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Saints&Reading: Saturday, December 17, 2022

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THE GREAT MARTYR BARBARA OF HELIAPOLIS IN SYRIA (306)

The Holy Great Martyr Barbara lived and suffered during the reign of the emperor Maximian (305-311). Her father, the pagan Dioscorus, was a rich and illustrious man in the Syrian city of Heliopolis. After the death of his wife, he devoted himself to his only daughter.

Seeing Barbara’s extraordinary beauty, Dioscorus decided to hide her from the eyes of strangers. Therefore, he built a tower for Barbara, where only her pagan teachers were allowed to see her. From the tower there was a view of hills stretching into the distance. By day she was able to gaze upon the wooded hills, the swiftly flowing rivers, and the meadows covered with a mottled blanket of flowers; by night the harmonious and majestic vault of the heavens twinkled and provided a spectacle of inexpressible beauty. Soon the virgin began to ask herself questions about the First Cause and Creator of so harmonious and splendid a world.

Gradually, she became convinced that the souless idols were merely the work of human hands. Although her father and teachers offered them worship, she realized that the idols could not have made the surrounding world. The desire to know the true God so consumed her soul that Barbara decided to devote all her life to this goal, and to spend her life in virginity.

The fame of her beauty spread throughout the city, and many sought her hand in marriage. But despite the entreaties of her father, she refused all of them. Barbara warned her father that his persistence might end tragically and separate them forever. Dioscorus decided that the temperament of his daughter had been affected by her life of seclusion. He therefore permitted her to leave the tower and gave her full freedom in her choice of friends and acquaintances. Thus Barbara met young Christian maidens in the city, and they taught her about the Creator of the world, about the Trinity, and about the Divine Logos. Through the Providence of God, a priest arrived in Heliopolis from Alexandria disguised as a merchant. After instructing her in the mysteries of the Christian Faith, he baptized Barbara, then returned to his own country.

During this time a luxurious bathhouse was being built at the house of Dioscorus. By his orders the workers prepared to put two windows on the south side. But Barbara, taking advantage of her father’s absence, asked them to make a third window, thereby forming a Trinity of light. On one of the walls of the bath-house Barbara traced a cross with her finger. The cross was deeply etched into the marble, as if by an iron instrument. Later, her footprints were imprinted on the stone steps of the bathhouse. The water of the bathhouse had great healing power. Saint Simeon Metaphrastes (November 9) compared the bathhouse to the stream of Jordan and the Pool of Siloam, because by God’s power, many miracles took place there.

When Dioscorus returned and expressed dissatisfaction about the change in his building plans, his daughter told him about how she had come to know the Triune God, about the saving power of the Son of God, and about the futility of worshipping idols. Dioscorus went into a rage, grabbed a sword and was on the point of striking her with it. The holy virgin fled from her father, and he rushed after her in pursuit. His way became blocked by a hill, which opened up and concealed the saint in a crevice. On the other side of the crevice was an entrance leading upwards. Saint Barbara managed then to conceal herself in a cave on the opposite slope of the hill.

After a long and fruitless search for his daughter, Dioscorus saw two shepherds on the hill. One of them showed him the cave where the saint had hidden. Dioscorus beat his daughter terribly, and then placed her under guard and tried to wear her down with hunger. Finally he handed her over to the prefect of the city, named Martianus. They beat Saint Barbara fiercely: they struck her with rawhide, and rubbed her wounds with a hair cloth to increase her pain. By night Saint Barbara prayed fervently to her Heavenly Bridegroom, and the Savior Himself appeared and healed her wounds. Then they subjected the saint to new, and even more frightful torments.

In the crowd where the martyr was tortured was the virtuous Christian woman Juliana, an inhabitant of Heliopolis. Her heart was filled with sympathy for the voluntary martyrdom of the beautiful and illustrious maiden. Juliana also wanted to suffer for Christ. She began to denounce the torturers in a loud voice, and they seized her.

Both martyrs were tortured for a long time. Their bodies were raked and wounded with hooks, and then they were led naked through the city amidst derision and jeers. Through the prayers of Saint Barbara the Lord sent an angel who covered the nakedness of the holy martyrs with a splendid robe. Then the steadfast confessors of Christ, Saints Barbara and Juliana, were beheaded. Dioscorus himself executed Saint Barbara. The wrath of God was not slow to punish both torturers, Martianus and Dioscorus. They were killed after being struck by lightning.

In the sixth century the relics of the holy Great Martyr Barbara were transferred to Constantinople. Six hundred years later, they were transferred to Kiev (July 11) by Barbara, the daughter of the Byzantine Emperor Alexius Comnenos, wife of the Russian prince Michael Izyaslavich. They rest even now at Kiev’s Saint Vladimir cathedral, where an Akathist to the saint is served each Tuesday.

Many pious Orthodox Christians are in the habit of chanting the Troparion of Saint Barbara each day, recalling the Savior’s promise to her that those who remembered her and her sufferings would be preserved from a sudden, unexpected death, and would not depart this life without benefit of the Holy Mysteries of Christ.

Troparion — Tone 8 Let us honor Saint Barbara, for she broke the snares of the Enemy, and like a bird, escaped from them by the help and weapon of the most Honorable Cross.

THE MONK JOHN DAMASCENE (760)

Saint John of Damascus was born about the year 680 at Damascus, Syria into a Christian family. His father, Sergius Mansur, was a treasurer at the court of the Caliph. John had also a foster brother, the orphaned child Cosmas (October 14), whom Sergius had taken into his own home. When the children were growing up, Sergius saw that they received a good education. At the Damascus slave market he ransomed the learned monk Cosmas of Calabria from captivity and entrusted to him the teaching of his children. The boys displayed uncommon ability and readily mastered their courses of the secular and spiritual sciences. After the death of his father, John occupied ministerial posts at court and became the city prefect.

In Constantinople at that time, the heresy of Iconoclasm had arisen and quickly spread, supported by the emperor Leo III the Isaurian (717-741). Rising up in defense of the Orthodox veneration of icons [Iconodoulia], Saint John wrote three treatises entitled, “Against Those who Revile the Holy Icons.” The wise and God-inspired writings of Saint John enraged the emperor. But since the author was not a Byzantine subject, the emperor was unable to lock him up in prison, or to execute him. The emperor then resorted to slander. A forged letter to the emperor was produced, supposedly from John, in which the Damascus official was supposed to have offered his help to Leo in conquering the Syrian capital.

