This series by Rabbi Yaakov Wolbe features a refreshing approach to the Jewish past that will help you become conversant with the fantastic story of the Jewish people over the ages and become knowledgeable in this great story of civilization.
Rabbi Wolbe's "Five Millenia in Five Weeks" has been wildly famous through his podcasts across the globe.
The Jewish story is almost 4000 years old. It extends from Abraham leaving Mesopotamia until the return of the Jewish people in our time to the Land of Israel. You will get a sense of our rich history and to the events of all human civilization. The story of biblical Israel, the Babylonian Exile, The Second Temple, the long exile of the Jewish people, the Crusades, the Spanish expulsion, the Renaissance and Reformation, the Enlightenment and Modernism, Zionism, the emigration to North America and the Land of Israel, the Holocaust and the creation of the State of Israel. History is our rear view mirror of life. Know the story of your people!
“Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it.†― Edmund Burke
