How the Mishnah records destruction, continuity, memory, and the halachic world that followed.
Few of the Tannaim lived while the Second Beis HaMikdash still stood, yet the Mikdash remained present throughout the Mishnah — in remembered ritual, altered practice, mourning, preservation and anticipation.
This series gathers 41 Mishnayos from all six Sedarim and arranges them in four movements: describing the destruction and its fasts; witnessing the changes that followed; identifying mitzvos that ceased or persisted; and tracing the ways the Churban reshaped continuing Jewish practice.
THE LIVED MISHNAH