Part Two
A line drawn across time.
The chachamim saw the churban not only as a catastrophe or a change in law, but as an inflection point in the very order of the world.
The world after
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Before and afterlife before the churban, and the world on the far side of the line
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Reality itself shiftednature impaired, the senses dulled, growth in Torah narrowed
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What can we still hold?at the lowest point, the question that remains
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A world that changed its nature.
Not a list of things that vanished — the chachamim describing a creation that shifted when the Beis HaMikdash fell.