Thursday, February 8, 2018

Kolonia, Qalunya



--Gateway to Heaven, 117- “a rural suburb below Jerusalem called Motza was actually a place called Kolonia but referred to as motza—exempt.”

It is the other human being, not being itself, that summons a response (ethical). The horizon is neither gift nor summons but the open space at the base of parabolic figures, “the heart of the being of the world which we enjoy like a surplus that overwhelms us even as we enjoy  the warmth of the sun and the illumination of the morning sky.” By Ira F. Stone



  This must sum the first two commandments. Bergo, 60. See Otherwise than Being or Beyond Essense, OBBE, 8,9 Reading Levinas/Reading Talmud: An Introduction

Qalunya - located near the Jewish town of Motza identified with the Canaanite town of Mozah (Joshua 18:26),  Mozah was a Jewish village known for its willows[5] that were used at the Temple of Jerusalem, the village was destroyed in the First Jewish–Roman War. After A.D. 71 Vespasian settled 800 Roman soldiers in the town, which became a Roman settlement known as Colonia Amosa or Colonia Emmaus.[4] Byzantine name, Koloneia,  It has also been suggested that Qalunya was Emmaus.[7] The site is the correct distance from Jerusalem to match the story told in the New Testament (Luke 24:13-35) In the 1890s, Jews purchased some of Qalunya's farmlands, and established the village of Motza, the first Jewish settlement outside Jerusalem. Harry Levin, who accompanied the Palmach force during the assault on 11 April 1948 is an interesting commentary on all of these claims. As he described the even, “Suddenly the village seemed to erupt. Our mortars started it, and at once became a bedlam of answering fire… They fired wildly to all points of the compass… Suddenly an explosion that seemed to rip open the hillside; shrieks of terror. Our shock troops and sappers had reached the houses… More explosions… In half an hour it was over.“ Levin counted fourteen dead “but there were more.“ When Levin left, “sappers were blowing up houses. One after another the solid stone buildings, some built in elaborate city style, exploded and crashed.” search kolonia Jerusalem. See also the politics of jerusaleum since 1967. Michael Dumper, 66.

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