TERRACOTTA OIL LAMP Candles must be lit 18

Candles must be lit 18 to 20 minutes before sunset

‘Honor your father and your mother

is the Greek name for the site we now call Tell el Yehudiye or Tell el-Yahudiya (Egyptian Arabic: Jewish Mound)

without touching it

TERRACOTTA OIL LAMP Candles must be lit 18Bayt Nattif stood on the much traveled ancient road connecting Eleutheropolis (Beit Guvrin) with Jerusalem, about midway between the two towns. The city had been assigned the status of toparchy, one of eleven toparchies or prefectures in Judaea given certain administrative responsibilities, known in classical sources by the name Betholetepha. According to Josephus, the city was sacked under Vespasian and Titus, during the first Jewish uprising against