On Sinat Chinam, Language, and Bridge-building

As I write this, it is erev Tisha b’Av, the saddest day on the Jewish calendar, on which we commemorate a host of tragedies that have befallen us throughout history, primarily the destructions of both Temples (the first by the Babylonians in 586 BCE and the second by the Romans in 70 CE). Our rabbis teach that the Second Temple was destroyed on account of baseless hatred (Sinat Chinam) between Jews.

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