically converted Christians who before were converted from Jews and Samritans.
That’s my opinion at least
Well I know many are Arab from Arabian peninsula originally who came over with the Ottoman Empire and earlier Muslim conquests, but yeah I imagine some folks have been there all along w Jewish ethnic roots.
@@jessicajoy8751 since Israel/Palestine is actually part of the Arabian peninsula, it does not make sense to talk about them "coming over" from the Ottoman Empire. The Ottomans conquered the Arabs, who were already there! Also, there were other peoples besides the Hebrews in Palestine in both biblical and Roman times, and some genetic testing of ancient remains identify "Arab" genes, so it is safe to say that Arabs have been present in Palestine/Israel/Judea as long as the Hebrew/Jewish people.
We know that the earliest Christians were Hebrew/Jews, and it makes sense that some of the early converts to Islam in that area were also Jewish. For many, many, years Jews, Christians, and Arabs - along with other ethnicities and religions - lived in and shared the lands now called Israel.
@@lornamackay4069 It’s gotta be most likely a both/and answer - some folks have been there all along and became Christians and Muslims, some folks came in with the different conquests (even from ethnic and geographical neighbors/cousins) as others were expelled. I would like him to make a video on his understandings of this in particular. As people have toxic debates on who are the “real” indigenous peoples of the land and who are the “real” Jews ethnically, I am wanting to consume more grounded history on the subject. Israel/Palestine is its own place between Egypt and the Arabian Peninsula countries throughout history with its own specific peoples from all research I’ve done. It does make sense to talk about and ask about.
@@jessicajoy8751 I am sure you are right - some of the Palestinians are descended from the ancient inhabitants of the area (including Hebrew tribes) and some have immigrated there over the centuries (including descendants of Crusader, Greek, and Roman occupations). But rather than Israel/Palestine being "its own place between Egypt and Arabian Peninsula", Palestine has always had strong ties to the Mesopotamian area. In the Old Testament/Torah stories of the Hebrew patriarchs, many (including Abraham) came from what is now Syria and Iraq. Pre-1948 establishment of Israel, Syria was an important supplier and consumer of goods to and from Palestine, and no doubt the populations mixed not only in commerce. Trade with Lebanon is mentioned in the Bible, and continued over the centuries. So, Palestine/Israel probably had strong ties to the larger "fertile crescent" since pre-history.
As a non Muslim living under islam wasn't that bad? Wow i never knew that
That all changed in the 20th century.
@@annehunt787 question is why? 1200 years of tranquility and 100 years of chaos? Why?
@@Klopp2543 USA and UK got involved....always create chaos!
@@Klopp2543The return of the Jewish people to their historic homeland in larger numbers, and Ottoman/Muslim fear that Jews would reclaim the land as a Jewish State which is exactly what happened in 1948! The rest, sadly, is history....
@@mcorry6072 crusaders also came with a lot of chaos and disruptions. The west along with Ottoman's weakness, the boundaries and leaders they imposed and the discovery of oil too didn't help
What are the titles of the other 2 lectures? I would like to watch them in sequence.
Really enjoyed this history. Thank you for taking the time
I’m surprized that the Ukrainian Jews weren’t more successful farmers. Was it because of the change in soil and climate?
Not sure
We were kept in poverty-- farming is expensive
They were city or town inhabitans without any expirience in agriculture.
That soil went through a restoration process; including water.
Israel, the land; and, Israel , the people make a "whole".
They are meant to exist together.
They weren’t farmers in Ukraine. They were townspeople: merchants, craftspeople, financiers, innkeepers, brewers and distillers, tradespeople, etc. In many places they weren’t permitted to farm.
You gotta mention the pilgrimage of prominent Jewish figures like the Ramban, the Arizal and the disciples of the Besht and the Grah
No he doesn't
Classic joke!! Lifeguard says ‘no swimming in the pool’. Old jewish woman replies ‘no! Swimming in the pool!’
just think how difficult it would be to use as a textbook
Great video. You're so pleasant to listen to.
