Vampire Weekend's Surprising Jewish Stories
Mighty Rome is no more; the Jewish people lives.
It was an incident that seemed to signal the utter defeat of the Jewish people. In 73 CE, only three years after the devastation of Jerusalem, Rome’s tenth legion massed against a small band of Jews still stubbornly holding out at Masada, a primitive stone fortress on a cliff above the Dead Sea.
There was no contest. In a piercing low point of Jewish history, Masada and its last defenders fell. But Masada was not the end. In this concluding episode of our series, the story of the Jews emerges once again as a chronicle of almost unbelievable tenacity and perseverance, of resurgence, and of the workings of God’s unbreakable covenant with His people.
Mighty Rome is no more; the Jewish people lives. A single date-palm tree, grown from 2,000-year-old seeds, tells the tale with unparalleled eloquence.
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Great video... Thanks for captions!!!.. I thought there were a few survivors... That went down through a tunnel... Any thoughts on this?
Heard this story years ago from an archeologist on top of Masada, as Jews were strictly forbidden to take their own lives he is sure that somewhere on top of Masada there is a huge stone slab/trap door through which the Jews left the fortress and could escape, as the Roman soldiers didn't dare to tell Ceasar in Rome that Masada was empty they concocted this story of suicide (according to this archeologist)