“Nash Didan” - ‘our people’ is the name of Jews who lived near the lake in Urmia, in Iranian Azerbaijan. They spoke an Aramaic-Jewish language. The community was founded more than 2,000 years ago when Assyria conquered the Kingdom of Israel and exiled its inhabitants to the area.
About 200 years later, the rest of the Jewish population in the Kingdom of Judah was exiled to Babylon. There in Urmia more Jews settled and didn’t returned to Judea/Israel as many Jews did after Cyrus’s edict.
The Jews of Urmia were isolated from other Jewish communities in the area (Persian Jews/Kurdish Jews/Iraqi Jews). Although they were completely isolated and detached they still maintained their Jewish customs and suffered harassment as a result.
The community was forbidden from writing in their special language and therefore there’s hardly any documentation of historical texts about their history, tradition and prayers, in addition most of them didn’t know how to write and read at that time.
The Jews were buried with an Aramaic inscription on their tombstone and with the Star of David or Menorah emblem. The community that numbered about 500 families in the 20th century no longer exists due to the many wars that prevailed in the area.
In the 1920s, about 300 families left and immigrated to Land of Israel, following the murder of the Armenian people and riots against the Jewish community by the Turks. After Israel’s establishment the entire community immigrated to Israel and few to the US.
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A scroll found in the Qumran cave in the 1950s and is believed to lead towards a great treasure of gold and silver, buried all across Jerusalem.
About the strange and mysterious scroll, The Copper Scroll 📜 (Thread)
Qumran Cave is a historical site discovered by chance by a Bedouin boy who saw ancient clay pots with engraved manuscripts when he walked around with his goat. Archaeological excavations began at the site and about 929 Jewish manuscripts, some of them scrolls, were found there.
Findings and remains of a settlement that existed nearby were also found near the cave.
In 1952, the unique scroll was found near the cave, different from the rest. Written in Hebrew-Aramaic script engraved on a pure copper originating in Egypt.
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Jewish presence on the Iberian Peninsula dates back to Roman period.
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This evening we will mark Tisha B'Av, a day of fasting to mark and commemorate the tragedies that befell the Jewish people, including the destruction of the Temple. (THREAD)
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This period is called “The Three Weeks”, and considered to be a dangerous time with bad luck.
During this period throughout Jewish history, tragedies and disasters occurred such as: the destruction of the 2 Temples in Jerusalem, the expulsion of Jews from England, France, Spain.
Jewish ethnic divisions - Iranian Jews, also known as Persian Jews (Thread)
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The presence of Jews in the area occurred about 2500 years ago, with the exile of the Israelites by the king of Assyria. They lived with the Zoroastrians. The Zoroastrian religion influenced the Jewish religion and some of Jewish beliefs are originated in this religion.
What does the Star of David, also known as Magen David symbolize and does it have mystical power? (THREAD)
The shape of the Star of David is hexagram, a 6 pointed geometric stat, common mainly in Jewish and Buddhist culture.
The Star of David is a familiar symbol in Far East cultures, and can be found in ancient temples across India.
According to Hinduism, this symbolizes the goddess Lakshmi. In Buddhism it‘s believed that this symbol has a mystical power of peace and harmony and is even occasionally used in meditation.