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Who are the Israelis?
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Ancient two-Shekel weight discovered in Jerusalem
First Temple-era artifact used to measure two-shekalim unearthed near the Western Wall
An ancient limestone-made weight, dating to the Iron age – the First Temple period, was discovered in an archaeological excavation conducted by the Israel Antiquities Authority in conjunction with the Western Wall Heritage Foundation beneath Wilson’s Arch.
Adjacent to the Western Wall of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. The weight, corresponding to the known measurement unit of two shekalim, was retrieved during sifting of earthen fills by the City of David sifting project
Mordechai (Suli) Eliav, director of the Western Wall Heritage Foundation responded to the discovery, saying: “How exciting, in the month of Tishrei, whose symbol is the scales of justice, to find a souvenir from the First Temple period. Actually now, when coming to the Western Wall is so restricted due to the coronavirus pandemic, this finding strengthens the eternal connection between the Jewish nation, Jerusalem, and the Western Wall while offering us all encouragement.”
According to Dr. Barak Monnickendam-Givon and Tehillah Lieberman, directors of the excavation on behalf of the Israel Antiquities Authority: “The weight is dome-shaped with a flat base. On the top of the weight is an incised Egyptian symbol resembling a Greek gamma (γ), representing the abbreviated unit ‘shekel.’ Two incised lines indicate the double mass: two shekalim."
"One of the uses of the shekel weight system during the First Temple period was to collect an annual tax of half a shekel dedicated to the sacrifices and upkeep of the Temple."
"According to previous finds, the known weight of a single shekel is 11.5 grams, thus a double shekel should way 23 grams – exactly as this weight does. The accuracy of the weight attests to advanced technological skills as well as to the weight given to precise trade and commerce in ancient Jerusalem. Coins were not yet in use during this period, therefore accuracy of the weights played a significant role in business."
"Year-round and especially during the times of pilgrimage, the area at the foot of the Temple Mount was sure to be busy. Locals and pilgrims would have traded for sacrifices and offerings as well as for food, souvenirs and other commodities. A weight such as the one discovered would have been used to measure accurate amounts of products at the market.”
During previous archaeological excavations beneath Wilson’s Arch, directed by Dr, Joe Uziel, Tehillah Lieberman and Dr. Avi Solomon, several stone courses of the Western Wall were exposed, after being covered with earthen fills some 1800 years ago.
www.israelnationalnews.com
First Temple-era artifact used to measure two-shekalim unearthed near the Western Wall
An ancient limestone-made weight, dating to the Iron age – the First Temple period, was discovered in an archaeological excavation conducted by the Israel Antiquities Authority in conjunction with the Western Wall Heritage Foundation beneath Wilson’s Arch.
Adjacent to the Western Wall of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. The weight, corresponding to the known measurement unit of two shekalim, was retrieved during sifting of earthen fills by the City of David sifting project
Mordechai (Suli) Eliav, director of the Western Wall Heritage Foundation responded to the discovery, saying: “How exciting, in the month of Tishrei, whose symbol is the scales of justice, to find a souvenir from the First Temple period. Actually now, when coming to the Western Wall is so restricted due to the coronavirus pandemic, this finding strengthens the eternal connection between the Jewish nation, Jerusalem, and the Western Wall while offering us all encouragement.”
According to Dr. Barak Monnickendam-Givon and Tehillah Lieberman, directors of the excavation on behalf of the Israel Antiquities Authority: “The weight is dome-shaped with a flat base. On the top of the weight is an incised Egyptian symbol resembling a Greek gamma (γ), representing the abbreviated unit ‘shekel.’ Two incised lines indicate the double mass: two shekalim."
"One of the uses of the shekel weight system during the First Temple period was to collect an annual tax of half a shekel dedicated to the sacrifices and upkeep of the Temple."
