The Great Jewish Revolt | The Jewish Story | Unpacked

While things seemed bad for the Jews of Judea following the destruction of the Second Temple, they were about to get so much worse. There were huge economic and social costs to the Jews’ ongoing rebellion against the Romans — not to mention a loss of life on a scale possibly not seen again until the 20th century. But despite the challenges, outstanding individuals rose to the fore. They kept Judaism alive and are still thought of as role models today.

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
00:50 Roman control over Judea
01:25 Masada
01:56 Yavne and Rabbi Yochanan ben Zakkai
04:16 The Second Jewish War
04:35 The Great Jewish Revolt led by Bar Kokhba
06:07 The Roman Exile from Jerusalem
06:21 Israel is renamed Palestina and core Torah practices are banned
06:56 Who was Rabbi Akiva?
08:01 What happened to Rabbi Akiva?
08:32 Jewish survival in the face of destruction
10:06 Outro

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[aidenbester]

And he sailed to Judea followed by 12 legions…

[triruns]

This is one of the most informative series I've seen on YouTube, with one of the best narrators. Thank you from this impressed and grateful Christian.

[DoomGaming]

I am an jewish student from israel, and i just want to say that thanks to this channel i have so much more respect to my religion and cpuntry.I have yet to serve in the IDF but thanks to this channel and the great videos, I now understand why its so important.

[dorazati]

Well, one can argue that the romans got exaclly what they wanted by renaming the land palestine. the palestinians living in israel and the israeli-palestinian conflict was exaclly what the romans wanted. the romans succeded to create problems for the jews for genarations to come.

[midknightfenerir]

Jewish Intifada against Roman Occupation of Judea and Samaria

[lazgunuser]

Can we summon Hadrian's ghost for round 2?

[wisdom_meets_you]

The host and the channel deserve more likes than what they got. Awesome video!

[matthewmann]

Yup had to deal with the Greeks, Roman's, Persians, Assyrians, Phoenicians, Arameans, Sumerians, Arabs, And so on

[NMMD]

Great series. Consider the fact that the Roman Empire was falling apart under Nero. The Romans revolted against Nero in AD 67 and went thru a series of emperors until Vespasian. It is completely plausible that without the Great Jewish Revolt, Rome would have fallen apart like Alexander’s Empire and would have left Israel alone for a while. The history is clear that Israel has been destroyed internally well before the conquest of any foreign power. Thanks.

[toviaskryptonitelll]

Actually, Zechariah 11 was a prophecy regarding what happened in this revolt. The video "The True Shepherd (Zechariah 11)" gives a great breakdown of what happened.

[bigdaddyrat]

They should have just paid Florus the tax.
Give unto Caesar that which is Caesars.

[bill]

You really glossed over the Jewish "revolt" in Cyprus, Alexandria and Cyrenaica. Those areas were not Jewish homelands. Jews committed hideous atrocities against hundreds of thousands Roman and Greek Cypriot men, women and children and desecrated their houses of worship. The Jews did the same thing in Alexandria and Cyrenaica. They killed to such an extent in Cyrenaica that the Romans had to forcibly relocate others to there, otherwise it would be unpopulated. You can find the details by reading about "Kitos War."

[Me-wopl]

3:46 Hilel and Shammai actually existed a century before the destruction, at the same time as the Saducees, Essenees etc... And the Rabbis are really the inheritors of the Pharisees

[robertruggiero]

Why “BCE” and “CE”? Have we changed the recorded timeline of events from BC and AD?

[gilwhitley]

Love your series! Some perspective, though: history, as we all know, is written by the winners... so, NOT the Roman Empire. Historically, Rome was actually quite lenient with it's empire, compared to the empires that came after it. Let me explain: the Romans practiced *evocation: mutual respect for all gods of all people... the "mutual" part being a yearly sacrifice [of a bull or some similarly noble animal] to Jupiter, and in return, the Romans actually welcomed those peoples' gods into their own pantheon. Dozens of alters to the Persian god Mithras have been uncovered at Roman forts in Britain, for example: seems that the legions there adopted Mithras as their god of choice. And there was no punishment whatsoever... in the pagan view, to *respect someone else's god was NOT seen as *disrespecting one's own gods. That's why there were NO religious wars in the ancient world (but plenty of wars over resources, control of waterways, etc.). The Jews changed all that. Their policy was that, to even THINK that anyone else's gods or belief systems were worthy of respect, was IN ITSELF "disrespect" to their one god. Still, the damage this caused to religious tolerance worldwide was limited, simply bc the Jews themselves were limited geographically. Then came the Christians, who grabbed the Monotheistic Intolerance ball and ran with it: soon Crusades and Inquisitions forced millions of pagans worldwide to convert to Christianity (initially, Catholicism). Then came the Muslims, who replicated this dark turn: now Jihads forced millions more pagans to convert to Islam. Ironically, BOTH turned *against the Jews, despite claiming to all worship the same god. Every empire that followed has made forced religious conversion an automatic part of their routine: the British Empire of Queen Victoria, the Russian Empire of Tsar Nikolai, the US empire from the Westward expansion to the Spanish-American War... even in the 'godless' empires of the Soviet Union and Red China: religious intolerance became the new normal. Meanwhile, the pagan Roman Empire, a solid foundation of Western civilization, spread literacy, clean water [aqueducts], good health and hygiene (gyms, baths, sewer systems), well-built roads and cities, AND religious *toleration to the known world. As much as I admire the resilience and intellectual prowess of Judaism, we do a disservice to history by ignoring its role in initiating intolerance towards others' belief systems... even when they themselves are the unfortunate victims of that intolerance.

[alexslootsky]

…and now comes a one only one question: was it worth it- revolt for nothing, when no existential threat was present?

[zz]

People don't usually think about it but during the time of Rome, Israel was a very tiny part of the Empire, but it put up one the fiercest revolts against the Roman Empire in its history. At the revolt's high point there were something like 4-5 legions stationed in Israel, and for comparison there 4-5 legions posted along the Roman border with France and Germany.

Also, at that time Jews were about 7-8% of the overall population in the Empire in communities stretching from Spain to Egypt with the largest community being in Israel (there were also many Jewish communities outside of the Empire - Iraq, Persia, Yemen, Ethiopia, India, etc). Today the Jewish population is 0.0001% (if not less) which gives an idea of what happens after two thousand years of exile.

[CarlJohnson-kkpr]

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[TheGrinbery]

Great video. Now let's see how we live afterwards, during the 3rd and the 4th centuries CE

[stephenwright]

"If I am not for myself, who will be" - Rabbi Akiba