Episode 93 The Temple Burns
What happened on the day that flames consumed the locus of Jewish longing?
Supplemental Materials:
- Click here to see Nicolas Poussin’s painting, “The Destruction and Sack of the Temple of Jerusalem.”
- Click here to read Rabbi Soloveichik’s essay on Poussin’s painting, “How Rembrandt Understood the Destruction of Jerusalem (and Poussin Didn’t).”
- Click here to read Rabbi Jonathan Sacks’s essay, “The Lost Masterpiece.”
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