24 Lectures
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Levanon – lecture 20
We will offer an explanation for the repeated use of the name Hiram and what it teaches us about the Jews. New discoveries about King Hiram will provide us with an explanation – why Hiram and Solomon are called brothers. It turns out that they really were relatives! We will explain why it is really important to involve the people of Lebanon in the building of the Temple and we will check – did this actually happen?
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Levanon – lecture 21
Will the people of Tyre participate in the building of the Third Temple? How does all of this relate to Noah’s curse of his grandson – Canaan? And how does this curse relate to the curse that Joshua cursed the Gibeonites – that they would be…workers in the Temple!
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Levanon – lecture 22
Joshua cursed the Gibeonites to work in the Temple. What happened many years later that caused King David to prohibit the Gibeonites from joining the Israelite Nation? And will the people of Tyre and Sidon also be removed from their role in building the Temple in the future? We will see what the prophets say about Tyre and Sidon in the future, which sounds quite close these days. And we will see why Levanon is mentioned again and again in the descriptions of the return of the people of Israel to the Land of Israel.
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Levanon – lecture 23
Tyre and Sidon – in which tribe’s inheritance were they? In Jacob’s blessing to his sons, it is explicitly mentioned that Sidon is in Zebulun’s portion. But in the book of Joshua we see that the tribe of Asher received Sidon! Surprisingly – the answer is related to…the prophet Jonah. According to the Sages, he was the son of the woman from Sidon, yet there is a dispute among the Sages as to whether the prophet Jonah was from the tribe of Zebulun or Asher.
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Levanon – lecture 24
So how were the territorial lots of Asher and Zevulun exchanged ? The intriguing answer: The Land was allotted TWICE !. And what the tribes received changed between the first and the second. As a result the reality differed from the prophecy. We`ll see how this affected the status of Tyre and Sidon. We will summarize everything we learned about Levanon – what Levanon represents in the Bible, and what Levanon represents in our hopes for the future.