#first temple

Wow, Miss Palestine! What a dress!

The Dome of the Rock and Al-Aqsa Mosque. Both were built on the foundations of the Holy Jewish Temple.

I mean, this is so ironic. Printing the picture of Jerusalem that is mentioned zero times in your Quran, while in the Jewish Bible, Jerusalem is mentioned 669 times.

You see, your dress just proved who is the indigenous one and who are the occupiers, the biggest colonizers.

When are you going to build your next holy place on the Vatican? I mean, it's about time! You see, they love to conquer and collect holy places, but still they are only praying towards Mecca.

Now, it's truly remarkable that someone who has an Egyptian father, an Italian mother, that was born in MIchigan and was raised in Canada ends up representing a "nation" she was never a part of.

But actually it fits... When the entire Palestinian narrative is built on adopting identities, places and histories that never belonged to them, why wouldn't a Miss Palestine be this? Feels like nothing is authentically Palestinian – except for the branding!

Stop stealing our identity. Stop stealing our holy places. Stop stealing our story. And stop trying to steal our land.

We see what you're doing in Europe, but we will never be conquered. We were here before Muhammad. We are the Jews.

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https://grokipedia.com/page/Al-Aqsa_Mosque

Al-Aqsa Mosque is the primary congregational mosque situated along the southern wall of the Haram al-Sharif, or Temple Mount, an elevated platform in Jerusalem's Old City that encompasses approximately one-sixth of the area. The platform, expanded by Herod the Great in the 1st century BCE, served as the location of the ancient Jewish First Temple, constructed by Solomon around 957 BCE and destroyed by the Babylonians in 586 BCE, and the Second Temple, rebuilt around 516 BCE and expanded before its destruction by the Romans in 70 CE, as evidenced by archaeological artifacts including Temple-period pottery, seals, and ritual items recovered from soil excavated from the site.

https://grokipedia.com/page/Western_Wall

The Western Wall, known in Hebrew as the Kotel (lit. "Wall"), is a remnant of the ancient limestone retaining wall that supported the western flank of the expanded Temple Mount platform in Jerusalem's Old City, constructed by Herod the Great circa 19 BCE as part of his massive rebuilding of the Second Temple complex. The full wall extends approximately 488 meters in length, though the primary exposed prayer plaza section measures about 57 meters long and up to 19 meters high above ground, with massive Herodian ashlars at its base characterized by drafted margins and precise masonry that has endured earthquakes and sieges. Following the Roman destruction of the Second Temple in 70 CE, the wall survived intact, becoming the closest accessible point to the Temple's former Holy of Holies where Jews could lawfully pray without violating prohibitions against entering the sanctified mount.

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Rather than "humility", I think the Temple's lesson would be about widening her perspective and not missing the forest for the threes. She's not arrogant, she just gets very passionate about some things and loses track of everything else. She didn't accidentally hurt Anne and the Plantars in the Temple because she was so hell-bent on proving she was intellectually superior to it that she neglected her companions' safety, but because she lost track of them. If anything, I think it could be a commentary on how self-centered she can be, a little bit of foreshadowing to the revelation that she brought her friends to Amphibia for selfish reasons, while making Anne steal her supposed birthday gift - which was meant to serve Marcy's purposes all along. That was the epitome of not thinking about others because she's too focused on her own goals.

But I don't think she had any malocious intent when she did that. I think she almost like... forgot to think about Anne (and Sasha). Ignoring other people's perspectives isn't a decision she makes, but an impulse she needs to learn to control, and I don't think the lesson of "humility" is all that fitting. Maybe I'm splitting hairs, because it's not like "humility" as a lesson doesn't work - it shows Marcy she needs to slow down and not assume she can handle every task so easily. I agree on the "slowing down" part but idk if the second part makes much sense? If anything, I think "empathy" would be a better lesson to learn, but then again, that doesn't sound much like something fitting for the "Wit" Temple, and maybe the Temple is meant as a one-size-fits-all and is not meant to offer any personalized lessons, rather it's supposed to filter out any possible incarnations of Wit that may have ill intent or plan to use the power of the gem(s) for selfish purposes. A humble incarnation of Wit would probably also be one that doesn't let their companions get hurt for power or arrogance.

