Showing posts with label scrolls. Show all posts
Showing posts with label scrolls. Show all posts

Monday, May 1, 2017

The Ark at the Western Wall

The Ark

This large ark sits inside the prayer hall at the Western Wall in Jerusalem. I was able to visit the Kotel (Wall) today while in Jerusalem.

For those not knowing what an "ark" is, here is a definition from Wikipedia.

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The ark in a synagogue (also called the Torah ark or holy ark) is generally a receptacle, or ornamental closet, which contains each synagogue's Torah scrolls (Sifrei Torah in Hebrew).[1] Most arks feature a parokhet (curtain) placed either outside the doors of the ark (Ashkenazi and Mizrachi custom) or inside the doors of the ark (Spanish and Portuguese and Moroccan Sephardi custom). The ark is known in Hebrew as the aron kodesh ("holy ark") by the Ashkenazim and as the hekhál ("holy place") among most Sefardim.

 Smaller arks



The arks are pulled out into the Western Wall open are on special occasions, when the Torah scrolls inside are read.


Sunday, December 20, 2015

The Bible is True: Separating Fact From Fiction - Josh McDowell interview with Paul Strand on CBN NEWS


The Bible is True: Separating Fact From Fiction
12-20-2015

Paul Strand  CBN NEWS
Leading Bible expert Josh McDowell, once considered himself agnostic, but when challenged to intellectually examine the claims of Christianity, he discovered some compelling evidence that would change his life.
McDowll shows CBN News some of the oldest remnants of the New Testament in existence.

  
He explains why such old fragments are leading us to the most accurate Bibles in almost 2,000 years. And he shares painful personal testimony about horrible abuse in his younger years and how the Bible helped him recover.

Paul Strand sits down with several biblical experts about the incredible evidence that proves that the Bible is true. Click here to learn more.

Wednesday, May 27, 2015

Most Meaningful Tribute Ever for IDF Soldiers ✡ "Write for Yourselves this Song"

And now, write for yourselves this song, and teach it to the Children of Israel.

DEUTERONOMY (31:19)
 

וְעַתָּה כִּתְבוּ לָכֶם אֶת הַשִּׁירָה הַזֹּאת וְלַמְּדָהּ אֶת בְּנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל

דברים לא:יט

v'-a-ta kit-vu la-khem et ha-shee-ra ha-zot v'-lam-da et b'-nay yis-ra-ayl

Today's Israel Inspiration

Today's verse describes the very last commandment of the Torah, the writing of a Torah scroll. Moses fulfilled this mitzvah right before the nation entered the Land of Israel. Thus our Sages gleaned that this precious mitzvah is a vital step for the ultimate redemption and the entrance into the Land by all the Jewish people, led by the Messiah, may that day come soon! 75 Torah scrolls are being written to stand as an everlasting memorial for the souls of the 67 Israeli soldiers and 8 civilians killed in last summer's war. Fulfill this precious mitzvah by joining with LIBI USA, the IDF's official social welfare unit, and YOUR Torah will be delivered to army bases and communities around Israel.
 

Music Video for our Fallen Soldiers

This moving music video is a tribute to the battles and the bravery of Israel's fallen soldiers, who gave their lives last summer in Operation Protective Edge.
 

Torah Scrolls for the Souls of Fallen IDF Soldiers

Discover the meaning behind a Torah scroll, and why it is the most meaningful memorial for Israel's selfless heroes.

Givati Corps T-Shirt

Show your solidarity with the Givati Brigade, one of the finest units in the Israel Defense Forces, with this rare and amazing T-shirt.

Today's Israel Photo

A brave young soldier in the Israel Defense Forces' Armored Corps. looks heavenward for his strength!
 

Yesterday's Photo Trivia

Yesterday's trivia was a hard one! we featured the gorgeous Tunisian Synagogue in Acco. The synagogue is literally covered in mosaics, boasting hundreds of millions of natural stones from all over Israel. Inside, the mosaics and stained-glass windows depict the history of the Jewish people and of the Land of Israel through Bible stories.

