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Shirah:
All that would ever be

Had already been written
before it happened.

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My name is flavius josephus.

Rome has ordered that
you tell me your story.

You will remain
my prisoners

Until you've told me what
really happened in masada.

So tell me the truth.

Tell me your story.

And do not,
on any account,

Ever waste my time.

All that interests me

Is the truth.

Your lives

Depend upon it.

So...

Let us begin.

You may sit.

You.

Start.

My name is shirah.

I was born in
alexandria, in egypt.

Your parents?

My mother was sent
from jerusalem

And trained as a holy woman.

I never knew
my father.

A holy woman?

She was a kedeshah.

Outlawed by the temple.

Some call them

Whores.

They feared the power
of women like my mother.

She taught me all there was
to know of this world.

And the world to come.

She knew she would not survive.

Before she sent me away,

She gave me these amulets.

I never saw her again.

And what of your story?
That is why you are here.

It was in the city of jerusalem
that my fate awaited me.

Everywhere I walked,

My fate walked with me...

Sewn to my feet.

(sheep bleating,
indistinct chatter)

My mother sent me to jerusalem

Because she thought
I would be safe there.

I stayed with
a distant cousin of hers

And took care of his children:

A boy named amram

And a girl named yael.

Yael:
My name is yael.

My mother died as I was born.

I was taken
from her womb,

Cut out with
a sharp knife.

I could hear my father's
roar of grief.

They say that a child

Born of a dead woman, like you,

Is touched by
the angel of death.

No one wants you.

Well, surely your father
wanted you.

What was his name?

Joseph bar elhanan.

My birth stole
my mother from him.

He never let me forget.

He hated me.

So who looked after you?

No one.

Not until a young
servant girl

Came from alexandria.

She was a nursemaid,
but to me, she was a mother.

(humming quietly)

Master, yael is hungry.

Get her out of my sight.

Come with me, little one.

Let's get some food.

Amram, mm.

You're beautiful.

You're like
a little angel.

(laughs)

Do you want me
to sing you a song?

Hmm?

♪ sh'ma yis'ra'eil

♪ adonai eloheinu

♪ adonai echad

♪ barukh sheim k'vod

♪ sheim k'vod malkhuto

♪ l'olam va'ed.

Can you hum it
with me, yael?

(both humming)

Eleazar, my love.

(laughs)

What will your
family say?

Your wife--
she will never accept it.

Eleazar,

I could never share you
with anyone else.

My true wife.

(laughing)

♪

Joseph:
Zonah!

I hired a nursemaid
to take care of my child,

Not a whore who gets
herself pregnant

By a married man!
Out!

Out!
No!

I must talk
to the child.

You cannot
deny me that.

I saved this for you.

Yael, listen to me.

Faith willing,

One day, we shall
see each other again.

Out.

Ow.

Josephus:
So...

You seduced
a married man,

Eleazar ben ya'ir.

That's a grave transgression.

What was the judgment
of the elders?

They cast me out
of jerusalem

And sent me to
the desert to die.

Such is the penalty

For adultery.

His wife deserved justice.

Do you agree with that?

So was it your fate that
you would have eleazar's baby

All alone out there
in the wilderness?

No.

That was my choice.

So...

With shirah gone,
who then was your protector?

Your brother.

His name was amram.

Ah, he must have been
your father's favorite.

Did you resent him
for that?

Amram was brave and beautiful

And gentle.

Yes, but he became

An assassin, like your father,

A sicarii.

I was afraid he would be killed.

"I cannot renounce our faith,
ya-ya," he said.

I admired him for that.

Ya-ya?

His pet name for me.

So, just a gentle boy who burned

For justice.

We know
how this all began.

The romans came to judea,
spreading a tide of blood.

They command the jews
to bow down before the emperor.

But you refused.

Jews bow down only to adonai,
the creator.

Your father
and your brother belonged

To a secret group,
the sicarii.

They were craftsmen in death.

Cruel and ruthless.