This letter and another hypocritically flattering note were sent to the Saracen Caliph by Leo the Isaurian. The Caliph immediately ordered that Saint John be removed from his post, that his right hand be cut off, and that he be led through the city in chains.

That same evening, they returned the severed hand to Saint John. The saint pressed it to his wrist and prayed to the Most Holy Theotokos to heal him so that he could defend the Orthodox Faith and write once again in praise of the Most Pure Virgin and Her Son. After a time, he fell asleep before the icon of the Mother of God. He heard Her voice telling him that he had been healed, and commanding him to toil unceasingly with his restored hand. Upon awakening, he found that his hand had been attached to his arm once more. Only a small red mark around his wrist remained as a sign of the miracle.

Later, in thanksgiving for being healed, Saint John had a silver model of his hand attached to the icon, which became known as “Of the Three Hands.” Some unlearned painters have given the Mother of God three hands instead of depicting the silver model of Saint John’s hand. The Icon “Of the Three Hands” is commemorated on June 28 and July 12.

When he learned of the miracle, which demonstrated John’s innocence, the Caliph asked his forgiveness and wanted to restore him to his former office, but the saint refused. He gave away his riches to the poor, and went to Jerusalem with his stepbrother and fellow-student, Cosmas. There he entered the monastery of Saint Savva the Sanctified as a simple novice.

It was not easy for him to find a spiritual guide, because all the monks were daunted by his great learning and by his former rank. Only one very experienced Elder, who had the skill to foster the spirit of obedience and humility in a student, would consent to do this. The Elder forbade John to do anything at all according to his own will. He also instructed him to offer to God all his labors and supplications as a perfect sacrifice, and to shed tears which would wash away the sins of his former life.

Once, he sent the novice to Damascus to sell baskets made at the monastery, and commanded him to sell them at a certain inflated price, far above their actual value. He undertook the long journey under the searing sun, dressed in rags. No one in the city recognized the former official of Damascus, for his appearance had been changed by prolonged fasting and ascetic labors. However, Saint John was recognized by his former house steward, who bought all the baskets at the asking price, showing compassion on him for his apparent poverty.

One of the monks happened to die, and his brother begged Saint John to compose something consoling for the burial service. Saint John refused for a long time, but out of pity he yielded to the petition of the grief-stricken monk, and wrote his renowned funeral troparia (“What earthly delight,” “All human vanity,” and others). For this disobedience the Elder banished him from his cell. John fell at his feet and asked to be forgiven, but the Elder remained unyielding. All the monks began to plead for him to allow John to return, but he refused. Then one of the monks asked the Elder to impose a penance on John, and to forgive him if he fulfilled it. The Elder said, “If John wishes to be forgiven, let him wash out all the chamber pots in the lavra, and clean the monastery latrines with his bare hands.”

John rejoiced and eagerly ran to accomplish his shameful task. After a certain while, the Elder was commanded in a vision by the All-Pure and Most Holy Theotokos to allow Saint John to write again. When the Patriarch of Jerusalem heard of Saint John, he ordained him priest and made him a preacher at his cathedral. But Saint John soon returned to the Lavra of Saint Savva, where he spent the rest of his life writing spiritual books and church hymns. He left the monastery only to denounce the iconoclasts at the Constantinople Council of 754. They subjected him to imprisonment and torture, but he endured everything, and through the mercy of God he remained alive. He died in about the year 780, more than 100 years old.

Saint John of Damascus was a theologian and a zealous defender of Orthodoxy. His most important book is the Fount of Knowledge. The third section of this work, “On the Orthodox Faith,” is a summary of Orthodox doctrine and a refutation of heresy. Since he was known as a hymnographer, we pray to Saint John for help in the study of church singing.

MARK 5:24-34

24 So Jesus went with him, and a great multitude followed Him and thronged Him. 25 Now a certain woman had a flow of blood for twelve years, 26 and had suffered many things from many physicians. She had spent all that she had and was no better, but rather grew worse. 27 When she heard about Jesus, she came behind Him in the crowd and touched His garment. 28 For she said, "If only I may touch His clothes, I shall be made well." 29 Immediately the fountain of her blood was dried up, and she felt in her body that she was healed of the affliction. 30 And Jesus, immediately knowing in Himself that power had gone out of Him, turned around in the crowd and said, "Who touched My clothes?" 31 But His disciples said to Him, "You see the multitude thronging You, and You say, 'Who touched Me?' " 32 And He looked around to see her who had done this thing. 33 But the woman, fearing and trembling, knowing what had happened to her, came and fell down before Him and told Him the whole truth. 34 And He said to her, "Daughter, your faith has made you well. Go in peace, and be healed of your affliction."

GALATIANS 3:23-29

23 But before faith came, we were kept under guard by the law, kept for the faith which would afterward be revealed. 24 Therefore the law was our tutor to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith. 25 But after faith has come, we are no longer under a tutor. 26 For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus. 27 For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. 28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus. 29 And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.

Commentary of the Church Fathers

St John Chrysostom AD 407: See what an insatiable soul! For having said, We are all made children of God through Faith, he does not stop there, but tries to find something more exact, which may serve to convey a still closer oneness with Christ. Having said, you have put on Christ, even this does not suffice Him, but by way of penetrating more deeply into this union, he comments on it thus: You are all One in Christ Jesus, that is, you have all one form and one mould, even Christ's. What can be more awful than these words! He that was a Greek, or Jew, or bond-man yesterday, carries about with him the form, not of an Angel or Archangel, but of the Lord of all, yea displays in his own person the Christ.

St Augustine of Hippo AD 430: difference of race or condition or sex is indeed taken away by the unity of faith, but it remains embedded in our mortal interactions, and in the journey of this life the apostles themselves teach that it is to be respected…. For we observe in the unity of faith that there are no such distinctions. Yet within the orders of this life they persist. So we walk this path in a way that the name and doctrine of God will not be blasphemed. It is not out of fear or anger that we wish to avoid offense to others but also on account of conscience, so that we may do these things not in mere profession, as if for the eyes of men, but with a pure love toward God.

