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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (102883)6/25/2003 5:28:55 PM
From: Ilaine  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
>>A Return to Exile

The destruction of the second Temple was perhaps the great turning point in Jewish history. From the traditional point of view, this is the start of the long period of Galut that would only end with the foundation of the next Jewish state in the twentieth century. It is in relation to this period that one of the great misunderstandings of Jewish history has arisen.

The conventional view is that since this period this period is known as the start of the exile, then was when all Jews were forced to leave their land. Nothing could be further from the truth. The Romans, who defeated the Jews and destroyed the Second Temple, in no way forced the Jews to leave the land. The only ones whom they actually "exiled" were a few of the militant leaders of the revolt who were taken to Rome to meet their deaths; the rest were allowed to stay. Their already very limited control of their own lives and land was, however, reduced still further.

In the aftermath of the defeat, many Jews clearly decided to leave the land - but this was only a more radical escalation of already prevailing trends. Jewish life would continue strong in the land for several more centuries, although the writing was unquestionably clear on the wall. The future of the Jews - at least the near future - would not be in Eretz Yisrael. Rather, for the first time, the centers of Jewish life, qualitatively even more than numerically, would move to the lands of the Galut. <<
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