15 Sivan 5783 (15 Sivan 5783 (June 4, 2023))
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(the commandments)
No Other Gods
Remember the Shabbath
Honor Father and Mother
Idolatry forbidden
The altar
Teachings on false reports
Teachings on the Sabbath
Three feasts
Promise of an Angel
Various laws repeated with punishments
God’s name in vain
Eating from fruit trees
No tattoos
Do not prostitute your daughter
Honor the old
God’s feasts
The Pentecost
Rosh Ha-Shanah
Day of Atonement
Feast of Tabernacles
The oil and showbread
Life for a life
Eye for an eye
Punishment for blasphemy
The seventh year sabbath
Fifty year jubilee
Redeeming the poor
Servants redeemed
Teachings for offerings for observance in Canaan
Punishment of a Sabbath breaker
Talmud 47b The Master said, “If a man desires to become a proselyte… he is to be addressed as follows: ‘What reason have you for
The widows oil multiplied
The Shunammite’s son raised
One hundred fed on twenty loaves
Reign of Ahaz
Ahaz’s strange altar and idolatry
The Temple spoiled
Hezekiah succeds Ahaz
Page 313 Tal. 64b …’Who is ger toshavגר תושב ger: “foreigner” or “alien” + toshav: “resident”,”resident alien”is a halakhic term used in Judaism to designate
Solomon’s buildings
Divisions of priests and gatekeepers
Solomon’s navy
Jehoiada makes Joash king
Athaliah is killed
Worship of God is restored
The priestly divisions
Offerings of the people
Hezekiah’s sincerity
Jehoahaz succeeds Josiah
Jehoiakim and Jehoiachin
The Kingdom ends
Separation of the mixed multitude
Reform of abuses
Living with foreign women
Alexander and his successors
Antiochus Epiphanes: Israel infected with Helenism
First Egyptian campaign and pillage of the Temple
Intervention of the Mysarch and construction of the Acra
Installation of the gentile cults
Matthathias and his sons
The ordeal of the sacrifice at Modein
The ordeal of the Sabbath in the desert
The activity of Mattathis and his associates
Battle of Beer-Zaith and death of Judas Maccabaeus
Funeral of Judas Maccabaeus
The Triumph of the Greek Party Jonathan Lead the resistance
Jonathan in the desert of Tekoa. Bloody encounters around Medeba
Crossing the Jordan
Bacchides builds fortifications. The Dead of Alcimus
The siege of Beth-Bassi
Alexander Balas competes for Jonathan’s support and appoints him high priest
A letter from Demetrius I to Jonathan
Jonathan rejects the offers of Demetrius – death of Demetrius
Alexander’s marriage to Cleopatra. Jonathan as commander-in-chief and governor-general
Demetrius II. Apollonius, governor of Coele-Syria, Defeated by Jonathan
Second Egyptian campaign
Jason’s insurrection; counteraction by Antiochus Epiphanes
Pillage of the Temple
Activities of Apollonius the Mysarch
Gentile cults imposed
Coincidental significance of the persecution
The martyrdom of Eleazar
Nicanor’s blasphemies
Judas lectures his men. His dream
The disposition of the combatants
The defeat and death of Nicanor
Compiler’s epilogue