Several well-informed readers have written to the professor in regard to my recent column on villains, to point out my errors in the column on Titus Flavius Vespasianus and his tasteless destruction of the Jewish temple in Jerusalem. I did refer to the Temple of Solomon as the one pulverized by the Romans and it was pointed out to me that the Romans did not destroy Solomon's Temple but a later one.
In my last column, I left you in Spain. I explained how Jews wound up in Sepharad, which is Hebrew for Spain, during the times of King David and King Solomon. I stated that the greatest migration from Israel to Spain probably came around 70 A.D. This happened during the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem by the Roman Legion. After all, Sephardim had been extremely successful in every facet of society ranging from philosophy and theology to letters or translations, medicine, the arts and above all banking and economics. My theory is that the 'intent behind the intent' of all these rulings against Jews wasn't religious but economic control. While the "spirit of the Inquisition" existed way before its official installation in 1531 Jews were expelled (yes, kicked out) of their forefathe...
The bigger impact," he added, "is in painting Iran with a 'scarlet letter.'" In other words, the objective is to further isolate and marginalize the country. It proceeds to a statement of the church's opposition to Israel's "continued military occupation of the West Bank, Gaza [sic], and East Jerusalem, the confiscation of Palestinian land and water resources, the destruction of Palestinian homes, the continued building of illegal Jewish settlements, and any vision of a 'Greater Israel' that includes the occupied territories and the whole of Jerusalem and its surroundings". Her 10-day trip to the area with the Church, which included meetings with both Jewish and Palestinian groups, "made me aware of how much I didn't know" about the conflict, she said. "I saw both sides. I met people w...
Q: Why does the Jewish faith allow female rabbis? Has this always been a part of the Jewish tradition? If not, when did the change take place? I don't remember females in this role in the Old Testament. -- D., from Pennsylvania A: There were no women rabbis in the Hebrew Bible because there were no rabbis in the Bible. Rabbis emerged as the leaders and teachers of Judaism after the priestly Judaism died with the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem by the Romans in the first century. The opposition of rabbis to ordaining women was based on their ruling that women are exempt from all commandments that must be fulfilled at a specific time. This exemption was not the result of sexism, but rather of not wanting to put women in a position where they'd face a conflict between their duties a...
The great philosophers Maimonides and Nachmanides propose two seemingly different answers to the question of the purpose of the Temples in Jerusalem, whose destruction we mourn on the 9th of Av. The two approaches, writes Shaul Wertheimer, are not what they appear to be. Moreover, the two thinkers offer insights into the Temple which have implications for our social interactions. This can be supported by the statement that the verse which contains the commandment to build a Temple - "Build a Temple for Me, and I will dwell within them" (Exodus xxv:8) - contains a grammatical anomaly. One step further: Maimonides' soul-connection is a direct result, and thus commensurate with, one's effort, exertion and initiative in one's relationship with G-d. The soul-connection Nachmanides discusses ...
Masada, Israel, occupies the entire top of an isolated mesa near the southwest coast of the Dead Sea. The rhomboid-shaped mountain towers 1,424 feet above the Dead Sea. It has a summit area of about 18 acres. Herod the Great, who was king of Judea under Roman rule and reigned 37-4 BC, made it a royal citadel. His constructions included two ornate palaces, defensive towers, heavy walls and aqueducts that brought water to cisterns holding nearly 200,000 gallons. Following the fall of Jerusalem and the destruction of the Second Temple (AD 70), the Masada garrison - the last remnant of Jewish rule in Palestine - refused to surrender and was besieged by a Roman legion under Flavius Silva. Masada's unequaled defensive site baffled even the Romans' highly developed siege craft for a time. It t...
While most of the Jews living in the United States today are Ashkenazi -- their families came from central and eastern Europe -- the Sephardim are Jews whose families originally came from the Iberian Peninsula, where Spain and Portugal now lie. While these Sephardic Jews may have arrived on the peninsula with the Phoenicians as early as the 11th century B.C., we know for sure that, by the time of the destruction of the Temple of Jerusalem in A.D. 70, Jews were living in Spain.
As one examines the history of our church, one sees that it must go beyond itself. In other words, the status quo never suffices for long. This is true of the early church and of the church today. After the resurrection of Jesus, the church was made up of Jews who believed that Jesus was the Messiah and God's Son. Its center was Jerusalem and its leader was the Apostle James. These early Christians were considered a sect within Judaism and were comfortable with their newly formed community. But that was not to last long. After the destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans in the year 70, Christians were forced to move out of the city to Samaria, where they found fertile ground for the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
JERUSALEM Israel on Monday delayed the evacuation of 21 Jewish settlements from the Gaza Strip until mid-August a month later than planned raising doubts about the country's readiness for the pullout and even its resolve to carry it out. Prime Minister Ariel Sharon told television interviewers he was taking into account a request from Israel's chief rabbis to put off the withdrawal until after a three-week period in which Jews mourn the destruction of the biblical Temples in Jerusalem, ending with a one-day fast that falls this year on Aug. 14. The pullout had been expected to start around July 20.
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