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Portraying the tensions of the era for a teen

Encountering peace.

The bead was so well preserved, that when the boy brought the bead to the supervising archaeologist, he initially wrote it off as likely being an unidentified modern object.

The cauldron of anger and dissatisfaction mixed with messianic hope was beginning to boil; soon it would erupt in serious outbreaks of violence throughout the land.

To understand Jerusalem, you must look at it with eyes of love.

King Herod put a golden eagle outside of the Temple of Jerusalem.

This week’s Torah portion, Tetzaveh, deals mostly with an interesting and surprising area: clothing design for the Temple priests.

One does not need to be a vegetarian to be able to identify with the basic principle that shedding blood is not a decent moral virtue.

The person who builds an altar is trying to be different from everyone else. The entire Jewish people brings sacrifices to the Temple, but he builds an altar for sacrifices in his home.

A measuring table-top and a number of stone weights were found, indicating trading activity on the site.