The history of sports

A statue of the Greek philosopher Aristotle. Illustration: depositphotos.com

Am Yisrael sings 24: Even in ancient times, Jewish music was influenced by Greek music

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It has already been mentioned several times the brave connection forged between Greek and Hellenistic philosophy and music - the Pythagorean school that attributed a supreme moral value to music, the Platonic school that insisted on the relationship between music and nature
The Olympic flag during the Vancouver Winter Games, 2010. From Wikipedia

Olympics: the story of five rings

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In the photo: the curse plate for one of its opening. In red are marked the words "Mare" (horse or mare) as well as "Bent", "Benita") the Blue faction). Photo: Paula Ertel-Isbrand courtesy of Alexander Holman

A Jewish curse tablet from the XNUMXth century AD that was intended to fail the team competing in horse races has been deciphered

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The raising of the Olympic flag at the Reno Olympics, 2016. Photo: flickr.

In the name of the sunset of the nostalgic, romantic past

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A painting depicting Herod. From Wikipedia

Olympic games and Jews in the ancient era

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The chain of evolution from monkey to man. Nice but not that accurate. From Wikipedia

Towards the Olympics: The Evolutionary Origins of Sport

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A Greek stamp issued a little late (in honor of the 1896 Olympic Games)

The contribution of Herod the King of Judah to the restoration of the Olympic Games

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Sports in ancient times. Illustration: shutterstock

The Song of the Muscles Chapter 30 - the end of the series

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Ballet dancer. Illustration: shutterstock

The Muscle Song MH - a dance lesson

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Dr. Ravi Mehta uses smoke and lasers to study the flow patterns around an Adidas Brazooka ball ahead of the 2014 FIFA World Cup. Photo: NASA Ames Research Center.

Watch: NASA turns the 2014 FIFA World Cup into a lesson in aerodynamics

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Amateur swimmers in the sea. Photo: shutterstock

The muscle song MH: Bathing and swimming

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Tennis doubles match. Photo: shutterstock

The Muscle Song MD: What's up with the Jews and tennis? (Tuesday)

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Different ball games. Illustration: shutterstock

The Muscle Song MG: Ball games from France to Spain (B)

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football. Illustration: Fernhofer Institute

The Muscle Song MB: Ball games from France to Spain (B)

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Jumping for joy. Illustration: shutterstock

The Muscle Song Chapter M Jumping and having fun

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Sporty walking. Photo: shutterstock

The Muscles Song LT: Go Go in Your Land - About Sporting Walking in Jewish History

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running. Illustration: shutterstock

The Song of the Muscles 68 - Running among the Jews of the Middle Ages

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A participant dressed as a swordsman at a medieval festival in Kiev, Ukraine. Sergey Kamshylin / Shutterstock.com

The Song of the Muscles 35 - Fencing

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The ruins of the Muslim city of Zahara near Cordoba. Photo: shutterstock

Song of the Muscles LD: Equality in Burden - Touching the B Knights (Skill with Weapons)

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Knight fights with swords Tricia Daniel / Shutterstock.com

The Song of the Muscles Chapter XNUMX: Touching Riding

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The Muscles' Song LB - Toil for all

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Duel of knights, Combat de chevaliers dans la campagne, painting from 1825 by Agen Delacroix.

The Song of the Muscles Chapter 4 - And where are the Jews?

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David is holding a stone. Michelangelo's famous statue, Florence.

The Song of the Muscles XNUMX: The Renaissance - the revival of Greco-Roman culture

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Boxing in ancient Rome. illustration

Song of the Muscles XNUMX: Give him with the teeth - boxing in the literature of the Sages

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Map of ancient Alexandria. From Wikipedia

The Song of the Muscles Chapter 1: Gymnasium Education among the Diaspora of Israel in the Hellenistic and Roman Periods (XNUMX)

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Gladiators on the battlefield, in a painting by Jean-Leon Jerome from 1872

The Muscle Song XNUMX: Blood in the ring

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Greek urn with a painting of runners in the Panathletic Games, 530 BC. From Wikipedia

Song of the Muscles 21 - To the places, the gym go!

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The restoration of the facilities and buildings in ancient Olympia. From Wikipedia

The Nineteenth Muscle Song - From Olympia to Tiberias

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The amphitheater in Caesarea. From Wikipedia

The muscle song XNUMX - jump to Caesarea and a little to Jericho

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Persian archers in a decorative band in the Dervish Palace in Shushan, glass-glazed brick, 510 BC

The Song of the Muscles Chapter XNUMX: Bows to you Israel

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Remains of a bathhouse in one of the Hasmonean palaces in Jericho. From Wikipedia

The Song of the Muscles Chapter 16 - Physical activity during the Hasmonean period

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The Kirkus (Hippodrome) built by Herod in Jerusalem based on the scale model of the Second Temple in the Israel Museum, Jerusalem

The Song of the Muscles Chapter XNUMX: Herod enters the picture and begins to support sports in Jerusalem

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The discus thrower from ancient Greece, as it appears on an item in the Louvre Museum in Paris

The Muscle Song 12 - The relationship of Maccabean literature to the Jerusalem gymnasium, or pornography and geography

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discus thrower

The XNUMXth Muscle Song - Did they throw a discus in Jerusalem? or "disc herniation"

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A Greek stamp issued a little late (in honor of the 1896 Olympic Games)

The 12th muscle song - this is not just a drawing

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The remains of the gymnasium in Epidaurus. From Wikimedia Commons

The Muscle Song 11th - The Jerusalem Gymnasium (B) - Its location and "price"

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discus thrower

The Song of the Muscles Chapter 10 - Gymnasium in Jerusalem, isn't it?! (Part I)

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Wrestling, as commemorated on an urn in ancient Greece

The Song of the Muscles Chapter 9 - The wrestling in external Jewish literature

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The discus thrower - a faulty Roman copy of the Greek statue. From Wikipedia

The Song of the Muscles Chapter 8 - The Greeks are coming

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Miriam and other women of the Israelites dance while crossing the Red Sea. Tomic Psalter, 1360-63

The Song of the Muscles Chapter 8 - A Corrupt Dance

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a swimmer From Wikipedia

The Song of the Muscles - Chapter Seven: Swimming as a combat sport

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A Running Man, a photographic work by Edward Muybridges. From Wikipedia

The Song of the Muscles Chapter XNUMX - To the places, the gym, get out!

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Jacob wrestled with the angel. Drawing: Gustav Dora

The muscles song D - Jacob makes a muscle

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Samson the hero brings down the pillars of the Dagon temple on the Philistines. Painting by Gustav Dora

The Muscle Song Chapter XNUMX - This is how it started / preliminary clarifications

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Hachach Vienna, class of 1925. From Wikipedia

The Song of the Muscles Chapter One - Exploring the topic

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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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Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

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

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Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

The polls in the literature of the Sages

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Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

An athlete was born/Dr. Yehiam Sorek

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Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

Christian sports?

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