#orthodoxy #orthodoxchristianity #easternchristianity #originofchristianity #spirituality #holyscriptures #bible #gospel #wisdom

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If the Old Testament was lost to history during the Babylonian Exile, we'd still know that there was a nation called Israel in Canaan from c.1200 BC and probably earlier (Merneptah Stele), seeing as its national deity YHWH (Mesha Stele) was worshipped from c.1300 BC (Mount Ebal Curse Tablet), whose kings included dynastic founder David (Tel Dan Stele), Ahab (Kurkh Monoliths) and Hezekiah (Hezekiah Seal), the last of whom commissioned public works (Siloam Tunnel) and came to blows with the Assyrians (Lachish Relief) and whose other inhabitants included a prophet called Isaiah (Isaiah Seal) and didn't eat pork (Israelite sites generally), until the Babylonians attacked Jerusalem in 597 BC (Nebuchadnezzar Chronicles), which was systemically razed to the ground and had its walls torn down by them ten years later (excavations of Jerusalem).

If Christianity had been eradicated by Nero or Diocletian, we'd still know there was a man called Jesus who founded Christianity in Judea between 14 and 37 AD before being crucified by Pontius Pilate (Tacitus) on the suggestion of the Jewish upper class and was known as a teacher, messianic claimant and miracle worker* with a brother called James (Josephus). We'd also known that there was a Jewish preacher called John the Baptist who Herod killed (Josephus) and a Roman governor from 26 to 36 AD called Pontius Pilate (Pilate Stone, coinage, Josephus). And that's not to mention things archaeology has found, like the five-porticoed Pool of Bethesda or the village of Nazareth.

Yes, there are things (the Exodus and the infancy narratives, famously) for which there is a disconcerting lack of external evidence. But there's a reason "there's nothing historical about the Bible" is the sole preserve of particularly ill-informed anti-Christians.

*While the Josephus passage on Jesus has almost certainly been added to by Christian scribes, the view of a large majority of textual critics is that the majority of it is authentically Josephan, including the phrase "doer of paradoxical deeds and teacher of such men as receive the truth gladly". And the later reference to "the brother of Jesus who was called Christ, called James" is near-universally accepted as authentic.

There is nothing historical about the bible. The bible is just stories. Stories of how to live our lives and be better people, sure, but none of what is written actually happened in real life, just stories.

“None of what is written actually happened in real life.” That is then to say that Caesar Augustus never existed, or the whole of the Roman Empire. That Babylon with it’s wondrous hanging gardens we’re just imagination. Archeologists discovered Jericho looking exactly like the Bible detailed it’s fall. Certainly there were things in the Bible that did actually happen and exist.

Did you know that Caesar has 10 manuscripts detailing his life? The New Testament alone has 24,633. For outside sources verifying the texts Caesar has 10, the Bible has 42 (9 Christian, 33 non-Christian)

By historian standards, Bible is the most historically accurate ancient text that we have, vastly surpassing every other ancient text in its credibility. If we dismiss the accuracy of the Bible, we must throw out every other ancient text, the words of every other ancient historian, because they don’t come anywhere near the Bible’s measure of authenticity.

Want to learn more? Still skeptical? Great! Check out this post for more stats and visuals.

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the-garbanzo-annex-jr · 3 years ago

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When tourism resumes in Israel, whether it’s in the rainy winter or the sizzling summer, outdoor conditions are irrelevant if you do your sightseeing underground.

In this video, we recommend:

10. Templar’s Tunnels, Acre (Akko): The Templars were a military-monastic order who – in the name of the pope – helped pilgrims and the sick from Europe to visit the holy sites of the Land of Israel.1187, the Templars settled in Acre and built a fortress. The tunnel is 150 meters (492 feet) long and extends from the fortress in the west to the city’s port in the east.

9. Stalactite Caves, Beit Shemesh: This nature reserve encompasses an extensive natural woodland area and the largest and most beautiful stalactite-stalagmite cave in Israel.

8. Herodion Tunnels, Herodion National Park: When the Jews rebelled against Roman oppression in the first and second centuries, they established a complex system of underground tunnels and cisterns inside the Herodion (Herodium) hill near Jerusalem to safeguard the watersupply and stay hidden from the enemy.

7. Western Wall Tunnels, Jerusalem: The Western Wall stretches along almost half a kilometer, but only a small portion is visible at the Western Wall Plaza. Touring the Western Wall Tunnels provides access to the segments hidden from view. The ancient subterranean spaces include large stone arches, water pits, an ancient water aqueduct and more.

6. Beit Guvrin Caves: About 800 bell shaped caves are in this national park, some linked by underground tunnels. The Bell Caves were quarried during the fourth to ninth century for chalk used to make roads, plaster and mortar.

5. Under the Via Dolorosa, Jerusalem: These are the excavated ruins of the Roman-era street below the present Via Dolorosa in the Old City (which dates only from the Middle Ages), where Jesus walked to the Crucifixion.

4. Pool of the Arches, Ramla: This underground water reservoir was built in 789 CE and now offers rowboats for rent.

3. Siloam Water Tunnel, Jerusalem: Also known as Hezekiah’s Tunnel, this water channel was carved in biblical times beneath the City of David in eastern Jerusalem to ensure a continuous water supply to the city in the face of the Assyrian siege in 721 BCE.

2. Blue Caves, Rosh Hanikra: These grottoes at the foot of a dramatic cliff leading into the Mediterranean Sea were created following a series of subterranean tremors that cracked the rock. Watching rainwater and sea waves flowing through these cracks makes for a unique experience.

1. Salt Cave at Mount Sodom, Dead Sea: This mountain, which is 80 percent salt, is at the southern tip of the Dead-Sea and is where the biblical story of Sodom and Gemorah took place.

Executive Producer: Jonathan Baruch Producer/Director: Haim Silberstein Camera: Ari Amit Editor: Gal El-Ad

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girlactionfigure · 5 years ago

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#Livingthedream day 1,991. FASTEN YOUR SEAT BELTS FOR THIS ONE.