They killed men
like leaves,

So many they could not
be counted.

Oh, they were counted,
all right.

You can be sure
of that.

Rome counted every one of them.

Rome desired our holy land.

It was a fire
that could not be quenched.

They wanted all we had--

Our land and our humanity.

They defile our city.

We shall make them pay.

Freedom or death.

Be careful, amram.

Don't worry about
me, little sister.

I'm invisible.

Ben simon, hurry.

(crowd chattering)

♪

(crowd clamoring)

(yells)

(yells)

(yells)

Uri: Amram, let's
get out of here!

Let's go!

Run!

General,
you're bleeding.

These dogs will pay.

Assemble all the men!

I will wipe them out of judea
once and for all.

(breathing anxiously)

(thunder rumbling)

(growling)

(roars)

(lion roars, yael screams)

Ya-ya, they're after me.

I have to leave
so you'll be safe.

I came to say
good-bye.

Where are you going?

It's a fortress in the desert
where our people are hiding.

Here.

This is for you.

I-I don't deserve such
a beautiful thing.

Ya-ya, there are worms

That spend their entire lifetime
spinning such threads,

And now you refuse
to honor their destiny?

No worm made this.

I will think of you
every time I wear it.

But wait, wait, wait.

Take this.

Solomon slaying
the demon.

It will protect you.

Ya-ya,

I'm not afraid of death.

Amram, we have to go.
Hurry.

We'll meet each other again,

I promise.

I'm sorry I have to leave you
alone with father.

(chuckles)

Tell him?
Mm-hmm.

Amram was fighting
for his faith.

Of course he was.

But what about the father and
the sister that he left behind?

He saves himself,
but he leaves you

To the clutches of rome.

It was not how you describe.

He thought, by leaving,
he would turn them away from us.

There's nothing I admire more

Than selfless idealism
in the face

Of overwhelming odds.

I, lucius flavius silva,
governor of judea,

By decree of imperium romanum,

Do declare all jews expelled
from the city of jerusalem.

(crowd clamoring)

Their places of worship
will be ground to dust.

Their homes will be
burned to ashes,

Their wives and children
taken as slaves.

(woman screaming)

Let any jew who dares
to resist the power of rome...

...Pay the price in blood.

Judea will be destroyed.

Judea delenda est!

(crowd cheering)

They were killing all the jews.

We fled into the desert.

(women screaming)

Come on!

Hurry!

Come on.

(crowd clamoring)

Go! Don't look back!

Come on!

Come on, move! Follow me!

Let's go!

(baby crying)

Ben simon?

My love, will
you help her?

No.

Don't tire yourself.

She can carry it.

Josephus:
What about you?

Where were you when

Jerusalem was burning?

A woman all alone
in the desert

With a newborn baby,
what then?

Sa'adallos found us.

Sa'adallos.

That is a moabite's name.

The land of ruth.

He was from moab, yes.

Man of wealth.

Strong.

I had nothing.

Only my mother's spell box.

He saved us.

Did sa'adallos realize
that your tattoos marked you

As a prostitute?

(chuckles)

He didn't care.

My god was not his god.

I took him as my husband.

And he took aziza as his child.

Josephus:
So, the witch of moab--

That's where
your nickname

Comes from.

Now, this man who takes pity
on you in the desert--

Was he a good husband?

Shirah:
He gave me another child.

Beautiful boy
by the name of adir.

Josephus:
A son.

But... Was he a good husband?

Did you love him?

I was grateful.

Well, that's not the
same thing, is it?

The heart wants more.

Shirah: We journeyed far
into the land of moab.

We settled
in sa'adallos' village.

Eleazar and I
never lost contact.

With our doves,
we sent messages

Of our love.

And it remained alive.

(dove cooing)

(whispers):
Go find him.

Go find eleazar.

(horses neighing, men shouting)

Immah! Immah!

They're back! Come!

(horses neighing)

Adir!
Aziza!

My son!
My heart!

Are you all right?

Ran into some roman scouts.

Aziza did well.