"According to previous finds, the known weight of a single shekel is 11.5 grams, thus a double shekel should way 23 grams – exactly as this weight does. The accuracy of the weight attests to advanced technological skills as well as to the weight given to precise trade and commerce in ancient Jerusalem. Coins were not yet in use during this period, therefore accuracy of the weights played a significant role in business."
"Year-round and especially during the times of pilgrimage, the area at the foot of the Temple Mount was sure to be busy. Locals and pilgrims would have traded for sacrifices and offerings as well as for food, souvenirs and other commodities. A weight such as the one discovered would have been used to measure accurate amounts of products at the market.”
During previous archaeological excavations beneath Wilson’s Arch, directed by Dr, Joe Uziel, Tehillah Lieberman and Dr. Avi Solomon, several stone courses of the Western Wall were exposed, after being covered with earthen fills some 1800 years ago.
Ancient two-Shekel weight discovered near Jerusalem's Western Wall
First Temple-era artifact used to measure two-shekalim unearthed near the Western Wall of Jerusalem.
www.israelnationalnews.com
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After the holidays - and so we begin...
The strange 5781 holiday season is over. What now? Start from the beginning....
"After the holidays" - an Israeli expression for the period after Simchat Torah - has finally arrived. "After the corona" has not. This was a crazy Tishrei –challenging, depressing, amazing.
Tishrei began with small scale slichot prayers, continued with Rosh Hashanah shofar blowing from apartment balconies and in public parks, progressed through Yom Kippur services held early in the morning so that fasting outdoor worshippers could escape the heat, and culminated in a Sukkot holiday held without guests or celebrations. Hoshana Rabbah, the last night of Sukkot, was marked by remote Torah learning that broke all records for the number of participants.
And Simchat Torah, when people are the most packed together? Families in isolation did hakafot in their living rooms, while young children who peeked into synagogues could not understand why there was no candy, no "action," and why prayer services had so few worshippers - who were dancing where they stood and not with each other.
And as the holiday ended with the (traditional in Israel ) second set of hakafot, hundreds of trucks were dispatched to cities, towns, and villages throughout the country with a singer and a keyboardist or simply a sound system. When people heard the music they went out to their balconies to dance accompanied by children in pajamas, while old folks in wheelchairs waved with glee.
The only ones who danced at the empty Kotel plaza were residents of the Old City's Jewish Quarter. The head of the Ramat Gan Yeshiva, Rabbi Yehoshua Shapira, danced alone Motsaei Shabbat in a study hall that in a typical year fills with hundreds of dancers. Instead, thousands watched the rabbi from home and danced along with him.
And what now? In Hasidic books it is written that there are certain medicines which are taken only once a year, with a strong dose, that are sufficient for the entire year. Such is the month of Tishrei. We received a powerful dose of faith, strength, joy, hope, responsibility, creativity, prayer, family, solidarity. May it all remain with us throughout the year.
And I want to quote an article written in Hebrew by my husband, Yedidia Meir:
"Something very festive starts this week and it would be a shame to miss it, especially at the beginning of such a challenging year. Immediately following Simchat Torah, we will open the most basic learning cycle in Judaism.
"With all due respect (and there is much respect!) for the daf yomi (daily page of Gemara), the daily Mishnah, the daily halakha (Torah law), and the daily Rambam (Mishneh Torah), this week the first installment of the most fundamental cycle begins with the Torah portion of Bereishit. The weekly Torah portion is divided into seven parts, one for each day of the week, and it is customary to learn them with Rashis’ commentary.
"Over the past 11 years, we celebrated Simchat Torah in the middle of the week, which did not really allow time to properly promote daily Torah study since we had to cram seven days of Torah study into just a few days. So we started off on the wrong foot, had to catch up and, before we knew it, the second Torah portion of Noah had already arrived.
