October 12, 2011 – Baruch 1

I couldn’t really gather anything from chapter 1 that pertains to it, but the introduction talked about the Jews trying to figure out what to do without their Temple, since it was destroyed.  It was such an iatrical part of their worship and now it was gone and they were exiled.  How were they suppose to continue their worship.  It is a very important question today because modern day Jews do not have a Temple, so they are similarly in exile, and unlike that stint of 70 years, this has gone on for almost 2000 years (70 AD Romans destroyed the Temple that has never been rebuilt).