Ezra and Nehemiah, and Ahasuerus Too Be Remembered for Good

Jerusalem is the where the Jewish nation was born at a moment of distress and where its character was determined again and again, even when its overwhelming majority lived in the diaspora. In every generation the eyes of the Jewish people were lifted toward Jerusalem, even when she was in ruins, and it always yearned to return to her. Almost always the Jewish settlement in Jerusalem existed thanks to the kindness of a foreign superpower, and was always surrounded by enemies. This...
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Jerusalem is the where the Jewish nation was born at a moment of distress and where its character was determined again and again, even when its overwhelming majority lived in the diaspora. In every generation the eyes of the Jewish people were lifted toward Jerusalem, even when she was in ruins, and it always yearned to return to her. Almost always the Jewish settlement in Jerusalem existed thanks to the kindness of a foreign superpower, and was always surrounded by enemies. This chapter tells about the first time when a Jewish settlement returned to Jerusalem at the time known as "The Return to Zion".The series "The Infant King and Other Priest Stories" sums up an era of over 3000 years of a development of a unique religion. The current chapter describes a short moment in it. The plot of the chapter takes place in Jerusalem, as do most of the series. It reveals, among others the cause for the isolation of the Jewish people in the world and an unknown connection with the Samaritan community.As in the rest of the series, gaps in knowledge are bridged by imagination and common sense.Yuval Chaikin, a native of Jerusalem, came up with the idea for the series following the Jerusalem syndrome he contracted after a visit to the Temple Mount in 1986. He began to put it all down on paper while taking Religious Studies at the University of Glasgow, Scotland, in 2008.