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Why did the Bnei Ephraim miscalculate the redemption from Egypt and leave early, only to be killed and later resurrected by Yechezkel? The shiur connects this to the deeper purpose of Tisha B'Av: mourning not just personal loss but the absence of Hashem (ה׳)'s recognized malchus in the world. The Bnei Ephraim, inheriting Yosef's mission to establish divine kingship, felt special urgency about redemption because physical resurrection itself serves malchus - divine rule requires both physical and spiritual realms.
This shiur examines a Gemara (גמרא) in Sanhedrin regarding the resurrection of the dead (techiyat hametim) and specifically addresses who Yechezkel resurrected. The Gemara presents five opinions, with the first being that it was the Bnei Ephraim who miscalculated the end of the 400-year exile from Egypt. They counted from the Brit Bein HaBetarim when Avrohom was 70, rather than from Yitzchok's birth 30 years later, leading them to leave Egypt prematurely and be killed by the Philistines before being resurrected. Rabbi Zweig raises three fundamental questions: What is the nature of this chronological dispute? Why specifically the Bnei Ephraim? And what connection does this have to techiyat hametim? The answer, he suggests, lies in understanding the deeper purpose of Tisha B'Av and the destruction it commemorates.
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Sanhedrin (discussing resurrection of the dead)
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