What a privilege today! I was able to tag along with #Jerusalem Deputy Mayor Fleur Hassan-Nahoum, Bel Harbour Mayor Gabe Groisman and superstar advocate Avi Abelow as they took a private tour and filmed a segment for Israel Unwired of the newly opened Pilgrimage Path in City of David Ancient Jerusalem. The Jerusalem pilgrim road is THE 2,000+ year old road used by Jews to ascend from the mikvah in the Pool of Siloam to the Temple Mount and Beit Hamikdash via the Hulda Gates in the Southern Wall. This was the path just showcased around the world at its opening with David Friedman - U.S. Ambassador to Israel two days ago. The stones you walk on, squeeze through and touch are the exact same stones and walls our ancestors walked on when they had the blessing to visit the Temple. To walk on this famous road mentioned everywhere by all historians was an amazing privilege. I was so excited to see it I had trouble sleeping last night and still feel the adrenaline pumping this afternoon. It is amazing that we can see our history today right in front of us. Stories that 2,000 years of Jews only heard from their parents, teachers or books, come alive. Deputy Mayor Hassan-Nahoum made a really poignant point that I'd like to share and hit me in the gut as she said it. We were all jovial and excited as we exited the underground tunnel. Half the path we took was through a skinny tunnel built as a sewage line by the Jews of the Temple time. It ran under the pilgrim road. During the destruction of the second Temple, the Jews snuck down into the sewage tunnel to hide and escape the Roman invaders. With all of my excitement, I had forgotten about the suffering our people experienced at the hands of the Romans and countless other enemies so many years ago. This tunnel wasn't a joyous place, it was a mournful place. Until we rebuild the Beis Hamikdash, we mourn daily over the destruction that took place and lives itself in our lives every single day. We all have a half-meter square of unfinished wall at the entrance to our homes to remind ourselves that our house can never be complete until we complete God's house. That and so many other practices remind ourselves that with all the dreams we are living here in Israel, there is still one large nightmare to end. Today, the suffering manifests itself past our daily ritual mourning. Our enemies today deny our historical claim to the land of Israel. They say these archaeological digs, which take place 60 meters below ground, uproot Arab homes. They say there's ancient Arab history in the City of David (look at any picture from pre-1967 and you'll see empty land, no Arab houses, and pre-1948 you'll see a Yeminite Jewish community). I spoke to The Times of Israel Editor in Chief David Horovitz last night who made an excellent point. So much of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is centered around Palestinian refusal to admit our history in the land. Well now, it's open for everyone to see, This is the Jewish homeland. We are back, and we're never leaving.

Uri Pilichowski

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betweenandbeloved · 6 years ago

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The Old City

Today was our last day in Jerusalem and I have to say, it was bittersweet. I will not miss walking on the hard stones all day to the point that my feet want to fall off, but I will miss the amazing markets and the religious significance everywhere we went.

The morning started by walking from our hotel up to the Old City where we went to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. This is the place home to what remains of Golgotha, where Jesus hung on the cross, as well as what remains of Jesus’ tomb. While the church today is inside the walls of the city, the place was outside the original city walls during Jesus’ time so this space was most certainly where the Crucifixion and Resurrection happened.

The hill was much larger in Jesus’ time but it was cut away in order to build the church to preserve the spot. There was a Greek Orthodox altar built on top of “the exact spot where Jesus was crucified,” and if you haven’t caught on to my skepticism yet, here we go again... You could stick your had through a very tiny hole and touch the rock where it happened, but we don’t really know exactly where on Golgotha Jesus’s cross was stuck. It was cool to be able to feel the rock, but it honestly made me sad to see how little was left of what was originally this giant mountain of rock.

Same with Jesus’ tomb. We stood in line for 20-30 minutes to get about 15 seconds worth of time inside the tomb. The mausoleum that was erected on top was recently renovated and restored, there’s a documentary somewhere I want to find about it, but during the renovation, scientists were able to date the original rock in the tomb to the first century which means it’s pretty likely this was where Jesus was laid to rest.

(Tomb of Jesus)

Now, I want to take a minute to think about what might have happened because we’ve learned a lot about the culture and tried to picture everything in Jesus’ time. So Jesus died, his body was washed and cleaned, and then laid to rest in a tomb carved from rock with a giant bolder pushed in front of it. Based on the climate around here, it was probably cold and very dark in there. So what the heck do you think happened when Jesus opened his eyes after being dead? Was he glowing? Did he roll away the stone? Did he just walk through the stone? Did he acknowledge the other graves that were surely near his? (We walked through one of the catacombs - Jesus was not buried in isolation).

Visiting these biblically significant sites just makes me wonder. Seeing the place brings it to life in my mind that you don’t get from the pages of the book. It makes me wonder what else happened in these places and these encounters that were not written down in the Gospels.

After spending some time in the church, we walked from the Armenian to the Jewish quarter to get to the City of David. At this point, I’m so familiar with the geography of the city that I pointed out the route to our tour guide and he let me lead (sorta). It was kind of funny, he was like “yeah, you’re right! You’re tour guide now.”

The City of David was originally a Jebusite city but David conquered it and made it his home and the eventual capital of Jerusalem (1 Chronicles 15). We were able to see the ruins of his palace as well as the water system that he used to conquer the city through. At the archaeological dig site, more than 50 clay seals were found with names of important people who worked for the King that are mentioned in the book of Isaiah (chapter 38?).

The tunnels and water system of the city date to the 18th century BCE and are pretty well preserved. We went deep into the tunnels to learn how David captured the city through the water system (2 Samuel 5). The kings following David used the same tunnel, up until Hezekiah who decided to build a new water shaft to keep the water inside the city and make them less exposed to invasion.

I had the opportunity to venture through the 1800 foot long tunnel that still flows with water today. The water was mostly up to my calves but at the deepest part did get just about up to my waist. It was a very narrow, and at some points very shallow, tunnel. I kept knocking into one side and felt like a pinball bouncing back and forth. It was a lot of fun and a really cool experience.

The tunnel lets out into the Pool of Siloam which was a public ritual bath in Jesus time. We know this because of John 9 when Jesus put mud on the blind man's eyes and told him to wash in the Pool of Siloam (vs. 7), restoring his sight. This was one of two miracles Jesus performed in a ritual bath in Jerusalem.

The second miracle happened at the Bethesda Pools where Jesus asked the disabled man “do you want to be made well,” before healing the man in the bath (John 5). Located near the pools is St. Anne’s Crusader Church which is known for it’s acoustics. We spent some time in devotion singing in the church and I have to say, it was pretty cool.

We ended our scheduled programming for the day by walking the Via Dolorosa, the Stations of the Cross or Way of the Cross. This may or may not have been the route or even a similar one. It didn’t become a “thing to do” until the 18th century but has since been a place of pilgrimage for Christians. We wandered through stations 1-8, having technically done 9-14 in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre earlier in the morning. Different people do different stations but what I got was:

1) Jesus was condemned by Pontious Pilate. 2) Jesus carries the cross. 3) The first time Jesus fell. 4) Jesus meeting with his mother. 5) Simon the pilgrim helping Jesus after the soldier asked him to. 6) Veronica using her veil to wipe Jesus’ face of sweat and blood. 7) Jesus fell for the second time. 8) Jesus speaks to the women saying “daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me” (Luke 23:28). 9) The third time Jesus fell. 10) Jesus stripped of his garments. 11) Crucifixion. 12) Jesus dies. 13) Jesus’ body is removed from the cross. 14) Jesus is laid in the tomb.

