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Is the current location of the City of Bnei Brak on the same spot as where Bnei Brak was during Chazal’s time?
And when was the original city built and destroyed?
And when the current city was built about 100 years ago, how did they know where the original one was located, considering it no longer existed as an inhabited city?
It is not the same city. At the time of the founding of the modern city there was an arab villige named Ibn Ibraq at the site of the ancient city which is now the Hiriya landfill.
shmoel: he/she specifically said it’s not. read carefully…
Either dash is very knowledgeable or he got his information from here.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beneberak
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bnei_Brak
Either way shmoel, does your compouter access restrict google?
shmoel- I think its fair to say that wikipedia is 99% accurate.
shmoel- Care to provide examples?
I agree that Wiki is not a good source. With that said, the Beni Brak referred to in the hagadda text was further south by the modern day Tzomet Messubim, which takes its name from the text of that very paragraph.
There is an opinion that I did see in one hagadda a number of years ago that the bnei brak in the hagadda was not a place but camme from the word “mavrik” shiny – as in the utensils, pots, and whatnot that were on the tables were in a state befitting a yom tov, but I think while nice, that does not seem to be the meaning and I had only seen it in one place.
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