In the North, temples were built on high places containing every form of idol, including the Golden Calves that the first King Jeroboam had set up to draw the people away from the Beit HaMikdash, the Holy Temple in Jerusalem. As these practices grew, the teachings of the Torah were increa...
The stories of Abraham who left Ur, and Jacob who became Israel, Moses who liberated Israel, Joshua who brought it home, David who centralized it, and Solomon who built it its great temple in Jerusalem, are all about the formation of the utterly formidable Hebrew alphabet: the greatest inven...
temple built by solomon, destroyed in 587 by babylonians (nebuchadnezzar), rebuilt and destroyed again 70 ad (romans) most religious site rehoboam solomon's son, increases taxes and labor, ruled in south (judah) jeroboam breaks away, rules north (israel), majority follow him ...
“deconstructs” the religious idea of God as strictly karmic to be something more than we can fathom, as King Solomon later said during the dedication of the Holy Temple, “Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain You. How much less this temple which I have built!” (1 ...
It began with the abyss and the water, the creatures of the abyss, such as the southern fish and ketos, the water-serpent, and other "constellations whose figures were in the likeness of animals": and the habitations of the gods that were built upon "a glorious foundation". When the ...
4, D – 50923 Ko¨ ln email: avivakleinfranke@yahoo.com Introduction Graveyards and tombstones provide us with an insight into the life of people who are no longer alive. Tombstones tell us the name and age of the deceased person, and about when and where the deceased person lived. ...
in Nehemiah's recital, to the "fish gate," and it was built by the priests. The old "sheep gate" is now known by the name of St. Stephen's Gate, to the north of the Haram es-Sherif, or temple area from which the path leads down into the valley of the Kedron, and if "gate...
" Perhaps the site of this very palace wa s taken without purchase or leave by the Pharaoh who built it, from a weak subject or from another defeated Pharaoh." "I think n o t , decidedly said the Egyptian. I could show you papyri and parchments in the Serapeum proving that the ...
“Come out of her, My people” Show ~ Mark Call weekly byMark Call|Jan 9, 2025|Biblical Basics,Come Out of Her My People - Mark Call,News,Personal Improvement,Who Are We?| 0 Comments America, and indeed the entire world, arguably face more "existential threats" now than in any other...
who exiled a substantial portion of the population, and in 597 the Babylonian ruler Nebuchadnezzar II asserted control over Judah, where ten years later he would lay siege to Jerusalem, destroy the Temple of Solomon and exile a substantial portion of the local population to Babylon ((van de Mi...