#Maccabees

[girlactionfigure]

There is only one Israel. This is the place where the Maccabees refused to lose their identity, pride, and faith and overcame all odds against the overwhelming Greek culture, which sought to strip the Jewish people of its unity and identity.

The miracle of Hanukkah is not that the candles were lit and burned for eight days. The miracle is that the candles were lit at all.

#Hanukkah #Maccabees #Miracle #Judaism #Jewish #Israel

[tomicscomics]

11/04/2022

He does not want your sinful ham. He's loyal to I Am Who Am.

JOKE-OGRAPHY: In this Bible story, a king has the Jews in his kingdom tortured to make them worship his gods and eat his food.  The exchange in this comic is a subtle reference to a little-known children's story called "The Three Little Pigs".

#maccabees #maccabre #maccabrees #i love short comics they're comfy and maccabreesy to share #king #jews #pork #ham #it aint green but i still aint eatin it #bible #catholic #christian #cartoon #comic #tomic #tomics #tomics comics #tom #gould #tom gould

[boonesfarmsangria]

must be like nothing else

#songs to love #where the #goods #maccabees #is the good time to get into a bands discography when they are already done? #probs no

[eretzyisrael]

The Tower of David Museum in Jerusalem recently unearthed dozens of bronze and iron arrowheads dating from around the time of the Maccabees. But the stunningly preserved artifacts weren’t hidden under meters of dirt and carefully excavated by veteran archaeologists. Instead, they were sitting in a dusty cardboard box behind an old air conditioner in one of the guard towers at the Tower of David, which is undergoing a massive renovation.

“I was with one of the managers, and I just couldn’t believe what I was looking at,” Eilat Lieber, the director of the Tower of David Museum, recalled of the moment they discovered the five boxes of artifacts behind a rusty air conditioner.

“The first thing I did was take out my cellphone to call Renee Sivan,” one of the foremost archaeological experts who excavated the Tower of David in the 1980s, Lieber told The Times of Israel on Tuesday.

Sivan recalled that some of the archaeologists must have put them aside in hopes of publishing a future paper on the intricate markings of the Greek letters epsilon and beta on some of the bronze arrowheads. But other matters captured the researchers’ attention and they lay forgotten for decades.

On a sunny winter day, the Tower of David stands sentinel at the entrance to the Jaffa Gate in the Old City, a mishmash of conquering cultures with stone walls dating from the First Temple period to the Ottomans, Herod to the Hasmoneans, with a sprinkling of Muslim, Crusader, and Mameluke influences throughout the courtyard. The site’s geographic importance made it a crucial place for every passing conqueror.

#tower of david museum #arrowhead #maccabees #old city #archaeology

[dovymcjewpunk]

On this night 2,186 years ago, the victorious Makabim entered the Beys HaMikdash to light the seven lamps of the holy menorah, but the pure gold menorah had been stolen during the occupation by the Greco-Assyrians. Instead, they used seven spears left by their fleeing enemies to fashion a lampstand, and lit the holy lights on it. The weapons meant for their destruction then shone with the light of the indestructible Jewish Spirit for the eight day re-dedication (chanukah) of the Temple.

What was meant to destroy us, only made us shine. And two thousand years later, despite subsequent invasion, exile, and many more attempted genocides, that light still shines as brightly as it did when it shone from a menorah made of spears. This is Chanukah.

#chanukah #Makkabees #Judah Maccabee #Maccabees #Chanukah miracle #Jewish #Jewish history #jewish culture #jew #jew stuff #jewish #jewish history #jewish holidays

[mysterious-secret-garden]

Antonio Ciseri - Martyrdom of the Seven Maccabees, 1863.

#Antonio Ciseri #Martyrdom of the Seven Maccabees #martyrdom #masacre #sacrifice #Maccabees #on your knees #begging #praying #crying

[ancientorigins]

A perfect ancient bullet from the time when the Hellenistic Greeks were trying to subjugate the Jews has been found in Israel, a poignant reminder of the Hanukkah story commemorated later this month.

