Love of the Land

For the week ending 21 November 2009 / 3 Kislev 5770

The Judean Hills and the Bar Kochba Rebellion

by Rabbi Mendel Weinbach zt'l
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The theory of historians that Jews took refuge in the Judean hills during the Bar Kochba rebellion received some support from a recent archeological discovery.

In a 20-meter-deep cave, archeologists from Hebrew and Bar Ilan Universities found 120 gold, silver and bronze coins believed to have been used by Jewish refugees during that rebellion in 132-135 CE. Most of these coins were originally Roman but the Jewish fighters impressed them with their own insignia and dated them for each year of the rebellion.

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