Why the Destruction of the Temple Was Just the Beginning

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I say just tell us that the first base of Midrash, the first temple was destroyed because of the three cardinal sins, murder, immorality, and idolatry. Whereas the second base of Midrash was destroyed because of sinas chinam, baseless hatred. But the Chofetz Chaim explains that if you look through all the stories, the baseless hatred may have existed for a while. The reason why why the base of Midrash was destroyed was because that baseless hatred finally emerged in the form of speech. People were speaking badly about each other. They were speaking badly to each other. And it was speaking badly to each other. And it was that bringing out of this internal hatred that caused the destruction of the temple. And this seems weird because it sounds it sounds like these two things are equal, right? You've got the destruction of the temple because of these three terrible things, and then the destruction of the temple because of loshon hora. Really? And the Chofetz Chaim explains that yeah, you're right. If you were to take one individual case of murder or one individual case of immorality, and compare that to one case of loshon hora,

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1. 0:00I say just tell us that the first base of Midrash, the first temple was destroyed…
2. 0:32speaking badly to each other. And it was that bringing out of this internal hatred that…
3. 1:02compare that to one case of loshon hora, obviously loshon hora is not as bad. But…
4. 1:32actually, if you look at the reality that we're living, that the first base of Midrash…
5. 2:02and the way we're behaving with our mouth, we won't realize that we're piling it on.…

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