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Tuesday, September 23, 2014

"Rosh Hashanah 2014: Year of Secrets Revealed" Johnny Enlow


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Descending Angels with Scrolls

September 24 is Rosh Hashanah and the beginning of the "Year of Secrets Revealed". Some time ago, I was shown that a great angel who would be released to God's people this Rosh Hashanah, and he is coming accompanied by a great host of descending angels. The vision I saw looks almost like a solar flare being released from Heaven. This angel being released is an angel entrusted with revealing God's secrets, unravelling mysteries, and solving riddles. He is a great angel of wisdom, and I saw in a vision he and his angels coming down with many scrolls to hand out to trusted ones all over the globe.

Proverbs 9:1 says: "Wisdom has built her house, She has hewn out her seven pillars." The Lord is releasing the wisdom for building His house on the seven mountains of society and He is sending His very trusted angel with building plans. Scrolls with wisdom for building and advancing, will be released this year in an unprecedented fashion. Many have now been catapulted into the new territory they are called to occupy, and now comes the wisdom for how to occupy the land that was so intensely gained.

It is the Father's great joy to send in His mighty angels to join in the fun and adventure of advancing His Kingdom through His awake and arising Church. 

There will be scrolls with secrets and wisdom for building and advancing churches, Kingdom centers, ministries, Kingdom businesses, and technologies and medical breakthroughs.

Many in business are only one insight away from advancing their technology to critical mass and angels will deliver scrolls that carry the insight or secret on how to move forward. Whatever Kingdom venture is in need for wisdom, this Hebraic year, 5775, the wisdom for that will become available. If last year was the year of the door into your new territory, this year is the year of the window into how to structure and advance in that new territory.

Architects with Blueprints

In this vision of descending angels, I see that they are arriving as architects with blueprints. Most of our plans of the last few years have not worked so well because they have lacked Heavenly wisdom. Heaven's architects are now being sent and they have thousands and thousands of missions. They will dole out scrolls to all who are humble enough to acknowledge they need this help, and are okay with Father sending some of His angelic friends to provide these scrolls. (Photo via Wikimedia)

The Holy Spirit can provide all wisdom and reveal all secrets, but He and the Father also love including angels in the process.
The scrolls will be put into your dreams and day dreams. They will show up in night visions and day visions. They will at times be sent to you through a prophetic word. Many will have actual dreams of receiving a scroll. The more time spent in worship the more you can clear out the clutter from your own preconceived ideas or plans. The new coming wisdom will be much better than our old half-baked plans, and so we want to resist the temptation to run with the half-baked plans just because we invested so much in them.

The secrets from above are going to be game-changers and so they must be valued as such. I looked up the word "architect" and as a verb it means "to plan, organize and bring to fruition". If that sounds like something you need, this will be a great year for you should you keep your eyes on the Lord. Though the term has been misapplied elsewhere, He really is the Master Architect. An architect is defined as "one who designs and supervises the construction of buildings or other large structures".

Our Master Architect is now sending the wisdom for "large Kingdom structures" to be built. A great harvest has already started and it will be soon noted and documented. As it gains steam it will put great demand on Kingdom minded Believers to have infrastructure in place that accommodates the harvest. 

From resources to buildings much is needed. Great blueprints are coming down for everything related to the harvest and related to the reformation of society.

It will be a rare thing for a non-reformation minded Believer to receive one of these scrolls, as that is a common theme for all who will have secrets revealed, mysteries unraveled and riddles solved. God is now ready for things to go structural into society. The era of Renaissance has begun that will expand nuanced knowledge of God into every system of society. These scrolls ultimately are secrets of God that reveal more of who He is and this new knowledge will advance Him.

5775: Grace for an Expanded View of Him

We are in the middle of a ten-year period where the focus is on us "learning to see". The Lord is correcting our vision impairment, and this year it is as if we get the upgrade glasses that we have needed. For the next 5 years there will be a yearly upgrade available much like Apple does with the iPhone. However, we do have to turn in the old and request the upgrade. (Photo via flickr)

All corrective spiritual vision begins with the ability to see Him in an expanded way. If we can't see Him better, we won't be able to see other things in an improved way. Many of us carry very defeated narratives of what God can do in society because of our impaired vision of Him. This year we get a much need upgrade, and make sure to make your request known to the Holy Spirit.

