The Newton Code by Liam Fialkov

Author:Liam Fialkov [Fialkov, Liam]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-11-08T22:00:00+00:00

I must have been about nine or ten years old, the oldest of three siblings. I was very young, and I didn’t understand everything, but I know what I saw. I remember that we, the Jews, had rebelled against the mighty Roman Empire. My father said that it was a mistake. He was an expert shoemaker, and my mother was a seamstress. We were poor, but we had our own house in the upper part of Jerusalem, and there was never a shortage of food in our home.

Over four or perhaps five years, the Romans failed to suppress the uprising. But then one morning, we got up and looked outside the city walls, and we saw a huge army. They marched in straight lines as they got closer and closer. I know now that there were about sixty thousand Roman soldiers led by Titus, the Roman Emperor. But back then, I only knew that there were so many of them, marching with their war machines, that I was engulfed by fear, and I knew that only a miracle could save us.

“If only we didn’t waste our resources in internal wars,” I remember my father saying. My father was poor, but he was a wise man, no less than those so-called wise leaders of extreme zealots, fanatic factions who fought against each other.

The Jewish defending force was small, but they were willing to fight till their last drop of blood—which they did. The zealot factions had finally united against a real enemy, but it was too late.

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