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The Great Ramban (Rabbi Moshe ben Nachman) wrote that the book “Scroll of Secrets,” written by Rabbeinu Nissim, tells the following: “When the heads of all twelve tribes completed the sacrifices in honor of the renewal of the altar, the Most High said to Moshe: another renewal (in Hebrew - Hanukkah) of the altar, which will be performed by his descendants, the priests-cohanim, who did not participate in these sacrifices. With their help, I will perform miracles for Israel, give them salvation, and renew my altar.” Therefore, after the section "Heads of the Tribes" in the Torah comes the section "When you light the lamps." And in the Midrash Rabbah it is written: G-d said to Moses: “Inform Aharon that he will be honored with greater honor than the heads of the tribes [with whose sacrifices the altar was renewed]. After all, their sacrifices renew the altar only while the Temple stands, and the lighting of the lamps, entrusted to you, will never stop.
From this it follows that we are not talking about temple lamps, the ignition of which stopped with the destruction of the Temple, but about Hanukkah lamps.
It should be noted that the twenty-fifth word of the Torah is "light." And the twenty-fifth stop of the children of Israel in their wanderings in the wilderness was at Hashmon. All these are allusions to the victory of the Hashmonas over the enemies of the Jewish people and the holiday of Hanukkah contained in the Torah ... (c)
http://toldot.ru/tora/articles/articles_1539.html
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Some of the Hashmonai were cruel. So, the grandson of Simon Hashmoney - Tsar Alexander I (Yannai), tired of arguing with opponents - supporters of a religious lifestyle, the Pharisees, executed 800 of them, forcing them to be present at the execution of their wives and children. During this massacre, he himself arranged a merry feast - completely in the spirit of the Greek kings.
The Hashmoneans are the only case in history of the forced conversion of other peoples to Judaism. John Hyrcanus I converted the Edomites, the descendants of Esau, who lived in the Negev and Northern Sinai, to Judaism.
It was the Hashmoneans who brought new invaders to Judea. The Romans were invited to Judea to participate in civil war that broke out between the supporters of the two Khashmonean brothers, who did not share the throne among themselves. This intervention resulted in the occupation of Jerusalem, and subsequently the loss of Jewish statehood in Eretz Israel for two thousand years (until 1948).
The end of the Hashmonean dynasty was tragic. One of the slaves who served at the royal palace staged a coup - and he himself became king. He founded a new dynasty, destroying all the descendants of the Hashmoneans. His name was Herod! And he came from those same Idumeans whom the Hashmoneans forcibly converted to Judaism...
For Russians, Syria is a distant country from the TV. They stick it in a box without emotions, chew it at breakfast: ISIS, terrorists, Assad…
I'm standing a couple of kilometers from the hottest spot in the world. Only yesterday it was reported on the news that several border villages had been taken over by terrorists. Maybe I'm looking at them right now, but I don't notice.
Let's see together what Syria looks like today. What can be seen from the territory of Israel?
1 I was on the Golan Heights for the second time. Until 1967, the region was part of Syria, but after the Six Day War came under Israeli control. The Syrians still do not recognize the annexation.
2 The last serious attempt to recapture the Golan was 40 years ago, during the Yom Kippur War. It also ended with the defeat of Syria.
3 The Israelites advanced inland, and there have been no attacks since. Who owns the heights, he owns the situation.
4 Little has changed on this earth in forty years. This region is sparsely populated, but heavily mined. They say that in general the most mined in the world. The territory was mined since the First World War. It is difficult to completely clear the Heights of mines, and most importantly, very expensive. But gradually vegetable gardens and orchards appear on the site of minefields.
5 People prefer not to live here, but come to enjoy the views and relax in nature. A little further - Mount Hermon, where Israel's only ski resort operates in winter.
6 Military tourism is being developed in the Golan, in the wake of past battles. The Israelis are told about the events of 40 years ago so that they remember.
7 I was in this place three years ago, and spoke in detail about the sights of the heights. Read my long and detailed report.
8 A lot has changed in the Syrian territory under review in three years. This will be seen in the photos below.
9 On the eve of the day when I went to the Golan, there was information on the news that several villages closest to Israel were captured by ISIS (banned in Russia). And the nearest one is only seven kilometers away! You can probably see it from here, so I armed myself with a telephoto camera and began to look at it.
In this photo you see an abandoned Syrian hospital, where we will go down, further - the border fence, the UN buffer zone, and then Syria itself. And she looks like herself.
10 This is the city of Quneitra. More precisely, what was left of him. The city itself was destroyed by the retreating Syrian army during the war in the seventies. But even in 2014, it looked more intact, and a huge Syrian flag fluttered over the buildings. Now he is gone.
11 I was lucky with the visibility, from the Golan Heights you can see tens of kilometers in the distance. Other Syrian cities they look as lifeless and ruined.
12 The war has even reached the outskirts of the country. lifeless concrete.
13 A large Syrian city is visible on the horizon in the distance. I tried to figure out what it was from the map, but I could not. Perhaps a new Quneitra, but it doesn't look like it. The city also looks half destroyed.
