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text: Megillah
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  Rabbi Mike Feuer, Jerusalem Anthology
  
  
  Megillah
  
  
  
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  Caesarea and Jerusalem. If someone should say to you:  both of them are in ruins – do not believe it. Both of them are settled – do not believe it.  Caesarea is in ruins and Jerusalem is settled, Jerusalem is in ruins and Caesarea is settled – believe it.   As it says “I shall become full from the destroyed city” (Ezekiel 26:2)  – if this one is full this one is destroyed,   if this one is full, this one is destroyed.  
  R’ Nachman bar Yitzchak learned it from here   “…and one kingdom will become mightier than the other kingdom…” (Genesis 25:23)
  
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  MISHNAH. There is no difference between Shiloh and Jerusalem except that in Shiloh offerings of lesser holiness and the second tithe could be eaten anywhere within sight, while in Jerusalem they had to be eaten within the walls. 
  In both places the offerings of greatest holiness were eaten within the curtains.  After the Shiloh was sanctified, 
  
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  the high places could again become permitted,  but after the sanctification of Jerusalem there can be no such permission. 
      GEMARA. R’ Yitzchak said:  I heard that sacrifices may be offered in the Temple of Onias in our time.  He was of opinion that  the Temple of Onias is not a house of idolatry,  and that the first holiness of Jerusalem was temporary and not for all time, 
  as it is written “For you have not yet come to the resting place or to the inheritance…” (Devarim 12:9) ‘Rest’ means Shiloh and ‘inheritance’ means Jerusalem.  ‘Inheritance’ is connected to ‘rest’ to teach -  just as after the place of rest was destroyed the high places were again permitted, so too after the place of inheritance is destroyed they will be permitted. 
  They said to him:  do you really say so?!  He replied to them:  no. Said Rava:  By God!  He did say it and I learned it from him. 
  Then what is the reason he changed his mind?  Because of the challenge raised by R’ Mari.  R’ Mari brought the following challenge:  after the sanctification of Shiloh high places can again be permitted, but after the sanctification of Jerusalem there can be no such permission.  We further learned:  After they came to Jerusalem, the high places were forbidden, and they were never permitted again, and it was the ‘inheritance’. 
  This is an argument of Tana’im –  R’ Eliezer said:  I have heard that when they were building the sacred palace (heichal) they made curtains for the heichal and for the courtyard,  the difference being that in the heichal they built the walls outside the curtains and in the courtyard they built the walls within the curtains. 
  R’ Yehoshua said:  I have heard that sacrifices may be brought even though there is no House, that one may eat the most holy foods even though there are no curtains, and foods of lesser sanctity and the second tithe may be eaten even though there is no wall,  because the first holiness was conferred on Jerusalem both for the time being and for all time.’