{"id":31397,"date":"2024-01-11T14:40:06","date_gmt":"2024-01-11T14:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/?page_id=31397"},"modified":"2024-01-11T14:40:47","modified_gmt":"2024-01-11T14:40:47","slug":"unit-9-return-to-jerusalem","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/unit-9-return-to-jerusalem\/","title":{"rendered":"Unit 9: RETURN TO JERUSALEM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/the-beta-israel-curriculum-table-of-contents\/\"><span style=\"font-size: 36pt;\">MY FAMILY<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/the-beta-israel-curriculum-table-of-contents\/\"><span style=\"font-size: 36pt;\">THE BETA ISRAEL CURRICULUM<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 440px;\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-30932 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2023\/12\/Title-Slide-Curriculum-12.23-214x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"214\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2023\/12\/Title-Slide-Curriculum-12.23-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2023\/12\/Title-Slide-Curriculum-12.23.jpg 406w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 214px) 100vw, 214px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3><strong><u>RETURN TO JERUSALEM<\/u><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><em>Teachers should begin this unit by expressing the depth of the Beta Israel\u2019s longing for Zion:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><strong>From the moment the Beta Israel arrived in Ethiopia centuries ago, they hoped, prayed, and dreamed of returning to Jerusalem. Yearning for Jerusalem was core to the Beta Israel\u2019s heritage \u2013 a physical and symbolic landmark of their ancestral home. As Rabbi Dr. Sharon Shalom explains: \u201cThroughout the bitter history of the Diaspora, the Jews never stopped longing for Jerusalem. \u2018I sleep, but my heart is awake\u2019 (<em>I am in Ethiopia, but my soul is in Jerusalem, <\/em>Song of Songs 5:2)<em>. <\/em>As such, when they did reach Israel, they felt that their dreams had come true, and many kissed the ground upon arrival.\u201d<sup>146<\/sup><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>146 Shalom, <em>From Sinai To Ethiopia<\/em>, 97.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MY FAMILY THE BETA ISRAEL CURRICULUM RETURN TO JERUSALEM \u00a0Teachers should begin this unit by expressing the depth of the Beta Israel\u2019s longing for Zion: \u00a0From the moment the Beta [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":30932,"parent":0,"menu_order":71,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-31397","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}