By the time Solomon built his Temple, about 1,000 years before Jesus walked the streets of Jerusalem, the Jews had been living on a strip of land on the eastern shores of the Mediterranean for quite a while. About 400 years after Solomon’s Temple was built, the Babylonians destroyed Jerusalem, expelling the Jews from their
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Solomon & Socrates It would be difficult to overstate the reverence with which Jews who try to be faithful to the Bible’s teachings treat a Torah scroll. It is hand-written in carefully scripted Hebrew, on meticulously stitched together parchment sheets, by an expert known as a ‘sofer’. A Torah scroll is treated with the tender
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