Scientists Say Rain Stopped after Jews Were Dispersed from Israel in 70 A.D.
Rabbi calls it fulfillment of biblical prophecy.
WorldNetDaily reports that scientists, analyzing rings on a stalagmite growing up from the floor of Sorez Cave near Jerusalem, have shown that the climate of the region got drier shortly after the Roman dispersion of the Jews in A.D. 70. (depiction of The Siege and Destruction of Jerusalem, by David Roberts)
According to a book by Rabbi Menachem Kohen of Brooklyn, he believed—with no scientific knowledge—that Holy Land suffered an unprecedented, severe and inexplicable drought that lasted from the first century until the 20th, coinciding with the dispersion of the Jews. It was a prophetic fulfillment, he said, of Deuteronomy 28:23-24.
Kohen saw the cataclysm as a miraculous fulfillment of prophecy found in the book of Deuteronomy—especially chapter 28:23-24.
