The Messiah at the Gates of Rome (136-235) 

Maybe the real messiah was the friends we made along the way...

Unbiased History of Rome's account of Caracalla's wedding is absolutely hilarious if you haven't checked it out.

Well that title was misleading. I was worried the Messiah came and I was in the bathroom while he was in Rome.

Watching this series is like refreshing the Roman history (or ancient history in general) while learning completely new things about Jewish history and culture. I'm really looking forward to see how it will grow in the future. I wonder haw many episodes might it take to reach the modern times? It's probably hard to even estimate at this point.

7:16 ... I laughed way to hard at your reaction!! LMAO

You deserve way more subscribers! I can't wait for this channel to blow up

Love it

Nice

1:25 I live next to bet shearim! It has an awesome necropolis where Rabbi Yehuda HaNasi is buried

Just found your channel via JJ, very well done, props to you. I know you've done some Israeli history, would you consider doing diaspora stuff? SHUM cities and the Rhineland Massacres, Spanish Inquisition, various later pogroms, Khazars, Himyar, Adiabene, etc. Could also actually cover some diaspora groups individually with videos, could be interesting (though only to Jews lol, but I presume that's who the channel is directed towards).

Caracalla also killed his brother in front of their mother while under a flag of truce that she arranged in order to make peace between her 2 sons. Truly a charming guy

Indeed!

What’s the source for Bar Yochai students turning him into the Romans (Syrian governor). There are some great books by Binyamin Lau on this period of Jewish history but I don’t remember him mentioning this although he could at some point. So far I’ve only read the first two volumes. Thanks man and great work again!

Awesome video as always. What is your source for the execution of Rashbi by the Romans? I had heard persecution but not execution. Shabbat shalom.

Omg I never heard Bar Yochai was killed, do you have a source on that?

Please can you state the exact origin of your claim that Judah HaNasi met up with Septimius Severus?

Yeah man I wonder what those conditions are that need to be fulfilled and I wonder why the people were unwilling to hear his voice

where is the quote from rabbi shimon bar yochay on the temple?

God damn dude. Yeah that sounds about right.

I very much enjoyed being Yehuda haNasi. Worth adding that the decision to codify the oral law was controversial, since it had been passed down from generation to generation without being written and some felt that should always be the case. But it was clear that the debates of the previous centuries were making it impossible to go forward without putting it on parchment. Ironically, the codification of the oral law led to what many consider the petrification of the law as well. I have heard it said by many, including other Orthodox Jews, that the law is supposed to shift with the situation and the times far more than the rabbis are telling us now. But we are where we are, and it's not likely to change.

Could Severus speaking only in Punic, and a Jew speaking only in Hebrew, be able to converse without issue?

Where can I find more information about the synagogue built in the temple mount?

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Septimius Severus wasn't of cathaginian descent, he descended from roman colonist who settled in north Africa after the punic wars

7:23 lol

wow I didn't know that jewish history is very interesting

I've never heard of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai being executed by Romans or his students turning him in. Can't find a source for it either.

"My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, commander of the Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions, loyal servant to the true emperor, Marcus Aurelius. Father to a murdered son, husband to a murdered wife. And I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next."

What if Severus had been convinced by Judah Hanasi to convert

The ebbs and falls of the Jews in the Roman period seem to be ignored after the Bar Kochba revolt by Jewish educators.

bar yochai wasnt killed by the romans, he wasnt turned in either

What's the source that the students of rashbi told on him to the Roman's

So basically the Messiah was thought to be or thought himself to be from the Septimius bloodline!? I could only imagine the intrigues of that period

Ummmmm shimon bar yochis story did not happen like that

Try not to use the expression in 7 27.

6:33 Oldest 12 year old ever

i have a question? Do Jews still await the Messiah?

Oy, that endless bait and switch with the messia. According to Lebovovitch, a potential messiah comes regularly, but he can only become the real. messia if the people at the time are ready. And so far, they have never been ready.

2:10 is inaccurate

I am sorry, no evidence of the account of Judah HaNasi meeting up with Septimius Severus and you conveniently not answering means that I don't take this channel seriously. It's important for settling a dispute with Yigal Bin Nun who claims that Judah HaNasi and Yohannan Ben Zakkai did not exist.

Elijah was not a Jew but a Gentile Israelite, Elijah the Tishbite.

2:17 is inaccurate