Day 12 - History cont.

Ok. now perhaps I'll actually stay on track with this blogging thing! Lol...

Now back to this history... where was I? Oh yes... here we go! :D

Ok, we were talking about how the temple got destroyed. Now, I have never heard this before this class, but it was sooo interesting to learn! So, when the Romans had control of Jerusalem, they wanted to destroy the temple. To begin their destructive processes, they built a really really big fire on top of the temple. Now fire alone can not destroy those HUGE stone bricks, but what they did do was to make them red hot, and then white hot. Underneath the temple, there was a cistern of water... as the stones became white hot, the water all boiled and turned into steam and pressure! It was like a pressure cooker in there. As soon as the water came in contact with the rocks, they all combined into a huge explosion!! BOOM!

They have even found stones from the temple wall as far as 1/2 mile away from the temple! Now that's a humongous explosion!!! Ahhh!!!

As of that moment, Judaism basically ended. They could no longer use the temple, and almost all of the worship centered around using the temple.

So because Judaism basically ended at that moment, that man that we talked about last history post, Yohannon Borzehite (or however you spell it. Someone please help me!!!!), wanted to do something to preserve Judaism. So he and the council of 71 Sanhedrin came up with "Bloodless Atonement." For bloodless atonement there are four basic pillars; they are PRAYER, FASTING, MITZVOTE (good works), and REPENTANCE. At the point in history, Judaism changed from the Judaism of the Bible to what is called Rabbinic Judaism. It's no longer about God's laws as much as the laws of the Rabbi's. 


In this religion, the Rabbi's say that even if their rulings are not right according to God's word, it's ok because when God gave Moses the 10 Commandments, God was giving them their own authority, and man is just supposed to muddle through life obeying the laws of the Rabbi's. It's a very sad religion now... :( 


Off to lunch, and then class...


Love,
V