Thank you!
I am from Puerto Rico.Keep up the good work.
lectures 1&2 are labeled as 8 months ago … when will #3 come?
Finally!
So much wanted to learn about it!
Very much looking forward to your next video, I always find your lectures to be both edifying and illuminating....in particular I love your ability to navigate the difficult terrain where verifiable historical facts and religious traditions intersect. My understanding of the word Rabbi is that it means teacher, and if my understanding of the word is correct then I have no issue with according you that very respectful title.....even if it's not official. Blessings as always, both for you and for Israel, the land and its people.
Professor is this the same Tiberias Synagogue where an ancient swastika is etched into the floor?
Not sure
@@HenryAbramsonPhDWas Ein Gedi, not Tiberias Synagogue (my mistake)
Can't wait to watch this
So what happened to the 700k Jews that went to Israel after the Spanish expulsion in the 1500s? How did they decline to just 4% of the population in the early mid 1800s? (Perhaps they weren’t treated so well under the Ottomans)
That would be under another theory.. transatlantic slave trade
Who told you that they went to Palestine? (That time there was no Israel) The Jews ( Sefarads) were taken from Spain and Portugal by Ottoman fleet and setler in Istanbul, Izmir and Saloniki. There was no itinenary like Palestine. Their number was around at max 600000. In the nineteenth and the early w-twentieth century they moved to other countries such as USA, the ones in South America and France, etc. After the foundation of Israel they moved to Palestine territory along with the ashkénaze who fled in the 19 and 20 centuries from Russian pogroms to Türkiye. When Europeans catholics and orthodox massacres the Jews the Turks always help they… make séarches!!!
@HenryAbramsonPhD I have and always referred to Palestine as Land of Israel, even when the word Palestine was used, you dismissed it as a mistake. People like you
Makes sense now. 💥 Thank you.
10.47. Hi thanks fir a very onteresting question. I knew about the period in Spain when Jews, Christians and Muslims co-existed in peace. In fact members of my family are descended from Jews who had to leave Spain after that period, but I always thought it ended when Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand kicked the Moors out of Spain and took over the country, bringing in persecution of anyone not Christian.
not catholic*
Also, the idea christians and jews lived in heaven under muslim rulers is a mith.
Henry that was just magnificent.
(6:09) it is not clear how the justification for departing from the moon sighting is achieved in 359 ??
דחיית חודש קדוש מהשנה
Sounds like a departure from prophetic guidance !! It also means that celebration are really out of place on the true lunar calendar 📅
(7:52) Actually it is an ancient term which appears in
Psalm תְּהִלִּים
(60:8, 83:7, 87:4, and 108:9)
(10:45) But was it not seen at the time that opening the door for reinterpretation in this manner would result in complete misunderstanding of the original intent of the Scripture ??
Thank you! Very helpful review of history. Especially for pointing out periods where co-existence actually happened. Our world today badly needs to seriously think of such a possibility and how we can make it happen. Which very likely to require some compromise and ego reduction. For the sake of this Earth we share and the future of our children.
People watching a lecture from a highly accredited historian and then writing in comments section how he is wrong and that Jews were not treated well by Muslims. 🤦🏽 why bother? Just continue with the Koolaid.
Always a blessing to hear your knowledge. Thank you
Thank you, was hoping you would address this.
Glad you found it helpful
Excellent lecture as usual. I feel I have to point out the Mosques although people do congregate there are not classed as places of congregation, but places of prostration, because of course when prostrating to God this I’d the high point of the ritual pray.
11:39 Eklesia- εκκλησία- means called out ie: chosen.
Re 15:29 Maimonides wrote “God has entangled us with this people, the nation of Ishmael, who treat us so prejudicially and who legislate our harm and hatred…. No nation has ever arisen more harmful than they, nor has anyone done more to humiliate us, degrade us, and consolidate hatred against us.” ref: Quran 9:29
Hello from North London
Thanks for the video. Maybe you could do a video all about the Ottoman "edict of toleration" that was passed in 1844 and how that shaped current Israel.
