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• Following the Bar Kokhba Revolt, Jews and Judaism fundamentally changed. Whereas before, Jews, Jerusalem and Judaism were all intimately connected and focused around the keeping of the Law of Moses and the Temple in Jerusalem, after the destruction, Judaism (of necessity) became a more “portable” religion centred around synagogues. Rabbinic Jerusalem prevailed, and the centres of Jewish learning became the Galilee (where enough Jews remained) and the Babylonian Jewish community. Jews were now a dispersed people, and the Jewish diaspora had begun.