The Story of the Jews, #4: Masada's Fall and Rise

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The Story of the Jews, #4: Masada's Fall and Rise
by Rabbi Meir Soloveichik
April 2, 2023
Mighty Rome is no more; the Jewish people lives.
It was an incident that seemed to signal the utter defeat of the Jewish people. In 73 CE, only three years after the devastation of Jerusalem, Rome’s tenth legion massed against a small band of Jews still stubbornly holding out at Masada, a primitive stone fortress on a cliff above the Dead Sea.
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