Jeremy Rosen
Why the Temple was Destroyed
Summary
The 9th of Av is a significant date in Jewish history, primarily associated with the destruction of the First and Second Temples in Jerusalem. In this lecture, Jeremy Rosen examines from historical, Talmudic, and contemporary perspectives of the 9th of Av. The discussion underscores the historical and moral significance of the date, reflecting on the lessons learned from the destruction of both Temples and the complex political and religious landscape of the time.
Jeremy Rosen
Manchester-born Jeremy Rosen was educated at Cambridge University England and Mir Yeshiva in Jerusalem. He has practiced as an orthodox rabbi, as principal of Carmel College in the UK, and as professor at the Faculty for Comparative Religion in Antwerp, Belgium. He has written and lectured extensively in the UK and the US, where he now resides and was the rabbi of the Persian-Jewish community in Manhattan.
Yes, I gather they did. Before the complete break, in the third century, there were many Jewish Christian churches and they did mourn the destruction of the temple.
The first real persecution came with Bishop Cyril of Alexandria in the second century. He began persecuting Jews because they were the enemy of Christ. And once Constantine made that the religion of the Roman Empire, that’s when it really began to start and get worse, leading to the horrific history of persecution that we know of today.
Well, I don’t think women ever determined the religion. I think it’s certainly a time when the rabbis took the role of women more seriously. Women determined the religion of the Jews because of the womb in a sense. And males determined the tribe you belong to. And that dual system has existed since Bible times.