[Avodah] When was the last korban?

[Richard Wolpoe]

MIcha:
In 130 CE Hadrian had Turnus Rufus plow over Har haBayis. This makes
it onto the list of 5 tragedies of 9 beAv. Why? I mean it's bad, but
is it in the same league as the meraglim, the two churbanos, and the
fall of Beitar (which one roman source claimed was the murder of
580,000 people, aside from the concomitant hopes of immediate
ge'ulah)?

One theory is that the plowing refers to making a pomerium, the furrow
that marks the border of a Roman city -- a symbolic act of turning Y-m
into Aelona Capitolina.

But Chazal refer to Har haBayis.
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I think the tragedy is self-explanatory.  At one time - for a period of 65
years - the ruins of the Temple still stood. It was STILL a common focal
point for all Jews -  and  one could view the dimensions etc [a limited
masechss Middos of sort.]  Plus it functioned asa matzeiva or a Tziyyun for
the former Mikdsah that stood there

Ploughing under the Mikdash meant that all the tangible remains were
destroyed.  Kind of like ploughing a Beis haKevoros and destroying the
collective matzeivos.

But, Hazal may have been even more prescient.  Todays' Islamo-Fascists deny
the very existence of our Holy Temple!  L'havdil no vsisitor to Rome denies
the FORMER glory of the Colliseum etc. even though it is no obviously in
ruins!  The ruins ARE their eidah/matziva to what WAS a glorious Roman
structure. [I mean to say "glorious in THEIR terms not ours!"].  Same for
the Mikdash.  The ruins were a surviving testimony to what WAS glorious to
us and to HKBH  The removal of this souvenir took awy even that last bit of
nostalgic solace

-- 
Kol Tuv- Best Regards,
Rabbi Richard Wolpoe
RabbiRichWolpoe at Gmail.com
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