Journey to Jerusalem: The Kidron Valley; Har Hazeisim - The Dramatic Kever of Zechariah ben Yehoyada

this torah class is brought to you by torahanytime.com we're here at this dramatic scene at the kevin of zachariah daniel yoda now even though we always knew this was the yadav shalom not until more recent time was it known that this is the kever of zakaria then yahoo yada this has been confirmed by ramos in a safer illamase he said the arizal relied on this location it's painful that zachariah benjoyada was killed on yomaki purim by the jewish people and the gemaran gittin tells us that novosradin the chief executioner of the babylonian empire he murdered hundreds of thousands of jews until their blood continued to spill here and it was blood touched blood according to one account in the gemara the gemara says babikazu in this valley killed 211 myriads of jews and then a new shalom another 94 myriads of jews and this was a fulfillment of damim bedam nagao and they killed sanhedrin godaila sanhedrin kitana bahurim the sulis until the gentile says what's going on what whose blood is this and they said well this is the blood of carbonis that continues to boil because the blood of zechariah was bubbling all of these centuries until they had to admit that this was the blood of their own prophet that they killed with their own hands until finally they prayed the best of the jewish people have been murdered do we need to does everybody need to die and only then did the blood of zechariah have respite according to the ushami the ishami adds a very painful addition that the general of the army himself said enough already how cruel could we be in akkadish baruch who was nasmali rahman at that time that if the aksar himself was able to be merciful then how can i not be merciful to the jewish people so as you see this is one of the most dramatic sites in the kidron valley and one of the landmark sites in yerushalayim you've just experienced another torah class brought to you by torahanytime.com