A playlist from The Jewish Story
Babylon
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The Time Between the 1st and 2nd Temples - Daniel, The Mythic Link
July 10, 2018 · 42 min · Episode page →
The opening episode of the Jewish Story! Rav Mike touches his perspective on history and then tells the story of Daniel as the link between the age of...
About this playlist
Babylon: home of the exile, the Talmud and the Geonim, and for a thousand years a second center of Jewish life.
Where this sits in the story
2 of 9 eras
The Second Temple600 BCE–70 CESages and Geonim70–1000Sefarad and Ashkenaz1000–1492After the Expulsion1492–1700Modernity Arrives1700–1880Return and Catastrophe1880–1948The Young State1948–1967After 19671967–1987Into the Present1987–2023
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