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<div dir="ltr"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Prof. Levine posted the following quote about the Jews who went to Bavel in the time of the Hasmoneans in Areivim 37/102 (I’m replying here in Avodah because the moderators told me my comment is
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<div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"While it seemed like tragedy at the time, these brilliant men, Torah scholars all, immediately established a Jewish infrastructure upon arrival in Babylon.
A dozen years later when the Temple was destroyed, the Jews who were exiled to Babylon found there yeshivas, synagogues, kosher butchers, etc., all the essentials for maintaining a Jewish life. (See Part 23<</span><a href="https://www.simpletoremember.com/articles/a/babylonian_exile/" dir="ltr" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="link" x-apple-data-detectors-result="0" style="color: currentcolor;">https://www.simpletoremember.com/articles/a/babylonian_exile/</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">>)“</span></div>
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<div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Prof. Levine’s question arising from the quote was the following:</span></div>
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<div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> However, I have never heard that the Jews living in Bavel offered any assistance to the
Jews in EY during the 30 years of the fighting. Surely the Jews in Bavel must have become aware of what was going on in EY during this 30 year period. I can only wonder why they did not come to the assistance of the Jews living in EY. Does anyone have
any information about this?”</span></div>
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<div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">I’m not particularly interested in that question. What I do wonder about is the quote. More specifically, I wonder how the person who wrote it knows what
he appears to say are historical facts. I looked at the </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">linked </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">article and the link in that article but I really didn’t find any historical
sources supporting “Torah scholars all, yeshivas, synagogues, kosher butchers.”</span></div>
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<div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Joseph<br>
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