Torah Law versus Magian Law

b. Bava Meẓi‘a 30b

220–600

R. Yoḥanan says, “Jerusalem was destroyed only because they adjudicated cases on the basis of Torah law.” Should they rather have adjudicated cases on the basis of magian law?!

Translated by Shai Secunda.

Published in: The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, vol. 2: Emerging Judaism.

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The following text illustrates a rabbinic view that the law of the magi is the perfect opposite of Torah law.

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