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YaelAldrich... thoughts on hands activities our family could do?

Go around killing Romans?   :leaving:

 

OK, just a couple of weeks ago we (meaning Jews) celebrated the 9th of Av (Tisha B'Av), our national/religious day of sorrow.  Many bad things happened, the beginning of the Inquisition, both Temples were destroyed, tach v'tat, many other pogroms, and a whole bunch of other yucky stuff.  We fasted (children about 12/13 and all adults, no water and no food for 25 hours), sat on the ground, read Lamentations and other sad poetry written about the terrible things that happened to us.  for three weeks before that we curtailed our happiness through not swimming, not listening to instrumental music, no clean clothes, no hot showers, no meat or wine during the week, etc.  At the same time, we look forward to meriting the Third Temple and all the accompanying commandments we can observe, may it come quickly!  There are numerous video presentations about the Temple and Tisha B'Av.  Some summer camps make a mock up of the Temple and burn it to feel more connected to the event that happened such a long time ago. 

 

I don't know that I would flood the ground with so much blood that the earth wouldn't grow food or the other horrible things that happened during this time.  You could talk about the difference between the idea of a Jewish messiah vs the Christian one (if you are inclined this way) since we Jews believe that the Jewish messiah will bring the Third Temple amongst other good things.  

 

Hope that helps,

Yael

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I just listened to a fascinating talk at a homeschool convention this weekend by Jim Weiss about the building and destruction of both temples and the Diaspora. Check out his website and see if that lecture is on CD. That should have a lot of information on the time period you're interested in.

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Our library had exactly 2 books on Masada that were very interesting.   One was a children's picture book, but very detailed, taken from Josephus' account and one was an adult book on the archeological dig.  It was a great complement to the children's book because it had many pictures of real artifacts and of the dig.  So you could try your library catalog for them and see what you come up with.

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Our library had exactly 2 books on Masada that were very interesting. One was a children's picture book, but very detailed, taken from Josephus' account and one was an adult book on the archeological dig. It was a great complement to the children's book because it had many pictures of real artifacts and of the dig. So you could try your library catalog for them and see what you come up with.

Do you remember the titles our author's names?
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Peter O'Toole stars in an older movie about Masada.

You might be interested in the amazing dig Eliat Mazar is conducting right now on King David's City.

G.H. Henty has a novel For the Temple on the fall of Jerusalem.

One more link on the Bar-Kokhba Revolt.

Biblical Archeology Review is a great mag for lots of interesting discussion and info about ancient history.

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