"But now after 11 years, it has finally happened: a full week to give Bereishit its due. We have seven days to devote to it, one part for each day of the week. We can study alone or with a partner. We can study with the kids, by telephone with our parents, with grandma and grandpa, or with a friend in isolation. During this period in particular, we desperately need these few minutes of stability and daily sanity -- an inspiring routine. There is nothing to lose and much to gain by at least trying to begin this daily Torah study."
www.israelnationalnews.com
The strange 5781 holiday season is over. What now? Start from the beginning....
"After the holidays" - an Israeli expression for the period after Simchat Torah - has finally arrived. "After the corona" has not. This was a crazy Tishrei –challenging, depressing, amazing.
Tishrei began with small scale slichot prayers, continued with Rosh Hashanah shofar blowing from apartment balconies and in public parks, progressed through Yom Kippur services held early in the morning so that fasting outdoor worshippers could escape the heat, and culminated in a Sukkot holiday held without guests or celebrations. Hoshana Rabbah, the last night of Sukkot, was marked by remote Torah learning that broke all records for the number of participants.
And Simchat Torah, when people are the most packed together? Families in isolation did hakafot in their living rooms, while young children who peeked into synagogues could not understand why there was no candy, no "action," and why prayer services had so few worshippers - who were dancing where they stood and not with each other.
And as the holiday ended with the (traditional in Israel ) second set of hakafot, hundreds of trucks were dispatched to cities, towns, and villages throughout the country with a singer and a keyboardist or simply a sound system. When people heard the music they went out to their balconies to dance accompanied by children in pajamas, while old folks in wheelchairs waved with glee.
The only ones who danced at the empty Kotel plaza were residents of the Old City's Jewish Quarter. The head of the Ramat Gan Yeshiva, Rabbi Yehoshua Shapira, danced alone Motsaei Shabbat in a study hall that in a typical year fills with hundreds of dancers. Instead, thousands watched the rabbi from home and danced along with him.
And what now? In Hasidic books it is written that there are certain medicines which are taken only once a year, with a strong dose, that are sufficient for the entire year. Such is the month of Tishrei. We received a powerful dose of faith, strength, joy, hope, responsibility, creativity, prayer, family, solidarity. May it all remain with us throughout the year.
And I want to quote an article written in Hebrew by my husband, Yedidia Meir:
"Something very festive starts this week and it would be a shame to miss it, especially at the beginning of such a challenging year. Immediately following Simchat Torah, we will open the most basic learning cycle in Judaism.
"With all due respect (and there is much respect!) for the daf yomi (daily page of Gemara), the daily Mishnah, the daily halakha (Torah law), and the daily Rambam (Mishneh Torah), this week the first installment of the most fundamental cycle begins with the Torah portion of Bereishit. The weekly Torah portion is divided into seven parts, one for each day of the week, and it is customary to learn them with Rashis’ commentary.
"Over the past 11 years, we celebrated Simchat Torah in the middle of the week, which did not really allow time to properly promote daily Torah study since we had to cram seven days of Torah study into just a few days. So we started off on the wrong foot, had to catch up and, before we knew it, the second Torah portion of Noah had already arrived.
"But now after 11 years, it has finally happened: a full week to give Bereishit its due. We have seven days to devote to it, one part for each day of the week. We can study alone or with a partner. We can study with the kids, by telephone with our parents, with grandma and grandpa, or with a friend in isolation. During this period in particular, we desperately need these few minutes of stability and daily sanity -- an inspiring routine. There is nothing to lose and much to gain by at least trying to begin this daily Torah study."
After the holidays - and so we begin...
The strange 5781 holiday season is over. What now? Start from the beginning....
www.israelnationalnews.com
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Spend 70 years arming a supremacist state to the teeth for it to kill the native population it keeps confined in ethnic enclaves and you'll end up watching 3000 of your fellow countrymen meet a similar fate.
I feel sorry for the innocent american civilians who died... but their country does not deserve the slightest compassion from anyone...
The only thing that makes me sad about the well-deserved punishment the country of America and specially their government received that day was the fact that it was only 2 skyscrappers instead of 10.