He killed two.

Father killed many more.

(laughs)

Are you all right?

Fine, immah.

Whose blood is this?

It's not mine.

Sa'adallos:
Come on, boys.

Let's go eat.

Tomorrow we move south,
back into the mountains,

Away from the romans.

We're leagues away

Shirah, they're killing
everyone in their path.

Not just the jews,

But everybody.

We have no choice.
We have to leave.

We'll go on ahead
to make sure the way is safe.

I'll be back at daybreak
to get you all.

(horse neighs)

(cooing)

(laughs)

"my true wife."

Where are we
going, immah?

Shh.

Be quiet.

Go fetch your brother.

So you left.

When everyone was running
away from judea,

You ran towards it.

Yes.

We rode all the way
to the salt sea.

There I asked a boatman
to take us across to judea.

We were going to masada,
where the love of my life,

Eleazar ben ya'ir,
was waiting for me.

We were going home.

The tenth legion was scouring
the desert for jews.

How did you and your father
survive alone?

We weren't alone.

We were with ben simon.

And his wife sia.

This ben simon--
did you know him from jerusalem?

I only knew what I had heard.

Like my father,
he was a sicarii.

Someone my brother admired.

He had the eyes of a lion.

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(panting, grunting)

(chuckling)

We've come from jerusalem...

To here.

If we take the route
along the salt sea,

We have a chance
of finding masada.

This is the fortress
where amram is hiding?

Yes.

But this way's
the route of the doomed.

They say it's so hot,
birds can't fly.

True.

But we'll avoid
the roman scouts.

It's our only hope.

Your hair is
so beautiful.

It's like a flame.

Boys must tell
you all the time.

No.

No boyfriend?

Never.

They don't see me. No one does.

Well, then they are blind.

I'm so glad to have
you here beside me.

Mm.

It's like having a sister.

No!

Don't hurt
yourself, yael.

Why are you
doing that?

It's to mark off
the days.

Our people are not allowed
to injure ourselves.

The lord commanded
us in the fourth...

It's all right, I don't feel it.

I feel I can trust you.

Of course.

My husband never told
me he killed people.

I wasn't supposed
to know.

But he made me clean
the blood off his knives.

Human blood.

Yael, I'm so afraid god
will punish me for it.

God won't punish you.

You did

As your husband demanded.

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(thunder rumbling)

(growling)

(roars)

(gasps)

♪

♪

You don't fear things
like other women.

Where did you get that?

It's the mark of a lion.

The romans devised a test
for choosing gladiators.

They locked ten of us
in a cage with a lion.

He killed all the others.

God protected me.

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I ask nothing of you...

Except silence.

♪

(panting)

(moans)

♪

Josephus:
You were a small group,

Alone in the desert.

How did you survive?

What is brutal survives.

What is cunning lives.

We were people
going backward,

Barbarians.

We broke every law
it was possible to break.

One broken law
led to another.

Hmm. You didn't care

That ben simon showed
no respect for you

Or his wife?

I had become fierce
in the desert.

I felt a savagery

Inside me,

Willing to do anything
to get what I wanted.

But you knew it was wrong.

I was bewitched.

Ben simon saw me.

No one else had.

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Don't touch me.

I can't walk anymore.

We're here.

She's not sleeping here.

Get out.

Yael: I was under the spell
of ben simon.

But sia's rejection
made me feel impure.

I looked for water
to clean myself.

But all I found was mud.

I streaked my skin with it as
I had seen the nomad women do.

They did it to keep
their men away.

But I knew I couldn't resist
the lion's call for long.

(footsteps approaching)

♪

I was a woman of the desert.

Wild.

And he was the lion
I always knew would take me.

Marcus.

Marcus!

If I catch you
stopping again,

You won't have
any hands to write with.

Now, where were we?

He told me I was beautiful,

And I believed him.

Of course you did.

I shouldn't be here.

Josephus:
Ben simon was married.

That didn't trouble
your conscience?

