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The Truth About the Temple's Destruction

1.2K views · Jul 3, 2026

Rabbi Shlomo Landau

A deeper look into the spiritual causes of the Temple's destruction.

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Where has the [singing and music] base I make the shack? >> I bet you never thought about this incredibly remarkable thing. If you ask any connected Jewish child, teen, or adult why the base I make this was destroyed, why the temple in Jerusalem was raised to the ground, they're going to tell you, "Oh, the first base I make this, the first temple, cuz the Jewish people unfortunately violated three of their three cardinal sins, of a desert we have stone him, idol worship, immorality, murder."

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  1. 0:00Where has the [singing and music] base I make the shack? >> I bet you never…
  2. 0:31immorality, murder." Second base I make this, second temple? They'll tell you because of sin of…
  3. 1:01nothing to do with might. That's how the secular world looks at thing. Religious Jews, everything…
  4. 1:32baseless hatred, let's figure out a way to show unconditional love to our Jewish brothers and…

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