14 Not only the Israeli military, but also the UN troops are keeping order at the border. They oversee the maintenance of a shaky peace. The soldiers came from Australia: they were sent here from the country as far as possible from the parties to the conflict.
15 We go down to the ruined hospital. A tourist bus puffs in front of the entrance. Yes, there are now guided tours. Not foreigners, but Israeli students or schoolchildren. They spoke Hebrew.
16 I was able to hear and understand what they were told about the famous intelligence officer Eli Cohen, who operated in Syria in the sixties, but was exposed and executed on the orders of Father Bashar al-Assad.
17 The hospital has been completely empty for many years, but the building is not demolished. It stands as a monument to the war and Eli Cohen.
18 There are a lot of abandoned buildings in the Heights. But the land is not abandoned, there are many sown fields and vineyards.
19 From this point to the territory of Syria - a few hundred meters. On foot.
20 Israeli friends were surprised to see this photo. On the other side of a small river, the remains of Quneitra and an abandoned Christian temple are visible. But there is no river there!
21 Quneitra was captured by resistance fighters a few years ago. They also removed the Syrian flag and destroyed the remains of the city. Why, because no one lived there anyway? The temple, however, was not touched.
22 And they did not dare to attack Israel.
23 The Golan is not only war. It's incredibly beautiful here. But you need to walk carefully here, and it’s better not to pick flowers. See the yellow signs? Beware of mines!
24 It is also one of the wildest places in Israel. Few people get here: local tourists travel to the Golan by other roads.
25 The snow cap on top of Hermon remains until summer. The borders of Israel, Syria and Lebanon pass along the mountain. There is a ski resort on the Israeli side.
26 Climate and natural areas it looks like a layer cake. You turn your head a little, from Hermon to the right, and the landscape changes beyond recognition. Mountains and plains, white caps and desert sandstone... Everything is changeable in the Middle East, even nature.
27 The photo clearly shows the border fence between Israel and Syria.
28 Now let's take a closer look at the Syrian cities. Approximation should be enough.
29 Another town near the border. The buildings are riddled with shells: they obviously don't live here. Houses on other streets seem more intact, but the city still seems uninhabited. Holes in the walls from the Israeli side: perhaps an echo of that war forty years ago, or maybe modern battles of militants from the Syrian army.
30 This is another settlement. Not a single car is visible on the streets, let alone people. Mosques and water towers seem abandoned.
31 Even if by some miracle the war in Syria ends this year, the country is unlikely to recover in the coming decades. Too much destruction, too many contradictions within the country, and too many forces outside see the future of Syria in different ways.
32 The Israelites are in no hurry to dig the trenches. They might still be useful. Although I want to believe that the Syrians fought for two hundred years ahead.
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Over the past month, a ceasefire was declared on the border between Israel and the Arab autonomies, however, immediately, then shots were fired again. Israeli lands with missiles, aviation. When reports of shootings became unsurprising, Israel responded to another shelling by threatening to launch a full-scale invasion of Palestine.
Hamas, the organization most often accused of attacking Israel, responded by threatening to "open the gates of hell." The Israelis themselves apparently believe that life in the border zone with the Gaza Strip is already like hell: the army is spreading the message about 25 rockets fired in the south of the country, but the police are talking about 83 shells only since the beginning of the operation " cloud pillar". According to the army, about a million people in the country are within the radius of destruction of militant missiles. Hamas.
Israel Armed Forces Campaign:
So far, however, the effectiveness of massive shelling from Palestinian territory remains low: only one missile has overcome the system air defense. After this fallen rocket, Israeli aircraft first targeted Ahmed al-Jabari, and then marched across the entire territory of Gaza, damaging the infrastructure of the militants. The bombing killed ten people, including a baby.
Reaction
President of Palestine Mahmoud Abbas countries Arab League. It will take place this Saturday. Meanwhile, an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council has already begun, the Palestinian ambassador, according to RIA Novosti, demanded to stop Israeli aggression.
The meeting was initiated Mohammed Morsi, the head of Egypt after the representatives of Palestine turned to him for help. They knew whom to turn to: the Islamist government of the country insisted on 1979, before which the countries were on the brink of war. Today, a representative of the Israeli diplomatic mission has been handed a note of protest, and the Egyptian ambassador.
The United States, as expected, as well as the UN, condemned the shelling of the territory of the Hamas country. And America and the Secretary General UN Ban Ki-moon asked Israel to respond.
Meanwhile, the promise to lead the ground fighting Apparently not an empty threat. The army was allowed to announce, if necessary, the mobilization of reservists, the military did not fail to use this right. It is noted that, first of all, there is a recruitment of civil defense specialists, that is, people in the border areas will probably live in wartime conditions for a long time. Seven kilometers from the border with Gaza, schools have already been closed, events with the participation of more than a hundred people are prohibited, people do not go to work. In the event of an official statement by the Arab countries on the side of Palestine, the tension may last for a long time or result in an open confrontation.
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