I feel sorry for the innocent american civilians who died... but their country does not deserve the slightest compassion from anyone...
The only thing that makes me sad about the well-deserved punishment the country of America and specially their government received that day was the fact that it was only 2 skyscrappers instead of 10.
Spend 70 years arming a supremacist state to the teeth for it to kill the native population it keeps confined in ethnic enclaves and you'll end up watching 3000 of your fellow countrymen meet a similar fate.
I feel sorry for the innocent american civilians who died... but their country does not deserve the slightest compassion from anyone...
The only thing that makes me sad about the well-deserved punishment the country of America and specially their government received that day was the fact that it was only 2 skyscrappers instead of 10.
^^^ Osama bin Laden groupie.
Hollie
^^^ Osama bin Laden groupie.
I detest theocratic states of any kind... christian, muslim or even jewish... perhaps even more than you and Todd.
But when a 15 year old bully who abuses his classmates gets his ass kicked justice is being served... It doesn't matter if it was served by the hands of a good guy or an even bigger bully.
America deserved the devastating attack it suffered in 2001 for all the Palestinians its military hardware killed in half a century and I couldn't care less who did the beating...
A secularist, anti-religious pornographer like Larry Flynt or an islamic fundamentalist like Laden...
Ça m'est egal... it's all the same to me.
The ass-kicking of America was the important issue... not the political ideology of the ass-kicker.
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Hollie
^^^ Osama bin Laden groupie.
I detest theocratic states of any kind... christian, muslim or even jewish... perhaps even more than you and Todd.
But when a 15 year old bully who abuses his classmates gets his ass kicked justice is being served... It doesn't matter if it was served by the hands of a good guy or an even bigger bully.
America deserved the devastating attack it suffered in 2001 for all the Palestinians its military hardware killed in half a century and I couldn't care less who did the beating...
A secularist, anti-religious pornographer like Larry Flynt or an islamic fundamentalist like Laden...
Ça m'est egal... it's all the same to me.
The ass-kicking of America was the important issue... not the political ideology of the ass-kicker.
Says the loyal subject of an official monarchy...
But I guess by that logic the 11-M was a justified ass-beating of the Spanish kingdom,
for daring to hold on to al-Andalus and their ethnic enclaves in Africa, on the coast of Morocco.
Only question, when do Spaniards return Madrid as a gesture of gratitude to the native Muslims?
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Diklah with Zehava Ben - Beresheet
Beresheet there were skies
Beresheet the sea was blue
Beresheet I had day and night hours plenty as sand
Beresheet was the land
Grass, soft grass as a gift to her Beresheet
A garden in Eden, a garden without a gate
From skies a good rain poured
G-d was merciful at dawn
And to the guard He gave me you
Beresheet I had sun
Beresheet singing to me were birds
Beresheet the fruit ripened until evening strawberries and grains
I had night, the winds sang a lullaby for me and for you
A garden in Eden, a garden without a gate
From skies a good rain poured
G-d was merciful at dawn
And to the guard He gave me you
Beresheet there were skies
Beresheet the sea was blue
Beresheet I had day and night hours plenty as sand
Beresheet was the land
Grass, soft grass as a gift to her Beresheet
A garden in Eden, a garden without a gate
From skies a good rain poured
G-d was merciful at dawn
And to the guard He gave me you
Beresheet I had sun
Beresheet singing to me were birds
Beresheet the fruit ripened until evening strawberries and grains
I had night, the winds sang a lullaby for me and for you
A garden in Eden, a garden without a gate
From skies a good rain poured
G-d was merciful at dawn
And to the guard He gave me you
RE: Who Are The Palestinians? Part 2
⁜→ et al,
BLUF: Our friend "rylah," has given us quite the gem (Beresheet).
(COMMENT)
Well worth the listen.
Most Respectfully,
R
⁜→ et al,
BLUF: Our friend "rylah," has given us quite the gem (Beresheet).
