Indecisiveness Is Worse than All - By Rabbi YY Jacobson

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introduction to the story that we're going to explore this morning in gemara and messages the year was 66 after the common era or in the hebrew calendar it would be 3 000 gimel tough tough which means 3826 since creation 3826 since creation and the jews of judea of yehuda rebelled against their brutal roman masters in response the roman emperor nero or as he's known in our sources as nero in kaser the caesar nero dispatched an army under the leadership of general vespasian who's known by us as aspasianes to restore order and crush the jewish revolt by the year 68 resistance in the northern part of the province had been eradicated so the romans turned their full attention to the subjugation of judea and jerusalem the same year emperor nero disappeared according to roman history he died by his own hand he committed suicide according to jewish sources he converted to judaism this created a power vacuum in rome in the resulting chaos vespasian who was leading the revolt was declared emperor and he returned to the imperial city of rome his son titus or titus led the remaining army in the assault on jerusalem the roman legion surrounded the city and they began to cloak slowly squeeze out the life of the jewish stronghold by the year 70 the attackers breached the walls of jerusalem and they began a systematic ransacking of the city and the destruction culminated in the burning and the destruction of the basamignas on the ninth day of the hebrew month of on tisha above of that year seventy gimel allah from tough tough at 3830 since creation the fighting was fierce brutal bloody vicious and horrible in victory the romans slaughtered hundreds of thousands some put the number at a million or more hundreds of thousands of those who were

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