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If an unglazed earthenware pot is to be used for cookong, follow the following steps to seal the pot: Soak the pot entirely in water for 24 hours. The next day, take up the pot and gently wipe the pot with a cloth, and when the pot is still damp, spread coconut oil on the inside and outside of the pot. Afterwards, set the pot in the hot sun so that the oil will fully absorb within the pores of the pot. After the oil has been fully absorbed, place rice water (water wherein rice was left to soak for 1 day) into the pot, along with a little rice flour, and bring the rice water to a boil. Afterwards, pour out the hot rice water and allow the pot to cool off. After cleaning the pot from the residual rice product, refill the pot with tap water and place the pot in a larger pan to see if the pot will continue to seep. After 24 hours, check the pot and the larger pan, and there should be no seepage! The earthenware pot should be completely sealed and can now be used for cooking.

Jewish scholars, such as Judah Halevi (12th-century) in his Kuzari and Hayyim Selig Slonimski (19th-century), advocated taking Sinai and Jerusalem, respectively, as the Prime Meridian and the standard for the beginning of time, by which all other time zones, and subsequently, date-lines, were to be advanced. Accordingly, this would place Jerusalem at 35°13′25″ east of Greenwich (31.77889°N, 35.22361°W) and which, when the sun is at its zenith during the hour of noon, daylight spans 90° towards the east and 90° towards the west, for a total of 180°, which is half the circumference of the earth, or what it takes for the sun to traverse in 12 hours (from man's perspective). Countries to the west of Greenwich at 145°13′25″ and beyond, according to Slonimski, would have then been marked by a different date-line, one day behind that of Jerusalem. Such a division, had it been adopted, would have placed Alaska in a different date-line than that of the rest of the continental United-States and would have altered the dates (time zones) now universally recognized for other countries, based on the Coordinated Universal Time. Had this method been adopted, it would have placed China 18 hours behind that of Jerusalem (which is now 5 hours ahead of Jerusalem).

The conventional view of modern-archaeologists is to reckon the counting of these four gates (e.g. 1, 2, 3 and 4) from left to right, as one would count in Western societies, making Robinson's Arch the fourth and last in a row, counting from left to right. The question, however, which arises is whether or not Josephus, a Hebrew who was accustomed to reckon numbered objects while counting them from right to left, intended that this gate should, in fact, be the first gate mentioned in his description of the gates leading into the Temple Mount enclosure on its western side.

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The Royal Stoa was, for all practical purposes, a basilica with four rows of columns running lengthwise, each made of 40 columns, the Royal Stoa thus contained three parallel aisles, with a central aisle measuring 14.8 m in breadth and two flanking aisles measuring 9.9 m in breadth each, for a total breadth of 35 m. Each column was approximately 1.5 m in diameter and, according to Josephus, 30 feet (9.9 metres) tall. The central hall was twice as tall as the aisles, probably nearly 33 m tall. Israeli archaeologist Ehud Netzer estimates the Royal Stoa was roughly 33 m wide and 240 m long, though Josephus wrote that the Royal Cloisters ran the entire length of the Southern Wall, which wall measures 922 ft. This distance was known to the Greeks as stadion (translated by others as "furlong").

A lever is a beam connected to ground by a hinge, or pivot, called a fulcrum. Archimedes once said, "Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world."

Talmud (Baba Bathra 3:3 [end]) - 55a - b R. Ashi said in the name of R. Johanan: A boundary or a tree which is found between two estates of a proselyte is considered an intervention concerning hazakah (usucaption), but not concerning corner tithe and concerning defilement. When Rabbin came from Palestine, he said in the name of R. Johanan: It is considered an intervention concerning the two last-mentioned as well. But how is the law if there was no boundary and no tree, and nevertheless they were separated? R. Mrinus in the name of R. Johanan explained that he acquires title to the whole field which is called after his name. What does this mean? Said R. Papa: If people call it the field which the proselyte used to water from his valley. R. Aha b. Ivya was sitting before R. Assi, and said in the name of R. Assi b. Hanina that a hazuba (Sea squill) makes an intervention in the estate of a proselyte. What is a hazuba (Sea squill)? Said R. Jehudah. in the name of Rabh: This was a mark by which Joshua marked the land which he divided among the tribes of Israel. He says again in the name of the same authority: Joshua did not count but the cities which were placed on the boundaries (i.e., the cities which are enumerated in the Book of Joshua). He said again in the name of Samuel: All that the Holy One, blessed be He, had shown to Moses from the land of Israel was subject to tithes. (It means that from the products growing in those places tithes must be separated biblically.) What does it mean to exclude? The land of the Kenites, Kenizzites, and Kadmonites [Gen. xv. 19].

Some Old Hebrew names reflect Grecian usage, such as Paneas for the ancient Leshem. The retentention of Old Hebrew name for Cesarea Philippi, according to Schürer, effectually began in the 4th century, when the name Paneas was once again used. The names Lod, Beisan, and Sepphoris were preferred by Semitic groups over their Greco-Roman names, viz., Diospolis, Scythopolis and Diocæsarea, respectively. By the time of the Middle Ages, Hadrian's intention to banish the Jews from Jerusalem and to apply his own name Ælius to the city, and which was done, according to Philostorgius, "that they might not find in the name of the city a pretext for claiming it as their country," had no longer been realised.

...as well as the country's Jewish population.

Wars against Chu, Han, and Wei
The PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP)

The virtue of Eretz Yisrael is very great, as there are commandments that depend on the land, that is to say, it is impossible for a person to perform them unless he is in the Land of Israel.

Jewish custom and tradition anchor us to our past, prioritize the present, [...], but most importantly, connect us to each other.



Indigo dye is a greenish dark blue color, obtained from either the leaves of the tropical Indigo plant (Indigofera), or from woad (Isatis tinctoria), or the Chinese indigo (Persicaria tinctoria). Many societies make use of the Indigofera plant for producing different shades of blue. Cloth that is repeatedly boiled in an Indigo dye bath-solution (boiled and left to dry, boiled and left to dry, etc.), the blue pigment becomes darker on the cloth. After dyeing, the cloth is hung in the open air to dry.

A Native American woman described the process used by the Cherokee Indians when extracting the dye: We raised our indigo which we cut in the morning while the dew was still on it; then we put it in a tub and soaked it overnight, and the next day we foamed it up by beating it with a gourd. We let it stand overnight again, and the next day rubbed tallow on our hands to kill the foam. Afterwards, we poured the water off, and the sediment left in the bottom we would pour into a pitcher or crock to let it get dry, and then we would put it into a poke made of cloth (i.e. sack made of coarse cloth) and then when we wanted any of it to dye [there]with, we would take the dry indigo.

In Sa Pa, Vietnam, the tropical Indigo (Indigo tinctoria) leaves are harvested and, while still fresh, placed inside a tub of room-temperature to lukewarm water where they are left to sit for 3 to 4 days and allowed to ferment, until the water turns green. Afterwards, crushed limestone (pickling lime) is added to the water, at which time the water with the leaves are vigorously agitated for 15 to 20 minutes, until the water turns blue. The blue pigment settles as sediment at the bottom of the tub. The sediment is scooped out and stored. When dyeing cloth, the pigment is then boiled in a vat of water; the cloth (usually made from yarns of hemp) is inserted into the vat for absorbing the dye. After hanging out to dry, the boiling process is repeated as often as needed to produce a darker color.