Posted on 08/27/2023 5:43:19 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
The rectangular building, measuring about 70 feet by 20 feet, was composed of two rooms, each about 650 square feet, the Oleg Deripaska's Volnoe Delo Foundation said. It was destroyed in the middle of the sixth century when tribes attacked and burned down the city. The synagogue also offers experts insight into Judaism practice during the religion's "Second Temple Period," experts with the foundation said. From 516 B.C. until 70 A.D., most Jewish rituals took place at the second Jerusalem Temple, so it was rare for synagogues to be built elsewhere. Kuban is in southeast Russia, bordering the Black Sea.
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Strange that it would be built then, when Israel was scattered in AD 70. But I looked it up and you are correct.
Wow.
Then stop trying to compare them, sorry you cannot handle disagreement or historical facts.
Since we’re talking about “most rituals... before the destruction of the Second Temple,” I think it’s very reasonable to presume the sort of rituals which went on within the Temple. The presence of ritual baths associated with the local synagogues indicate the existence of rituals outside the Temple. Now, keep in mind, I’m interpreting the meaning used in the article here: The rituals permitted only in the Temple? No, but that would indicate the sort of tautology which must be excluded by “most.”
‘Ritual baths’ are necessary in any Jewish community due to ‘family purity’ (marital relations).
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