But is that really the lesson the Temple teaches? Because what I actually have a gripe with is how the Temple actually just straight up cheats. How is that a lesson on humility? "You will be lied to and betrayed and no matter how smart you are, you won't be able to sort through that" sounds more grimdark than lesson-teaching. How is that even a lesson? Sounds like the Temple's lesson is "life isn't fair and you need to accept you're sometimes doomed to lose for reasons outside of your control" can be interesting but I don't see how that relates to "humility". To my understanding, humility has more to do with accepting you're subject to the same rules as everybody else and that you're not "above" everyone, that your goals are not above other people's wellbeing. Accepting there are things outside of your control can be humility. It's not about accepting there are forces outside of your control playing outside the rules that will fuck you up and you just have to take it because "oh, you're not above us, little girl". If anything, that sounds more like a lesson about not trusting people will play fair and being ready to tackle that. It would have been different if Marcy just lost the game "legally", but the Temple cheating muddled things up a little.

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The Temple of Solomon or the First Temple, בַּיִת רִאשׁוֹן Bayyit Rīšōn, in Jerusalem was built between the 10th and 9th century BCE and was destroyed in 587 BCE, though excavations are not allowed on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem so it isn't possible to be sure as no artifacts belonging to the First Temple have been positively identified, though most scholars believe it did exist by the time of the Babylonian siege.

By יוני שפירא - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=44106365

Tradition, as recorded within the Hebrew Bible's Book of Kings, hold that Solomon, the third and penultimate king of the United Kingdom of Israel, had the Temple built, including detailed information about its construction from the foundation being laid in Ziv, the second month, of the fourth year of Solomon's reign and its completion in Bul, the eighth month, of the eleventh year of Solomon's reign with the aid of the Tyrians, including a supply of cedar and cypress trees for the construction in return for wheat and oil. Stonemasons from Gebal, modern day Byblos, Lebanon, were brought in to cut the stones for the Temple. Upon completion of the Temple, Solomon gifted 20 cities near Tyre in northwestern Galilee to the Tyrian king Hiram, though Hiram was unimpressed with the gift.

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The Ark of the Covenant, the most sacred relic of the Israelites, was transferred to the Holy of Holies in the Temple on Sukot, which begins on the 15th day of Tishrei, the seventh month, and continues for a week. According to the Book of Kings and the Book of Chronicles, when the priests left the Holy of Holies after putting the Arc within, the 'glory of the Lord had filled the house of the Lord [such that] the priests could not stand to minister' and Solomon took this as '[proof] that his pious work was accepted'. After this, sacrifices including 'twenty-two thousand bulls and one hundred and twenty thousand sheep'. The celebration lasted eight days and the feast of Tabernacles lasted 14 days.

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According to the Hebrew Bible, the Temple was plundered four times, by the pharaoh Shishak (Shoshenq I), who took treasures including the shields of gold in about 926 BCE, which Rehoboam, the Israelite king at the time, replaced with brass ones. A century later, after the split of Israel into the northern Kingdom of Israel and the southern Kingdom of Judah, which held Jerusalem, the Israelite king Jehoash broke down one of the walls and carried away treasures. King Ahaz of Judah took treasures from the Temple to enlist the aid of king Tiglath-Pileser IV of Assyria for aid against Aram-Damascus, an Armenian polity, or group of people with a collective identity, and Israel in about 734 BCE. Hezekiah, Ahaz's son, cut the door from the doors and doorsteps he'd put in in order to pay tribute to Sennacherib around 701 BCE.

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Around 598 BCE, the Neo-Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar II attacked Jerusalem and plundered the Temple. About ten years later, Nebuchadnezzar besieged Jerusalem. It took 30 months until they breached the city walls in about 587 BCE. The Temple was burnt and demolished in about August 586 BCE by Nebuzaradan, a commander of Nebuchadnezzar's guard, who was sent to demolish the city, with anything of value being taken to Babylon.

עוּלָּא אָמַר: יוֹם שֶׁבִּיטֵּל הוֹשֵׁעַ בֶּן אֵלָה פְּרוֹסְדָיוֹת שֶׁהוֹשִׁיב יָרׇבְעָם בֶּן נְבָט עַל הַדְּרָכִים שֶׁלֹּא יַעֲלוּ יִשְׂרָאֵל לָרֶגֶל, וְאָמַר:

לְאֵיזֶה שֶׁיִּרְצוּ יַעֲלוּ.

Ulla said: The fifteenth of Av was the day on which King Hoshea, son of Ela, canceled the guards that Jeroboam, son of Nevat, placed on the roads so that the Jews would not ascend to Jerusalem for the pilgrim Festival. And Hoshea, son of Ela, said

that they may ascend to wherever they wish, i.e., they may go to Jerusalem, Bethel, or Dan.

translation courtesy of Sefaria, Koren-Steinsaltz. Taanit 30b:13-31a:1.

First temple

Marcy’s refreshing character arc.

The emotional tension between Hop Pop and Anne (from the last episode).

THE COMEDY.

AND THAT GOLD CLIFFHANGER.