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• But let us return to the Bar Kokhba Revolt, to discover some more about those tragic events. The Revolt was led by Simon Bar Kokhba, hence the name. Let us provide some quotes from the Wikipedia article on the subject, to provide a flavour of how horrifying these events were. We read:
• “The Bar Kokhba revolt resulted in an extensive depopulation of Judean Jewish communities, more so than the Great Revolt of Judea of 70 CE. Despite easing persecution of Jews following Hadrian's death in 138 CE, the Romans barred Jews from Jerusalem, except for attendance in Tisha B’Av. [the 9th of Av, the date of the destruction of the Temple]. The Jewish community of Judea was devastated in events some scholars describe as a genocide.”