How Jews Replaced the Temple with a Goluseum

The transformation of the Temple Herod had constructed in Jerusalem

into the Roman Colosseum,

motivated Jews to produce in exile a more precious gem

which I will call the goluseum.

Golus: Ashkenazi Hebrew word for exile, as in Babylon they would compile

the Talmud, letting every Jew in

the world beyond Jerusalem – which Romans never managed to defile –

the spirit of the Temple ruin.

The Temple is itself a great translation of the tabernacle they’d built in

the wilderness, and copied by

King Solomon, from the great book of Exodus translated, its fraternal twin,

all of these Temples like Sinai,

where Jews believe that God gave Moses not just Ten Commandments but

the blueprints of their goluseum,

the Talmud, which was never turned into a ruin, and has never shut—-

no Colosseum or museum,

becoming, after Tisha B’Av, more like an ever-flowing fountain

than the Temple Romans burned, turning it

into to a ruin, but also very like that mountain

which can be climbed by learning it.

The ruined Temple funded the great Roman Colosseum,

thanks to the emperors Vespasian and Titus, as we learn

from ghost epigraphy … but Talmud transformed to our goluseum

whose epigraphy, unlike the Temple, does not burn.