Jewish Galilean Miracle Workers in the Life & Times of Jesus - The Mages of the Rabbinical World

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Publicado 2022-05-20
Jesus of Nazareth is without any doubt the most famous of the miracle workers, Jewish or otherwise, of the Second Temple Period. However, because of the glare cast by Jesus and early Christianity, it’s easy to forget that such miracle-workers abounded in the ancient world generally and in the Jewish context more specifically. Several other specifically Galilean miracle-workers are known to us from both Jewish history and lore. In fact, they seem to have constituted a unique class of men capable of such miraculous feats, known as 'anshe ma’aseh' or “men of deeds.” In fact, Jesus’ Jewish contemporaries very likely would have understood him in something like this category. In collaboration with ‪@ReligionForBreakfast‬ in this explore I explore a few of these Galilean miracle-workers or anshe ma’aseh who lived just before and after the lifetime of Jesus of Nazareth. From Honi the circle-maker who could compel G-d to make it rain, to Hanina ben Dosa’s extreme piety accidentally inducing miracles and who forestalled the power of the Queen of Demons to Shimon bar Yochai, so pious that even the key commandments of the Torah didn’t apply to him and whose very gaze could incinerate those before him and from whom the secrets of the Kabbalah are said to flow, even an errant resurrection of the dead following fisticuffs at a Purim party.

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  • @OakenBlitheness
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  • @carmelabarujel6611
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  • @Dang3rMouSe
    Other than not covering the infamous Peoples Front of Judea martyr, One Sandled Brian & his miracle of the Gourd, this was an excellent video!
  • @AniRhythm
    Fascinating - it actually makes sense of this bible text "When John, who was in prison, heard about the deeds of the Messiah, he sent his disciples 3to ask him, “Are you the one who is to come, or should we expect someone else?”" Matthew 11 - which suggests that doing such acts was not uncommon at the time. Further, walking on water was considered a miracle, but Jesus said his disciples lacked the faith to do so - which also implies others can do it if they believed - I wonder how that applies to getting more youtube views hehe :) - thank you for a great video
  • @matthewsermons7247
    Raise one person from the dead and you're necro-curious. Bring yourself back from the dead and you're a full-on necromancer.
  • @jeffaltier5582
    Gives me a whole new perspective on both Jesus and the entire area/era.
  • @obscuredictionary3263
    I would love an Esoterica video on the esoteric roots of Mormonism. There are some strange stuff that have occurred in the history of Mormonism.
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  • @benavraham4397
    Thank you very much for putting the founder of Christianity in his true context of simply one among many miracle makers. The New Testiment leaves its audience clueless that the saintly Rabbis of that time drew miracles continuously in their wake.
  • @section9999
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