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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Sanctity of Time by Professor Vendyl Jones

The sanctity of time according to Judaism may make the Jewish calendar the only reliable world chronology.

“In the beginning G-d . . . .” The “Beginning” is a word that nominates time. Time is sanctified from the very beginning in the Torah. “And the evening and the morning was day one . . . and the evening and the morning was day two . . .” and so on through day six. Yet, on the 7th day there is no mention of the evening and the morning. Even time itself, the 7th day was sanctified above all other days. It began at sunset on the 6th day (what we call Friday) and continued until sunset on the 7th day (which we call Saturday or Shabbat).

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