The Living Torah Museum Part 2 of 5

and this was considered a Simmon on a the person had his name on a so sometimes the garu will discuss and talk about if there's a Simon then it then you have to be M if it's no Simon sometimes they would make a mark and sometimes they would actually put their name on a specific C another very very interesting thing that we also have is just like I showed you an oil lamp that have a picture of the k for wine that matches the coin that shim minted that shows a k of wine we also there is another coin that was Meed by shim bar that has a picture on one side of the front of the Bas of mnes and on the other side has a Lula and a estri and it says in the old Hebrew script this is one of the best ones in the world showing the coin on both sides now what's very fascinating if you look closely at the K on this lul you're going to see that there's an esri there's a lulav two aravis and a lot of Hadas and you can see the details of the the tremendous amount of [Applause] hadasim it shows us how they were making their kle on their Lulu and it also shows us something else that's important uses 53 had because in the Z it says G and the tick of is the in of G of the of 53 had there's a if theas was an estri or an Apple so one of the Tik Des writes is to use minum is a tick on the so here you see that this Min of taking 53 hadasim or a lot of hadasim can even be seen on the coin of shim furthermore the other side that has a picture of the front of the Bas MDES which we previously discussed we also have an oil lamp it has a picture of the columns the front of the Bas of mish which matches the coin of shim bar and this is a very very rare Jewish oil lamp that has the same image of the front of the B MDES that can be seen with the columns here as well and this black is from being lit 2,000 years ago you can see 1 2 3 4 five nozzle oil lamp you could put five pilos in the same oil lamp just like it says this was an oil lamp you could put five five edges in the same oil lamp it has a ring so that you can hold it or if you were walking like you have a flashl this was how people would walk and carry their oil lamps and what's unique is that it still has its original handle intact oil lamps were interesting because every Mel every Kingdom made its own style oil lamp and in fact y Josephus writes about this the the Maes had a very unique style oil lamp they made a h type of oil lamp their oil lamp look like a hitash that's what y writes and right here is a 2,000-year-old Maan oil lamp and even scientists today still refer to this style oil lamp as the ma the Kash oil lamp the oil would go here the Pila the wick would go here and this is called a maban style oil lamp hardus King Herod the Great made his own style o oil lamp and this is called a herodian oil lamp a oil lamb from the style of hardus and every King wanted to make a certain style so that even years later they would be remembered for their Style just like today we have Italian style furniture colonial American style each one has its own style these kingdoms would make their own style as well and going back to that the yanim the Greeks made also a certain painted style and this was considered a footed bowl like a little serving plate with a beautiful Greek design painted and these circular type of things was made by thean the Greeks now the mishna discusses this kind of K this K has a stand what happens if you turn it over you can put something in here as well is it considered a base kibble on the bottom piece also and sometimes you have the to of the C the of the K all the different that I discussed in the mishna you can see it here as well what the Mion is talking about so these items represent very specific styles styles common in the time of end of bayen and the mishna and the gar mentions many of these things that you can see here in our Museum one of the things that kazal mentioned was called a glusa what was a glusa so the gar says that a merchant a would just like you have a trunk today would take his GL glusa from town to town and he would fill it up if it was a m of spices he would fill up his spices he would come to the middle of the marketplace he would open up his glusa and he would sell his merchandise these were called glise there were two types of glise one was a glusa that was for burial purposes that they used to bury people this is not that kind of glusa those were very small and they would make them the size of the bone of the largest bone of the person's body and they were made very very small then there were the GL that the refers to that were made for s for a person who was selling and these were these very large like you have a trunk today this was your box this particular one is fascinating beautifully carved and right over here at the top corner it says in Greek letters in Yan we were just talking about Greek it says y Josephus Merchant of spices of spices this this is not y who wrote the history of the Iden this is a person who wrote and made a cimon on his K Merchant of spices so exactly what kazal tell us that the people used to go from one Marketplace to the other Marketplace and sell their merchandise and open up their glusa and sell directly out of it and they could this is exactly this is a 2,100 year old glusa with the Greek inscription and this is a fascinating thing cuz you see the detail of the designs that were carved in here how it was beautifully done and with the name of the person on this particular Glo this right here is another Greek Kaye painted beautifully with some of the original design that still could be seen here and this again was a style that the yonim the Greeks would use and that was a very specific style known and used by theim the Greeks at that specific time one of the things we learn about in basid and you're going to put plaster and plaster just as we plaster walls today were very commonly done in the ancient world this was found in Mada it's a piece of wool piece of plaster the paint and the design is already gone but this is a 2,000-year old piece of Sid of plaster and this is from one of the walls of the Palace of msada another very very important thing is the Yar always talks about a am a bath house now just like the bathrooms in your house have tiles tiles in bathtubs and base meres in bath houses became very very common here is a piece of an actual bath house with the rows of tiles and this is very very important this was coming from Mada as well we also have from the city of casaria the city where rabaka was killed these are actual tiles from a bath house that was found in casaria a person by the name of David H who's a biva today in the 1970s was in casaria and he found these bath bath tiles from a bath house and he donated here from he's