What Remains

In the final years of the Hasmonean rule, when Judea no longer stood as it once had, a quiet fracture began to spread-first in Jerusalem, and then beyond it. Power had shifted. Authority had weakened. And what had once been held in unity was now divided.

Far from the center of power, in the hills and fields of Modi'in, one family chose a different path.

Led by Asaf, son of Shlomo, they did not wait for events to reach them. They saw what was coming. Not only the rise of Rome, but the collapse...