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She’s only a few days old and already a baby girl in Northern India is being worshipped as a reincarnated god.
The newborn is unlike any other child villagers have seen before — she has two faces.
The girl was born on Monday at a hospital in the suburbs of Delhi, according to the Daily Mail.
Since then, people in her rural village have been singing and dancing — offering money and asking for her blessings.
The parents are hoping the government will help with medical treatments needed for their baby girl in the future.
For now though, both mother and child are healthy and doing fine, according to a doctor at the hospital.
Taken From : http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,337492,00.html
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Four Arms and Four legs : http://lovelifelikeyourself.wordpress.com/2007/12/12/four-arms-and-four-legs-octokid/
Cat With Two Faces : http://lovelifelikeyourself.wordpress.com/2007/11/22/44/
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Simon bar Kokhba
Simon bar Kokhba (Hebrew: שמעון בר כוכבא, also transliterated as Bar Kokhva or Bar Kochba) was the Jewish leader who led what is known as Bar Kokhba’s revolt against the Roman Empire in 132 CE, establishing an independent Jewish state of Israel which he ruled for three years as Nasi (“prince,” or “president”). His state was conquered by the Romans in 135 CE following a two-year war. He became the last king of Israel in history.
Originally named Simon ben Kosba (Hebrew: שמעון בן כוסבא or ben Koziba, בן כוזיבא), he was given the surname Bar Kokhba (Aramaic for “Son of a Star”, referring to the Star Prophecy of Numbers 24:17, “A star has shot off Jacob”) by his contemporary, the Jewish sage Rabbi Akiva.
After the failure of the revolt, many, including rabbinical writers, referred to Simon bar Kokhba as “Simon bar Kozeba” (“Son of the lie”).
His Seal
Despite the devastation wrought by the Romans during the First Jewish-Roman War (66–73 CE), which left the population and countryside in ruins, another Jewish rebellion took place 60 years later that re-established an independent state lasting three years. The state minted its own coins, which were inscribed “the first (or second) year of the redemption of Israel”. Bar Kokhba ruled with the title of “Nasi”. The Romans fared very poorly during the initial revolt facing a completely unified Jewish force (unlike during the First Jewish-Roman War, where Flavius Josephus records three separate Jewish armies fighting each other for control of the Temple Mount during the three weeks time after the Romans had breached Jerusalem’s walls and were fighting their way to the center). A complete Roman legion with auxiliaries was annihilated. The new state knew only one year of peace. The Romans committed no less than twelve legions, amounting to one third to one half of the entire Roman army, to reconquer this now independent state. Being outnumbered and taking heavy casualties, the Romans refused to engage in an open battle and instead adopted a scorched earth policy which decimated the Judean populace, slowly grinding away at the will of the Judeans to sustain the war. Bar Kokhba took up refuge in the fortress of Betar. The Romans eventually captured it and killed all the defenders. According to Cassius Dio, 580,000 Jews were killed, 50 fortified towns and 985 villages razed. Jerusalem also was razed, a short-lived attempt was made to prevent Jews from living in the area, and a new Roman city, Aelia Capitolina, was built in its place. Yet so costly was the Roman victory that the Emperor Hadrian, when reporting to the Roman Senate, did not see fit to begin with the customary greeting “I and my army are well”, and is the only Roman general known to have refused to celebrate his victory with a triumphal entrance into his capital.
In the aftermath of the war, Hadrian consolidated the older political units of Judaea, Galilee and Samaria into the new province of Syria Palaestina (Palestine). The new provincial designation was derived as an insult from the name of the enemies of the Jews, the Philistines who had occupied the coastal plain in ancient times.
Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch in his commentary on Deuteronomy 8:10 states that the mandatory fourth blessing of the Birkat HaMazon was instituted after Bar Kokhba’s revolt to remind the Jews to not try to take possession of the land of Israel without God’s involvement — presumably the Messiah. This background gives understanding to Rabbi Hirsch’s and other Orthodox leaders’ pre-WWII anti-Zionist stance (and that of some Orthodox groups today).
Over the past few decades, much new information about the revolt has come to light, thanks mainly to the discovery of several collections of letters, some possibly by Bar Kokhba himself, in the caves overlooking the Dead Sea.[1] These letters can now be seen at the Israel Museum.[2]
Taken From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_bar_Kokhba
A letter in his hand writing
