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0:00 How did they burn the Beis HaMikdash, the Holy Temple? The Temple - it is not only that; they said, 'Raze it, raze it, to its very foundation,' no? No, but they burned it - did the fire catch in the stones? Yes, everything was burned. Everything that was there together, everything as a whole, yes. When they said, in the First Temple, 'Raze it, raze it, to its very foundation,' that means, they did not only burn the Temple, they smashed the stones, they broke them, they knocked down the walls, they broke, destroyed, smashed, took, hauled the stones, loaded them onto wagons, took them away, they wanted to destroy, so that nothing would remain.
0:37 They also did not want to leave them even building foundations. Wherever there was a foundation or something of a place, they broke and smashed it. That is why they needed testimony about the place of the altar. - Exactly. Not only was there testimony - it is also in Shemos Rabbah, parashah 2, it is written that the Holy One, blessed be He, does not - the Shechinah does not move from the Wall. What is the reason that the Shechinah... - they say there are several opinions - that there it is a foundation from King David. And perhaps also - not only that, they say that they left it on purpose, so that whoever comes will see what they destroyed.
1:03 So they will see their strength and their might. Look, They opened it - the Romans entered through the northern gate of Jerusalem, through the area of Mamilla, the left side - Millo - that was once called 'Millo'. They ... there, and they had all the tools, they would smash the stones. They broke and smashed and burned - so that is what they burned, that is already - There is this place there in the Old City, something burnt, the Burnt House - have you heard of it? - Yes.
1:30 The Burnt House, there. There are actual arrows there; there is even an arrow there from the time of the Romans - you actually see the arrow stuck there in... and you see real soot and ash that from there they burned everything, so that they could not survive there and settle there. A beautiful question. But I say, the fire that burned... based on what is said in Tractate Yoma, page 9b, that because of baseless hatred the Temple was destroyed.
1:55 That is what burned. The burning here - 'You shall not hate your brother in your heart.' The burning that was in the heart - that is what burned the House of Hashem. That is why a heavenly voice went out and said to him: 'A House that was decreed to be destroyed - you destroyed; A Sanctuary that was decreed to be burned - you burned. A people that was decreed to be exiled - you exiled. You did nothing. All of it I did' - the Holy One, blessed be He. And truly, in fact, he did not burn the Temple.
2:19 Rather, four angels from on high came down from Heaven, at the four corners of the Temple, and they destroyed the Temple. - Is this the Second Temple? - The First Temple, yes. But the Second Temple - the Romans burned it. Rabbi Yochanan says that it was burned on the tenth (of Tammuz). Yes, on the tenth - most of it on the tenth. We go after the calamity, as the Yerushalmi says, that on the 9th of Tammuz was the First Temple. The walls began to be breached - that was on the 9th. Not on the 17th of Tammuz? So why don't we fast also on the 9th?
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2:44 Seemingly, you should fast. We go after the end - the end is the main thing. We must go by the end; the end is what matters, because in the end, the Second Temple - from it there is still no rising again. So we will not remember the First Temple now, because the Second Temple is already included in the First Temple.
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