– Parashah 5 Chayyei-Sarah (Sarah’s Life)–
(All references from The Complete Jewish Bible)
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Historical Landmarks –Pool of Siloam (Jerusalem)
The pool of Siloam is a pool cut from rock on the southern slope of the City of David, located just outside the walls of Jerusalem. During his reign around 700 BC, King Hezekiah constructed this 500 meter-long tunnel to bring fresh spring-water into Jerusalem. The Pool of Siloam was the only continuous source of water in Jerusalem and consequently, were heavily guarded by a strong gate and soldiers.
In the First Century BC, Temple Priests brought water up from the Pool of Siloam for the Water Libation Ceremony, a most popular and joyous celebration during the Feast of Tabernacles. Levites played lyres, trumpets, harps, cymbals, other instruments, and also sang praises to God for His provision during this third harvest feast. The Pool of Siloam was discovered again in 2004 and three years later, archaeologists found the actual ‘ascent’ stairs which the priests used to carry the water up to the Temple for the Water Libation Ceremony, showing us the precise location of the Second Temple on the Temple mount. The Pool of Siloam is mentioned a few times in the Bible. For example:
Nehemiah 3:15 (CJB) “Shalun the son of Kol-Hozeh, leader of the district of Mitzpah, repaired the Fountain Gate; he rebuilt it, covered it and set up its doors, along with its bolts and bars; he also rebuilt the wall of the Pool of Shelach [Siloam], by the royal garden, as far as the stairs that go down from the City of David.”
Isaiah 8:6 (CJB) “Since this people has rejected the gently flowing waters from Shilo’ach [Siloam]…”
John 9:6-7 (CJB) says, “Having said this, he [Yeshua] spit on the ground, made some mud with the saliva, put the mud on the man’s eyes, and said to him, ‘Go, wash off in the Pool of Shiloach [Siloam]! So he went and washed and came away seeing.’” (‘Shiloach’ in Hebrew means ‘sent’, and the same Hebrew consonants also mean Messiah, that is ‘sent one’.)
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– Parashah 4 Vayera (He appeared)–
(All references from The Complete Jewish Bible)
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Historical Landmarks in Israel – Massada
Masada (or Metzada in Hebrew, which can mean fortress), is the name given to the once highly-fortified structure which was built on top of a high hill 434 metres above the adjacent Dead Sea between Ein Gedi and Sodom in the Judean Desert south of Jerusalem. Some historians hold that the site was settled at the time of the First Temple (c. 900 BCE), but what is certain is that Masada was made famous by Herod the Great, King of Judaea under the Romans, and reigned between 37 and 4 BCE.
It was his royal citadel, complete with two ornate palaces, with the biggest dropping three levels to a luxurious swimming pool jutting out from the rocks. Masada was protected by heavy walls, defensive towers, and aqueducts that brought water to cisterns holding over 750,000 litres.
Masada became a symbol of Jewish courage and sacrifice, stemming from the ancient kingdom of Israel right up to todays modern State of Israel. In the first century A.D., during the Jewish revolt, Jewish fighters captured and held Masada against the Roman forces, but eventually were defeated by the might of Rome’s Legion, which brutal destroyed this last stronghold of Jewish resistance, but not before the Jewish residents, who, not wanting the ignominy of Roman slavery, took their own lives as a statement to the world, that they would rather die than live in slavery.
Two Mikvah ceremonial pools and one Synagogue are part of the many historical sites that remain in Masada till today.
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