The Tanakh is full of stories where the Israelites break with God and a new covenant/promise needs to be made to heal the break.

So something must have happened where the Israelites again broke with God, and it must have been something bad because God allows the Second Temple to be destroyed as a giant sign of divine disfavor, and then another, longer exile.

But then instead of God sending another prophet to save His people, which happens again and again in the Tanakh, He sends no one.
Not one prophet for 2000+ years. Why?
Has Judaism ever gone this long without hearing from God?

>>17782518 (OP)
A friend who is Jewish once told me that the Holocaust was also a sign from God that the Jewish people turned their backs to God. Does that count as hearing from God? Is punishment a form of conversation? Also wasn't there a Rabbi that had a dream where God told him that however the Jewish people interpret the Torah is the correct way and that is why they can do all that stuff like tying strings around light poles in New York City so they can walk around on the sabbath?

Jesus is the answer!

>>17782518 (OP)
Jews are not the protagonists of the story.

You can't expect the gods to constantly pay attention to what amounts to little more than an annoying secondary villain of a culture.

>>17782518 (OP)
Well first of all, the question shouldn't be "why were there no more prophets?" It should be "why did Jews stop believing in new prophets?" Even if you think prophecy is real (it isn't), this is the relevant question, since in the absence of true prophets, Jews could still embrace false ones if they were so inclined, and likewise they could reject true prophets if they didn't believe there could be any.

It seems like in the Second Temple period, when what we know as Judaism was startingt to take shape, religious authorities started to push the idea that prophecy was over and Malachi was the final prophet. This idea mostly stuck and Jews still believe it today despite some Jewish "prophets" cropping up throughout history and having limited success. Why would the authorities do this? Easy, because prophets tended to challenge those authorities. They didn't want new prophets messing with their business, they'd rather say "look, this set of prophets from the past are the only ones you should trust." Though people still got around this by writing new prophecy books and falsely attributing them to ancient figures.

Mohammed, Joseph Smith, David Icke. Prophets just keep coming for those that have eyes to see.