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'' in the Passover ''Haggadah of Pesach">Haggadah
The Haggadah ( he, הַגָּדָה, "telling"; plural: Haggadot) is a Jewish text that sets forth the order of the Passover Seder. According to Jewish practice, reading the Haggadah at the Seder table is a fulfillment of the mitzvah to each J ...
Benebarak ("Sons of Barak") ( he, בְּנֵי בְּרַק, ''Bnei Brak'') was a biblical city mentioned in the
'' in the Passover">san in the Hebrew c ...Book of Joshua
The Book of Joshua ( he, סֵפֶר יְהוֹשֻׁעַ ', Tiberian: ''Sēp̄er Yŏhōšūaʿ'') is the sixth book in the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Old Testament, and is the first book of the Deuteronomistic history, the story of Isra ...
. According to the biblical account it was allocated to the Tribe of Dan
The Tribe of Dan (, "Judge") was one of the twelve tribes of Israel, according to the Torah. They were allocated a coastal portion of land when the people of Israel entered the Promised Land, later moving northwards.
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. Its archaeological site is .
In the Talmud
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ic era, Beneberak became the seat of the court of Rabbi Akiva
Akiva ben Yosef (Mishnaic Hebrew: ''ʿĂqīvāʾ ben Yōsēf''; – 28 September 135 CE), also known as Rabbi Akiva (), was a leading Jewish scholar and sage, a '' tanna'' of the latter part of the first century and the beginning of the second c ...
, and is identified as the site of his all-night ''seder
The Passover Seder (; he, סדר פסח , 'Passover order/arrangement'; yi, סדר ) is a ritual feast at the beginning of the Jewish holiday of Passover. It is conducted throughout the world on the eve of the 15th day of san_in_the_Hebrew_c_...
''_in_the_Passover_''Haggadah_of_Pesach.html" "title="Passover.html" ;"title="san in the Hebrew c ...''. Benebarak was also associated with agriculture, as evident from the Talmudic account of the sage Rami bar Yehezkel, who declared that he understood the meaning of the Torah's description of the ''Land of Israel'' as a "land flowing with milk and honey" after a scene he witnessed in Beneberak. He saw goats grazing beneath Common fig, fig trees and the honey oozing from the very ripe figs merged with the milk dripping from the goats and formed a stream of milk and honey.'' Ketubah, Ketubot'' 111b The Palestinian village of ''Ibn Ibraq'' ("Son of Ibraq/Barak") was located on the site of the biblical city and its name was seen as a continuation of the name of the ancient site. In 1924, the Jewish agricultural settlement of
Bnei Brak
Bnei Brak or Bene Beraq ( he, בְּנֵי בְּרַק ) is a city located on the central Mediterranean Sea, Mediterranean Israeli coastal plain, coastal plain in Israel, just east of Tel Aviv. A center of Haredi Judaism, Bnei Brak covers an are ...
, which was named for the ancient city, was established to the north. Ibn Ibraq's Arab villagers subsequently renamed it ''al-Khayriyya
Al-Khayriyya ( ar, الخيْريّة) was a Palestinian Arab village located 7.5 kilometers east of Jaffa. It became depopulated in April 1948 as a result of a military assault by the Alexandroni Brigade of the pre-state Israeli forces during the ...
'' to distinguish it from Bnei Brak.Cancik, Hubert, Peter Schäfer and Hermann Lichtenberger (1996), Geschichte-Tradition-Reflexion: Festschrift Für Martin Hengel Zum 70. Geburtstag
'. Mohr Siebeck. . p. 484. Al-Khayriyya was depopulated during a military assault as part of
Operation Hametz
Operation Hametz ( he, מבצע חמץ, ''Mivtza Hametz'') was a Jewish operation towards the end of the British Mandate of Palestine, as part of the 1948 Palestine war. It was launched at the end of April 1948 with the objective of capturing vi ...
during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War
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A large waste transfer station, known as Hiriya
Ariel Sharon Park () is an environmental park along the lines of Ayalon river, in the area between Ben Gurion Airport and Highway 20 (Ayalon Highway). The area is 8.5 square kilometers big, and was intended to be the "green lung" of the southe ...
, was built at the ancient/modern site, now converted into the Ariel Sharon Park
Ariel Sharon Park () is an environmental park along the lines of Ayalon river, in the area between Ben Gurion Airport and Highway 20 (Ayalon Highway). The area is 8.5 square kilometers big, and was intended to be the "green lung" of the southe ...
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References
{{reflist Hebrew Bible cities Arab villages depopulated during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War Talmud places Tribe of Dan