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Jerusalem
The capital of Israel, Jerusalem is situated in the Judean Mountains between the northern edge of the Dead Sea and the Mediterranean Sea. It is a holy city to the three major religions –Christianity, Islam and Judaism. The city has a population of 780,200 as of 2009.
1,227 Questions
What happened to the Benjaminites when Jerusalem destroyed?
The Benjaminites were absorbed into the general Judean Community. At the time of the Temple's destruction, there were presumed to be fewer Benjaminites than Kohanim. As the Benjaminites had no special rites or religious privilege, there was no need to distinguish between them and Judeans.
Who conquered Judah and destroyed the Temple of Jerusalem?
The First Temple was totally destroyed by the Babylonians in 586 B.C. when invaded Judah and sacked Jerusalem.
the Second Temple was destroyed by theRomans in 70 A.D. during the Siege of Jerusalem. The Roman did not conquer Judea on that occasion. Judea was already part of the Roman Empire. The Romans suppressed a rebellion.
Why does balian go to Jerusalem?
He went there to ask forgiveness for his sins and to fight for control over Jerusalem.
How many days would it take to get from Jerusalem to mecca by caravan?
A caravan can travel between 25 to 30 miles each day. It will take 30 days for a caravan to travel from Jerusalem to the Mecca.
Is the third temple almost complete?
Moses built the tabernacle.
Solomon built the first temple.
Ezra built the second temple.
Herod (!) built the third temple.
Herods temple where destroyed during the Jewish war at ad 68-70.
The fourth temple is not yet started to build upon because there is a Muslim shrine there now. So before the fourth temple could be built (on the original spot) the Muslim shrine must be moved.
Why does Jerusalem need the wall?
There are lots of walls in Jerusalem.
If you are referring to Old City Walls, they are not necessary today, but are part of the history of the city.
If you are referring to the Western Wall that Jews pray at, this is necessary because the Western Wall (and the less-used Southern Wall) are retaining walls for the esplanade upon which the Dome of the Rock and Al-Aqsa Mosque sit.
If you are referring to the Security Fence, this is necessary to protect Jerusalem from the various suicide bombers who used to frequently attack Jerusalem due to its proximity to the West Bank.
Who took Jerusalem from the Crusaders?
they wonted to take over Jerusalem for the money and the riches but also so that they could take over Jerusalem before anyone else did.
A dome was created by several arches crossing in different directions in a circular space that intersected in the middle.
What is the route from Jerusalem to Kadesh-Barnea?
To get from Jerusalem to Kadesh-Barnea as the crow flies would be roughly south-southwest. The site that is most likely Kadesh-Barnea, as it is unclear exactly where it is, is in Egypt, so a current road-trip would have to go from Jerusalem to the Israel-Egypt border crossing at Eilat-Taba and then to proceed northwest once in Egypt.
In terms of the Ancient Israelites, which may be the target of this question, they never went from Jerusalem to Kadesh-Barnea. According to the Bible, the Israelites marched from Kadesh-Barnea to Jericho, but by a circuitous route that took them through the Negev Desert (in modern Israel), up the east side of the Arabah Valley and Dead Sea (in modern Jordan), before crossing the Jordan River (from the east bank to the west bank) at Jericho. The Israelites would not conquer Jerusalem until the time of King David, a few centuries later.
How do Jews explain why God allowed the temple of Jerusalem to be destroyed in 70 AD?
Answer 1
To deserve God's Temple among us, we have to be on a high spiritual level.
Answer 2
This is merely a longer explanation of Answer 1.
The Jews have two concepts about how the spiritual level of any Jew works. The first is that a Jew's "baseline" spirituality is generally contingent on how close he is to the Revelation at Sinai and can truly experience the holiness of that singular event. This leads to what is called Yeridat Ha-Dorot (ירידת הדורות) or the Decline of the Generations. Each new generation cannot reach the level of holiness and spirituality that the most spiritual members of the previous generations were able to attain. Therefore, as time passes, Jews naturally become less and less holy in the Spiritual Plane and need to work harder to retain the same level of spirituality as their ancestors.
Once the baseline is established, the second aspect of a particular Jew's spiritual level is defined and created by the Jew himself. A Jew who performs the commandments elevates his spiritual plane. Some Jewish Sages like the Vilna Gaon are said to have elevated themselves so highly in this way that it is as if he were a person from the "baseline" of 300 years before he lived. Of course, the reverse is true as well; namely that doing sins and abandoning the commandments lowers a Jew from the present baseline. Many of the Jews during the Roman period were of this second group. They were corrupt, overly Hellenized, and abandoned many of the core commandments in order to assimilate. Therefore they were no longer at the minimal spiritual level to merit having a connection to God like the Temple. Therefore, God allowed the Romans to destroy the Temple.
Our current physical inability to rebuild the Temple is a consequence of our spiritual level as Jews still not meeting this minimal standard of merit. While Religious Jews today are certainly more pious than the assimilated Jew from 2000 years ago who was corrupt and Hellenized, the Religious Jews are still too few and too weak from the Decline of the Generations to exert a strong enough pull, unless all Jews join together. Judaism holds that when all Jews take on the commandments as they are supposed to do, the situation will change and we will merit the Temple again. At that time, the Messiah will reign and the Temple will be rebuilt.
Was Jacob's Pillow in the temple in Jerusalem?
Yes... When the Second Temple was re-built, in the absence of the Ark of the Covenant to signify the presence of God within the Holy of Holies... they went and fetched the stone that Jacob used to mark the "terrible place" that surely was none other than the "house of God" and the "gate of heaven"... and they embedded the stone in the center of a mosaic in the now empty Holy of Holies...
so that... when and if God returned... they would capture his presence - God in a Box...
Their logic was off on several counts: not the least of which being that the stone only marked the "spot"... and was not itself the "gate to heaven"...
By moving the stone... they did not move the gate...
The significant point was, though, that the Second Temple... unlike the First...
lacked the presence of God within the Holy of Holies - a point conceded by its architects...
What is the concept of impurity in ancient Israel?
It is a spiritual state, on the opposite end of the scale from such phenomena as prophecy.