And you, also,

Were with a man who
didn't belong to you--

How long are you going
to drag this out?

Until I get the full story.

The one that makes
the romans happy

Or the true one?

Sit down.

Now.

Shirah.

Your story.

So...

You're by the salt sea
with your children, waiting.

What are we
waiting for?

Take off your garments.

Why?

You heard me.

Now take them off.

(sniffles)

Now put this on.

These are
girl's clothes.

(chuckles)

I'm a warrior,
I'm not wearing this.

One day I will tell you
why I made you live as a boy.

You have to trust me
and do as I say.

But I don't want to.

Immah!

I spent my whole life as a boy.

How can I be a girl?

You have to be clever.

You have to watch
and you have to listen.

That's what a woman does.

And at all costs,
avoid love.

I have seen your fate, aziza.

Child...

...Arms up.

(sniffles)

You are born today.

(sniffles)

Blessed are you, god,
lord of the universe,

Who has kept me alive
and sustained me

And made me arrive at this day.

♪ baruch atah adonai

♪ eloheinu melech ha'olem

♪ shehecheyanu

♪ v'kiyimanu

♪ v'higiyanu

♪ lazman hazeh.

(sobbing quietly)

Josephus:
So, your son is now a daughter.

You're on the shores
of the salt sea

With your two children,
aziza and adir.

Men came.

They were sent
by eleazar

To take us to masada.

Masada.

Were you out of
your mind, woman?

You took your children

Straight into the path
of the roman army?

The same army
that vowed to obliterate

Every last jew in judea.

Yael:
She followed

Her heart.

Heart. I don't understand heart.

I understand head. This!

What you think with.

Hear this,
witch of moab:

If I had followed

My heart, I wouldn't be
in this room today.

I would be dead.

My throat slit like a rooster.

♪

(labored breathing)

Adonai...

Take me, not her.

She deserves to live.

Yael.

Ben simon:
Yael.

Will you take care of him
when I die, yael?

Promise me you will.

Yes, of course you will.

Thank you.

So kind, yael.

My little sister.

Can we go home now, my love?

(crying softly)

I will make
her better.

I know a way.
There is a flower in the desert

That cures the fever.
Are you sure?

Can you get it?

Yes.

Yes, yes, I will go right now.

I swear I can
do it, I swear.

Yael: I...
Ben simon: A woman alone

In the desert is like
a bird in a snare.

Be careful.

Thank you, yael.

Thank you.

Go.

Save her, and maybe
god will forgive you.

I climbed down the mountain
and onto the desert floor,

And I ran as fast as I could,
searching everywhere.

I tore strips of my blue scarf
and tied them to the bushes

So I could find my way back.

You just wanted
to please ben simon?

No.

I wanted to save sia.

Oh, yael.

Yael.

You just wanted

Your lion all to yourself.

I wanted sia to live.

I knew ben simon loved his wife.

(animal shrieks in distance)

Josephus: So you're telling me
you wanted to save her

And you would risk your life

If necessary?

I knew there was a flower.

(panting):
Ben simon.

Ben simon.

(coughing)

Ben simon.

Ben simon.

Ben simon?

Ben simon.

Ben simon.

Ben sim... Ben si...

(crying)

It's your fault.

This is god's punishment.

I hear his heart.

It still beats. I...

But I fear...
I fear...

He is... Ben simon...

Ben sim... Ben simon...

Did you think he would be yours?

(gasps)

(gasping)

(crying)

My father had to bury them.

I couldn't do it.

I couldn't eat or drink
for seven days.

My father had always
told me I was nothing.

And that was what I had become.

What did you expect?

Please, go on.

The wind had carried
a shred of my blue scarf.

That was how they found us.

Jonathan and uri,
friends of my brother's.

They would take us to masada.

It was like a dream.

It was everything
they had said,

But all the more brilliant.

So near to the sky,

We could hear
the voice of adonai.

He had saved us...

...And delivered us to masada.

(crowd chattering)

(laughter)

Perfect, great.

