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Why the goodness left

What drained the goodness from the world?

Rabbi Shimon ben ElazarThe lost taharah took taste and fragrance; the lost maaseros took the grain's richness→ lost taharah: taste and fragrance; lost maaseros: the grain's richness
Yerushalmi: fragrance alone
Maharsha: smell, the most spiritual sense
Besamim at Havdalah
ChachamimLicentiousness and sorcery consumed everything→ immorality and sorcery consumed everything
Sotah 9:13

The Causes of the Decline

סִבּוֹת הַיְרִידָה
רַבִּי שִׁמְעוֹן בֶּן אֶלְעָזָר אוֹמֵר,
הַטָּהֳרָה נָטְלָה אֶת הַטַּעַם וְאֶת הָרֵיחַ.
הַמַּעַשְׂרוֹת נָטְלוּ אֶת שֹׁמֶן הַדָּגָן.
וַחֲכָמִים אוֹמְרִים,
הַזְּנוּת וְהַכְּשָׁפִים כִּלּוּ אֶת הַכֹּל.
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