Thank you, Dr. Abramson, for another educational and very informative video. I myself studied for a Degree unique to Israel called Land of Israel Studies, where an entirely new universe of information is given compared to what is taught even in the Israeli state-run education system, which is such a shame. The studies cover pre-, ancient, and modern history, all religions of the land, geology and geography, climate, and in-depth studies of specific regions. Through evidence from archaeology and texts, I was exposed to a somewhat more controversial theory of the early Muslim period in the land, the Umayyad or Golden Age. More and more evidence shows that the Umayyads in the entire Levant embraced Greek culture and architecture. We discovered from texts(Arab sources) that on the eve of the arrival of the Crusaders, the actual Muslim population was still a minority, the majority was still Christian with a significant Jewish minority, and Greek was still at this time the main language of the population slowly giving way to the emerging Arabic. To jump towards our modern times. My wife's family from Tiberias had been there for many generations and were part of Aleppo and Damascus Jewish communities before that. There are many stories about just a generation or two marriages of their Jewish daughters being done with local Arab landlords. There are studies done on the genetics of certain Palestinian populations along with family stories of "forced" conversions of large Jewish populations done by the Ottomans in the land of Israel, hence explaining the rapid decline starting three hundred years ago of both the Jews and Christian population and a rise in the Muslim one. What are your thoughts on this?
I love your education I am glad we have you explained about our Judaism in different years.
however, Judaism and Christianity share the same text, even though in translation. Islam in this regard is totally other entity. Also, Christian communities would use "Old Testament" as a code of behavior.
Excellent overview of late Jewish history. The Bilu immigration, indeed, came in 1882. According to Wikipedia: "On 6 July 1882, the first group of Bilu pioneers emigrated from Russia and arrived in Ottoman Palestine. The group consisted of fourteen university students from Kharkiv, etc." Few may realize it, but the Yemenite Jews also began to immigrate to the Land of Israel in 1882. According to Wikipedia: "This immigration was popularly given the mnemonics, aʻaleh betamar (literally, 'I shall go up on the date palm tree,' a verse taken from Song of Songs). The Hebrew word "betamar" = בתמר has the numerical value of 642, which they expounded to mean, 'I shall go up (i.e. make the pilgrimage) in the year [5]642 anno mundi (here, abbreviated without the millennium), or what was then 1882 CE."
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I often find myself pondering why the Jewish faith has historically experienced conflicts with its surrounding communities. When we trace back through history to the very beginning, Jewish people have frequently clashed with other human families. One tale that particularly stands out is that of Ishmael and Isaac, where Ishmael was banished to the desert and later founded the Islamic faith. Initially, I was skeptical of this narrative, but upon studying Arabic and Hebrew languages, I was astonished to discover striking similarities in pronunciation-up to 74% identical, such as 'Blood' = 'Dam' in Arabic and 'Dam' in Hebrew. Furthermore, the linguistic similarities extend far beyond what one might expect, even encompassing familial terms such as mother, father, and other family members. Have any of you ever considered investigating whether Arabs and Jews share a familial bond through bloodline, stemming from the same father? I urge both Jewish and Arab communities to explore this notion and realize that they are connected, and to cease perpetuating hatred towards one another for the sake of their common ancestor, Abraham.
I think the conflicts were prominent in the Estern and western European societies. Not so much in the Islamic world.
@@MR-dm1gx What about the Amalekites, Canaanites, or Babylonians? Were they East/West Europeans? Not at all. They had conflicts with whoever lived near them long before Christianity or Islam came into existence. Furthermore, they even had conflicts with their own God for not following his guidance. I guess God turned against them when some of them began worshiping the golden calf, which resulted in the destruction of their temples. I don't think the conflicts began with Christianity or Islam.
