The special community on the Yeb island of Egypt, a divorce initiated by the woman, and a vegetarian

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    The special community on the Yeb island of Egypt, a divorce initiated by the woman, and a vegetarian temple -------------------------------------------------- -----------------------
    At the end of the 19th century, papyrus's were discovered in the antiquities markets in Egypt.
    The manuscript opens a window to a Jewish community that no one knew. A community not mentioned anywhere else .... It turns out that the same special community lives on an island in the heart of the Nile, named "Elephant Island" - or as it is more commonly known in Egypt - Island Twelve (YEB).
    Additional excavations are being conducted following excavations on the island. The information that has been built up about the ancient Jewish community is surprising.
    The period of the certificates/documents is the days of the Second Temple, the Return of Zion, the 5th century BC.
    The picture that emerges from the documents is of a special community that is fighting for its identity and existence - not only among the Gentiles but also among the Jewish world. It turns out that the community living on the island is made up of Jewish soldiers who served in the Persian army.
    The soldiers also led family life on the island, and trade and commerce. In one of the certificates, for example, a soldier sets his Egyptian slave and her house free.
    Another certificate is a marriage certificate between Ananiah and a woman named Yehoishema, But some of what is written in it surprises researchers: It is revealed that the wife can initiate a divorce from her husband "and if he hears it "she will hate her husband Ananiah and tell him that you will not have a wife for your wife, money of hatred in her head and Mohar will be lost ... and give her husband Ananiah money seven and a half shekels."

    But this is not the only surprise revealed to scholars about the ancient Jewish community on Elephant Island.
    In another document, nicknamed the "Passover Letter," it turns out that a man named Hananiah, one of the leaders of the Jews in Jerusalem, wrote to the Yeb Jew when and how to observe the Passover holiday: "Now you have counted 14 days for Nisan, and on the 14th between the suns you have kept Pesach. "Do not eat chametz and it will not be seen in your homes, from the 14th day of Nisan with the evening of the sun until the 21st day of Nisan in the evening of the sun. From this it can be understood that the holiday at that time was divided into two: the Feast of Unleavened Bread and the Feast of Passover.

    As for the chametz, the instruction from Jerusalem was to put all the chametz into the room and lock the room. This is a different custom from the one we are familiar with (eliminating chametz and selling chametz) The fact that the teaching from Jerusalem is about customs different from those we are familiar with, indicates changes and development in the practices of halakhah at that time.
    And what is meant by the words "did Passover"? The intention is not to celebrate Seder night and read from the Haggadah, but to offer a sacrifice in the Temple.
    Which temple is this? Did the Jews of the Land of Israel recognize the legitimacy of sacrificing in a temple other than the Temple of Jerusalem? In another document, the story of the Temple of the Yeb Island is revealed: The Jews of the Yeb island are seeking permission to rebuild their temple. They explain that their temple has existed and been active for a long time (some believe it stood there from the days of the First Temple), until that day three years ago when the Egyptian priests united with the Egyptian army ministers, and the angry mob destroyed the temple.
    The Jews were helpless in the face of the angry mob that destroyed their temple. 3 years later, and still the poor members of the community on the Yeb island find it difficult to recover from the destruction of their temple and can not keep the commandment of sacrificing: " They turn to the patriarchs of Judea and Samaria for help and approval to rebuild the Temple.

    In addition, they are asking for help from members of the community in Jerusalem who will exert their influence on Farshas for permission to rebuild the Temple on the Yeb island.
    Will the priests of Jerusalem come to their aid? In another document, the answer of the Pahas in Judea is revealed: They receive permission to rebuild the Temple, but with limitations: They must offer only a sacrifice from the plant - without a sacrifice from the animal. (The reason for this is that the sacrifice of an animal sacrifice angered the Egyptians, since for them it is not acceptable.) The members of the twelfth congregation, accepted this restriction by consent.
    But how did the Jews of the Land of Israel respond to their request for help? From another sentence in the documents in which they say that they did not receive a reply from Jerusalem, it turns out that the members of the community in Jerusalem did not even bother to answer the previous letter they sent from the island of Yeb .
    It is possible that the poor members of the community from Yeb were innocent naive, and did not understand the politics of the developing Judaism around them.
    Although the people of the Land of Israel instructed them in a previous letter how to celebrate Passover, the people of the Yeb island in Egypt thought that there was permission from Jerusalem to observe the commandment of sacrifices in the Temple. But it seems that now, for the Jerusalem community, there is only one legitimate temple, and that is the Temple in Jerusalem.
    The picture that emerges from the documents is a picture of an evolving halakhah, at a time when three large communities were operating: the Egyptian Jewish community - probably the earliest, the Babylonian exile community, and the Jerusalem community of Shavei Zion - the newest, but also having the political and leadership authority to determine customs. According to the evolving halakhah.
    Where has the Yeb community gone?
    There is a claim that Beit Yisrael from Ethiopia originated on the Yeb island, another claim is that the Yeb community was united with the community of Alexandria. Sources: Yeb , Temple Yeb , Yeb Letters - Wikipedia Hagai Misgav, Jew Yeb https://www.bac.org.il/videos/?videoID=15154 Purple Magazine, Yeb Jew and Their Temple https://www.academia.edu/.../%D7%94%D7%9E%D7%A7%D7%93%D
     

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