In this episode, Rabbi Yaakov Yosef Reinman shows how the Jewish people were designed from the very beginning to be receptacles for the Torah.
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During the second millennium b.c.e., the Imperial Quadrant encompassed the eastern part of the Mediterranean basin. The other lands into which the Quadrant would one day expand were still relatively primitive and barbaric. There were some kingdoms and cities but no budding empires, and there were no significant advances that would affect the development of civilization and the progress of world history. In the Quadrant, however, there was a great deal of energy and activity.
In Mesopotamia, the drive for empire was strong, with many contenders vying for supremacy. Empires rose and fell. The Assyrians built a large empire that was eclipsed by the Babylonians under King Hammurabi, who were challenged in turn by rising powers such as the Elamites, the precursors of the Persians. The race was on for dominance and expansion.
The Babylonians made advances in many fields. They organized a strong central government with an efficient bureaucracy and a system of taxation. They developed cuneiform writing. They made a rudimentary code of laws. They made advances in agriculture, commerce, literature, architecture, astronomy, mathematics and time measurement. Their achievements had a profound impact on future kingdoms and empires.
The Egyptians to the southwest also built a large empire, relative to the times, that encompassed almost the entire, thousand-mile Nile River valley from the delta in the north through present-day Egypt and Sudan. It was a unified kingdom internally stable and protected from external threats by desert to the east and the west. The Egyptians invented hieroglyphic writing. They also made advances in agriculture, architecture, commerce, craftsmanship and especially in medicine. Egyptian civilization was not as dynamic as Babylonian, but its impact was nonetheless significant.
The third great empire in the Quadrant was the Hittite Empire to the north, whose capital was Hattusa near modern-day Ankara in Turkey. It encompassed all of Asia Minor and extended down through Syria and Lebanon into Canaan to the south. The Hittites were a powerful, well-organized, militaristic empire. Their most significant contribution to the advance of civilization was the development of ironworking and better weapons of war.
Which events or developments in the Imperial Quadrant of that period would have the greatest impact on the future of the world? Which events or developments would most determine the course of world history? And in which part of the Quadrant were these events or developments taking place? …
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