@Humanoya Yes, but you could say that about most groups. Sunnis vs Shiites and Catholics vs Protestants. It's not a Jewish only issue.
THIS material good. I am not Jewish but Catholic. Educating young Jewish and other Nations on evidence-based history help to sober up emotions running high and put things in perspective
Thank you.
@@HenryAbramsonPhD may I add, sir - history teaching like what you do is better when it influences decision-making among authorities to avoid mistakes in the future. In geo-politics, I'm wary of the possibility of having a Palestinian state which could be a precedence, say, for mainland China to legally claim all of south China Sea for the reason that the sea was named after her (China as point of reference) Philippines' right to exploit natural resources at our West Philippine Sea through UNCLOS becomes moot and academic.
Not always intellectually honest but always entertaining.
Your failure to comprehend it doesn't equate to someone else's alleged intellectual dishonesty.
Informative factual and interesting as always.
Let's go!
Very engaging presentations. One small correction about Theodotus the donor. This name means "given by God" (Jonathan?).
I noticed you beginning your history in the land in 135 AD. What about before then? If you came into the land at that time, where did you come from and where did the people of the land go? I’m waiting to hear this account!😅
Have a look at part 1
@@HenryAbramsonPhD I did, yet it doesn't show you all as those people. I hear you all say you from tribes of Judah and Benjamin and Levi, yet descriptions are given of the tribe of Judah and it doesn't fit with you. Make sense of the doctrine and history you believe in because I can't find references in the Bible describing you all being mistaken for Ethiopians, or Moses arm being changed to leprous as snow and than arm being changed back to his original color, Solomon's description, job, jews who were called Niger, Joseph living in caanan amongst the dark races of the hamites, plus the fact that we have been blessed with God given ability in every way! What ability has he given you all to make the claim that you can out perform other nations of people that shows being above because of God given natural ability, natural physiques, the gift to just do it better, that's the real children of Israel. Why you think all these machinations are being used in the world? Because the truth is being uncovered and the world can't be fooled, manipulated and lied too with false narratives. The jig is up and people don't see it or choose not to believe real prophecy
@HenryAbramsonPhD still, how is it that you are the people of the land?! We were scattered, and the converts were allowed to stay and claim the identity. Let's keep it real! The people than were people of color, brown and darker. There was a nation removed from mankind, who might that nation be? Considering you definitely couldn't have living amongst the Egyptians, descendants of the dark race of the hamites. Explain Moses skin changing from his normal color to The Almighty changing it to white like snow and then back to his normal color? I'm waiting for a response that I doubt I'll now receive from you bc you have no explanation, so , you'll ignore this response as you so good at doing when this truth is facing you directly, and you have no truthful answer. Waiting
@@HenryAbramsonPhD Mr Abramson, I have to mention this, if it hadn’t been yt people showing all this contention and anger out of pure hatred, like those Karan videos that people started video recording, showing them act out on their hatred, I would have never came across a Hebrew camp! So, I thank you and your people for continuing to do harm, and evil deeds bc as it woke me up, so shall it continue with other slave descendants. 😃 😊
So now you ignore after responding to my first comment. Why is it always hard to dialog by answering questions asked? This is why people can't move on and make things better bc people still refuse to deal with issues created by the very people running from history ( his story)
Thank you 🙏🏼
Speaking of Arabian Jewish community and how their story inspired many Muslims while most of Jews didn't heard it before at all
"بسم رب خيبر نبدأ وبسيف ذو الفقار نضرب"
"In the name of the God of Khaybar we start, and by the sword of Dhu al-Faqar (The sword of Ali Bin Abi Talib, the commander of the Muslim army) we strike"
This sentence was found in the pocket of one of the Hamas fighters who stormed Israel on Oct 7.
Ominous.
Sounds like more Hasbara Propaganda Bullshit.
🤔Jazia was equivalent to zakat which Muslims paid. So there was no description here. It's just state tax. 2nd. Jews And Christians didn't get to fight in wars. So Muslims were protecting Jews and Christians in Muslim lands. Another huge benefit.
