Based on Ezra 3:12. Background: King Nebuchadnezzar II had defeated Judea, captured all the people, and brought them back to Babylon. He burned the Temple, and leveled all the land of Judea. Seventy years later, the Persians captured Babylon under Cyrus the Great. In short order, Cyrus signed a decree that the Jews were free to return to Judea - even paying the travel expenses. Many (not everybody) accepted the offer. Though I would imagine that most of the over-70 population chose to remain in Babylon, there were also many who chose to bear the drudgery of returning. Some were old enough to remember the original Temple. Regardless of age, the Jews found the Temple leveled and in ruins. The younger Jews wrote rebuilding plans, but the building plans horrified the people old enough to remember the original Temple with its grandeur and glory. This parody recreates how one senior saw things.