#Hellenistic #Greek #weapons #Israel #bullet #Maccabees

[yefenof]

Jason's Tomb, Jerusalem

#jerusalem #israel #archaeology #history #maccabees #hannukah

[ruthfeiertag]

On this last night of Hanukkah, I remember the Ukraine and the parallels between that nation’s fight for freedom and that of the Maccabees. Both fought and are fighting for not only their existence, but for their identities and beliefs. President Zelenskyy came to the U.S. just beforeChristmas, but he is Jewish and he leads his nation with honour, dignity, and the courage of all our forbearers who faced down giants and enemies stronger than we were. Perhaps it is a dream, but I hope next year we can light our candles in a world without war.

#Hanukkah #candles #Maccabees #Ukraine #Zelenskyy #peace #war #ruth feiertag

[manasseh]

#everytime i clean my room i get stuck staring at the bool covers #maccabees #books

[catholic-saint-tournament]

Question: is the Book of the Maccabees included in the Deuteronomy or is it completely separate?

nah, Maccabees is its own thing, totally separate from Deuteronomy.

#maccabees #the maccabees

[girlactionfigure]

#Chanukah #Maccabees #Judaism

[judahmaccabees]

Up

A robust Lion, tawny and fierce, his fiery mane ablaze, unfazed by the lure of haze

#Lion #Lion of Judah #Judah Maccabee #Maccabees #Warrior of God #Youtube

[rivage-seulm]

Palm Sunday Reflection: The Revolutionary Jesus

Readings for Palm Sunday: John 12: 12-16; Isaiah 50: 4-7; Psalm 22: 17-24; Philippians 2: 6-11; Mark 14: 15-47 Today is Palm Sunday. For Christians, it begins “Holy Week” which recalls Jesus’ triumphant entry into Jerusalem (Palm Sunday), his Last Supper (Holy Thursday), his torture and execution (Good Friday), and his resurrection from the dead as the culmination of a long history that began…

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#Antonia #Bible #Christianity #Faith #God #Homiletic helps #Homilies #Hosanna #Jesus #Maccabees #Palm Sunday #Pilate #religion #Spirituality #Sunday Homilies #Zealot

[agreenroad]

15 Deuterocanonical Books of the Bible; 7-15 Apocrypha books of the King James Bible Were Deleted; Black Slave Bible, Dead Sea Scrolls

The Deuterocanonical Books of the Bible are books which are included in some version of the canonical Bible, but have been excluded at one time or another based on textual or doctrinal issues from the standard bible. Of these books, Tobias, Judith, the Wisdom of Solomon, Baruch, and Maccabees, remain in the Catholic Bible. First Esdras, Second Esdras, Epistle of Jeremiah, Susanna, Bel and the…

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#Apocrypha #Apocrypha books #azariah #baruch #Bible #black slave bible #book of enoch #deleted #deletion #Deuterocanonical #esdras #Esther #excluded #jeremiah #judith #King James Bible #maccabees #manasseh #qumran #sirach #slave bible #Solomon #susanna #Tobit

[dovymcjewpunk]

233 years after the Maccabees freed their homeland of oppressive colonisers, Israel was once again invaded and colonised - this time by Rome. Unfortunately this part of the story doesn’t have a happy ending. In the year 69 CE the Romans would burn the Beys HaMikdash and forcibly expel the Jews from Israel, beginning nearly 2,000 years of exile for the Jewish people. This Roman victory was immortalizes on the Arch of Titus - which depicts the plunder of the Temple. Most notably, it shows the Romans carrying off the golden menorah rebuilt by the Hasmoneans. The arch faces in towards Rome to show the victors carrying their spoils from Jerusalem to Rome, and the Jews of Rome had always had the custom that they would never walk under the arch depicting the greatest tragedy in Jewish history.

But, the story does ultimately have a happy ending - about two thousand years later the descendants of those Jews who instituted the custom to never walk under the Arch of Titus gathered to do just that. On 5 Iyar 5708 / 14 May 1948 the Jewish community of Rome gathered at the arch of Titus to walk through it for the first time - backwards - toward Jerusalem, away from Rome. After 2,000 years the exile was ending. And when the newly re-born country of Israel needed a symbol, the very image of the menorah from the Arch of Titus was what was chosen. An image meant to show our downfall is now a symbol of the greatest victory for the Jewish community since the Maccabees. This is Chanukah.

#chanukah #arch of titus #maccabean revolt #the maccabees #Maccabees #israel #jew #jew stuff #jewish #jewish culture #jewish history #jewish holidays