Jizzia isnt limited. And must be paid whille humiliated. So thats not the same.
@@dogbert52 you have wrong info
@0786AHA he is right. Read the sahih bukhari hadeeth. Muhammad specifically asks Ms to humiliate when collecting jizya.
Also jizya was compulsory while zakat is voluntary.
Firstly... Palestinians have a right to live in that land without oppression, Exodus 22 v 21 and Leviticus ch 19 v 33-34, but Islamic Fundamentalist ideology and Jihadism and Arab Anti-semiticism are also reasons which have historically made groups attack.
Jews were subjected to being inferior as dhimmis, Muhammad, the founder of Islam said the following:
"The Day of Judgement will not come about until Muslims fight the Jews , when the Jew will hide behind stones and trees. The stones and trees will say O Muslims, O Abdullah, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him.
Among the lies being spread is an effort to undermine Israel’s legitimacy by accusing it of being a settler-colonial state. Those spreading this lie argue that Jews have no historical connection to the land of Israel and that Zionists - those who support the right of Jewish self-determination and national homeland in the land of Israel - came to colonize the land, taking it from the Palestinians beginning in the late nineteenth century. However, this claim ignores the thousands of years of deep connection between the Jewish people and the Land of Israel.
The Lord promised a regathering of the nation of Israel, after diaspora judgement and the city of Jerusalem as he had sworn it unto Abraham, Isaac and Jacob (Israel), Jeremiah 31 v 38-40, Amos ch 9 v 11-15, Genesis 35 v 12, Exodus 32 v 13, Deuteronomy 1 v 8, Deuteronomy 30 v 1-5 and Joshua 21 v 43.
Luke 21 v 24 says: 24 And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations.
Well guess what? Israel as a nation is no longer under Roman or Muslim control.
Timeline of Israel and Jerusalem from the 7th Century to 1948:
Romans, Byzantines, Persians, Caliph Omar, Umayyads, Abbasids, Saladin, Crusaders, Mamluks, Ottomans and British have all laid claim over Israel and historic record of massacres and pogroms for all Jews without a homeland, including the Holocaust worldwide up until 1948 and still continuing, including October 7th 2023..
Diaspora Jews yearned to return to the Jewish homeland and the holy Jewish city of Jerusalem, both of which are mentioned multiple times in daily Jewish prayers.
Traditional Jewish religious thought stated that the Jews had been exiled from their homeland as a punishment from God. They could only return in Messianic times. This belief kept most Jews from thinking about a return to living in Israel.
But, in the nineteenth century, as European Jews suffered from growing antisemitism and violence against them, a new ideology was born - Zionism, a national liberation movement of the Jewish people. Zionists saw a return to the Jewish homeland as the path to Jewish redemption from thousands of years of oppression. Small groups of Zionist pioneers began returning to their ancient homeland in the late nineteenth century, joining the community of Jews who had never left.
Jews consist of much diversity aside from European Jews or Russians and Ukranians: "Thus, among such Mizrahim there are Iranian Jews, Iraqi Jews, Egyptian Jews, Sudanese Jews, Tunisian Jews, Algerian Jews, Moroccan Jews, Lebanese Jews, Libyan Jews, Syrian Jews, and various others. Other Asian groups that evolved separately from Sephardim include the Georgian and Mountain Jews from the Caucasus, Indian Jews including the Malabar Yehuddim (Cochin Jews), Bene Israel, Bnei Menashe and Bene Ephraim, the Afghan Jews and Bukharan Jews of Central Asia, and Chinese Jews, most notably the Kaifeng Jews.
Palestinian forces, though not all people, having largely Islamically inspired have been involved in the 1947-1948 Civil War against Israel (which they lost) which picked up in aggression in January 1948, after the U.N. Resolution for a partition of the Land of Israel.
They were also involved in The 1948 Israel-Arab war, when 5 Arab nations which attacked the newly formed Israel after its statehood Declaration lost the war.
