The big rebellion

Jewish warriors in antiquity. Illustration: Avi Blizovsky via DALEE

In those days—and not necessarily in this time: A war of permission, commandment, and duty in the world of the sages

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The terms "war of authority," "war of commandment," and "war of obligation" are not biblical but sagelike. Through them, the sages of the Mishnah and Talmud attempted to determine who must go to battle, who is entitled to exemption, and when the danger requires the entire public to
Masada. Photo: Omer Zaevi, excavation expedition from Masada

Contrary to myth: the Roman siege of Masada did not last several years but only a few weeks

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The researchers: "According to the common myth, the Romans harassed the rebels in Masada for three years. An innovative survey using advanced technologies revealed that the siege by the Roman army was a focused and relatively quick operation."
The box as shown in the archeology section of the Israel Museum. Photo: Zohar Shemesh, Israel Museum, Jerusalem

An enigmatic and rare stone box from the Second Temple period, which was discovered in the excavations of the Antiquities Authority in the City of David, is on display to the public for the first time at the Israel Museum

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Uncovering the ancient aqueduct. Photo: Emil Eljam, Antiquities Authority

The longest section of the upper aqueduct to Jerusalem was revealed in archaeological excavations at Givat HaMatus

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The length of the arm section is about 300 meters, and it was uncovered in the excavations of the Antiquities Authority before the expansion of the neighborhood, funded by the "Arim" company for urban development and in the framework of the establishment of schools on the site at the initiative of the Jerusalem Municipality * among other things,
Coin "Judah the second captive" after the suppression of the great rebellion. From the collection of the Israel Museum in Jerusalem

AI Economy in Antiquity 24: The Jewish Tax

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Remains of a Roman amphitheater in Alexandria. From Wikipedia

It's hard to ask jealousy

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The Roman inscription from the period of the rebellion in the exhibition at the Haifa University Library. Photo: Haifa University Spokesperson

An ancient inscription identifies for the first time with certainty the Roman commissioner in the years before the Bar-Kochba revolt: Gergilius Antiquus

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Kafir Arbiv, the director of the excavation on behalf of the Antiquities Authority, cleans one of the sling stones at the excavation site in the Russian field where the place from which the Romans besieged Jerusalem was discovered. Photo: Yuli Schwartz, courtesy of the Antiquities Authority

The place from which the Romans besieged Jerusalem at the end of the Second Temple was discovered

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Gate of Titus in Rome. Not all treasures were looted. There were also some that were put away

Opinion: What is the history?

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The statue of Yosef ben Matityahu. From Wikipedia

Cheated or not cheated? - Yosef ben Mattayyo in front of Rabbi Yohanan ben Zakkai

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A family celebrates Seder night. Photo: shutterstock

The Passover Seder preceded the famous night yeshiva in Bnei Brak

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A cache discovered near road No. 1 as found in the field. Photo: Antiquities Authority

An ancient cash register containing a large and rare cache of coins from the Great Revolt was discovered near the Jerusalem - Tel Aviv road

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One of the Bar Kochba coins on an Israeli stamp from 1949. tristan tan / Shutterstock.com

With God's help: what is the real name of the hero LJ B'Omer

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Model of the second court. Photo: shutterstock

How many times did the Jews try to build a third temple?

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The menorah and other details looted from the Temple in Jerusalem, as depicted in the Titus Gate in Rome. Photo: shutterstock

Reincarnation of the Temple Menorah until today's Chanukah

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Photo of the findings in the water hole: Vladimir Neikhin. Courtesy of the Antiquities Authority

A 2000-year-old testimony to the days of the siege in Jerusalem; And more in the capital: an 1,800-year-old section of a Roman road was uncovered

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A view of Masada from the Roman camp. From Wikipedia

Is the mystery of the suicide in Masada cracked?!

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The stones of the breastplate - the garment of the high priest. From Wikipedia - taken from the Jewish Encyclopedia

The priesthood as you did not know it, chapter 20 and last: So what did we have...?

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A bronze Isar from the first year of the Bar Kochva rebellion, a palm tree and the inscription - Elazar HaCohen, some identify him as Elazar Modai, Bar Kochva's uncle

The Priesthood as You Didn't Know It - XNUMX: The Manipulation of Ben Kusava - II

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Herod conquers Jerusalem. A picture from the Middle Ages

Was free love given to us from Mount Sinai or from Europe?