The number 5775 is a unique configuration. 5 is the number of grace and 7 is the number of God in His perfect and expanded form. It is the 7 Spirits perspective of God and all He has and all He will be for society (Revelation 4:5 and 5:6). This is a year where God provides grace for us coming and going. He will be our rear guard as well as He who graces us to move forward. The 77 is about seeing the perfect God as Redeemer AND as Reformer. The special grace is available for those able to see Him as both. This grace is designed to keep you in a hopeful place, but you must refrain your mouth from hopeless conversation.

I also saw the numbers 5775 laid out over a map of the United States. The land of the United States was set up by God as a refuge for past Jews, as well as present and future Jews. It also explains why we have a primary assignment to ensure Israel's security and that when we mess with that, we ourselves become insecure. The ISIS crisis came up on the radar for us as a nation at the specific time we were chiding Israel for defending herself from terrorist rockets. It is a main part of our call as a nation to provide security for Israel. Most of that is by prayer but it is also to be military.

As I saw the 5775 laid out over a map of the United States, I saw that the 5's were over each coast of America. One over the East Coast and one over the West Coast. This represented increase protective grace over our coasts, but especially it represents a grace of a move of the Holy Spirit. 

I believe from one sea to the other shining sea we will begin to hear about God breaking out. A great grace is coming to our coast lands. 

Many have been seeing tsunamis come to our shores but they will be of glory and not of devastation. God is not unhappy with America as a country, only slightly annoyed with the gloom He sees in His Church.

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A key chapter for the year is Psalm 75. Psalm 75 is the response chapter to Psalm 74, even as 5775 will be the response year to 5774. Psalm 74 was a chapter of pleading for help from the oppression and attack of the enemy. The chapter starts out with, "O God why have you cast us off forever?" and stays in that vein throughout. There are many verses that could bring understanding to the desecration and martyrdom many Christians experienced this last year at the hands of ISIS and other extremists. "The enemy has damaged everything in the sanctuary. Your enemies roar in the midst of Your meeting place. They set up their banners for signs"(Psalm 74:3-4)

"They have set fire to Your sanctuary, they have defiled the dwelling place of Your name to the ground. They said in their hearts, let us destroy them altogether. They have burned up all the meeting places of God in the land" (Psalm 74 7-8). The chapter closes with the psalmist invoking God to, "Arise, O God for Your own cause" (verse 22).

Chapter 75 then carries the response theme of the psalmist thanking God for His righteous judgment. "We give thanks to You, O God, we give thanks! For Your wondrous works declare that Your name is near" (verse 1). The Chapter ends with, "All the horns of the wicked I will also cut off, but the horns of the righteous shall be exalted" (verse 10). In the very middle of the chapter it says, "But God is the Judge; He puts down one, and exalts another" (verse 7). This we will see manifested this year among the nations. Evil men will plot, but God will show Himself as Judge. The horns or power of the wicked will be cut down. It will be another bad year for the wicked.

Focus on the Mountain of Education

The Mountain of Education will be the mountain of great focus this year. The enemy illicitly exercises authority on this mountain through an initial stronghold of humanism. Humanism is a pseudo wisdom that is the polar opposite of true wisdom. True wisdom is both the goal and the vehicle for advancement in Education, and God is now sending in big help to begin breaking down education strongholds as well as to accompany His rising sons and daughters.

Many of the new scrolls being released in this next year will be for those attempting to make Kingdom headway in this vital sector of society. New wisdom for new schools, new curriculum and new classroom ideas will be released as the Kingdom of God begins to make a dent in that mountain. If you have a call on this mountain and understand the assignment, position yourself for being advanced.

Interstate 35 Becomes a Highway of Holiness

Isaiah 35 speaks of a "Highway of Holiness" (verse 8) and I believe that this is geographically the redemptive destiny of Interstate 35. I see a powerful artery of the Holy Spirit pumping blood through the heart of the nation with a beat of righteousness and life. Exactly 7 years ago, the I-35 Minneapolis Bridge collapsed and it is now time for a 7-year period of great life and joy to pump and beat through all of I-35. The last 7 years have been years of testing for the I-35 corridor, but now starts a season of great grace.

