ConflictThe Middle East
The Second Temple destroyed
Rome crushes the revolt, and Judaism becomes finally a religion of the book
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The Arch of Titus in Rome still shows the victors carrying off the seven-branched lampstand. The rabbi Yohanan ben Zakkai is said to have been permitted to found a school at Yavne, and there the ground of rabbinic Judaism was laid. The western part of the temple platform's retaining wall is all that remains, and is today Judaism's holiest place of prayer.
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After four years of revolt the Romans took Jerusalem and burned the Temple. It was never rebuilt. Without temple and sacrifice, Judaism came to be built around scholars, synagogues and study of the law — as it is today.
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