from Los Angeles California he donated to the museum and we also have a few loose tiles of different colors and there are also bath tiles so the same concept of you have a bathtub with tiles in your bathroom ankle they had tiles and they had bath houses they had plaster the same things they had in the ancient world as well just as you have today big columns and beautiful capitals this is carved out of stone and right here is an actual beautiful piece of stone this right here is a beautiful piece of colum and the top of the column was the capital and you could see the beautiful designs that are carved out of a single piece of limestone a single piece of limestone s this whole beautiful design and it weighs quite a bit this is a small column one of the most amazing things you will see here in the museum is something that's very very touching when Titus came to destroy the second base hnes yifa tells us that he came with the 10th Legion of the Roman army that sent a leion from the in America when we talk about the American Army we talk about the American Legions in fact I have a branch of our Museum in the Catal in fosburg New York and the building which we bought for the museum used to be called the American Legion building in kazal they're called leion on Tish in we talk about the liion the Roman soldiers the Roman legiance and Yan tells us that which group of soldiers came to destroy the bdes that sent to Leon the 10th Legion of the Roman army 9 years ago they were building a parking lot in yain and they found the military headquarters of Titus and one of the things they found are 1,200 of the these bricks that on every single brick there is an inscription it says on it l e g lion x 10 F fris Roma from the Roman army like you would write today property of the United States Army 102nd ER born division this says L EEG liion X1 Fran Rob you're looking at a piece of brick that was once part of the military headquarters of Titus exactly as it's described in Yun that they were the group of soldiers that destroyed the second mimage not only do we have that but the Most Fascinating item that you will see in this particular tape today in this particular Shear has to do with the bdes we know that everything of the bdash was considered KES but one of the things we also know as the tells us that when the went to destroy thees he was M the Kad away from thees and just as we know that a is allowed to take money the has a question a lot of gold and silver of the B MDES was taken away by the [Music] Romans and Not only was it taken away we're not talking about Caleb we're talking about money from theka the says so the gar says that hadriana and Trana Mala Hadrian and Tran melted down money silver of the B and they made coins out of it and in a special tape which we about to make on the ancient currency and coins of the ancient world you will see some of these coins that were minted down from the silver and gold of the bis and there's no so the says Omar says they wanted they wanted to put away all the gold and silver of the world until they found the that the was and then the came so therefore even for a says you're allowed to use gold and silver coins that Hadis maled because there's no and even in that time for you were allowed to use it and there's no is of gold and silver the concludes that something that was broken from has because the K was noic we're not talking about a whole Kay we're talking about a broken piece of something now if you go to the k today you will see that the stones all have a border around it there's the middle of the stone and then there's like a design all around the stone that hardest can herit the great build and the gar tells us why hardest originally wanted to put gold all around the center should be Rock and the sides he should be all with gold he never completed that so therefore a broken pece doesn't have aadish and this is what all the r who are involved with our Museum Pas and that's all have gone through this specific inion what I'm about to show you is just like you have the the is not the wall of the they make a mistake they think it's the wall the B it was the wall around harab and each Stone had this design that hardness made on the border around the stone this comes and was found in it's a broken piece not of the Western Wall but of the Southern wall and you can see the same style stone and you could see the design the piece of where this border would come from and this is the piece that the gar says they wanted to put gold all around and you can see the Border what's very interesting about limestone is the bdes was made out of these a and these what was a limestone it was a very beautiful stone and it was easy to carve and also Limestone was a very combustion Stone it would it would burn very easily yant tell tell us that when tius came to destroy thees he took torches of fire and they stuck the fire between the stones the stones got very hot and they were literally exploding jumping off the walls because limestone is a combustion Stone what's very unique about this stone is I'm going to show you the back of the stone you can see the burn marks in the Stone and the bubbling that happens when something starts burning and bubbling it gets burn marks and it Bubbles from the Heat and all along here you can see the bubbling and the burn marks in the stone and you're looking at a stone that burnt on Tish above in your all along here you can see the actual burn marks in the stone so you're looking at a stone that burnt on TI in y and this is one of the most emotional pieces that we have here in the museum and there's no kadha for it and it is amazing to see an actual stone that's not from the itself it's the wall around the southern wall and there's not clearly explains when to power in Iran three yid were ready to die on Mish to save this B what is this bow and what is so important about it 200 years ago Aid a silver smith living in Iran went by and saw the ancient Palace of Kish the ancient Palace of Cyrus the Great and he saw a wall that shows how the Y come to Kish the Yen come to Cyrus and ask permission to build bayen and not only does Kish give them permission he gives them mlin he gives them supplies to which to go and build by his sh being a silver smith this Y in Iran spent six months making the silver ball and carving a copy on this silver ball of the entire wall of the Palace of Kish show showing the yiden coming to Kish for asking permission to build bayen and not only does Kish give them permission Kish gives them supplies to go build by aain the story ends at the base with the soldiers of Kish marching with supplies to go and build by a Shen I'm going to show you a few details of all these panels and there are many many panels on this silver ball