(COMMENT)
Well worth the listen.
Most Respectfully,
R
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Israel has put itself in a cage of paranoia.
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Is that so?Israel has put itself in a cage of paranoia.
Israel again ranks 11th happiest country
2018 World Happiness Report— which ranks countries according to criteria such as GDP per capita, social support, healthy life expectancy, social freedom, generosity and absence of corruption—ranks Israel 11th.
www.ynetnews.com
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Wrongly blamed.......LOL!
It's outrageous!!!
Only Muslims are allowed to kill civilians.
Christians killed Muslims in revenge for assassinating Lebanon's elected president,
35 of the dead were women and children, the rest several hundred were men,
Palestinians, Lebanese, Pakistanis, Iranians, Syrians and Algerians.
When the PLO participated in Lebanon's civil war,
the Amal Shia Muslim militia attacked them killing 635,
more than 2000 were killed there during the 2 years of infighting.
They never hesitated to sacrifice their own for stupid wars they can't win in the first place.
With billions in Swiss bank accounts, and corruption of everything they touch,
PLO were always troublemakers for their people.
Israeli bullshit, of course. The Phalange were Israeli puppets.
They had a President elected by the Lebanese citizens.
You call anyone supporting Israelis the N-word and "puppets"...
By 1978 the Lebanese Forces (under control of the Phalange, the Lebanese Front alliance having deteriorated) were firmly allied with Israel and operating independently of the government, and Syria switched its support to their opponents, the LMN.
Phalangist Party (lebanon) | Encyclopedia.com
PHALANGE >Political party in Lebanon [1]. The Phalange (Kataʾib) party was founded in 1936 as a Maronite Catholic paramilitary youth organization by Pierre Jumayyil, who modeled it on the fascist organizations he had observed while in Berlin [2] as an Olympic athlete.www.encyclopedia.com
So for your deception to work you have to jump to another decade...
Why is the compulsion of our anti-Israel queen to lie so boldly?
And yet your Jihadi ass likes it or not,
the Lebanese elected Gamayel of the Phalangist Party for their President.
Bachir Gemayel - Wikipedia
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The Education Ministry celebrates Alyah Week
The Education Ministry will celebrate Aliyah Week and the 42,458 students who are immigrants to Israel, the ministry announced on Sunday. During the week, students will be exposed to inspiring stories that will emphasize the contributions that immigrants have made to Israel in an attempt to strengthen their feeling of belonging to the country.
In Israel, there are currently students from 120 different countries that are in 6,337 different Education Ministry frameworks, according to the ministry. Of these students, 7,459 immigrated to Israel in the past two years. The majority of these students come from the former Soviet Union with the second largest amount of new immigrant students coming from he US.
It has been an extremely complicated year for immigration to the Jewish state, as Israel celebrated Aliyah Day on October 25 and the more than 15,000 new immigrants who have made it to the country so far this year, despite the global pandemic raging across the world.
www.jpost.com
The Education Ministry will celebrate Aliyah Week and the 42,458 students who are immigrants to Israel, the ministry announced on Sunday. During the week, students will be exposed to inspiring stories that will emphasize the contributions that immigrants have made to Israel in an attempt to strengthen their feeling of belonging to the country.
In Israel, there are currently students from 120 different countries that are in 6,337 different Education Ministry frameworks, according to the ministry. Of these students, 7,459 immigrated to Israel in the past two years. The majority of these students come from the former Soviet Union with the second largest amount of new immigrant students coming from he US.
It has been an extremely complicated year for immigration to the Jewish state, as Israel celebrated Aliyah Day on October 25 and the more than 15,000 new immigrants who have made it to the country so far this year, despite the global pandemic raging across the world.
The Education Ministry celebrates Aliyah Week
"The power of Israel and strength of its society are very much based on our being a country that has always absorbed immigration," said Education Minister Yoav Gallant.
www.jpost.com
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