30AD-70AD High Priest’s Lots
The Rabbis taught that forty years prior to the destruction of the Temple the lot did not come up in the [high priest’s] right hand nor did the tongue of scarlet wool become white… (Talmud, Tractate Yoma 39b)
[the Second Jerusalem Temple was destroyed in 70 CE]
This is a summary of the Linked article below:
In the centuries following the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem (70 CE), the Jewish people began writing two versions of Jewish thought, religious history and commentary. One was written in Palestine and became known as the Jerusalem Talmud. The other was written in Babylon and was known as the Babylonian Talmud.
We read in the Jerusalem Talmud:
“Forty years before the destruction of the Temple, the western light went out, the crimson thread remained crimson, and the lot for the Lord always came up in the left hand. They would close the gates of the Temple by night and get up in the morning and find them wide open”
(Jacob Neusner, The Yerushalmi, p.156-157).
A similar passage in the Babylonian Talmud states:
“Our rabbis taught: During the last forty years before the destruction of the Temple the lot [‘For the Lord’] did not come up in the right hand; nor did the crimson-colored strap become white; nor did the western most light shine; and the doors of the Hekel [Temple] would open by themselves” (Soncino version, Yoma 39b).
Link to Talmud 30AD-70AD phenomenom – http://www3.telus.net/public/kstam/en/temple/details/evidence.htm
“and it has further been taught: ‘For forty years before the destruction of the Temple the thread of scarlet never turned white but it remained red.’” (Bavli Rosh Hashanah 31b).
“Forty years before the destruction of the Temple, the western light went out, the crimson thread remained crimson, and the lot for the Lord always came up in the left hand. They would close the gates of the Temple by night and get up in the morning and find them wide open” (from Yoma 6:3 [33b]).
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