Burn the priest sevens and more rarely skin#

Show me the place You have designated for Your servants, my sons who died for the holiness of Your Torah, and bestow upon me a small portion together with them. There is nothing that is as holy as Hashem, and He is the only one savior of the souls trusting in Him. my enemies were unable to entice even one of my sons to turn to the service of my enemiesвЂ™ delusions, the idols, which are of no avail and cannot save anyone, for such idols are nothing and they are worth nothing. When the last child had died, Channah, the pious and pure, supreme in her devotion, stood over the bodies of her seven sons, and lifted her hands skyward. Just before they killed him, Channah made this statement: В«Go, my children, and tell our ancestor Abraham, вЂYou were prepared to kill one son for the sake of Hashem., I have given up seven sons for the sake of Hashem!вЂ™В» He, too, refused to worship the king, and remained forever a loyal Jew. Last of all came the youngest son, the seven-year-old. Nor will I discuss how Antiochus tried to convince each child to abandon Judaism and worship him. I will not go into any more detail of the horrible tortures perpetrated upon all seven children, all while the mother was forced to watch. All this took place in front of Channah and her other six children.Д«ut they all stood strong and steadfast. As the Jewish boy was about to die, Antiochus had his servants remove the pot from the fire so that the victim would die more slowly. Antiochus the Wicked then ordered his servants to place the still living victim into a copper pot over burning coals. He then had them place it all on a frying pan over a fire, while the mother and all seven were forced to watch.

Burn the priest sevens and more rarely skin#

He ordered his servants to cut off the boyвЂ™s tongue, hands, and feet, and to flay the skin of his head. В«So kill us now - and send us quickly to Hashem!В»ДЄntiochus became enraged. He stridently repeated our Tradition of steadfast devotion to Hashem, and told the king in no uncertain terms that he would never forsake the Torah of Hashem. He tried to convince him with flattery and bribes, but the boy would not hear of it. They did not flinch.ДЄntiochus started with the oldest son. The youngest of her sons was only seven years old.ДЄntiochus warned the woman that if she and her seven young sons did not bow down to the idol, he would kill each of them one by one, while she watched. This woman was named Channah (Hannah), and she had seven pure sons who also refused to bow down before the idol. One day, he assembled all the people of a Jewish town, and showed them a Jewish woman who refused to bow down to his idol. So Antiochus and his officers went on killing sprees. He placed images of himself all over the land, and forced Jews to bow down to these idols.Д«ut most Jews refused to bow down to the idols of Antiochus. Antiochus gave himself an additional name: Epiphanes, which means В«god incarnate.В» He wanted us to bow down to him and worship him like we worship Hashem. вЂњThe Martyrdom of the MaccabeesвЂќ, Jean Baptiste Vignaly, 1781.ДЄntiochus considered himself a god too.