00:00Hey, Shalom brothers and sisters, welcome back. I thank you again for joining me today.
00:05Listen, today I want to talk about a subject hardly anybody's ever thought of.
00:09I haven't thought about it for, I mean, hardly ever.
00:13Just recently, somebody pops a question in my mind about it, and everything went unraveled and everything.
00:21Looked it up, did a little research, best I could.
00:25And it's about when was the word or phrase Judaism first reported, when it was first documented?
00:35Where? Where was it? Why?
00:37And I'm going to give you that answer right here, but before I do, I want to thank you guys again for joining me.
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01:05Anyways, get back to this right here, Judaism.
01:09Everybody thinks that Judaism, the word, goes all the way back to Abraham, or the ten lost tribes, or the twelve tribes, the whole twelve tribes.
01:20But no, I'll give you a little fun fact here.
01:24Judaism.
01:25First time it was recorded and mentioned is in the second book of the Maccabees.
01:31Second Maccabees.
01:33And here's where you can find them.
01:37It's going to be Second Maccabees, chapter 2, verse 21.
01:42Then you've got chapter 8, verse 1.
01:44And then you've got chapter 14, verse 38.
01:51Now, similarly, the fourth book of Maccabees also mentions something about that.
01:57It's in chapter 4, verse 26.
02:01So if you have to rewind this and pause it, whatever, and jot them down, go ahead and do it and look them up and everything.
02:07But anyways, the reason that it was, excuse me, the reason that the term came about, here, I'll just write down, show you my notes, is a description of those who stayed faithful to and fought for their distinctive ancestral traditions against the Syrians.
02:30You remember that, when the Syrian overlords wanted to assimilate the Jews and have them get rid of all their customs and traditions, food laws, circumcision, things like that, Sabbath.
02:48But anyways, this was also for them to maintain their religious and ethnic identity.
02:59It was also coined to counter the Hellenistics, the Hellenism.
03:05So to do that, they put their boundaries up.
03:10That's what the Jews did.
03:12They have boundaries and they have their ways, and then the other groups have their ways.
03:16But this bad group, these Syrians, wanted to eliminate everything that they stood for.
03:27They come up with Judaism, which is for the people instead of Jews.
03:33Jews is the same as Judaism, but Judaism is now it's been coined basically a religion.
03:39And it's been coined as the people, but the Jews, the Jews, they say they're the Jews, but you hardly ever hear them say they're Israelis or Israelites.
03:49And that's a bigger thing because Israel and the Israelites are what you'd call the covenant people as far as the Old Testament.
03:58And they demoted themselves down to just being called Jews.
04:02I guess in Israel, if you try to go and get citizenship or something, you've got to say you're Jewish.
04:09Your mother was a Jew or at least or something like that.
04:13One guy I remember went over there and put down he's Israeli, and they denied his application.
04:20I remember that.
04:21I remember watching that on the news a couple times or in a couple different shows.
04:26But it goes to say the first time Judaism was ever termed that way, and the reasons is what I just stated.
04:33So I just wanted to share that with you.
04:36I just thought it was kind of interesting, you know.
04:38But anyways, that's me, and I just want to say that's all I've got to say right now.
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