2nd Shul from Second Bais Hamikdosh Period Found in Migdal in Northern Israel

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A 2000-year-old shul from the Second Bais Hamikdosh period was recently discovered in a dig site in the ancient Jewish settlement of Migdal – marking the first time that two shuls from the Second Temple period were found in the same location.

“The discovery of a second synagogue in this Galilean settlement casts light on the social and religious lives of the Jews in this period,” said Dina Avshalom-Gorni, one of the directors of the excavations in Migdal – which served as the main base for Yosef Ben Matisyahu (Flavius Josephus) in his war against the Romans in the Galilee during the Great Revolt in AD 67, approximately 2000 years ago – following the destruction of the Second Temple.

As in many other instances across Israel, the important discovery was chanced upon during an excavation carried out as part of an expansion of Route 90 and the Migdal intersection.

Prof. Adi Erlich, head of the Zinman Institute of archaeology at the University of Haifa, said that “the fact that we found two synagogues shows that the Jews of the Second Temple period were looking for a place for religious, and perhaps also social, gatherings.”

“The stone bearing a relief of the Menorah from the other synagogue at Migdal suggests that the local Jews saw Jerusalem as their religious center, and their local activities took place under this centrality.”

“The synagogue we are excavating now is close to the residential street, whereas the one excavated in 2009 was surrounding by an industrial area. Thus the local synagogues were constructed within the social fabric of the settlement,” he explained. [Tazpit News Agency]

{Matzav.com Israel}

5 COMMENTS

  1. How much we must ever wonder the West Bank is hiding and Gaza. The Jewish people should free read sacrificial health.

    There is no doubt that divinity favors divinity. Living with rash unorthodoxy especially in government makes the price of health war, cub out and out score. We cross our own living, longevity and wage.

    Hard but these are stupid very neat. Glad archaeology has a hand.

    • Yes, but you’re assuming Kenny Stabler had a beard for religious reasons. It could be, but it won’t get the temple rebuilt.

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