Betar

But this time, the Romans said, "Okay, now we're going to, to dismantle anything that we could get our hands on, kill everyone, dismantle communities, and ban any religious activities." And that's exactly what they did.

They killed the s-- they killed out the city of Betar, which was, you know, greater catastrophe than the destruction of the Beit HaMikdash, and they didn't even let their bodies being buried, right? For three years and a week, their bodies were just sitting.

The, after the massacre, they were not allowed to touch them.

Miraculously, they did not rot.

Animals did not eat them.

This is the, the on Tisha b'Av happened, Harugei Betar.

Again, the destruction of the first Beit HaMikdash was on Tisha b'Av, second Beit HaMikdash was Tisha b'Av, and the destruction and the massacre of Betar happened on Tisha b'Av.

So exactly three years and a week later, they were nit-nitnu lehikaber.

And what happens is that in 135 AD, the revolt is crushed.

Bar Kokhba is killed at Betar, a fortress in the north.

And Hadrian, the new emperor of Rome, says, you know what? We're done with the Jews.

They really, we've tried our best to be friendly.

And indeed, the Mishnah records two stories where Nitei Isht Koya, Nitai, the man and the leader from Tekoa, which is a city in Eretz Yisrael.

So he lived in Eretz Yisrael, however, he went outside of Eretz Yisrael on a visit to a place called Betar, and this Betar was outside of Eretz Yisrael, not to be confused with the more famous Betar, which was in Eretz Yisrael.

But be it as it may, he went outside of Eretz Yisrael, and the people of Betar gave him khalas, which they'd separated, and they'd accumulated quite a few khalas, and they gave it to him to bring back to Eretz Yisrael.

So give to the Quranim and Eretz Yisroel.

So, But the Chachomim and Eretz Yisroel did not accept them from him.