A Silver Coin Used To Pay Half Shekel Head-Temple Tax Found In Main Drainage Channel Of Jerusalem.

Press Release Israel Antiquities Authority

A Silver Coin That Was Used To Pay The Half Shekel Head-Tax To The Temple Was Found In The Main Drainage Channel Of Jerusalem From The Second Temple Period.
“A reminder of the half shekel” is also paid today as a donation
to the poor, before reading the Scroll of Esther at Purim.

This coming Thursday, before reading the Scroll of Esther, all devote Jews will contribute a sum of money – “a reminder of the half shekel” – which is a tradition that took root in the wake of the ancient virtuous deed of paying a tax of one half shekel to the Temple. This sum, which was used in the past for the purpose of establishing and maintaining the temple, is translated into a contemporary amount and donated to the needy.

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The Shemen Afarshimon!

By Professor Vendyl Jones

The discovery of a vial of oil may have more to do with our future than our past.

The Shemen Afarshimon, the Holy Anointing Oil, from the Holy Temple, was found in April, 1988 by the VJRI excavation team. After intensive testing by the Pharmaceutical Department of Hebrew University, financed by the VJRI, the substance inside the small juglet was verified to indeed be the Shemen Afarshimon of Psalm 133.

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The Lost City of Gilgal!

By Professor Vendyl Jones

A city from Israel’s past may play an important role in their future.

The wall we found at Gilgal is over one and a half kilometers in length (5,130 feet), but while it is eleven meters wide (36 feet) it is only half a meter high, a most unusual measurement for a wall. Why would Joshua build such a wall? Would such a wall keep out an enemy? Would a knee-high structure keep livestock in or out? Could such a wall keep in even a rabbit? Why use such odd measurements? What was walled out and what was walled in?

When the Children of Israel first arrived at Mount Sinai they erected a “hig-bal” or geder (wall) “round about” to make a makhitzah (barrier of separation) between the congregation and the Holy Mount. Later, the same type of wall or geder was made to surround the Tabernacle.

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Please take notice!

Archeological sites to this very day continue to yield artifacts with Hebrew writing, not some fictitious “Palestinian” or Arabic text! The so-called “Palestinian” Arabs were simply then, as they are now, Arabs no different culturally, historically or ethnically from other Arabs living in any of the 24 Arab countries from which they emigrated.

The suggestion that the “Palestinians” are some sub-group of Arabs with their own unique identity is pure fiction! Great propaganda… but still pure fiction!

And had not the Arabs continued to brainwash generation upon generation into believing this HISTORICAL HOGWASH about some ancient “Arab Palestinian” ties to the Holy Land, most could have gotten themselves a real life by now with much less bloodshed and suffering for everyone concerned!

Remember:

When we use their language (i.e. “West Bank” instead of Judea-Samaria, “occupied territory” instead of liberated Jewish lands, “settlements” instead of Jewish communities, “Palestinian” instead of Arab, “Haram esh Sharif” instead of the Temple Mount, etc.), we are allowing the enemies of Eretz Yisrael to define the issues, create or distort history and control the debate.

Torah Dedicated in Memory of Erez Levanon, Murdered in Prayer.

by Ezra HaLevi

(IsraelNN.com) A Torah scroll was dedicated last week in memory of Erez Levanon, the Gush Etzion resident murdered just over a year ago while meditating in the forest near his home.

Neighbors, friends and others touched by Levanon’s story gathered in his home town of Bat Ayin and walked to the site in the nearby forest where the murder occurred, reciting the afternoon prayer there, “As we finished the last Kaddish after the Aleinu prayer, Purim music began to play and dancing started to take place around the beautiful new Torah,” said Joshua Halickman, who attended the event.

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