We did things in a funk order, but it was so crowded that I’m glad we were able to do what we could when we did. I honestly can’t imagine coming to this place in the summer with all the tourists, you probably wouldn’t be able to do half the things we got to just because of the lines and the crowds. So, take note, do a tour of the Holy Land in January!

When we got to station 8 located at the edge of the Christian and Muslim Quarters, we were set loose for free time in the city. I ventured around with my friend Emily and ended up meeting up with our other friend Rick to enjoy some time shopping and seeing what we could. Emily and I ended up at the Church of Peter Gallicantu which was a cute little thing hidden behind a hobbit door that you kind of had to crawl through. The first church was built in 457 and was destroyed (like most things in the city and country), but another was built by the Crusaders in 1102. But then, of course, that was also destroyed and wasn’t rebuilt until 1931. A golden rooster signifies the cock crowing in relation to Peter’s denial of Jesus.

It was a lot of fun wandering around the Old City and doing some shopping. We met the nicest man Esah who ran an olive wood shop with handmade items that come from 15 different families in the community. I got some beautiful items from him, but of course, they’re already packed. He was thoughtful and generous, we didn’t even have to bargain, he gave us a great deal because we were Christians and because I told him I was going to be a Lutheran pastor.

I enjoyed a break from learning and loved getting to just explore and wander around in a small group. There were so many beautiful things I could have bought, but I love what I got and I’m proud I didn’t go crazy with buying things I didn’t need.

Tomorrow we will leave for Jordan and I’m excited to head to a new country and learn about the biblical significance of Jordan. If you read my earlier blog from before the trip, tomorrow we go to Mount Nebo where God showed Moses the promised land - so I’m super excited about that. Until then, let’s hope the internet works to post this, maybe you’ll get some pictures and if not, I’ll try to get you some when I have better internet.

Thanks for following along and sharing your thoughts about my journey! Just three more days left in the Holy Land.

#ipj2019 #the holy land #live #grow #learn #explore #hope #lutheran #jerusalem #old city #bible

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cinaminamin · 7 years ago

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Day 1-2

Steps walked: 7,032 (Day 1), 14,777 (Day 2)

Guns Seen: 3, 17

New Israeli Grandmothers acquired: 1

Creepers Seen: 1

Baklava eaten: 2

Cats petted: 1

Types of food tried: Schnitzel, Israeli Bread, Hummus and Pita, Fried Gnocchi

Sights Seen: Mount of Olives, City of David, Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Wailing Wall/Western Wall, Jaffa Gate, Mount Zion, King David’s tomb, Coenaculum, Hurva Synagogue, Herodian Mansions, The Old City (my feet say I walked it all, but in reality I only did 2 quarters), 3800 years old water system, 2700 year old water canal, Pools of Siloam, and the Jerusalem Market.

Best Time: The 2700 year old water canal. We climbed into a small, dark, and narrow tunnel that had running cold water along the bottom 10 inches and walked for 50 minutes. It was made of limestone and had a few baby stalactites. The water got 2.5 feet deep three times so everything got wet. It was truly awesome.

Worst Time: All the walking. My feet hate me and I may not survive the night. But for realsies, I disliked the 3800 years old water system. The aquaduct was not meant to have people walk up it, there was construction and pipes everywhere, and all the stones were slippery. I fell into the walls about 8 or 9 times, and scrapped along. Also, there was one tour of older people who were coming down it when it was an up only tunnel and we had to squish into the gross walls to let them pass. They refused to admit they were going the wrong way, saying that we were the wrong ones, despite all the signs going up and their guide admitting to us before they arrived that they were going the wrong way. I’m still a little mad.

Impressions: The city of Jerusalem is both smaller and larger than I thought it would be. It seems large than life, with all the history in its walls, but only takes about 20 minutes to cross a half of a quarter of the city. That’s absurd. There are places with lots of people and no people and it changes very suddenly from one to the other.

Its made entirely out of limestone, which is slippery when wet so thats nerve-wracking, and looks like it could have been built 2,000 years ago. Some of it was. I got to see the results of a lot of archaeological digs, which is cool since I’m starting a dig on Sunday. I walked in places I heard about in church, or learned about when I learned of the crusades. I’m walking and living in a place with years and years of history and I can’t quite seem to process it. I touched the stone that Christ’s blood was split on when he was crucified (which was scary as I had to stick my hand in a dark black hole and hope that it was there as there was no depth indicated) (It was there) which was indescribable. Not from religious fervor or a moment of connection with God, but more of a “huh” moment. I can’t say how I feel about that as I don’t understand what I felt.

This is a deeply religious city, and I am not very religious. I don’t put a lot of stake in the Bible or any religious text as I cannot believe in a book of absolute truths that has managed to have never been changed once in any way over all the time people spent writing it and translating it. So religion is more of a safe space for me, and its strange to be among people who live very different lives. They place such importance on religion, and I can’t quite connect to that. Its harder than I thought. Not speaking the language is also hard. However, I’m seeing so much it makes it all worth it.

Almost everyone here is so nice! Today, we met a lovely lady named Malka Kripor who just adopted us. She thought my mom was my sister! We went in the Western Wall tour with her and it was amazing. After we asked her for taxi advice, she told us that she would take us to the market! We followed her like ducklings in one of the most crowded spaces I’ve ever been in. Eventually, after going the wrong way on the monorail, we made it to the market where she bought us bread, fed us along the way, and showed us her friend’s shop. This is also where I got the baklava which was incredible and I am now ruined for all other baklava.

I’m having a lot of fun but feel a little out of my depth and wary. Its a weird combo for sure, but my mom is here and I’m slowly finding my way

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Closet where family hid left unscathed after tornado destroys most of Arkansas home

SILOAM SPRINGS, Ark. — The only room in an Arkansas home left unscathed by a destructive tornado protected a mother and her young children as they took shelter.

All that’s left standing at the home are stone walls. The roof was completely torn away.

The family inside told 5NEWS they built the home less than two years ago.

Rachel Smith and her two kids were the only ones inside the home when the tornado hit. Her husband was out of town.

In just moments, the roof was gone, windows were shattered and the walls crumbled around them.

“We planned this house for a long time, we weren’t here very long, but it’s just stuff, it’s just stuff, we’re safe, and that’s all that matters,” Smith said.