Many on this route have contended to stay on the battlefield and they will now be greatly rewarded. Minneapolis, Des Moines, Kansas City, Oklahoma City, Dallas, Austin, and San Antonio are seven key I-35 cities where the saints are making heroic stands against darkness in the nation and prevailing. There is a strong call to pray and intercede all up and down this corridor and this year begins a 7-year period of great authority in prayer. (Photo via Wikimedia)

A very elite prayer force has been prepared in refining fire and now new fuel will come on prayer gatherings. An angelic company will also be releasing scrolls to the prayer movement leaders, and it will cause a season of praying effective and effectual prayers, as hidden secrets from God are released regarding His Reformation agenda.

I saw the multiples of 5 x 7 and 7 x 5 come out of the 5775, and I believe that these multiples that also equal 35, also speak of a strong vein of intercessory prayer and authority for and toward the nation of Israel. The I-35 cities are the watchmen cities of America and Israel, and new oil and wine is coming on them in 5775.

The Harvest Has Begun

I referred to this earlier, but a great prophesied Harvest has in fact already begun. Two great men of God have gone on to their reward in Heaven since Rosh Hashanah of 2013. These two men are Bob Jones and Arthur Burt. Both of these men carried key prophetic promises from the Lord that they would not die until they had seen an unprecedented harvest begin – with spiritual flooding after spiritual flooding taking place.

Bob Jones passed away on Valentine's Day of this year and Arthur Burt at age 102 just passed away in August. God did not lie to either of them and that which they both saw has now begun. Last year was a year of great natural flooding all across America and now the spiritual floods will follow. The harvest Bob Jones saw was worldwide and brought in a billion youth. That harvest has now begun to come in and will progressively increase over the next ten years.

The New Prophetic Level

Jennifer PageAs might be expected with the coming of angels bringing secrets of God, there will now be a sudden spike in the prophetic level of those already operating in the prophetic. 

It will begin to become common place for names, addresses and dates to be revealed prophetically. More importantly than even this the prophetic will now begin to carry much more wisdom for building, as this is what is on the heart of our Papa. (Photo by Jennifer Page "Warrior Angel" via elijahshopper.com)

He will be showcased as the Wise Builder, God during this next season and it will be something that greatly progresses the advancing Church. Furthermore many of the new Believers coming in will evidence this advanced level of the prophetic and it will be key for further stoking the harvest fire of God.

Judah Will Again Lead

Judah, meaning "praise", was the lead warrior tribe of Israel. For many years the worship songs were staying years ahead of the rest of the Church – in what revelation the lyrics were carrying. Over the last several years the preaching has overtaken the lyrics and has been in the lead from a standpoint of revelation. I saw scrolls coming down to worship leaders, song writers and psalmists, and they will now begin to receive the advanced songs of this age of restoration that will become the anthems of a Reformation generation.

Judah will again take the lead as great songs of freedom, hope, and the greatness of God in society will now begin to create a new marching beat for the Body of Christ to march to. This will begin to happen in 5775 and ever increase after that as there will be no ebb to the coming advancement in worship. From now on Judah will stay in the lead. In like manner as you allow Judah/praise to lead in your own life, you will find victorious living as its fruit.

In 5775, the world will not end, the Rapture will not take place, the Great Tribulation will not start. God will be the story line of the year and the secrets He reveals to His kids will be the main newsworthy advance of the year.

To share in that: Awake, Arise, Shine.

Johnny Enlow
Johnny and Elizabeth

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Johnny Enlow is a social reformer, international speaker, spiritual mentor, and author of The Seven Mountain ProphecyThe Seven Mountain Mantle, and Rainbow God. He and his wife Elizabeth are focused on awakening individuals to their call to provide practical solutions from the heart of God for every problem in society – until the real God of all of life is displayed in the seven primary areas of culture in all nations: Media, Arts and Entertainment, Government, Family, Religion, Economy, and Education.