The PLO were founded prior to the 1967 Six Day War and they openly engaged in acts of violence against Israeli civilians, both within Israel and outside of Israel.
The PLO formally came into being during a 1964 meeting of the first Palestinian Congress. Shortly thereafter, the group began to splinter into various factions. Ultimately, the largest faction, Fatah, would come to dominate the organization, and its leader, Yasser Arafat, would become the PLO chairman and most visible symbol. All the groups adhered to a set of principles laid out in the Palestine National Charter, which called for Israel’s destruction.
The PLO’s belligerent rhetoric was matched by deeds. Terrorist attacks by the group grew more frequent. In 1965, 35 raids were conducted against Israel. In 1966, the number increased to 41. In just the first four months of 1967, 37 attacks were launched. The targets were always civilians.
Most of the attacks involved Palestinian guerillas infiltrating Israel from Jordan, the Gaza Strip, and Lebanon. The orders and logistical support for the attacks were coming, however, from Cairo and Damascus..
1973 Yom Kippur War: The war began on 6 October 1973, when the Arab coalition (led by Egypt and Syria) jointly launched a surprise attack against Israel on the Jewish holy day of Yom Kippur, which had occurred during the 10th day of the Islamic month of Ramadan.
The October 7th 2023 Al Asqa Flood Attack comes roughly 50 years and a day after the 1973 war.
Why would this all matter?
Jesus is now the new High Priest for Jew and Gentile but man and Satan would still want to nullify God's promises and covenants to Jews and salvation for them, one tactic being to keep them constantly hostile, at war and unforgiving, Jesus says unless you forgive you cannot be forgiven, Matthew 6 v 14-15.
Secondly, if nuclear war were to break out and destroy every human on the planet virtually, then future Prophecies regarding Israel, such as the Millennial Reign or Jesus coming to defend Jerusalem, Joel chapter 3, Zechariah 12 and Zechariah 14 might be rendered invalid.
@@HebrewsvJohnv Thank you for posting this. I’m an agnostic, so the scripture based arguments have less effect on me, but the historical facts you related comport with what I know.
I think that there should be more emphasis placed on the expulsion of Middle Eastern Jews from Arab states at the time of Israel’s founding. This historical fact undermines the anti-Semitic argument that Jews are European colonizers.
Imagine you and your family are kicked out of your home in Syria under threat of violence and forced to flee to Israel, AND THEN being told you’re a dirty European colonizer.
I abhor much of what Israel is currently doing in Gaza. I repudiate the Netanyahu government and the voices of the bigoted Israeli ultra conservatives.
But I won’t protest alongside anti-Semites and closet anti-Semites hiding behind the label of anti-Zionist.
Dr Abramson, Except for an unprepared student trying to distract the teacher what difference does it make if Columbus was a Jew, Portuguese,or Hyperborean
I am sorry, but what Jews in Muslim regions went through wasn't far less than it was for Jews in Christian ones. The story of it being benign, even relatively, disappears when one studies the lives of Jews there. By and large it was a nightmare.
In particular the lives of European Jews began improving in the middle of the 18th century, and kept improving. While the lives of Middle Eastern and North African Jews stayed essentially unchanged. But even before that it was on average just as bad for one as for the other.
Pact of Umar and the jizya were very demeaning and brutal. It wasn't just about what colors one is allowed to wear. Jizya in particular was supposed to be paid "with willing submission and sufficient humiliation," which in some places meant that Jews were stamped with "Paid" on the foreheads.
Not to speak of all the sexual violations and mass killings.
In general, similarity between cultures or religions tells nothing about how well people get along with each other. People often do horrible things to each other over the tiniest differences.
Jewish history was written by European Jews. I think this is where this bias came from.
Have a look, for example, at the work of Mark Cohen, Under Crescent and Cross.
