But with the destruction of the Second Temple by the Romans in 70 CE, the pilgrimage Hajj aspect of the week long harvest festival of Sukkot, began a gradual decline in the spiritual consciousness of ...

At the heart of the novel is the Lahmi family — in particular Gabriella — a young woman with a rare spiritual sensitivity who ...

True Iranians have remained friends of the Jews through both belief and deed. A look at the history of Iran and the Jews.

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After a wildfire decimated a California high school's newsroom, one of the first offers of help that its journalism adviser ...

The Framji Dadabhoy Alpaiwalla Museum documents the history and legacy of the ancient Parsi community - a small ethnic group ...

It is believed that Lord Ayyappa and his soldiers relinquished their weapons here after liberating the Sabarimala temple from ...

This moment is chronicled in the biblical Book of Ezra, which recounts how the Jews returned from Babylon, renewed in their faith, to rebuild their temple: On the fourteenth day of the first month ...

This temple’s origins were thanks to Cyrus, too. In 539 BCE, he conquered the Babylonians who had destroyed the first Jewish temple in 586 BCE and deported many Jews to Babylonia. When Cyrus ...

The temple is thought to have been razed by fire ... associated treasures were looted and intentionally damaged by the Babylonians and Medes before being set ablaze." Among the most intriguing ...

One text tells how Babylon struggled to free itself from the ... “Rebuild Ehulhul, the temple of the god Sin, which is in the city Harran, immediately. All the lands are entrusted into thy ...

THIS little book belongs to a projected series of volumes which we gather are intended to deal with the Babylonians and Assyrians ... contain temple-records, lists and inventories, receipts ...