Lesson 3: FROM THE FIRST TEMPLE TO EZRA
SHIVAT TZIYON- THE RETURN TO ZION
INTRODUCTION:
What does it mean to be a people in exile?
How can the exile גלות be explained?
TEXT 1: PSALM 137: BY THE RIVERS OF BABYLON
Surviving in exile: Memory of a land and a Temple
TEXT 2: JEREMIAH 25: 8-14- WITNESS TO EXILE.
A prophecy of exile: "I will send...all the families of the North...."
TEXT 3: EZRA 9: 1-15
The first Aliyah. (539 BCE: Persia conquered Babylon)
Nation building: Defining group identity.
TEXT 4: NEHEMIAH 8: 1-18
Consolidating identity: Ezra's reforms: Reinstatement of rituals- public readings of the Torah.
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