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Thursday, March 13, 2014

Uncovered in Jerusalem, 9 tiny unopened Dead Sea Scrolls

An unrolled tefillin parchment from Qumran. 4Q135, Plate 212, Frag 2 (photo credit: Shai Halevi via Israel Antiquities Authority)

Uncovered in Jerusalem, 

9 tiny unopened Dead Sea Scrolls



Researcher finds tantalizing tefillin parchments
from Second Temple era, overlooked for decades
and unread for 2,000 years

BY ILAN BEN ZION March 12, 2014


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They’re not much larger than lentils, but size doesn’t minimize the 
potential significance of nine newfound Dead Sea Scrolls that have 
lain unopened for the better part of six decades.

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An Israeli scholar turned up the previously unexamined parchments, 
which had escaped the notice of academics and archaeologists as 
they focused on their other extraordinary finds in the 1950s. Once 
opened, the minuscule phylactery parchments from Qumran, while 
unlikely to yield any shattering historic, linguistic or religious 
breakthroughs, could shed new light on the religious practices of 
Second Temple Judaism.


The Israel Antiquities Authority has been tasked with unraveling 
and preserving the new discoveries — an acutely sensitive 
process and one which the IAA says it will conduct painstakingly, 
and only after conducting considerable preparatory research.

Phylacteries, known in Judaism by the Hebrew term tefillin, are 
pairs of leather cases containing biblical passages from the books 
of Exodus and Deuteronomy. One case is bound by leather thongs 
to the head and one to the arm during morning prayers, as prescribed 
by rabbinic interpretation of the Bible. The case worn on the head 
contains four scrolls in individual compartments, while the arm 
phylactery holds one scroll.



The interior of the Shrine of the book, the home of the 
Dead Sea Scrolls at the Israel Museum. (photo credit: Flash90)

At least two dozen tefillin scroll fragments were known to have 
been found during excavations of the limestone caves overlooking 
the Dead Sea at Qumran in the 1950s (several phylactery boxes 
and straps were unearthed as well). They were among the 
world-famous cache of thousands of scrolls and scroll fragments 
containing biblical and sectarian texts from the Second Temple 
period. Since their discovery, the Qumran scrolls have been housed 
at the Israel Museum, and scholars have pored over the ancient 
documents and opened a window into ancient Jewish theology.

But these nine latest tiny scrolls had been overlooked — until now.

Dr. Yonatan Adler, a lecturer at Ariel University and a 
post-doctoral researcher on Qumran tefillin at Hebrew University, 
was searching through the Israel Antiquities Authority’s 
climate-controlled storerooms in the Har Hotzvim neighborhood 
of Jerusalem in May 2013. There he found a phylactery case from 
Qumran among the organic artifacts stored in climate-controlled 
warehouses. Suspecting the case could contain a heretofore 
undocumented scroll, he had it scanned by an MRI at 
Shaare Zedek Hospital. The analysis suggested there might 
indeed be an unseen parchment inside.

While that analysis has yet to be confirmed, Adler was 
spurred on by the discovery, and in December visited the 
Dead Sea Scroll labs at the Israel Museum. There he found 
two tiny scrolls inside the compartments of a tefillin case 
that had been documented but then put aside some time 
after 1952. The scrolls were never photographed or 
examined, and so have remained bound inside the leather 
box for roughly 2,000 years.

Then, just last month, Adler told The Times of Israel 
he “found a number of fragments of tefillin cases from 
Qumran Cave 4, together with seven rolled-up tefillin 
slips” which had never been opened.


Dr. Yonatan Adler of Ariel University 
(photo credit: Devorah Adler)

“Either they didn’t realize that these were
 also scrolls, or they didn’t know how to 
open them,” Pnina Shor, head of the IAA’s 
Department of Artefact Treatment and 
Conservation, explained.

Józef Tadeusz Milik, the most prolific publisher 
of the scrolls after their discovery last century, 
reported on the Cave 4 tefillin case finds but he 
“didn’t say why they didn’t open them, [and] he 
also didn’t say they were scrolls,” even though 
the parchments were identified as part of tefillin 
assemblage, she said.

Shor and her team have managed the painstaking
task of maintaining the thousands of scroll 
fragments found at Qumran, removing them 
from the glass casings in which they were 
entombed in the 1950s and mounting them on 
fine cloth mesh, then digitizing each minute scrap 
with multi-spectral photography. Each scroll 
fragment is photographed at 56 different exposures 
— 28 per side (as some scrolls have writing on 
both) — in 12 different wavelengths ranging as 
far as the infrared. The team will be tasked with 
a similar mission with the new scrolls once 
they’ve been opened.

