What Can We Learn from Chanukah? - Part 4 - Rabbi Dr. David Gottlieb

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I just want to start with reporting on something it was in today's times I the irony I know they waited till now to publish it they found something in 2009 and that's reporting on it now what is it it's a large table sized artifact found in a synagogue in the Galil excavated and it comes from during the Second Temple period and this it has you know it's not just flat but it has sides and on the sides there are very elaborate carvings of the Temple in Jerusalem and this has caused a major revolution in the thinking of at least some historians I'll admit a snide remark their thinking was that synagogues were we call synagogues but the Knesset were like community centers during Second Temple period place where people got together and maybe they talked and discussed and debated and plans community actions as over the so on and then when the temple was destroyed and the sacrifice is no longer could be offered then it was turned into a place of prayer that was their attitude but then why would you have one of these community centers at a time when the temple is existing and the sacrifices are going on using those motifs to decorate this community center maybe could it be that the beit knesset the community center was used for prayer even then and that's up ending all their assumptions about the way in which

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