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A bronze Isar from the first year of the Bar Kochva rebellion, a palm tree and the inscription - Elazar HaCohen, some identify him as Elazar Modai, Bar Kochva's uncle

The Priesthood as You Didn't Know It - XNUMX: The Manipulation of Ben Kusava - XNUMX

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The Five Enlightened Emperors - Trianus in the middle of the top row

The priesthood as you did not know it - XNUMX: a priestly conspiracy?!

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A tomb structure in the city of Yavne attributed to Rabbi Gamliel. Photo: faithful photographer Michael Jacobson, Hebrew Wikipedia, license to use

The priesthood as you did not know it - XNUMX: The Sabbath crowned with its old age

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Passover Haggadah, Vienna, 1954-1929, National Library

The Haggadah in the service of politics

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Vespasian. Link to the source of the image at the end of the article

The priesthood as you did not know it - 22: So where is the priesthood?

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Gate of Titus in Rome. Not all treasures were looted. There were also some that were put away

The priesthood as you did not know it - 21: What in the scrolls?

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The statue of Yosef ben Matityahu. From Wikipedia

The Priesthood as You Didn't Know Chapter XNUMX - One Righteous One in Sodom, or Things You See From Here You Don't See From There

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A four-legged robot learned to change its movement style to traverse a forest and jump over obstacles

The priesthood as you did not know it - chapter XNUMX - to the places, prepare, leave!

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A four-legged robot learned to change its movement style to traverse a forest and jump over obstacles

The priesthood as you did not know it - chapter XNUMX - a total mess in Jerusalem

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A four-legged robot learned to change its movement style to traverse a forest and jump over obstacles

The priesthood as you did not know it - chapter XNUMX - the great rebellion and the priesthood

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A four-legged robot learned to change its movement style to traverse a forest and jump over obstacles

The priesthood as you did not know it - Chapter XNUMX: Going to fight the Romans

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A four-legged robot learned to change its movement style to traverse a forest and jump over obstacles

The priesthood as you did not know XNUMX: The priesthood in the worship of the sun and in war cheers

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A four-legged robot learned to change its movement style to traverse a forest and jump over obstacles

The priesthood as you did not know it - Chapter XNUMX: The priesthood deals with clothes

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A four-legged robot learned to change its movement style to traverse a forest and jump over obstacles

The priesthood as you did not know it - Chapter XNUMX: There is life after Herod

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A four-legged robot learned to change its movement style to traverse a forest and jump over obstacles

Uncovered on Mount Zion: the southern wall of Jerusalem from the Hasmonean period

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A four-legged robot learned to change its movement style to traverse a forest and jump over obstacles

The musical side of Ben Kochba (Bar Kochba)

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A four-legged robot learned to change its movement style to traverse a forest and jump over obstacles

The quarry from which the stones were brought for the expansion of the temple by Herod was discovered

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A four-legged robot learned to change its movement style to traverse a forest and jump over obstacles

An ancestral act is a sign to the sons

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A four-legged robot learned to change its movement style to traverse a forest and jump over obstacles

Isaac Newton by James Glick

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A four-legged robot learned to change its movement style to traverse a forest and jump over obstacles

"He was a hero, he called the sparrow" - really?!

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A four-legged robot learned to change its movement style to traverse a forest and jump over obstacles

So how did it start?!

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A four-legged robot learned to change its movement style to traverse a forest and jump over obstacles

Opinion: Academy bloodsuckers

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A pile of dressed stones that fell during the destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem. Illustration: depositphotos.com

The shocking story of Mariah daughter of Elazar

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About one of the atrocities from the bloody civil war that preceded the great rebellion
A four-legged robot learned to change its movement style to traverse a forest and jump over obstacles

Unusual concentrations of silver in pottery in Jerusalem from the end of the Second Temple period

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A four-legged robot learned to change its movement style to traverse a forest and jump over obstacles

Where is the president?!/Dr. Yehiam Sorek

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A four-legged robot learned to change its movement style to traverse a forest and jump over obstacles

Hasmonean forced conversion, or operation "on the knife" / Dr. Yechiam Sorek

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A four-legged robot learned to change its movement style to traverse a forest and jump over obstacles

Dr. Yehiam Sorek/ new reflections on traitors and betrayal

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A four-legged robot learned to change its movement style to traverse a forest and jump over obstacles

"be in control"

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A four-legged robot learned to change its movement style to traverse a forest and jump over obstacles

You are alienated Israel/Dr. Yehiam Sorek

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A four-legged robot learned to change its movement style to traverse a forest and jump over obstacles

Evil will open from conscience

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