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With Prof. Jodi Magness discussing the history of Masada
We discussed the history of Masada and Herod, story as told by Josephus, the siege of 72-73, how the siege took place and the tactics used by the Romans, the early explorers and excavations of Masada, the archeological findings in Masada, the mass suicide story as told by Josephus, and more
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TLT Series Episode 7: Dr. Moti Benmelech - The Ten Lost Tribes in Jewish Consciousness in the 15th & 16th Centuries
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TLT Series Episode 3: Dr. Daniel Stein-Kokin - The Legendary Sambatyon River
TLT Series Episode 2: R' Fishel Mael - The Twelve Tribes from a Torah perspective
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TLT (Ten Lost Tribes) Series Episode 1: Prof. Zvi Ben-Dor Benite - The Ten Lost Tribes: A World History
With R' Yechiel Goldhaber discussing the history of playing games and dreidel on Chanukah
With Prof. Steven Fine discussing the history of the Menorah
With Rabbi Yanki Tauber discussing his new translated and annotated Chumash project and volume 1:The Book of Genesis with Commentary and Insights from 500 Sages and Mystics
With Prof. Edwin Seroussi discussing Rav Yisrael Najara (1555 - 1625): Gaza's most famous Rabbi, Poet, and Preacher
With Rav Aron Lopiansky discussing Taamei HaMikra, Targum Onkelos, and his new Sefer on the topic
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Spanish Jewry Through the Ages, Episode 19: Genie Milgrom - A modern day Converso story
With Rav Immanuel Bernstein discussing Rav Yehuda Copperman ZT'L and Pshuto Shel Mikra
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