Dead Sea Scroll expert Eibert Tigchelaar of the 
University of Leuven in Belgium said that the fact 
that these nine scrolls went undetected for so long 
should not come as a surprise, considering the 
scrolls’ complicated administrative history (which 
includes a change in sovereignty in 1967). 
”Things physically remained somewhere, but 
administratively were forgotten,” Tigchelaar said.

Moreover, “confronted with 10,000 or more 
fragments from Cave 4, of which the last were 
only published a few years ago, there was little 
attention [paid] to those tefillin that might not be 
opened at all,” he said.

None of the phylacteries has been radiocarbon 
dated, but the cache of scrolls and religious objects 
from the caves at Qumran date from the second 
and first centuries BCE and first century CE — a 
critical time in the development of Judaism and 
early Christianity.

Like many of the finds at Qumran, some of the 
tefillin slips that have previously been opened have 
yielded astonishing differences from the standard 
Rabbinic text known as the Masoretic.

“Some tefillin use a spelling very close to the traditional 
one, [but] there are several tefillin that use an extreme 
form of divergent spelling that also occurs in many 
other scrolls,” such as additional letters in possessive 
suffixes, Tigchelaar said.



Seven recently rediscovered unopened tefillin 
scrolls from Qumran. (photo credit: Shai Halevi 
via Israel Antiquities Authority)

Professor Lawrence Schiffman, a vice provost at 
Yeshiva University and expert on Second Temple 
Judaism, explained that some of the tefillin texts from 
Qumran were identical to those used today, but others 
have the same text with additional passages, extended 
to include the Ten Commandments. He also 
pointed out that it would be interesting to see the 
order in which the scrolls were placed inside the 
tefillin compartments — a practice debated by 
rabbis for centuries.

“From my point of view, the most significant thing 
about all of this is that they actually have tefillin from 
2,100 and plus years ago,” Schiffman said of the
 Dead Sea Scrolls generally. The continuity of 
phylactery traditions — over the centuries and 
across the various sects that comprised Second Temple 
Jewry — was something he found remarkable.

“We have to be prepared for surprises,” Professor 
Hindy Najman of Yale University said, of the new 
discoveries. “On the one hand there’s tremendous 
continuity between what we have found among the 
Dead Sea Scrolls — liturgically, ritually and textually 
— and contemporaneous and later forms of Judaism. 
But there’s also tremendous possibility for variegated 
practices and a complex constellation of different 
practices, different influences, different ways of 
thinking about tefillin.”



Tefillin cases from Qumran 
(photo credit: Clara Amit via Israel Antiquities Authority)

Schiffman, however, said he doesn’t expect 
any “bombshells” emerging from the new scrolls 
that will “overturn the concepts that we have.”

“Given the amount of research that’s been 
done… important discoveries like this don’t 
overturn previous ideas,” he said. “We’re going 
to be able to augment what we know about the 
tefillin already.”

Tigchelaar concurred, saying that the Dead Sea Scrolls 
in general, and these tefillin in particular, are important 
not because they would shed light on one particular 
sect during the Second Temple Era, but because 
they demonstrate that rabbinic practices had deeper roots.

“Whether one wants to emphasize the continuity, 
or the differences, is another thing,” he said.

Shor will be in charge of the project of meticulously 
unraveling the newfound scrolls and ensuring their preservation.

“We’re going to do it slowly, but we’ll first consult 
with all of our experts about how to go about this,” 
she said, reluctant to say when the process would 
commence. “We need to do a lot of research before 
we start doing this.”



A single tefillin scroll found in phylacteries at Qumran. 
(photo credit: Shai Halevi via Israel Antiquities Authority)

Uncovered in Jerusalem, 9 tiny unopened Dead Sea Scrolls
Researcher finds tantalizing tefillin parchments from 
Second Temple era, overlooked for decades and 
unread for 2,000 years.

Read more: Uncovered in Jerusalem, 9 tiny unopened 
Dead Sea Scrolls | The Times of Israel 
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