Editing Temple in Jerusalem (section)

==In the Talmud==
Seder [[Kodashim]], the fifth order, or division, of the [[Mishnah]] (compiled between 200 and 220 CE), provides detailed descriptions and discussions of the religious laws connected with [[Temple in Jerusalem#Temple services|Temple service]] including the [[korban|sacrifices]], the Temple and its furnishings, as well as [[Kohen|the priests]] who carried out the duties and ceremonies of its service. [[Masekhet|Tractates]] of the order deal with the sacrifices of animals, birds, and [[Gift offering|meal offerings]], the laws of bringing a sacrifice, such as the [[sin offering]] and the [[guilt offering]], and the laws of misappropriation of sacred property. In addition, the order contains a description of the Second Temple ([[Masekhet|tractate]] [[Middot (Talmud)|Middot]]), and a description and rules about the daily sacrifice service in the Temple ([[Masekhet|tractate]] [[Tamid]]).<ref name="Birnbaum">{{cite book |last=Birnbaum |first=Philip |title=A Book of Jewish Concepts |publisher=Hebrew Publishing Company |year=1975 |isbn=088482876X |location=New York, New York |pages=[https://archive.org/details/bookofjewishconc00birn/page/541 541–542] |chapter=Kodashim |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/bookofjewishconc00birn/page/541 |chapter-url-access=registration}}</ref><ref name="Soncino">{{cite book |title=The Babylonian Talmud |publisher=The Soncino Press |others=Singer, M. H. (translator) |year=1948 |editor1-last=Epstein |editor1-first=Isidore |editor-link=Isidore Epstein |volume=5 |location=London |pages=xvii–xxi |chapter=Introduction to Seder Kodashim}}</ref><ref name=EJ>{{cite encyclopedia |last=Arzi |first=Abraham |encyclopedia=Encyclopedia Judaica |volume=10 |pages=1126–1127 |title=Kodashim |year=1978 |edition=1st |publisher=Keter Publishing House Ltd. |location=Jerusalem, Israel}}</ref>

In the [[Babylonian Talmud]], all the tractates have [[Gemara]] – rabbinical commentary and analysis – for all their chapters; some chapters of Tamid, and none on Middot and Kinnim. The [[Jerusalem Talmud]] has no Gemara on any of the tractates of Kodashim.<ref name="Soncino"/><ref name=EJ/>

The Talmud ([[Yoma]] 9b) describes traditional theological reasons for the destruction: "Why was the first Temple destroyed? Because the three cardinal sins were rampant in society: idol worship, licentiousness, and murder… And why then was the second Temple – wherein the society was involved in Torah, commandments and acts of kindness – destroyed? Because gratuitous hatred was rampant in society."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.divreinavon.com/pdf/SinatHinam.pdf |title=Gratuitous Hatred – What is it and Why is it so bad? |access-date=2009-07-23 |archive-date=2011-07-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110710135056/http://www.divreinavon.com/pdf/SinatHinam.pdf |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0008_0_08528.html |title=Hatred |access-date=2014-07-08 |archive-date=2015-04-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402092835/https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0008_0_08528.html |url-status=live}}</ref>{{bsn|date=January 2025}}