Starts @ 1:31 - Fair Use - - Fair Use - Bibi sounds very confident he will win in upcoming elections :good: I have heard that Bibi believes he will be in power when the Messiah arrives. What other secrets are hidden in the Qumran caves?: The Qumran caves in the Judean Desert have continued to yield amazing and unexpected treasures. To date, the following have been discovered: 1) The Dead Sea Scrolls, 2,000-year-old parchments containing most of the Hebrew Bible, 2) spices used in the making of Temple incense, 3) a jar of congealed but still viscous oil, and 4) scrolls that describe the rules of a Jewish community that lived in the area, along with a great deal more. As an example, the Copper Scroll, which sits in a museum in Amman, Jordan, lists many locations—a number of which seem to point to the Qumran area—where certain items from the First Temple were supposedly hidden before the exile. Most assume that it was a group called the Essenes, a devout Jewish sect with a large following in the area that left Jerusalem at a tumultuous time to establish a separate society. Yehuda believes there may be another possibility: “The records would seem to indicate that the people working in the Qumran facility were Kohanim who fled there after Syrian Greek Emperor Antiochus, of Hanukkah fame, murdered the last high priest among the descendants of Zadok—the Kohen Gadol.” He added, “When the ruins were excavated, archaeologists were surprised to find that there were no living quarters among the ruins. The floor plan looks more like a school for Kohanim, a ‘university’ of sorts for those initiated into the priesthood.” There are reportedly tunnels that stretch from Jerusalem all the way to the area of Qumran. Yehuda notes that there are other tractates such as Horayot and Shekalim that indicate the intention of Yoshiyahu was to hide the Temple items and there is the possibility they were sealed in a chamber at the end of one of these tunnels. Currently, there are two groups that regularly excavate in Qumran. One is the Israel Department of Antiquities and the other is the Hebrew University. Imagine if we find something like the K’lal, the vessel that contained the Para Aduma [the ashes of a pure red heifer needed to purify the priests]. One can only dream of the possibilities.”