@@HenryAbramsonPhD
May Allah blessed you professor, These Christians just hate the fact that your presentation is unbiased. They want the world to believe that Allah is moon god and not the same God of Israel yet most rabbis that I know agree that Allah has Hebrew and Aramaic roots. These Christians and their missionaries are one of the causes of the current conflict between Arabs and Jews.
I used to tell people that Christians will never support the the creation of the state of Israel if All Arabs including Saudi Arabia are Christians.
Christians will never even support the rebuilding of the third temple because there will not be any need for Jesus blood as means of atonement soon as the temple is built and animal sacrifices resume.
You pay jizya but don't go to war ,,carry on your business,, read properly
Jews who believe Jesus do not become non-Jewish, they only recognise their need for a saviour from their sins and ...............when the sacrifice of animals became a feeble and ineffective sacrifice, GOD came and was sacrificed HIMSELF for all who would receive HIM as such ❤❤❤
Dean, thank you for the video. I found the discussion on pre-Umayyad empire revolts particularly insightful. Do we have any information about the Jews who were taken as slaves to the Roman Empire and what became of them? It seems to me that this aspect of Jewish history is relatively undocumented.
We have a fair bit of archaeological evidence of the nature of the Jewish community of Rome in the centuries after the Great Revolt: a synagogue in Ostia, some gravestones, fascinating catacombs.
@@HenryAbramsonPhD Oh. That is very interesting. Thank you. I wonder if you give classes live in Touro; but anyways, I should probably email you directly about that from school email.
I regret that I can’t cite where I heard that the very first mother and father as identified thru DNA were the same parents for the Israeli and Palestinians in the area of Palestine approximately 12000 years ago. Interesting if true.
No that's true though. It's bigger than Israeli & Palestinian.
All Arabs and Jews can be biologically traced through DNA to a specific individual. He's culturally referred to as a man called Abraham.
It took me many years to find the correct Indo-Dictionaries with the definitions for Israel and Jew.
All I can say is wow 😲 I wish English speakers would speak in English instead of mixing ancient Creole with New English would save people a lot of time on research.
I ask you with no disrespect what is White Afrika called and what's the relationship between Jew(s) and Djoe(ka)?🧐
English is a mongrel language. It has many parent languages. Many words and usages in English from times when the English were conquered and times when the English or English speaking nations conquered. Besides all the conquering, the use of Latin or Greek as languages of scholarship also had an impact on the development of English. Even Arabic shows up in words like “algebra”.
@@MarcosElMalo2 Originally Engelisch was for the most part was the same as Holländisch-Deutch.
But once they gained their freedom they started venturing out and corrupting every nation's language, religion, history, and culture with lies in order to gain access to their resources.
And even though they gained their freedom the slave population was still 50% English people and most were tossed overboard at sea.🧐
Due to the amount of corruption they did to Christianity it will never be a branch of government ever again.
10:01 Genius ambiguity in Talmudic manner.
The same word can be used in two opposite direction.
After feast Matthew 3.
Satan quote the word of God, yet it altered it in a subtle way to perverse the direction of the Spirit.
Thus one can not read the word of YHVH without the help of His Holy Spirit.
Spirit - Wind - ruach - direction
even my time stamp is "Talmudic", 10:01 if reverserde becomes 10:01
How awesome God is.
Yeah, no.
I think he has missinterpretate the Islam .
Shafia and Halacha has nothing in common.
Halal and Kashrut has only one thing in common moslems dont eat pork and blood thats it.
The moslems persecuted the jews at least as much.1938 there where 18millions jews in the world but only 1million in the moslem world.
Ernst Gustav Schultz a Prussian Consul in Jerusalem in the 1840's conducted a census on the demographic makeup of the City, his results showed that Jews had a slight majority over the Muslims of Jerusalem. James Finn a British Consul in Jerusalem in the 1860's also conducted a census in which his results concurred with Schultz's previous census that Jews were the majority population of the City of Jerusalem at that time. 20 years before the First Zionist Aliyah Wave in the 1880's had even arrived.