Smith says she woke up to a weather alert on her phone, grabbed her two kids, and took shelter in their master closet.

Hugging her young sons for dear life, Smith says she hoped and prayed the walls of the closet would hold.

“We were praying, there was a lot of praying,” Smith said.

The National Weather Service is calling the tornado that struck Smith’s home an EF-2.

“The master wall fell in on the bed, the living room wall had fallen in, the roof on the other side of the house over one of the boy’s rooms is completely gone. It’s just amazing the power, and just how quickly this kind of destruction can happen,” Smith said.

After what she describes felt like centuries, the storm settled, and the next-door neighbors came over to help out.

“I always thought a tornado would be really fast and come in and out, and everything gets quiet after, but I felt like it was chaos,” Smith said.

Smith says her closet doesn’t seem like just a closet anymore, but a room she firmly believes saved her family’s life.

“That and God. That’s all I really know how to put it,” Smith said.

Smith, friends and family have spent the following days gathering what they can before storms approach again this weekend.

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The Berean - Ephesians 1:11-12

Ephesians 1:11-12

(11) In Him also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestined according to the purpose of Him who works all things according to the counsel of His will, (12) that we who first trusted in Christ should be to the praise of His glory. New King James Version Change your email Bible version

Do we get the significance of the truth that He works all things in our lives too, according to the counsel of His will? This truth does not apply to just the "big" things of His overall purpose but even to us! Do we really perceive our relationship to Him as being one of the Potter to the clay?

As He formed and shaped Adam and Eve, He is forming and shaping us, and it is our responsibility to accept and submit. Do we live our lives as though He truly is omnipotent, omniscient, and individually aware of us? Do we conduct our lives in such a manner that we fully understand that this awesome Being is actively and personally involved in what we do?

By viewing Him as Potter, do we grasp that He has every right to mold the clay into whatever form or state and make whatever use of it as He chooses? He can fashion from the same lump one person to honor and another to dishonor. He can determine our sex, race, ethnicity, level of wealth, or location. He is under no law or rule outside of His own nature and purpose. He is a law unto Himself, under no obligation to give an account of His actions to anybody else. He exercises His power as, where, and when He wills.

He is not merely overseeing our lives but actively participating in them, and He is ultimately responsible for what happens in them just as much as those national and worldwide occurrences that we hear in the news. The sovereignty of the Bible's God is absolute, irresistible, and infinite. Our trust is to be in Him.

God's purpose and plan has been and is being carried out as He purposed, and nobody can turn Him aside. Now His purpose and plan has reached out to include us just as He predestined when He declared the end from the beginning. Have we caught the vision?

Are we willing to completely turn our lives over to this Being who does not always act in a way that is pleasant to us? God immediately struck Aaron's sons and Uzzah dead, but He has allowed countless others who perhaps did far worse things to live long and seemingly full lives.

God permitted Methuselah to live almost a thousand years. He chose to endow Samson with strength as no other person ever had. Jesus went to the pool of Siloam and chose one man to heal, paying no attention to the others. Why did He allow the Morgans, Carnegies, Vanderbilts, Rockefellers, and many others to amass incredible wealth, while allowing perhaps billions of people around the world barely to scrape by in miserable poverty?

When the Israelites entered the Promised Land, the city of Jericho and its citizens stood barring their progress. God brought the walls down, and the city's defenses collapsed—the one and only time God did such a thing. Every other city had to be conquered by warfare, risking Israelite lives to take them.

Clearly, He treats and responds to individuals according to the counsel of His own mind, and He answers to no one. He does this even in the lives of His children. The apostle John lived to be around one hundred years old, yet Stephen was stoned to death, Peter crucified, and Paul beheaded.

Considering the witnesses of those great servants, what right do we have to complain about the discomforts He creates for us to endure and grow within? He could rescue everybody in every uncomfortable circumstance, but He does not. Have we fully accepted that He may choose difficult things for us?

— John W. Ritenbaugh

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First know Yahweh, Brahma, Khuda then Elohim, ParBrahm, Allah, etc. woul... Luke 13v1-9:- Fig tree = Temple and it was not needed for the worship of Elohim who lives in our own heart.THE GOSPEL IS CALLED “LOGO” AND LOGO IS THE EXTRACT/NECTAR OF “LOGICAL REASONING” – SATGUR PARSAD.Once-born people are incapable of logical reasoning and, therefore, the logo is for the twice-born people of discerning intellect called the “holy spirit”, surtti or “common sense”. So, if you want The Gospel, then you must think logically over your own heart. Thus, listen to everyone and ponder over it logically in your own heart. Then, the Gospel would be written over the living tablets of heart – 2corn 3.Scriptures, the dead letters are “deadly poison” to The Gospel.Scriptures, the “dead letters” that the once-born people are taught in the universities and colleges, they are “old wines” or “milk for the babies”. This is the Jewish leaven which Jesus forbade. The twice-born people of “discerning intellect” are like the “birds of the air” capable of “logical reasoning” to brew the “New Wine” within their own hearts. For this, you need to be “impartial and unbiased” as the little children are. Thus, you do not need to go to a university to know The Gospel but a heart burning for “The Gospel Treasures”. University degrees in “dead letters” will turn you into a super donkey carrying “Holy Books”. “Letter killeth, spirit giveth Life”. Typical Youtube Video on Son of God:- Son represents Father, so in Jesus, we are the sons of Elohim and we should display His qualities for Salvation. https://youtu.be/dQ8pSqeFjQw Natural bastards versus supernatural Bastards.Holy Gospel of our Supernatural Father Elohim, Allah, Parbrahm, etc. delivered by the First anointed Christ, which in Punjabi we call “Satguru” Jesus according to Saint Luke 13,1-9. Some people told Jesus about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mingled with the blood of their sacrifices. He said to them in reply, "Do you think that because these Galileans suffered in this way they were greater sinners than all other Galileans? Jesus being the son of Elohim, our supernatural Father of our souls, the Anointed Christ, He had nothing to do with the moral laws or sins but blasphemy against Holy Spirit. Sins were the regime of John, the Baptist, Rabbis, etc., the Moral Teacher – Matt 13.v52. By no means! But I tell you, if you do not repent, you will all perish as they did! Or you cannot change your tribal identity by mixing blood such as a Jewish woman marrying a Gentile does not create Jews outwardly, the Tares. Or those eighteen people who were killed when the tower at Siloam fell on them --do you think they were more guilty than everyone else who lived in Jerusalem? By no means! But I tell you, if you do not repent in which you need to take the Baptism of John in water in the name of your tribal father as the John, the Baptist baptised Jewish men in the name of Abraham and Jesus in the name of his heavenly father Yahweh, you will all perish as they did!" And he told them this parable: "There once was a person who had a fig tree planted in his orchard, the Temple in Jerusalem, and when he came in search of fruit on it but found none as Jesus did on his last visit to the Temple and made it wither for there was no fruit, he said to the gardener, John, the Baptist, the rightful owner of the Chair of Elijah, who was ousted out by the crook Temple Priests, the stone rejected by the builders, the sons of Abraham, had become the Corner Stone in the Temple, 'For three years, Passovers Jesus visited the Temple, now I have come in search of fruit on this fig tree, Temple but have found none. (So) cut it down or destroy this useless Temple turning people into the sons of Satan by making them Jews outwardly of appearances. Why should it exhaust the soil or we do not need Temples of worship made by human hands anymore to worship God Elohim in truth and in spirit?' He said to him in reply, 'Sir, leave it for this year also, and I shall cultivate the ground around it and fertilize it with morality of Abraham; it may bear fruit in the future. If not you can cut it down and that is what Jesus proclaimed that not a single stone will be left on top of each other. But the Western Wall is still standing intact for it is for the worship of the sons of Satan, the Tares, Matt. 13v24-30, that are getting Bundled up in Israel for the Final Burning expected on 14/05/2023 and our Father knows better.'" Hajj www.gnosticgospel.co.uk/faithfat.pdf http://youtu.be/9DqMvO1hb0U www.gnosticgospel.co.uk/loves.htm God:- www.gnosticgospel.co.uk/FamGod-1.htm Royal Priests. Test for twice-born:- http://youtu.be/__X89iAI_cE www.gnosticgospel.co.uk/antichrist.htm Fanatics - John 8v44:- www.gnosticgospel.co.uk/seedterr.htm www.gnosticgospel.co.uk/fanbastards.htm Trinity:- Playlist:- www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0C8AFaJhsWyU_oUMJodHvSZGoNDPk5bu John's baptism:- www.gnosticgospel.co.uk/johnsig.pdf www.gnosticgospel.co.uk/pdbook.pdf www.gnosticgospel.co.uk/trinity.pdf

