Hello <i>chevre</i> and thank you for joining as we continue learning together. And welcome to part three of our series on the <i>churban</i> as seen through the prism of the <i>Mishna</i>.

Part three of our series is going to turn its attention to the <i>mitzvos</i> tied to the existence of the <i>Beis Hamikdash</i>. After describing in part one what we mourn and how we mourn, and in part two describing all the vast changes, the cosmic changes that took place in the world following the destruction of the <i>Beis Hamikdash</i>, we now turn our attention to <i>halacha</i>.

And it turns on a single clarifying question. When the <i>Beis Hamikdash</i> stood, a whole world of <i>mitzvos</i> lived through it.

The <i>korbanos</i> above all, of course, and everything that surrounded them. But with the destruction, that world went silent.

And that silence forces a sorting and an accounting of sorts, which is: which of our <i>mitzvos</i> were bound to the <i>Beis Hamikdash</i> and fell away when it fell, and which ones were never dependent on the <i>Beis Hamikdash</i> at all and go on exactly as before? The question is sharper than it sounds because it asks us to look at our own <i>avoda</i> and see what was borrowed from the <i>Beis Hamikdash</i>'s existence and what was always ours to keep.

The <i>churban</i>, in other words, doesn't only take, but it reveals. It draws a bright line between the <i>mitzvos</i> that needed a standing <i>Beis Hamikdash</i> and the <i>mitzvos</i> that stand on their own, waiting for it to return.

Admittedly, this part of the series is very short, it contains only one <i>mishna</i> because it's the only <i>mishna</i> that really directly talks to this idea, although there will be other <i>mishnayos</i> in part four that will also attempt to discuss this point as well. So take the opportunity as we learn this series, this part of the series, that you listen closely for the line being drawn.

And with that, I wish you continuing <i>hatzlacha</i> in all of your learning. Let's begin.