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And since then, Jews have been forced to roam the earth as a diaspora and live as resident aliens in foreign nations.
That's not true. There's an actual Jewish sovereign state today in the land of Israel. (As much as any modern nation state is sovereign.)
You omitted the continuation of that section in Yoma:
And the doors of the hekhal opened by themselves, until Rabban Yoḥanan ben Zakkai scolded them. He said to it: Hekhal, Hekhal, why do you frighten yourself? I know about you that you will ultimately be destroyed, and Zechariah, son of Ido, has already prophesied concerning you: “Open your doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour your cedars” (Zechariah 11:1)
There is clearly no connection to Jesus. And I'm pretty sure R Yohanan b zakkai had no interest in seeing the temple destroyed.
The Gemara in Sanhedrin 41a sheds light on the "40 years before the temple was destroyed" situation:
And it is taught in a baraita: Forty years before the destruction of the Second Temple, the Sanhedrin was exiled from the Chamber of Hewn Stone and sat in the store near the Temple Mount. And Rabbi Yitzḥak bar Avudimi says: The intent of the statement concerning the relocation of the Sanhedrin is to say that they no longer judged laws of fines. Does it enter your mind to say that they no longer judged laws of fines? It is known that the Sanhedrin would judge laws of fines for hundreds of years after the destruction of the Temple. Rather, he must have said that the Sanhedrin no longer judged cases of capital law. Once the Sanhedrin left the Chamber of Hewn Stone, the court’s power to judge capital cases was nullified.
Basically, Judean society was corrupted to the point where there were too many capital offenders for the judiciary to handle, as the Mishna in Sotah 47a remarks:
From the time when murderers proliferated, the ritual of the heifer whose neck is broken was nullified. From the time when Eliezer ben Dinai, who was also called Teḥina ben Perisha, came, they renamed him: Son of a murderer. (This is an example of a publicly known murderer.)
This corresponds to the time Judea became a Roman province and Rome significantly curtailed the authority of the Sanhedrin. As does the move from chamber of hewn stone to the area known as hanut/store. The relocation of the Sanhedrin wasn't a mundane matter but represented a change in the extent of its authority.
So the sources clearly show no connection between national events and a figure known as Jesus, because it was abundantly clear to the ancients that their traditional belief system was functioning as it was meant to function. Thus my question stands: Jesus is clearly an adhoc instrument for adapting monotheism to the gentile world. In that case, why is he indispensable as a god nonetheless? The design doesn't require him
Hmm, what was the nature of Adam's relationship with jee? Did he take trips to the island? Wasn't Epstein regularly investing in legit enterprises? Research labs, startups etc. Does getting money from Epstein turn you into a sex criminal?
Not in the physical world. And Jesus was a man of flesh and blood. To say that he was God is simply idolatry
The Hebrew Bible makes it clear innumerable times whether explicitly or implicitly that the covenant between God and Israel has relevance for the gentiles and is actually meant to provide the "nations of the world" access to God. "ונברכו בך כל משפחות האדמה" was literally the first message communicated to Abraham. I can bring you similar examples from practically every book of the Pentateuch, prophets and writings if you so desire.
So the concept of an additional covenant revealed hundreds of years after the last prophets were active to deliver such a message is very questionable. Never mind that this covenant was composed in Greek a second or third language at the time for Jews many years after Jesus' life and death. Also, Jesus presented himself as a messiah for the Jews first and foremost. The concept of salvation for gentiles was a later development of Paul and the status of Jesus as the son of God was an even later development. My point is that an indeterminate monotheism without a flesh and blood mediator would be more relevant for the modern Christian. Such a mediator has no basis in the covenants described in the Hebrew Bible and also is more compatible with science and logic.
I'm just trying to understand why Christians insist on Jesus as a mediator when he's clearly not necessary...
China has a shrinking population. That's aging. To claim that it's "winning" anything is delusional. In this game there are no winners. This is a game of hyper consumption fueled by unbridled fiat printing and debt. Not to mention that practically all nation states are implementing the surveillance state model, not the least China...
Yes, seeing "art" "Art" and "ART" for the same category really grinds my gears. Not to mention the absence of any type of standardized hierarchy.
I think the solution to that would be to use dedicated relays (for each marketplace client or a federation of clients) that host products and these kinds of events in their entirety. Unless I'm missing something...
Yup, got to him through his father of "Machinery of Freedom" fame. Seasteading isn't an appealing idea though, but "charter cities" sounds interesting.
Neither do I. Not because I have anything against it - I just have no need for it. I use SN exponentially more than i use nostr (for Bitcoin [and general] news and content) so the zapping I do is limited to SN
Are you willing to give up your life to save the children of those who will thereafter rejoice in your death? Can you answer this simple question which accurately describes the situation in Gaza (and Judea, Samaria and other parts)?
They don't seem happy to you, because you're gullible and believe the theatrics they perform for western media, which is your only source of information on the topic. If you watch Arabic media you'll hear words of praise for their shahid children. And in the cases where they're really sad, it's only because the death of their child didn't result in the death of Jews. Yes, I find genocide revolting thus I find the actions of Hamas, Fatah and all the other "Palestinian" nationalist militant groups to be abhorrent and their supporters in the west to be bottom feeders and low lives. You're not being "decent", you're virtue signalling in the basest possible way
That's a faulty analogy. The correct analogy would be: if the police don't blow up the school, they will be blown up by the guy hiding out in the school. But it doesn't end there: those same children are gladly sacrificed by their families in order for that bad guy to blow up the police. Understand?
It's not obvious at all by the moral symmetry you present between the actions of the IDF and Hamas, Fatah, IJ etc. The minute you equate the IDF and Hamas you've already granted the latter moral legitimacy, which I find revolting.
You don't realize it (or maybe you do but are playing dumb) but to blame Israel for the death of Gazan children is quite literally defending those who are in reality the ones responsible for it (Hamas, Fatah, Islamic Jihad, PFLP etc.). You're the one who's gas lighting and deflecting by deliberately ignoring basic questions that would shed light on your motives...
You like to claim that but in actuality you refuse to condemn Hamas and their collaborators for the very thing you portray yourself to be concerned about...
Hey asshole, You can't even answer two simple questions I posed to you which would demonstrate how flawed the narrative you're trying to present is - and then you go ahead and put words into my mouth to make me look silly. Gtfo
How do you know that that volume isn't just one guy making trades with himself?