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Saint Barbara - Feast Day: December 4th - Latin Calendar

Patron of : soldiers, artillerymen and firefighters, protector against sudden death and thunder and lightning

Seeing Barbara’s extraordinary beauty, Dioscorus decided to hide her from the eyes of strangers. Therefore, he built a tower for Barbara, where only her pagan teachers were allowed to see her. From the tower there was a view of hills stretching into the distance. By day, she was able to gaze upon the wooded hills, the swiftly flowing rivers, and the meadows covered with a mottled blanket of flowers; by night the harmonious and majestic vault of the heavens twinkled and provided a spectacle of inexpressible beauty. Soon the virgin began to ask herself questions about the First Cause and Creator of so harmonious and splendid a world.

Gradually, she became convinced that the soulless idols were merely the work of human hands. Although her father and teachers offered them worship, she realized that the idols could not have made the surrounding world. The desire to know the true God so consumed her soul that Barbara decided to devote all her life to this goal, and to spend her life in virginity.

During this time, a luxurious bathhouse was being built at the house of Dioscorus. By his orders, the workers prepared to put two windows on the south side. But Barbara, taking advantage of her father’s absence, asked them to make a third window, thereby forming a Trinity of light. On one of the walls of the bath-house Barbara traced a cross with her finger. The cross was deeply etched into the marble, as if by an iron instrument. Later, her footprints were imprinted on the stone steps of the bathhouse. The water of the bathhouse had great healing power. St. Simeon Metaphrastes (November 9) compared the bathhouse to the stream of Jordan and the Pool of Siloam, because by God’s power, many miracles took place there.

When Dioscorus returned and expressed dissatisfaction about the change in his building plans, his daughter told him about how she had come to know the Triune God, about the saving power of the Son of God, and about the futility of worshipping idols. Dioscorus went into a rage, grabbed a sword and was on the point of striking her with it. The holy virgin fled from her father, and he rushed after her in pursuit. His way became blocked by a hill, which opened up and concealed the saint in a crevice. On the other side of the crevice was an entrance leading upwards. St Barbara managed then to conceal herself in a cave on the opposite slope of the hill.

After a long and fruitless search for his daughter, Dioscorus saw two shepherds on the hill. One of them showed him the cave where the saint had hidden. Dioscorus beat his daughter terribly, and then placed her under guard and tried to wear her down with hunger. Finally he handed her over to the prefect of the city, named Martianus. They beat St. Barbara fiercely: they struck her with rawhide, and rubbed her wounds with a hair cloth to increase her pain. By night, St. Barbara prayed fervently to her Heavenly Bridegroom, and the Savior Himself appeared and healed her wounds. Then they subjected the saint to new, and even more frightful torments.

Both martyrs were tortured for a long time. Their bodies were raked and wounded with hooks, and then they were led naked through the city amidst derision and jeers. Through the prayers of St. Barbara, the Lord sent an angel who covered the nakedness of the holy martyrs with a splendid robe. Then the steadfast confessors of Christ, Saints Barbara and Juliana, were beheaded. Dioscorus himself executed St. Barbara. The wrath of God was not slow to punish both torturers, Martianus and Dioscorus. They were killed after being struck by lightning.

In the sixth century the relics of the holy Great Martyr Barbara were transferred to Constantinople. Six hundred years later, they were transferred to Kiev (July 11) by Barbara, the daughter of the Byzantine Emperor Alexius Comnenos, who married the Russian prince Michael Izyaslavich. They rest even now at Kiev’s St Vladimir cathedral, where an Akathist to the saint is served each Tuesday.

Many pious Orthodox Christians are in the habit of chanting the troparion of St. Barbara each day, recalling the Savior’s promise to her that those who remembered her and her sufferings would be preserved from a sudden, unexpected death, and would not depart this life without benefit of the Holy Mysteries of Christ. St. Barbara is commemorated on December 4.

