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To: SJackson; Alouette
You know, I've always wondered about toilet facilities in Jerusalem in the days of the Temple. Since Jerusalem represented Machane-Yisra'el (the encampment of Israel), did one have to leave the city every time one needed to relieve himself? I mean, they didn't have modern sewage facilities back then and . . .

. . . Am I making any sense, people?

18 posted on 01/04/2007 1:53:54 PM PST by Zionist Conspirator ( Chazaq! Chazaq!! Venitchazzeq!!!)
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To: Zionist Conspirator
"You know, I've always wondered about toilet facilities in Jerusalem in the days of the Temple. Since Jerusalem represented Machane-Yisra'el (the encampment of Israel), did one have to leave the city every time one needed to relieve himself? I mean, they didn't have modern sewage facilities back then and . . .

. . . Am I making any sense, people?
"

Yes. My best guess is that they had toilet facilities outside of their blocks. Dwellings were often built into close, modular clusters then and there.
22 posted on 01/04/2007 2:28:17 PM PST by familyop ("G-d is on our side because he hates the Yanks." --St. Tuco, in the "Good, the Bad, and the Ugly")
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To: Zionist Conspirator

Why do you think they find so many pots at these archeology sites?

;-)


25 posted on 01/05/2007 10:14:42 PM PST by monkeyshine
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