Today was a big day. Our first stop was Masada. They packed us into a gondola to take us to the top. As we walked around this ancient base, Joe told us all about it's significance. He told us of the Zealots who, after the second temple was destroyed, took their families and made their last stand there. less than 1000 men, women, and children stayed there for 3 years, as over 17000 roman legionaires laid seige to the mountain. After 3 years, with the romans finally closing in and preparing to come up, they made the decision to kill their families and themselves, leaving only one man to commit the sin of suicide, rather than allowing the romans to rape their women and selling their children into slavery. Joe took us to one part, adjacent
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