Jerusalem – A golden bell ornament that archaeologists believed belonged to a priest or important leader from the Second Temple Period was found in an ancient drainage channel in ruins next to the Western Wall on Thursday, the Israel Antiquities Authority announced.
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The small bell, which has a loop for attaching to clothing or jewelry, was found underneath what is today known as Robinson’s arch. The area underneath the arch was the central road of Jerusalem, which lead from the Shiloah Pools in the City of David to the Old City and the Temple Mount.
They believed that the bell fell off the official’s clothing while he was walking along the road and rolled into the drainage channel, where it has sat for nearly 2,000 years.
Was it like Rashi or the Ramban’s peshat?
Maybe it was the milkmans bell
Let’s hope it’s a sign for geulah! The bells of moshiach are ringing.
Doesn’t ring a bell….
You mean the kohen gadol had bells attached to the bottom of his bekishah?
Once again modern archeology validates the details of what we read in the torah and what was speculated by chazal regarding the lvush of the cohanim bizman beis hamikdash.
Now go find the Shofer she’ll Moshiach
#1 i also thought abt rashi and ramban but the bell alone not in the rimon can mean anything. But my wife just said abt the loop connected that sounds like rashi
kohen gadol only wore the begadim in the B”H so not likely his
I guess they don’t know the gemora that clearly mentions that the bigdai k’huna were ONLY worn in the Mikdash.
a sign from hashem that we are near to the rebuiding of the beis ha migdash ….lets take this serious
Weren’t the bells a reminder about the issur of loshon hara? Maybe we should take that as a sign to buckle down on the way we speak and what we say! In that way we should merit the bringing of Moshiach!
Even if it were only worn inside the mikdash it could still be the bell of the kohein gadol. Perhaps when mikdash was destroyed and things were stolen or buried etc… I would love to see a picture of it. Sounds interesting.