In 390 BCE, Roman historian Livy recorded an incident where geese saved Rome from a Gallic army invasion during the Battle of the Allia. The invasion was thwarted as the geese made noise and woke the sleeping Romans, who then repelled the invaders.
While Yemen's Houthis accuse Israel of being an artificial entity on ancient Arab land, they may not realize they reside on land that was once the powerful Jewish kingdom of Himyar 1,500 years ago.
Every carriage on the main road was stopped by bandit minions, its contents plundered, and passengers injured or killed. Despite numerous military expeditions, the bandits, masters of their terrain, ambushed the soldiers and defeated them effortlessly.
According to the sages, the first appearance of a word in the Torah that starts with a particular letter teaches us its significance. The first word in the Torah starting with Aleph is: Hashem.
Discover why the Torah never mentions Pharaoh’s personal name and how this detail reveals powerful historical accuracy in the Exodus story
Samaria, Israel's capital, was built by Omri, the father of the notorious King Ahab. Why, then, were the lepers sent away?
The following day, she went down to a cellar to find something. The cellar was dark, and innocently, she held a candle to help her search. But the cellar housed gunpowder! The storeroom exploded with a loud bang.
Lutz dreamed of a mysterious word—KABALA—and upon waking, his search led him on a journey of self-discovery, ultimately changing his life forever.
Rabbi Yeshayah Bassan of Italy, mentor of Ramchal, heard of the situation and was displeased. He promptly wrote a detailed letter to the scholars of Trieste: despite their intentions to instill respect for prayer, their "punishment" was an immense embarrassment to prayer, the synagogue, and the Jewish people, also posing a potential threat from non-Jews.
Rabbi Michael Peshkas traveled miles with excitement to perform a bris, only to find out it was a girl, not a boy!
When Martin stepped out wearing the officer's shirt, the kapo stared in disbelief but said nothing. From that day until the end of the war, Martin became known as the 'white-collar prisoner.'
Hoping this year we'll be blessed, and the Messiah will arrive, allowing us to offer the Passover sacrifice in Jerusalem and witness the work of the priests. But how exactly does Passover look in Jerusalem?
Archaeologists quickly realized a fascinating clue to identifying ancient Israeli settlements: the absence of pig remains. Unlike the Philistines and Canaanites, who raised and consumed pigs, ancient Israelites did not.
Older synagogues had adjacent mikvahs, but at some point, they disappeared. Why did synagogues stop having nearby mikvahs?
This isn't the only word that appears in slightly different forms in various places. We, who believe that every letter in the Torah is precise, trust that everything has a reason, even if we don't always know it.
Despite references to camels in biblical times, archaeological digs initially found no camel remains from that era. What does this mean?
Beilis was thrown into a Russian prison without a clue of the charges against him. During his "interrogation," he discovered he was accused of murdering a boy named Andrei Yushchinsky, found dead in a cave months earlier.
The assassination, famously dubbed "the shot heard around the world," triggered a chain of events that led to the outbreak of World War I.
The Torah mentions seven Canaanite nations, but by the time the Israelites entered the land, one seemed to vanish. Where did the Girgashites go?
In ancient times, when the Temple stood, Adar was filled with joyous celebrations marked in the "Scroll of the Fasts." On these days, people rejoiced, and mourning or fasting was forbidden.
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