{"id":40365,"date":"2015-07-01T10:18:38","date_gmt":"2015-07-01T15:18:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/life\/?p=40365"},"modified":"2015-07-01T10:21:30","modified_gmt":"2015-07-01T15:21:30","slug":"jerusalem-family-finds-2000-year-old-ritual-bath-under-living-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/life\/israel\/jerusalem-family-finds-2000-year-old-ritual-bath-under-living-room\/","title":{"rendered":"Jerusalem Family Finds 2,000-Year-Old Ritual Bath Under Living Room"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/life\/files\/ritualbath-inside.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-post-40365 wp-image-40369 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/life\/files\/ritualbath-inside.jpg\" alt=\"ritualbath-inside\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/life\/files\/ritualbath-inside.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ou.org\/life\/files\/ritualbath-inside-280x158.jpg 280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Home renovation usually entails picking paints, buying furniture, and dealing with contractors. For the Shimshoni family living in Jerusalem\u2019s Ein Kerem neighborhood, it meant calling in archaeologists after stumbling upon a perfectly preserved 2,000-year-old ritual bath under their living room.<\/p>\n<p>Last week the Israel Antiquities Authority finished excavating the subterranean bath, which archaeologist Amit Reem said Wednesday was \u201ca significant find\u201d and may have belonged to a private home in a first century Jewish village.<\/p>\n<p>The ritual bath adheres to Jewish halachic requirements and measures 1.8 meters (5 feet, 11 inches) deep, 3.5 meters long and 2.4 meters wide.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/jerusalem-family-finds-2000-year-old-ritual-bath-under-living-room\/\">Times of Israel<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Home renovation usually entails picking paints, buying furniture, and dealing with contractors. For the Shimshoni family living in Jerusalem\u2019s Ein Kerem neighborhood, it meant calling in archaeologists after stumbling upon a perfectly preserved 2,000-year-old ritual bath under their living room. Last week the Israel Antiquities Authority finished excavating the subterranean bath, which archaeologist Amit Reem<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":730,"featured_media":40371,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cloudinary_featured_overwrite":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-israel","category-news-op-ed"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Jerusalem Family Finds 2,000-Year-Old Ritual Bath Under Living Room - OU Life<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/life\/israel\/jerusalem-family-finds-2000-year-old-ritual-bath-under-living-room\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Jerusalem Family Finds 2,000-Year-Old Ritual Bath Under Living Room - OU Life\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Home renovation usually entails picking paints, buying furniture, and dealing with contractors. 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