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posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 05:25am on 2010-07-19

"The consequences of the catastrophe are no mystery, either. In burning the Temple, the Roman legions abruptly ended the 1,000-year career of Judaism as a territorially bound sacrificial cult and launched it on its 2,000-year journey as an ethical code. It was a turning point in the career of the Jews, too, transforming them from a struggling nation into a powerless, scattered Diaspora." -- from "Lessons of Tisha B'Av", The Jewish Daily Forward, 2010-07-14

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