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First Destruction:

They were exiled, dispersed, suppressed, and defeated. The Babylonian exile began. The Jews now understood the truth of the Prophets' warnings; and idolatry disappeared among even the least religious of the people.

The Second Destruction:

The Jews were crushed by the Romans and the long exile began, even for those who remained in the Holy Land. On the other hand, the Second Destruction, as painful and tragic as it was, at least accomplished the disappearance of the impious cliques (as alluded in the parable in the Talmud, Gittin 56b, in which the "barrel of honey" represents the Temple, and the "דרקון" hints to the Sadducees, among others). Once the Temple, and Jerusalem, were razed, the men of power melted away and the internal life of the Jewish communities returned to the aegis of the Torah-sages. Other non-traditional groups such as the Samaritans and the Essenes also now dissociated themselves from the Jewish people.

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