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Envoy From Safed

If successful, he would save his brothers and sisters from certain ruin. If unsuccessful, they shuddered to imagine…
Do not be wicked in your own eyes
— Ethics of the Fathers 2:13
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In Torah, we mirror on earth that which G‑d performs on every plane of reality.

If so, since the Torah prohibits dislocating even a single stone of the Holy Temple in Jerusalem, how could it be that G‑d brought the entire structure to ruins?

For it would certainly be absurd to imagine that the Assyrians or the Romans ha...