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The Talmud teaches a rule "Uvau Vah Peritzim VeChileluha," that from the very moment enemy soldiers wishing to destroy the Beis HaMikdash entered the Temple precincts, all items belonging to the Temple immediately lost their sanctity. (See Bech 50a, Milchamos on AZ 24b). 1/
This principle holds a deep insight. There is something about an enemy breaching the walls of the Temple citadel, the holy sanctuary serving as a redemptive touchstone of the Jewish People, that, even if nothing further happens, has forever profaned everything inside. 2/
A Temple is meant to be set aside from society – the entire capital city of Jerusalem doesn’t belong to any one tribe, becomes it belongs to all of Israel. It transcends partisan divide. 3/
What takes place there – even as the Second Temple saw debates over how to see the ritual – is done on behalf of and for the ultimate good of the entire Jewish People. And that principle is not to be challenged. 4/
The violent act of penetrating that sacred space, of breaking that veneer of invulnerability and permanence of the Jerusalem Temple, that act itself destroys something precious, and the nation can never return to that original innocence. 5/
And so, reflecting that loss of innocence, a partial destruction of the community represented by that Temple, all Temple sancta lose their holy status. 6/
Clearly the Jewish People and the American People are not identical, and the US Capitol isn’t the Jerusalem Temple. But the deep insight of the rule of Uvau Vah Peritzim VeChileluha holds here as well. 7/
The American People today experienced Uvau Vah Peritzim VeChileluha, saw the desecration of their sacred halls of government. Something of our nation’s unity & commitment to democracy has been forever lost. 8/
This a taste, if but a taste, of what the Churban HaMikdash, what the destruction of the Jerusalem Temple, might have felt like. end/
And here’s the published version: https://twitter.com/zuckiershlomo/status/1347327593649995780
