[Avodah] yosipon & BY girls

[Eli Turkel]

Some points from a shiur on Baba Batra

1. The last Rashi on Baba Batra 3b quotes the advice Buba Butra gave to Herod
as described later in the Gemara and also in Yosipon. If it is in the gemara why
does Rashi verify it from Yosipon

2. The Gemara discusses Miriame committing suicide rather than marrying
Herod. Dibros Moshe discusses whether she allowed to.
BTW it seems that Agripas was a descendant of Miriame casting doubt on
the explanation of the gemara.

3. The gemara asks a question on Buba Butra from R. Chisda who lived a few
hundred years later. The gemaras answer that one can rely on a king to carry
out his word is contradicted by the later gemara how Herod had to sneak around
to fool the Romans and finish building the bet hamikdash.
BTW Joesphus brings that the nation was indeed afraid that Herod would pull down
the Temple and not be able to rebuild it.

4. It seems that no sacrificies were brought during part of the time that Herod
rebuilt the entire foundation and floor of har habayit. In reality his
Temple was
completely new and was the 3rd bet hamikdash

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Eli Turkel