In the weeks leading up to Tisha b’Av, the mourning of the destruction of the Temple, we took a close look at fundamental rituals and celebrations, once centered in the Temple, that the Rabbis reinvented to provide a promising Jewish future.
Dr. David Kraemer is a professor of Talmud and rabbinics and the Joseph J. and Dora Abbell Librarian at JTS. In the fifth and final part of this series, we discussed the loss of Jerusalem/Zion.