Ya-ya! Ya-ya!

Ya-ya!
Amram!

Oh! It's so good to see you.

Father!
My son!

(both laugh)

It took so long to find you.

We're one of the last
holdouts in judea.

The romans are destroying
our people everywhere.

That's eleazar ben ya'ir,

Our leader.

It's an honor
to follow him.

He's not afraid
of the angel of death,

And he'll be no man's slave.

And that's your new home.

First show me
to the warriors' barracks.

You've been assigned
to take care of our weaponry.

What?

Father, this is war.

Am I a toothless old woman?!

My own son betrays me, huh?

I'll take care of him.

It's so good to see you.

And you.

(sighs, laughs)

Father!

Shirah:
She didn't realize it was me.

But my heart was
full when I saw her.

Josephus:
You must have been surprised.

This was yael, the child
that you left behind.

I had loved her
like my own.

I couldn't believe
it was her.

Destiny had brought
her back to me.

It's not a bad house.

It's bad enough
I have to eat your food.

(door opens, closes)

♪

♪

(doves cooing)

I was told
to come here.

Yes, my mother sent for you.

You are yael.

Our new dove keeper.

I'm aziza.

Come in.

My mother was right
to choose you.

You have a way
with birds.

I wonder how a lioness
will manage in a dovecote.

Can you put away your teeth
and your claws?

Hardly a lioness.

You're not too good to
use a shovel, are you?

Even a lioness

Has to work.

Here.

Put these on.

Thank you.

Shirah:
That's good, yael.

You put the droppings
in the basket,

And then we use them
to fertilize the fields.

Do you have
family here with you?

Just my father
and brother amram.

Amram's your brother?

You know him?
Yes.

Everybody does.

He's a great warrior.

(groans)

Are you all right?

You've been
in the desert a long time.

You're weak.

No, I'm fine.

Go home and rest.

Do as she says.

My mother knows
these things.

Was any thought given to rome
at this point?

They'd already wiped out
every village and town in judea.

You think they'd just
forget about masada

And go away?

We felt safe in masada.

(laughs)

I remember when flavius
silva came to rome.

He paraded

His slashed face for all to see,

And I knew then
that judea was doomed.

It was personal.

Oh.

It's always personal.

Did you think he would forget
your brother's face, yael?

No, not for a moment.

He was gonna make
every last jew

Pay for that.

They all had
your brother's face now.

Shirah:
The romans sent out scouts

To look for jews
hiding in the desert.

Our warriors attacked
their camps.

(grunting)

And when they were successful,

They took everything
they could.

Yael: One of the spoils of war
was the giant of a man with...

With long white hair,

Taken from his land
and made prisoner.

(chuckles)

One destined to become
a slave no doubt.

Shirah:
The slave was ordered

To work with us in the
dovecote and in the fields.

He wasn't chained,

But he wasn't
a free man, either.

We remained hopeful
because our warriors

Often came back victorious
from these raids.

(crowd cheering)

More romans have fallen
into our hands.

What was theirs

Is now ours.

We owe our victory
to courageous warriors

Like amram!

Son of joseph bar elhanan.

But most of all...

...Our victory is
due to our god.

Baruch hashem.

Crowd:
Baruch hashem! Baruch hashem!

Take him to the prison.

Aqua... Aqua...

He asks for water.

I don't speak roman.
Why do you have to treat him

Like that even if he is a roman?

He's not a roman.

They took him
from his homeland.

You're too softhearted,
little sister.

It will get you
into trouble.

Take him.

♪

♪

♪

(doves cooing)

They gave him to us
to do the heavy work.

He's a savage.

Between the three of us,
we'll soon tame him.

(grunts softly)

Do you understand
what we're saying?

Take him to the field.

He'll carry the baskets.

Come.

You were lonely,
you needed someone.

No, that wasn't it.

Was it compassion,
or was it lust?

No.

It was recognition.

I, too, was a
slave from birth.

I knew what it was like

To be invisible.

Do you know
what a slave's worth is?

