Baseless hatred

The Talmud (Yoma - Yom Kippur - 9) says that while the First Temple was destroyed for violations of the three cardinal sins (idol worship, forbidden relations and bloodshed), the Second Temple was destroyed due to sinat hinam (baseless hatred). The Talmud says in many places that any generation in which the Temple is not rebuilt is adjudged as if the Temple was destroyed in its time. In his