Ancient Jews Rebuild the Second Temple | The Jewish Story | Unpacked

They may lack the celeb status of other biblical figures, but Ezra and Nehemiah were major players in the Jewish story. Despite being relegated to the last pages of the Bible, they were men on a mission: Nehemiah to rebuild the ruined city of Jerusalem; Ezra to rebuild the Jewish soul. And they stopped at nothing to succeed.

The Jewish Story Explained is based on the book "Letters to Auntie Fori: 5,000 Years of Jewish History and their Faith" by Martin Gilbert

Chapters
00:00 Intro
00:38 Jewish isolation in Babylonia
01:01 King Cyrus of Persia allows Jews to return to the Land of Israel
01:50 42,000 Jews return to Jerusalem
02:41 Samaritans try to stop Temple construction
03:15 King Darius of Persia allows Jew to rebuild Temple
03:42 The Second Temple is built
04:06 Ezra the Scribe is sent to Israel to reestablish Jewish culture and the judicial system
05:39 Nehemiah is sent to Israel to rebuild Jerusalem and scourge debt
07:15 Ezra reads the entire Torah publicly
08:07 Nehemiah forces Jews to move back to Jerusalem and flogs intermarried men
08:48 New elements Ezra added to Judaism
09:43 Outro

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Co-Executive Producers:
- Shmuel Katz
- Melinda Goldrich

Gold Level:
- Irving I Moskowitz Foundation
- Goldrich Family Foundation

This series would not be possible without the generous support of Esther Gilbert and Michael Kagan
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About Jewish Story Explained: Understand three thousand years of Jewish history in these short videos based on the book Letters to Auntie Fori: The 5,000-Year History of the Jewish People and Their Faith by the renowned historian Sir Martin Gilbert. Learn the Jewish story from the ancient Israelites of the Bible to Hellenization, the Jews of the Middle Ages to modern day, and more.

About Unpacked: We provide nuanced insights by unpacking all things Jewish. People are complex and complicated — yet we’re constantly being pushed to oversimplify our world. At Unpacked we know that being complex makes us more interesting. Because of this, we break the world down with nuance and insight to drive your curiosity and challenge your thinking.

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[luiscastrejon]

I am not Jewish but this beautiful piece of history sounded like music to my ears and I love Jewish people and everything about their culture but mainly their God is my God and His Son is my God along with His Spirit who now abides in my heart forever

[dstinnettusa]

You've seemed to have omitted the Book of Daniel part of the whole Cyrus prophesy

[alexandervanwyk]

Excellent. Thanks for sharing. Learned a lot.

[Eric-]

Love your presentation of these two books. Your presentation style is so good. I love your energy and voice.. easy to stay interested with you speaking. Thank you!

[aritrakonar]

Miss/Madam,

I have been watching the whole series of the videos that you made on the topic of Jewish history (havent finished totally). I must say these videos provide me a great knowledge about the ancient history of Jewish people according to their scriptures. Thanks a lot for this series of videos.

However, I would like to point out, there are several inconsistencies (or, contradictions) in the timeline you say (eg. At 4:12, you mentioned 50 years after the end of construction of the second temple (ie, 516 BCE, as you also mentioned) - so it should be around 466 BCE, but in the video you showed the year 566 BCE, which creates problem/confusion for new learner like me. There were several inconsistencies in the timeline in the previous videos also (where the time of occurrence of an event varied between two videos). Please clarify the actual timeline in the comment section. It will help me a lot.

Thanks again for this amazing series. It really helped me a lot to gather key info about the topic (all concentrated in a series of videos) and made me keenly interested in the topic.

[AshleyGarcia-mtby]

Interesting, I just had my firstborn 4 months ago and that’s what I name him, Nehemiah ❤️

[livinganewdream]

I would be careful with trying to ascribe "motive" to kings actions based on historical events only. Cyrus's move to build the temple may have resulted in more wealth through trade, but that doesn't mean that's the motive. God doesn't have a habit of speaking His word uselessly. He called out Cyrus by name and revealed His word in a powerful way to Cyrus. That may have been the primary motive and the trade become the blessing after his obedience.

[DopeForeverBeats]

Jesus love you, he died on the cross for you, accept him as your lord and savior he can change everything. For God so loved the world that he gave his only son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life" (Jn 3:16"

But you must repent too. From that time Jesus went about preaching and saying, Let your hearts be turned from sin, for the kingdom of heaven is near. (Matthew 4:17)…

[htnurse]

Loved hearing you tell the story and making it more real with the video graphics. Please recreate more Biblical stories!

[sepehr.javaheri]

Cyrus the great and other early Persian kings helped the Jews rebuild their temple and return to Jerusalem because of their belief in wisdom of Ahura Mazda (Zoroastrianism).
Cyrus the great always referred to the God's of many different people within Persia out of respect for other religions under his reign which was the right thing to do.
Cyrus the great was well ahead of his time in 550 B.C in terms of wisdom, morals and social acceptance. He also abolished slavery and declared the first charter of human rights in civilzed history!

The historic impact of Cyrus the great and Darius the great has been huge as approx. 65% of the worlds population have been estimated to have lived within Persia during their reign!

[susanstandard]

Thank you for the history lesson. BTW: Nice shelving units behind you!

[Ricca_Day]

Thank you, young lady. I enjoyed this tremendously. Brava.

[JESUSisLORD]

That was a really good presentation. Very informative, very historically detailed, and well communicated. Great job.

[ragnaryahuwah]

Yes, and a funny thing is, we drew and constructed the house we want there, years back. But in our common mind we are there alot. In our mind we walk around there as if it had been built by hands.
King Ragnar Yahuwah ❤

[barnabastamu]

You’re good teacher.i Learning lots from you..thank you so much..

[ossmandarwiche]

I have read these books, so much detail people tend to overlook. Amazing!

[joshuarapma]

i really love your presentation about the history of the bible which is really important to everyone who studies the bible.

[BennyBNYC]

I love the history of the old testament and Jewish history in general. This is my current obsession

[georgegobble]

Glad I was lead to this Website by the Sprite and I have Shared it with my Christian friends. Thank you Jesus.

[sove]

Enjoyed this video thank you ever so much