Two donkeys.

That's not how I see it.

Why are you sick?

I'm not.

(sniffles)

So you do speak our language.

In my land, we have many women
with hair your color.

All the beautiful ones.

Where is your land?

Slave:
In the north.

It's greener
than you can imagine.

The lakes are
lapis blue.

And we have stags that run
faster than leopards.

What is a stag?

It's this.

The sign of my tribe.

Tireless warriors who watch over
their women and flocks.

Shirah:
Yael.

He can never
be one of us.

I suppose you won't
listen to my advice.

I will listen.

And then you will
do as you please.

(chuckles)

Go.

Go.

Penalty for helping
a slave is death.

That didn't concern you?

No.

I was more concerned
for my brother.

Ah, yes.

Your dear brother amram,
the warrior.

They'd been gone for days.

We feared the worst.

I was sure my brother was dead.

But when he returned,

He was carrying a dead warrior,
a childhood friend.

I was grateful
my brother was spared.

But being so close to death
had burned him.

The way steel is fired
in an oven and made harder.

It should have
been me.

He died a
warrior's death.

No, he stepped in front of me
on purpose to save me.

Things happen.

Amram, we cannot understand
god's plan for us.

We can only accept it.

You're with child?

Yes.

Who?

Ben simon.

Ya-ya, he was supposed
to protect you.

He did protect me.

What about father?

You won't turn me
away, will you?

Ya-ya, after all this,
would I abandon you now?

Give me that.

Yet another pregnancy
out of wedlock.

How can I question
the angel of life

Any more than you can question
the angel of death?

It was meant to be.

(gasps)

(whimpering softly)

(knocking on door)

(whimpering):
Shirah?

Yael?

Yael.

What is wrong with you?

Wait.

(sobbing)

Drink.

Drink. Drink.

It is not a cure,
but it will stop the cramping.

(exhales sharply)

Is there anyone who wishes
for this baby to be unborn?

Anyone who
wishes you harm?

Yael:
Her. Her.

She hates me.

A ghost.

She comes here
for a reason.

What did you do to her?

Yael: I took something
that wasn't mine.

I took her husband.

Did you not know, when
you're with someone's husband,

The baby's rightfully
his wife's?

No. No.

This ghost wants to take
your baby with her

To the world-to-come.
No, it is mine, it is mine!

She's sewn herself to you, yael!

Listen to me.

The only way to get rid of her

Is to possess regret for
what you did. Do you?

No. I loved him, I...

Do you want to keep
this child, yes or no?

Yes!

Then do as I say.

Shirah:
Go where no one can find you.

Cut a lock of your hair.

Burn it.

Chew the leaves of regret.

The taste...

Is the bitter taste
of what you did to her.

(sobbing):
Amen.

Amen, selah.

Nih'am hit-sa'ert.

(sobbing):
I'm sorry.

I'm sorry, please...

Please forgive me.

(sobs)

♪

♪

(sighs softly)

(humming)

(door opens)

Was it not enough
to kill your mother?

Now you shame me like this?

Nothing but trouble.

That's all you've ever been.

Zonah!

I am not the only one at fault!

Are you saying I was the cause?

Did my mother
make herself with child?

Did she?

We killed my mother together.

Get out!

Out!

(knocking)

Please.

Please, I...

I have nowhere else to go.

(sighs)

(man imitating a dove)

Did you know that doves
mate for life?

If you separate them,

They always find their way
back to each other.

No matter the danger.

Mmm.

Can you defend yourself,
my little dove?

(laughs)

(laughs)

(baby crying)

♪ baruch atah adonai

♪ eloheinu melech ha'olam

♪ shehecheyanu

♪ v'kiyimanu

♪ v'higiyanu

♪ lazman hazeh.

Her name will be l'viyah.

A lioness.

(sniffles)

She's so beautiful.

Shirah:
Queen of heaven,

Giver of life,

You fought
back the demons

And brought
forth this child.

Yael?

Mm?

My mother
gave me this.

