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| Beersheva |
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| old well photo by Yocheved Golani, https://itsmycrisisandillcryifineedto.blogspot.com/ |
Our guide mentioned something I don't think any of else in our group had thought of before. Beersheva was the very first "Jewish city." It's the city of Abraham and Sarah, as depicted in the Bible, Tanach.
When one thinks of a spot in the middle of the desert, which is a very accurate way of describing Beersheva, having an ancient city there seems rather difficult and far-fetched. Today's modern waterworks, piping etc creates a different reality, but how did people live in the middle of the desert thousands of years ago?
Gd created the earth with hidden natural resources. The Negev Desert isn't as dry as it seems on the surface. Underneath what we know as Beersheva, there are many natural springs, bodies of water, which can be accessed. Even people in ancient times were able to access enough hidden water supplies so that they could live in Beersheva.
The accepted translation of Beersheva, באר שבע is "seven springs/wells." As I've written previously, explaining my understanding of a verse in Tefilat Chana, Hannah's Prayer, the word שבע can mean either seven 7 or satisfied/sufficient. We can interpret the name Beersheva to mean "sufficient water." The idea can be considered quite miraculous for a location smack in the middle of the desert. But remember that we're talking about the Holy Land, where miracles are the norm and a call to Gd is a "local" one, thank Gd.
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| Only grave in British Commonwealth ANZAC Cemetery |
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| near Beersheva bus and train stations |
2 comments:
Once again, I suggest that Batya Medad
should collect all of her photographs
into one place, with each photograph
identified by place and date and subject.
If not now, then when?
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“In [year] 1670 [CE], because the Queen
of Austria suffered several miscarriages,
the whole Jewish community was expelled.”
SOURCE: The Secret Jews
(chapter 2, page 52) by Joachim Prinz,
year 1973, Random House, New York,
ISBN-10: 0853031851 ISBN-13: 978-0853031857
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“The Jewish people are optimists,
addicted to a passionate belief
that they cannot possibly have
enemies bent on their destruction.”
SOURCE: The Secret Jews
(chapter 2, page 53) by Joachim Prinz,
year 1973, Random House, New York,
ISBN-10: 0853031851 ISBN-13: 978-0853031857
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In any attempt at defining their specific
psyche or “mystique,” we must include
that most puzzling and yet most revealing
contradiction in the Jewish mentality:
the apparent inability of the Jews to
understand or predict their own catastrophes.
The Jews, whose history consists of
one tragedy after another, have yet
to be prepared for any one of them.
Clemenceau, who as a young man witnessed
the most notorious of anti-Jewish trials,
the affair of Alfred Dreyfus, is supposed
to have remarked that “only the defendant
did not understand” the Jewish implications
of the trial. It can be safely said that
the only ones who were oblivious to the
possibility of their own destruction in
15th-century Spain were the Jews.
So they surrendered, died or lost their
fortunes, and those who survived were
finally expelled from the land of their birth.
This sort of blindness has been true
throughout Jewish history. Jews have
always been the last to know what
everyone else could have predicted.
It is as if they simply do not believe
it possible. As far as they were
concerned, it “happened overnight.”
They packed up and left.
But nothing really happened “overnight.”
SOURCE: The Secret Jews
(chapter 2, page 51) by Joachim Prinz,
year 1973, Random House, New York,
ISBN-10: 0853031851 ISBN-13: 978-0853031857
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MICROBIOGRAPHY: Dr. Joachim Prinz
was born in year 1902. He was a Reform Rabbi
in Berlin and one of the first Jewish leaders
in Germany to speak out against Nazism.
He was expelled from Germany in year 1937
and came to the USA, and served as Rabbi
of a large congregation in New Jersey.
He was President of the American Jewish Congress
from 1958 to 1966 and wrote many books.
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