With the return of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel, a new paradigm emerged that allowed for the integration of ...
The lessons of this period will last a lifetime. Through our prayers, through the fires, through the peril, through the joys, ...
According to the Bible, Hezekiah’s reforms aimed to centralise worship at the main temple in Jerusalem and abolish scattered ritual sites across the kingdom.
The Bible says Hezekiah wanted to centralize worship at the Temple in Jerusalem, and in doing so, he abolished the ritual sites located across the kingdom. It also describes that during the First ...
We can find hope by looking at what at first sight may seem a very unlikely source, the Old Testament book of Lamentations.
Carved into the rock near Temple Mount, the structure comprises eight rooms, containing an altar, a sacred standing stone, ...
It was on this date that the siege of Jerusalem by the armies ... the act of mourning and grieving for the destruction of both the first and second Temple made, to them, little sense.
Work on the construction of the original version of the Second Temple was completed around 516 BCE, in the wake of the destruction of Jerusalem’s First Temple, aka “Solomon’s Temple ...
Experts believe that the destruction ... at the temple in Jerusalem, abolishing the ritual sites scattered across the kingdom. The Bible describes how, during the First Temple period, additional ...
An ancient structure uncovered on the eastern slope of the City of David inside Jerusalem Walls National Park is believed to have been used for ritual practices during the time of the First Temple, ...