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Oholiav and Jewish Prophets in Lebanon [message #105065]

Tue, 14 April 2009 21:13

Beitcafe is currently offline

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Sometime between 1982 and 2000 the IDF destroyed a Jewish shrine in Southern Lebanon that was the presumed burial site for a minor, but significant, biblical character referred to in Exodus. This person was known as Oholiav ("tent-builder" in Hebrew) and was said to have been a carpenter and a builder of the Mishkan (Tabernacle).

I am submitting this as a thread because it is something of which I knew absolutely nothing about, and it was fascinating in and of itself, but it also raises some poignant issues about decisions that Israel makes. I will post the questions I have submitted to the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York. News articles appear to be non-existent, and every other avenue for information I could think of turned up nothing. Many agencies were contacted, but JTS is the only organization which attempted to answer the question. Many, many thanks to the library at JTS!

In a flurry of private emails, issues and speculation swirled around the Israeli decision to destroy this site. Everything was postulated-- from it being purely an accident due to the pressure of the situation at the time, a military decision to protect soldiers, a decision to remove the site so rockets could not be fired from it into Northern Israel, to the more cynical presumption that it was a nefarious Zionist plot to remove evidence of Jewish life in Lebanon (and was compared to the the IDF bombing of the Beirut synagogue in 1982), in an attempt to persuade remaining Lebanese Jews leave Lebanon and move into Israel.

My questions to JTS:

-What information exists about this site?
-Is there someone of historical significance buried there? If so, who?
-To what ceremony could our young correspondent be referring?
-Did the IDF bomb this shrine, or was it likely something done by the Lebanese Army or Hezbollah?
-If it was destroyed by the IDF, why?
-What do you know about a possible reconstruction effort?

[Updated on: Thu, 16 April 2009 07:25] by Moderator

Kol tuv,
Beitcafe

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	Oholiav and Jewish Prophets in Lebanon By: Beitcafe on Tue, 14 April 2009 21:13
	Re: Oholiav By: Beitcafe on Tue, 14 April 2009 21:16
	Re: Oholiav By: Beitcafe on Tue, 14 April 2009 21:17
	Re: Oholiav By: Beitcafe on Tue, 14 April 2009 21:18
	Re: Oholiav By: Lynn on Tue, 14 April 2009 21:35
	Re: Oholiav By: Beitcafe on Tue, 14 April 2009 21:39
	Re: Oholiav By: Lynn on Tue, 14 April 2009 21:41
	Re: Oholiav By: Beitcafe on Tue, 14 April 2009 22:11
	Re: Oholiav By: Beitcafe on Tue, 14 April 2009 22:13
	Re: Oholiav By: Beitcafe on Tue, 14 April 2009 22:14
	Re: Oholiav By: Beitcafe on Tue, 14 April 2009 22:16
	Re: Oholiav By: Beitcafe on Tue, 14 April 2009 22:17
	Re: Oholiav By: Beitcafe on Tue, 14 April 2009 22:18
	Re: Oholiav By: Beitcafe on Tue, 14 April 2009 22:20
	Re: Oholiav By: Beitcafe on Tue, 14 April 2009 22:22
	Re: Oholiav By: Beitcafe on Tue, 14 April 2009 22:24
	Re: Oholiav By: Beitcafe on Wed, 15 April 2009 03:25
	Re: Oholiav By: Walid on Wed, 15 April 2009 05:07
	Re: Oholiav By: whodey on Wed, 15 April 2009 13:18
	Re: Oholiav By: Beitcafe on Thu, 16 April 2009 02:35
	Re: Oholiav By: Walid on Thu, 16 April 2009 07:22
	Re: Oholiav By: Walid on Thu, 16 April 2009 08:48
	Re: Oholiav By: Beitcafe on Fri, 17 April 2009 02:41
	Re: Oholiav By: Beitcafe on Fri, 17 April 2009 03:33
	Re: Oholiav and Jewish Prophets in Lebanon By: whodey on Fri, 17 April 2009 17:36
	Re: Oholiav and Jewish Prophets in Lebanon By: ODP1 on Fri, 17 April 2009 19:04
	Re: Oholiav and Jewish Prophets in Lebanon By: Lynn on Fri, 17 April 2009 19:07
	Re: Oholiav and Jewish Prophets in Lebanon By: ODP1 on Fri, 17 April 2009 19:31
	Re: Oholiav and Jewish Prophets in Lebanon By: Beitcafe on Sat, 18 April 2009 02:21
	Re: Oholiav and Jewish Prophets in Lebanon By: whodey on Fri, 17 April 2009 19:11
	Re: Oholiav and Jewish Prophets in Lebanon By: Walid on Fri, 17 April 2009 19:15
	Re: Oholiav and Jewish Prophets in Lebanon By: Schafe on Fri, 17 April 2009 19:59
	Re: Oholiav and Jewish Prophets in Lebanon By: whodey on Fri, 17 April 2009 22:17
	Re: Oholiav and Jewish Prophets in Lebanon By: sh on Sat, 25 April 2009 21:04
	Re: Oholiav and Jewish Prophets in Lebanon By: Beitcafe on Sat, 18 April 2009 02:32
	Re: Oholiav and Jewish Prophets in Lebanon By: whodey on Sat, 18 April 2009 20:14
	Re: Oholiav and Jewish Prophets in Lebanon By: Walid on Sat, 18 April 2009 21:37
	Re: Oholiav and Jewish Prophets in Lebanon By: Beitcafe on Sat, 18 April 2009 22:00
	Re: Oholiav and Jewish Prophets in Lebanon By: Beitcafe on Sat, 18 April 2009 22:07
	Re: Oholiav and Jewish Prophets in Lebanon By: Walid on Sat, 18 April 2009 22:14
	Re: Oholiav and Jewish Prophets in Lebanon By: Beitcafe on Sun, 19 April 2009 03:29
	Re: Oholiav and Jewish Prophets in Lebanon By: Walid on Sun, 19 April 2009 07:51
	Re: Oholiav and Jewish Prophets in Lebanon By: whodey on Sun, 19 April 2009 08:20
	Re: Oholiav and Jewish Prophets in Lebanon By: Walid on Sun, 19 April 2009 16:55
	Re: Oholiav and Jewish Prophets in Lebanon By: sh on Sat, 25 April 2009 20:58
	Re: Oholiav and Jewish Prophets in Lebanon By: Walid on Sat, 25 April 2009 21:26
	Re: Oholiav and Jewish Prophets in Lebanon By: sh on Sat, 25 April 2009 21:30
	Re: Oholiav and Jewish Prophets in Lebanon By: sh on Sat, 25 April 2009 21:45
	Re: Oholiav and Jewish Prophets in Lebanon By: sh on Sat, 25 April 2009 21:56
	Re: Oholiav and Jewish Prophets in Lebanon By: Walid on Sun, 26 April 2009 17:39
	Re: Oholiav and Jewish Prophets in Lebanon By: sh on Sun, 26 April 2009 22:28
	Re: Oholiav and Jewish Prophets in Lebanon By: Beitcafe on Mon, 27 April 2009 00:15
	Re: Oholiav and Jewish Prophets in Lebanon By: Walid on Mon, 27 April 2009 09:37
	Re: Oholiav and Jewish Prophets in Lebanon By: sh on Mon, 27 April 2009 10:01
	Re: Oholiav and Jewish Prophets in Lebanon By: sh on Sat, 25 April 2009 21:02
	Re: Oholiav and Jewish Prophets in Lebanon By: whodey on Sat, 05 December 2009 08:47

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