Great Minds think alike!<br><br>Let's say derech mashal that we are 1,000 years from now. And let's say "has v'shalom" that 65 years after the Holocaust the Arabs destroyed Yad Vashem, too, as part of a ongoing Holocaust denial movement.
<br><br>You COULD say in 1,000 year why mourn only bricks and stones, but you could also realize that it was rubbing salt into a still sore wound.<br><br>KT,<br>RRW<br><br><br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/20/07,
<b class="gmail_sendername">Arie Folger</b> <<a href="mailto:afolger@aishdas.org">afolger@aishdas.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
RRW wrote:<br>> I think the tragedy is self-explanatory. At one time - for a period of 65<br>> years - the ruins of the Temple still stood. It was STILL a common focal<br>> point for all Jews - and one could view the dimensions etc [a limited
<br>> masechss Middos of sort.] Plus it functioned asa matzeiva or a Tziyyun for<br>> the former Mikdsah that stood there<br><br>This theory was suggested in a Jewish Action article a number of years ago.<br><br>--<br>
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