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Saints&Reading: Fr., Dec. 17, 2021

December 17_December 4

THE HOLY GREAT MARTYR BARBARA & JULIANA AT HELIOPOLIS, SYRIA (306)

THE MONK JOHN DAMASCENE (760)

Source: Orthodox Church in America (OCA)

LUKE 20:19-26

19 And the chief priests and the scribes that very hour sought to lay hands on Him, but they feared the people -for they knew He had spoken this parable against them. 20 So they watched Him, and sent spies who pretended to be righteous, that they might seize on His words, in order to deliver Him to the power and the authority of the governor. 21 Then they asked Him, saying, "Teacher, we know that You say and teach rightly, and You do not show personal favoritism, but teach the way of God in truth: 22 Is it lawful for us to pay taxes to Caesar or not? 23 But He perceived their craftiness, and said to them, "Why do you test Me? 24 Show Me a denarius. Whose image and inscription does it have? They answered and said, "Caesar's." 25 And He said to them, "Render therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's." 26 But they could not catch Him in His words in the presence of the people. And they marveled at His answer and kept silent.

GALATIANS 3:23-29

23 But before faith came, we were kept under guard by the law, kept for the faith which would afterward be revealed. 24 Therefore the law was our tutor to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith. 25 But after faith has come, we are no longer under a tutor. 26 For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus. 27 For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus. 29 And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.

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i am only trying to make my way through the sealed passages of your beautiful mysterious heart, the Temple of who you truly are, to reveal your True identity as a daughter of God.

so that we may share the same “Home” in Love.

(will you share the same time & space with me?)

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A. The original passageway from the second Temple that leads from the Hulda Gate in the southern wall of the Temple Mount, up to the Temple Mount plaza, used today as a mosque.

B. The sealed Triple Gate.

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CONCERNING THE TWO GATES OF THE TEMPLE MOUNT THAT WERE NOT DESTROYED AND AWAIT THE RETURN OF PILGRIMS ASCENDING TO THE HOLY TEMPLE https://har-habait.org/#/articleBody/30529

by Pinchas Abramovich At the southern end of the Temple Mount there exists to this day two gates which have survived from the time of the Holy Temple: the Double Gate and the Triple Gate. Both gates were used for entry and exit from the Temple Mount during the Second Temple period.

The Double Gate is visible only on its right side, as most of it is hidden by a building which was built up against the southern wall in the Fatimid period, (the end of the Early Islamic period). The gate still exists and stands in its entirety inside the wall of the building which hides it, and can be reached from within the Temple Mount. The gate is comprised of two openings, each built with two lintels and a massive doorframe. Above the massive frame is an equally massive Herodian decorated arch which supports the immense weight of the wall above the gate.

Today we see only the right side of the Herodian doorpost and above it the five right stones of the arch. Inside the gate is the original entrance hall and at its center is a huge column that supports the roof of the hallway, which consists of four domes decorated with paintings carved into the stone itself. This is the earliest known site where decorations of this style have been discovered. From the hall a long corridor leads north, which passed under the royal cloister (colonnaded Stoa which stoods atop the Temple Mount’s southern edge) directly to the Temple Mount plaza. This corridor passes today under the Al-Aqsa Mosque and is referred to as ‘the Al-Aqsa Mosque.’ During the Umayyad period (the beginning of the Early Islamic period), the Double Gate served as the main gate connecting the large Umayyad palaces to the Temple Mount, known as the Prophet’s Gate. The Umayyads placed a decorated ornamental frame under the Herodian doorpost and placed two decorated columns at the entrance to the gates.

The Triple Gate also stands in the place of the original gate from the time of the Second Temple, and a corridor leading from it up to the Temple Mount still exists. The gates were sealed during the Fatimid period when the city wall that left the southern wall outside the city wall was built, except for the left half of the Double Gate that remained open to the adjacent tower.

‘Two Hulda Gates from the South’

The Mishnah in Tractate Midot mentions the two southern gates of the Temple Mount: ‘The two gates of Hulda from the south’. Some experts identify these gates with the Double Gate or the Triple Gate.

Several suggestions were made to explain this name:

Some link the place of the gates with the seat of Hulda the prophetess from the days of King Josiah (commentary of the Rosh in the Mishnah and more).

Some link the place of the gates with the burial place of the prophetess (this view is represented in the model of Jerusalem in the Israel Museum, where a pyramid representing the tomb of Hulda was placed on the steps).

Another explanation is that the gate is named after the structure of the gates and the entrances to them, which burrow under the royal cloister (Stoa) as a “rat which burrows into houses” (see the commentary of the Rosh on this Mishnah).

The ‘Guide of Jerusalem’ which was discovered in the Cairo Genizah, and was written in the period of the Geonim (approx. 600-1000 CE) in Arabic, (translated by Yosef Breslevi, 'The Land of Israel, 1964’), identifies the Double Gate with the Gates of Hulda, and even mentions the entrance room and the column on the other side of the gate:

“And the Arabs call them the Gates of the Prophet… And there is a pillar in the middle of the domed hallway, which stands in the middle of the mosque where Ishmael prays. And that place is called the double gates.”

The Muslim traveler Nasser Khusro, who passed through Jerusalem in 1047, also admired the pillar and the domes in the mosque, as he states:

“The stones of the gates are so massive that it is inconceivable how they can be installed by anyone other than King Solomon, the son of David.”

The Main Temple Mount Entrance Gates and the Custom of Expressing Loving Kindness

These southern gates served the pilgrims who ascended the Temple Mount from the City of David to the south. The pilgrims who first immersed in the Siloam Pool would then ascend the street which traversed the center of the city, arriving at the wide stairway leading up to the gates. The pilgrims would enter through the Triple, Eastern Gate, emerge on the Temple Mount, and and continue clockwise heading eastward, then northward, as they traversed the Temple Mount, and lastly exited via the Double Gate, west of the Triple Gate.

The Mishna relates that individuals in certain situations requiring special attention, such as mourners requiring consolation, or someone seeking public prayers on behalf of an ill family member, would traverse the Temple Mount in the opposite direction (counter clockwise, west to north). He would enter through the western Double Gate, turn leftward, and ultimately exit via the Triple Gate. These people were called 'walkers to the left’. When 'rightward walkers’ camer across 'leftward walkers,’ they would ask of the 'leftward walkers,’ “What has befallen you, causing you to walk in this direction?” Depending on the answer they could then comfort the mourner, or pray on behalf of an ill person, or bless him who has just completed a new home. In this manner even the act of walking atop the Temple Mount could become an expression of loving kindness for others.

May it be G-d’s will that the words of the midrash (Shir Hashirim Rabbah 2) come true: “… and the Gate of Hulda was never destroyed, and will remain until the Holy One, Blessed be He, [sees to the rebuilding of the Holy Temple].”

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