Saturday, March 14, 2020

Why Jerusalem was destroyed

Tradition from Rabbi Yochanan: 

A certain man had a friend named Kamza and an enemy named Bar-Kamza.
Once, having arranged a feast, this man ordered his servant to invite Kamza on the event, but that servant mistakenly invited Bar-Kamza. That mistake was later followed by a rather humiliating scene of the expulsion of Bar-Kamtsa from the feast. Moreover, Bar-Kamtsa, who was specifically disgraced by such action in public, felt being offended even not specifically by the owner of the house, but rather by all Jews:
When I was offended,” Bar-Kamtsa told himself, “the most enlightened people of the city were present, but they did nothing for interceding for me — they were therefore very glad with my humiliation. "
In other words, Bar-Kamtsa considered the main offenders to be the sages who were present at the banquet. In his opinion, if the sages had intervened and tried to explain to the owner the incompetence of his actions, then, perhaps, in the end everything would have turned out differently. However, the sages then preferred to remain silent. And that was a sign of their approval of his definitely undeserved punishment. This was because, Bar-Kamts decided, that they did not see anything terrible in what was happening just before their eyes. So, it wasn't not surprising that Bar-Kamza decided to take revenge on all Jews for his insult. And he did that!
Bar-Kamza informed Caesar about a different case of violation by the Jews of a certain law of sacrifice, the meaning of which for a Jew and a Roman differed significantly. The problem was that a literal observance of the law in that case would trigger a war with the powerful Roman Empire - a war fraught with many disasters, and threats of a national catastrophe. Therefore, deciding what to do, related Rabbi Zkharya actually had to decide what was more important for him - concern for the letter of the Law or the future of all his people. And Rabbi Zharya chose the first.
The Talmud does not say how the sages of that generation reacted to that choice. However, judging by what followed, Rabbi Zkharya managed to convince his colleagues. But in the Talmud it is clearly stated what the wise men who lived after the destruction of the Temple thought about it: “Regarding this, Rabbi Yochanan said: the humility of Rabbi Zharya ben Evkolos led to the destruction of our Temple, the burning of the Sanctuary and the expulsion of the people from their native land.”
That is, according to Rabbi Yochanan, the reason for the destruction of the Temple was the inability of Rabbi Zkharya (and other respected sages of that generation) to correctly assess priorities, determine the main and secondary.

As we have seen, Bar-Kamza was offended by the sages for pretending to see nothing and refused to stand up for an innocently offended person, - and he had the point. That charges the sages of the time. And then it appeared simply impossible to brush aside this serious accusation.

AND THIS STORY HAS MANY PARALLELS WITH MY CASE.

Clever will understand them correctly!


Hint: 
Top British and Swiss authorities, CEOs of Barclays Plc, Bank Of England, FCA, Bank For Internatinal Settlements, BlackRock, Her Majesty The Queen and Royal Family keep not responding to my numerous letters.
Hmm, ....



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