The Babylonian Exile
History Series / Part 4

Though the Jews suffered much cruelty at the hands of the Babylonians as they went into exile, within one generation, that cruelty ended and the exile became bearable. In fact, the Jewish community so flourished in Babylonia that the majority refused to leave when the prophet Ezra sounded the call to return to the Land of Israel. Drawing on the parallel to our comfortable and modern world, Rabbi Wein describes the conditions of the Babylonian exile and shows how the events of Purim were a wake-up call to the Jewish people.