And since then, Jews have been forced to roam the earth as a diaspora and live as resident aliens in foreign nations.
That's not true. There's an actual Jewish sovereign state today in the land of Israel. (As much as any modern nation state is sovereign.)
You omitted the continuation of that section in Yoma:
And the doors of the hekhal opened by themselves, until Rabban Yoḥanan ben Zakkai scolded them. He said to it: Hekhal, Hekhal, why do you frighten yourself? I know about you that you will ultimately be destroyed, and Zechariah, son of Ido, has already prophesied concerning you: “Open your doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour your cedars” (Zechariah 11:1)
There is clearly no connection to Jesus. And I'm pretty sure R Yohanan b zakkai had no interest in seeing the temple destroyed.
The Gemara in Sanhedrin 41a sheds light on the "40 years before the temple was destroyed" situation:
And it is taught in a baraita: Forty years before the destruction of the Second Temple, the Sanhedrin was exiled from the Chamber of Hewn Stone and sat in the store near the Temple Mount. And Rabbi Yitzḥak bar Avudimi says: The intent of the statement concerning the relocation of the Sanhedrin is to say that they no longer judged laws of fines. Does it enter your mind to say that they no longer judged laws of fines? It is known that the Sanhedrin would judge laws of fines for hundreds of years after the destruction of the Temple. Rather, he must have said that the Sanhedrin no longer judged cases of capital law. Once the Sanhedrin left the Chamber of Hewn Stone, the court’s power to judge capital cases was nullified.
Basically, Judean society was corrupted to the point where there were too many capital offenders for the judiciary to handle, as the Mishna in Sotah 47a remarks:
From the time when murderers proliferated, the ritual of the heifer whose neck is broken was nullified. From the time when Eliezer ben Dinai, who was also called Teḥina ben Perisha, came, they renamed him: Son of a murderer. (This is an example of a publicly known murderer.)
This corresponds to the time Judea became a Roman province and Rome significantly curtailed the authority of the Sanhedrin. As does the move from chamber of hewn stone to the area known as hanut/store. The relocation of the Sanhedrin wasn't a mundane matter but represented a change in the extent of its authority.
So the sources clearly show no connection between national events and a figure known as Jesus, because it was abundantly clear to the ancients that their traditional belief system was functioning as it was meant to function. Thus my question stands: Jesus is clearly an adhoc instrument for adapting monotheism to the gentile world. In that case, why is he indispensable as a god nonetheless? The design doesn't require him
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That's not true. There's an actual Jewish sovereign state today in the land of Israel. (As much as any modern nation state is sovereign.)
You omitted the continuation of that section in Yoma:
There is clearly no connection to Jesus. And I'm pretty sure R Yohanan b zakkai had no interest in seeing the temple destroyed.
The Gemara in Sanhedrin 41a sheds light on the "40 years before the temple was destroyed" situation:
Basically, Judean society was corrupted to the point where there were too many capital offenders for the judiciary to handle, as the Mishna in Sotah 47a remarks:
This corresponds to the time Judea became a Roman province and Rome significantly curtailed the authority of the Sanhedrin. As does the move from chamber of hewn stone to the area known as hanut/store. The relocation of the Sanhedrin wasn't a mundane matter but represented a change in the extent of its authority.
So the sources clearly show no connection between national events and a figure known as Jesus, because it was abundantly clear to the ancients that their traditional belief system was functioning as it was meant to function. Thus my question stands: Jesus is clearly an adhoc instrument for adapting monotheism to the gentile world. In that case, why is he indispensable as a god nonetheless? The design doesn't require him