[Avodah] proofs of G-d

[Ben Waxman]

>From: "Richard Wolpoe" <rabbirichwolpoe at gmail.com>
>
>Just because the Gmara shteit geshribben that Rav so-and-so says due to X we
>lost the Mikdash has anything to do with history! It probably was an
>xhortation to better ethics  IMHO it is only our "foolishness" that sees
>what Hazal were saying as imperative to BLAME someone!

If this is what people learn, then they are definitely learning the 
wrong lesson. They blamed themselves, not "someone"; i.e. they blamed 
their own group. Think of it - Hazal could have blamed the Jewish 
Christians, the seculars, the tzzaduqqim, Gnostics, all sort of break 
off groups. But they blamed frum Jews who couldn't control their mouths.

Ben