Jewish Bar Kochba Revolt
The Jewish revolt led by Bar Kochba in 132 AD was not the work of a single if a single radical revolutionary. It was the inevitable result of years of promises not kept to the Jews, and laws which suppressed the basis of Jews as a nation. To understand the reason for Bar Kochba's Revolt one must go back many years even before the war. Prior to Hadrian, an emperor by the name of Trajan was the ruler of the Roman empire. Due to the rebellion of the Jews in the Diaspora to the east and the west of them, Trajan, in order to keep the Jews in Palestine from rebelling he had to send a great general to be governor of the Jews in Palestine, a general who was well with the harshness in which he treated people. This general's name was Tineius Rufus, he was the general that put down the uprising of the Jews in Parthia. Because of Rufus' reputation of his severity to the Jews, he uprooted any thought of the Jews in Palestine to rebel against Rome at that time. The Jews did not want to rebel anyway. Trajan had promised the Jews that he would rebuild the asenv ,hc, the Jews assumed this also meant The Pagans in Palestine did not want the asen
The second is that a spy from Betar told the Romans a secret way to get into the city. Even if Bar Kochba did not exist a revolt would have still occurred maybe with a different date and a different leader, but a revolt was inescapable. Circumcision, which was the physical difference between them as Jews and, as well as a basic premise of their Jewish beliefs. The rest of the Jews were either sold as slaves, hid in caves, or fled to other countries. "Consequently the Jews saw in Hadrian another Antiochus Epiphanes. It was said that Betar was impenetrable. The Rabbi's objected to this manner of testing Jews. He was the inevitable result of years of suppression. Pretty soon Bar Kochba had overthrown all of Palestine for the Jews. " Hadrian realized that the Jews would never see Rome as a mother country. Also the building of a wall around Jerusalem had begun. He was going to put an alter where the Jews asenv ,hc once stood. He realized that the Jews would always see the Romans as Tyrants.
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