Tora Yid: First of all, what’s the Makor that a right to Jewish sovereignty ends with Churban Habayis? Ad’raba, we fast Tzom Gedalia to mourn the end of even a slight Jewish sovereignty, which occurred after the Churban. And second, the Rambam points out that one of the things we celebrate on Channukah is the continues Jewish sovereignty for another 100+ years, even though the rulers and governments there were sometimes far from pro-Torah.