I want you
to have it.

It will bring you good fortune

And keep you
safe from harm.

Thank you.

Shirah:
♪ baruch atah adonai

♪ eloheinu melech ha'olam

Yael (joining in):
♪ shehecheyanu

♪ v'kiyimanu

♪ v'higiyanu

♪ lazman hazeh.

Shirah:
She is a lioness.

(laughing)

Slave: In the winter
in my land,

The snow gets so deep, you
sink to your shoulders.

(laughs):
My brothers...

They lashed branches
onto our boots

So that we could walk
in the snow.

So, once, we were tracking
a stag for a whole week.

And our father
rewarded us...

With a good thrashing for
making our poor mother worried.

(laughs)

This isn't the path
I intended my life to be.

What did you intend?

I intended to find
a woman like you.

You think because
I have red hair

I am like the women
in your land.

You are wrong.

I am not wrong.

I know who you are,

Ya-ya.

I will never raise
a hand to you.

I would...

Protect you with my life.

I think

That you...

Have bewitched me.

No.

♪

Shirah:
I was worried about her

Falling in love
with him.

It was something
that could not be.

Josephus:
They had a connection.

They understood each other.

He reminded me
of a bear I saw

In a marketplace
in jerusalem once.

Chained up and muzzled
and forced to dance.

And your magic
couldn't stop this.

It was too late.

The damage was done.

Slave:
...And the sun,

The sky,

Your mother...

...And I am wynn.

Wynn is a beautiful name.

It means "pale snow."

Do you hear that, l'viyah?

We have foxes
as white as winter,

And then...

Summer comes,
and they change back to red

Right before your eyes.

Red, like your mother's hair.

When you speak, I forget
about the desert

And all that
happened there.

Leave him in your dreams
where he belongs, ya-ya.

Don't wait for
the romans to come.

They will not rest
until every fortress falls.

(door opens)

(doves cooing)

Here. Take this.

Come with me, ya-ya.

And l'viyah.

I'll take you to my homeland,
she'll take my name.

My brothers...
Shh.

Do not tell me
when you are going.

I want to come in one day
and find you gone.

♪

(clatters)

(grunting)

Your escape plan
was weak, but...

Your slave was right.

Rome would be back.

♪

The tenth legion.

They can bring
the entire roman army;

They will never scale
the mountain to reach us.

Masada.

Fools, all of you.

The sicarii,

Your father, your brother,
your eleazar--

All of you to blame.

You drew the romans to you
like bees to honey.

We did not care what price
we had to pay for our freedom.

All the jews had to do
was to pay homage to rome.

And then you were
free to worship

Any god you liked--
20 gods if you wanted--

But no!

In your stubbornness
and your stupidity, you refused

To do the one thing that
would have saved you.

The one thing!

And you brought the full
weight of the roman empire

Down on the whole of judea.

We would never betray our faith.

Oh, you speak of faith.

Faith is in here.

It's what you show
on the outside

That keeps you alive.

You are wrong.

Oh, am I?

You,

An unwed girl, you
bring an innocent child

Into this world of darkness.

And you, witch of moab,

Trapped on this perch
with your children,

From which there
is no deliverance,

And committing
adultery!

How dare you?!

How dare you judge us?

I know who you are.

Joseph

Ben matityahu.

A jew from galilee.

I know your story.

You traded your life
to be a slave to the romans,

To write their glorious
histories, their lies!

You are

But a hollow reed
blowing in the roman wind.

All you did was survive.

We are not so wedded to life

That we will betray our people.

Throw me in a cell

For the rest of my days.

Beat me, starve me, kill me.

Do you think I fear death?!

I'm not like you,

"flavius josephus."

Traitor.

Kill us now,

Jew to jew.

You have the power.

Oh, you think
you're so different from me.

What is the difference
between us?

Because you
survived, too.

You call what
I did treason.

I call it reason.

And history will tell.

And who will tell the
story of masada, hmm?

You or rome?

You tell me,

Jew to jew.

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