Judah People " Second Temple and Diaspora Beginning "

Second Temple (Hebrew: בית המקדש means 'Holy House') is the reconstruction of the temple in Jerusalem which stood between the years 516 BC to 70 AD During that time, this temple is the center of Jewish worship, which focused on the sacrifices called korbanot. Solomon's Temple, also known as the First Temple, destroyed in 586 BC when the Jews exiled to Babylon.




The new temple construction began in 535 BC. Its construction is completed on March 12, 515 BC As described in the Book of Ezra, the rebuilding of the temple prepared by Cyrus the Great and ratified by Darius the Great. Romans destroyed the Second Temple of Jerusalem and on August 4, 70.


Herod's Temple is an extension of the Second Temple including renovation of the entire Temple Mount. (The building is not called "Third Temple".) Herod the Great's expansion project started around the year 19 BC. The building was destroyed by Roman troops under Emperor Titus in 70 AD But some historians suspect that the Jews themselves had burned the Second Temple that is not polluted.


And We set against the Children of Israel in the Book: "Verily, ye will do mischief in the earth twice and you would have boasted great pride."

17. Al Israa' 4

Since the destruction of this Temple in 70 CE, Jews continued to pray that God will allow them to rebuild it. This prayer is a formal part of Jewish prayers three times a day.


And (remember) when We took a promise from the Children of Israel (ie): You shall not worship except Allah, and is doing good to your parents, kinsfolk, orphans, and poor people, and say the words good to mankind, steadfast in prayer and pay the poor. Then you do not fulfill that promise, except for some smaller than you, and you are always turning.

2. Al Baqarah 83

O Children of Israel, remember My favor which I have favored you, and fulfill your promise to Me, surely I fulfill My promise to you, and only to me was the one you should fear (subject).

2. Al Baqarah 40

And Allah has taken a covenant (of) the Children of Israel and We lift them 12 captains, and God said: "Surely I am with you, Except ye establish worship and practice regular charity and believe in My apostles and you help them and ye loan to Allah a good loan behold, I will cover your sins. and thou will I dropped into a paradise flowing rivers of water therein. So whoever among you who disbelieve after that, in fact he has strayed from the straight path.

5. Al Maa'idah 12

In the mid-second century BC, the Jewish writer who authored a third book Oracula Sibyllina, speak to the "chosen nation", he said: "Every land is full of thee, as well as any ocean." Witnesses are very diverse, such as Strabo, Philo, Seneca, the author of Acts, and Josephus, all give testimony to the fact that the Jewish people scattered throughout the known world at that time.


King Agrippa I, in a letter to Caligula, mentioned among the provinces inhabited by the Jewish diaspora Hellenists almost all countries, and non-Hellenistic East. The mention of this at all is not complete, since Italy and Cyrene are not included. The discovery of epigraphy from year to year increased the number of Jewish communities are unknown.


There is very little real information about how large Jewish communities are diverse, and this information should be treated with caution. After the Land of Israel and Babylon, according to Josephus the Jewish population in Syria are the most dense; especially in Antioch and then in Damascus. In this Damascus, at the time of the great insurrection, 10,000 (according to a another version 18,000) Jews were massacred.


Philo says that the number of Jews in Egypt reached 1,000,000 people; one-eighth of the entire population. Compared with other places, Alexandria is the most important Jewish communities. at the time of Philo, the Jewish people occupy two of the five parts of the city. Judging from the reports of the massacre at 115, the Jewish population in Kirenaika in Cyprus, and in Mesopotamia certainly too large.


In Rome, at the beginning of the reign of Emperor Augustus, there are more than 8,000 Jews. This is the amount that accompany the envoys who came to demand the overthrow of Archelaus. Finally, when the number of people who were arrested by the propraetor Flakus in the year 62 really represents didrakhma tax per head for a year, perhaps we can conclude safely that in Asia Minor the Jewish population numbered 45,000 men, or a total of at least least 180,000 people.


If these reports can be believed, it seems inevitable that the Jewish community that so many in areas such as Alexandria does not consist entirely of emigrants. Most likely most of them are people who convert to Judaism. Keep in mind that before the destruction of the Temple, the Jewish community of missionary activity. One well-known that being Jewish is Herod the Great, a Idumaea.