The Siege of Mesada

The story of the siege of mesada and its tragic outcome may be entirely new to you, but it looms large in the minds of israelite people. For many, it represents courage and sacrifice in the face of insurmountable odds. Some archaeologists assert that it never even happened at all. But whatever your opinion on it, the deaths of the defenders at mesada marked the beginning a very different kind of siege,. One that would last for two millennia and be waged in nearly every corner of the world. Now millennia have passed since the kingdom of judea was crushed by the romans. The diaspera refers to the mass migration of jews out of their ancestral homeland,