Why can't the State Of Israel afford to grant Dhimmi to the Muslim population within greater Israel ? and to grant citizenship to all Muslims who are willing to integrate.
You designed beautiful maps. They do help a lot the narrative. 🗺️
Glad you like them, but I can't take responsibility for designing them. Many will appear with full credits in my forthcoming book.
Are you a lawyer or have a law degree ? I only ever here fellow lawyers use the term torts.
Now I understand why the muslim dominated areas in Northern Nigeria have unwritten rule to make it difficult to get permission to buy land for building churches
About Jewish emigration to Israel you didn't mention the Hasidic and litvish movements to go to Israel and they have been before the Zionist movement and they also build Petah Tikva that you mentioned. the Zionist that hate religion obviously don't mention all that and they call Bilu the first migration (עליה ראשונה).
Short video
@@HenryAbramsonPhD oh ok
BTW Thank you for the videos
Judaism is a culture based on how to think. This is why the Jews are so successful.
History: hard, complicated. Narrative: everything is always as we want it to be! Shhhhh.........sorrrrryyyyyy......I want actual history!
super interesting. thank you. I would like to know more about Sephardic immigration to the US and the fascinating subject of "Crypto Jews" in Northern Mexico.
Please can you define what a ‘Jew’ is. Are you taking about the direct descendants of Jacob, or someone who practices Judaism?
Both
Mizrahim, Sefaradim, Ashkenazim. Each with a different historical context. They're not just religions, they're each a different ethnicity.
Judaism is somewhat an ethno religion.
can you please zoom out the camera of you head next time, not good. Its really to close better when you zoom out a bit.
Fabulous information!
Glad it was helpful!
Can you discuss the fact that original Israelites, the twelve tribes, were all black people, as noted in the mural about Isaac in your talk.
Several related videos on the channel
hello sir
are you need professional thumbnail designer?
How did Khazars become Jewish?
The Khazar leaders adopted the faith. Khazaria was in a critical location- between the Byzantines and Muslim caliphates and it was a political choice to choose Judaism. The Khazari folk were not forced to change their beliefs. See Arthur Koestler's "The Thirteenth Tribe".
You ignored the Mustarabim
It is sad that so much rich blessing in history, has been manipulated and abused, through years of misconception and dubious interests.
What about ANANIM?
I mean KARAIM???
The Turkish census of Jerusalem in the mid-1850s found 25,000 Jews, 5000 Christians, and 2,000 Muslims.Most of those Jews had been there since time immemorial. They were not Ethiopian Falasha as the heading photo to this video incorrectly illustrates.
What photo are you referring to? The Yemenite bride?
Thank you for such an interesting lecture. I have learnt alot.
I'm glad to hear that.
Who were these wide range of teachers that Muhammad allegedly drew upon? I don’t think there is much historical evidence to really backs that claim
Very informative. Thank you!
1.well i thought that the word "jew" is a new word that started its first use in 16th century France. and were called Judeans.
2. as you stated the followers of Mohamet that started in mecca and media expanded and invaded former Roman Lands that converted to Catholicsm. Catholics are the original Christians,
Catholic leaders and Kings especially in Jerusalem and Antioch and other cities were Catholic and were invaded by moslems from mecca and medina.
3. The Crusaders didn't just decide to prance down and start a war, with moslems.
4. they were asked to help and keep the invading mohametians away. And it worked for hundreds of years.
thanks, and peace be with you.
What were the Catholic before Islam and Muslims ? Are they a race that invades and conquer others peoples lands ?
In the United States of America you could be in the in religion or not in a religion
FYI Umar was a disciple of Mohamed, when he entered Jerusalem he sent his army to request 80 Jewish tribes to come and inhabit Jeruselum again after they were previously expelled by the Romans / Christians. He also refused to take over the Churches of Seplica because he wanted to show tolerance to the people of the books ie Jews and Christians. Sad to see these gestures uforgotten now by extreme elements.