A playlist from The Jewish Story
After the Destruction: Rome, Babylon and the Geonim
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The Indigestible Element
July 22, 2018 · 43 min · Episode page →
The ruins of the Temple were still smoldering when Judea burst into the flames of rebellion once again. In this episode Rav Mike discusses the final two rounds...
About this playlist
How a people without a land stayed a people: the refusal to be absorbed by Rome, the portable homeland of Torah, the Babylonian academies, the rise of Islam, and Rav Saadia Gaon.
Where this sits in the story
70–950 · 1 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
More in 2,500 years, in order
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