Har HaBait Jewish Sovereign for all Israel

 ChaBaD Jewish Calendar Monday, December 4, 2023 21 Kislev, 5784 Torah Reading Vayeishev: Genesis 37:1-11 Jewish History Alexander in Jerusalem (313 BCE) On Kislev 21 of the year 3448 from creation (313 BCE), there occurred the historic meeting between  Shimon HaTzaddik and Alexander ('the Great") of Macedonia.  (Source: Megillat Taanit) The Samarians, bitter enemies of the Jews, had convinced Alexander that the Jews' refusal to place his image in their Temple was a sign of rebellion against his sovereignty, and that the Holy Temple should be destroyed. The Kohen Gadol ("High Priest") at the time was Shimon HaTzaddik, the last of the "Men of the Great Assembly" who rebuilt the Holy Temple and revitalized Judaism under  Ezra . On the 21st of Kislev Alexander marched on Jerusalem at the head of his army; Shimon, garbed in the vestments of the High Priest and accompanied with a delegation of Jewish dignitaries, went forth to greet him. The two groups walke