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The Second Temple (Hebrew: בֵּית־הַמִּקְדָּשׁ הַשֵּׁנִי Bēṯ hamMīqdāš hašŠēnī, transl. 'Second House of the Sanctum') was the reconstructed Temple in Jerusalem, in use between c. 516 BCE and its destruction in 70 CE. In its last phase it was enhanced by Herod the Great, the result being later called Herod's Temple.
Following a five-month siege, the Romans destroyed the city, including the Second Jewish Temple. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] In April 70 CE, three days before Passover , the Roman army started besieging Jerusalem.
The first Temple, built by King Solomon in approximately 1000 BCE, was destroyed by the Babylonians in 586 BCE. When the Persians conquered the Babylonians almost a century later, they agreed to let the Jewish leaders who had been taken into exile return to the land of Israel where they would rebuild the Temple.
The Second Temple era spanned 420 years, ending with the Romans’ destruction of the Holy Temple in 70 CE. But for much of this period, Judea was under foreign domination.
in the year 70, the Roman legions in Jerusalem smashed through the fortress tower of Antonia into the Holy Temple and set it afire. In the blackened remains of the sanctuary lay more than the ruins of the great Jewish revolt for political independence.
1 Ιαν 2004 · Three times a year — on Passover, Shavuot and Sukkot — every Jew made a piligrimage to the Temple, "to see and be seen by the face of the L-rd G‑d of Israel." The Temple was supposed to last forever; this depended, however, on the Jews' adherence to the Torah and its mitzvot (Divine commandments).
Rabbinic materials, despite their volume and their importance, present only a partial image of ancient Jewish responses to the loss of the Jerusalem Temple. Unfortunately, non-rabbinic Jewish writings from later antiquity (if any existed) have disappeared: the rest of the picture must remain a blank.
