<p>The best and brightest of the Babylonian Jews stayed behind and didn't join Ezra in rebuilding the Temple and resettling Eretz Yisrael, thereby earning themselves the reprobation or Reb Yochanan, Resh Lakish and others. What is this <em>machlokes</em> all about?</p>

The best and brightest of the Babylonian Jews stayed behind and didn't join Ezra in rebuilding the Temple and resettling Eretz Yisrael, thereby earning themselves the reprobation or Reb Yochanan, Resh Lakish and others. What is this machlokes all about?

S2, E12 To Go or Not to Go: The Debate about Babylonian Jewry in the Second Temple Era

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S2, E12 To Go or Not to Go: The Debate about Babylonian Jewry in the Second Temple Era