In the Talmud, Jews in Exile Are Considered Defenseless Before Their Enemies

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception


Daf Yomi: The one protection God granted the Jews was to scatter them, so that no single enemy could destroy them all at once

(Photoillustration Tablet Magazine; center image Dorot Jewish Division, NYPL)

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