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Politics, poverty, Torah

Jerusalem Was Destroyed Because People Loved Money and Hated People

According to the Rabbinic source closest to the event, the reason Jerusalem was destroyed the 2nd time was because of the kind of interpersonal hatred that stems from love of money, of profit.

ירושלים בנין הראשון מפני מה חרבה מפני עבודת כוכבים וגלוי עריות ושפיכות דמים שהיו בתוכה. אבל באחרונה מכירין אנו בהן שהן עמלים בתורה וזהירין במעשרות מפני מה גלו מפני שאוהבין את הממון ושונאין איש את רעהו ללמדך שקשה שנאת איש את רעהו לפני המקום ושקלה הכתוב כנגד עבודת כוכבים וגלוי עריות ושפיכות דמים
“Jerusalem, the 1st Building, why was it destroyed? Because of idolatry, incest, and bloodshed, which were in it. But with the latter one, we know about them that they labored in Torah and were careful with tithes. Why were they exiled? Because they loved money and hated each other, to teach you that hatred of one person for the other is serious before the Omnipresent One and Scripture weighed it as equal to idolatry, incest, and bloodshed.”

This is the hatred of people by oil and coal profiteers and the elected officials in their pockets who are literally murdering all life on this planet in order not to reduce their obscene profits.

This is the hatred of people by prison profiteers and the elected officials in their pockets who serve inmates rancid food, don’t install air conditioning, so temperatures soar above 120, who torture them with solitary confinement, and legislate ways to kidnap, incarcerate, torture, and slowly murder more and more poor people in order to turn their bodies into profits.

This is the hatred of people by Europe and the US, who stole and steal immense resources and humans from the global south, impoverishing and murdering myriads in order to hoard profits, and then torture and murder those they have impoverished who come to our doorstep to survive on scraps of that which was stolen from them.

This is the hatred of people by all rich people, whose wealth grew enormously during the pandemic off the deaths and suffering of the many.

This is the hatred of people by Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, all the titans of Hollywood, factory farms, and industry, and the elected officials in their pockets, whose profits soar and multiply while their workers are denied a living wage, the conditions to work safely, go to the bathroom, etc.

This is the hatred of people by the American and Israeli tech and surveillance industries and all who lionize them for their start-up ingenuity, whose work monetizes for the few the lives and bodies of Palestinians, Black people, asylum seekers, and others they brag about terrorizing in their trade shows and deny terrorizing to the public.

Love of money, people, love of money.

Oy, meh haya lanu?!
Oy, what have we become?!

One thought on “Jerusalem Was Destroyed Because People Loved Money and Hated People

  1. Just to tell you the Christian Bible says a similar thing, Jesus was just the last straw according to it, God was already mad, and frankly I expect America is going to face a huge problem too.

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