TEMPLE UPDATE: 4.8.17 - Passover Temple Sacrifice Could Be Ready 'Within One Hour' if Necessary

Passover Temple Sacrifice Could Be Ready 'Within One Hour' if Necessary - By Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz - https://www.breakingisraelnews.com/86177/rabbis-agree-today-jewish-people-required-bring-passover-sacrifice/#DipiA1UxXr144tO6.99

 

"Then Moshe called for all the elders of Israel, and said unto them: 'Draw out, and take you lambs according to your families, and kill the passover lamb.'" Exodus 12:21 (The Israel Bible™)

 

Jews are required by the Torah to bring the Passover sacrifice today and failure to do so is one of the worst sins possible, asserted Temple expert Rabbi Chaim Richman in his most controversial video yet. As provocative as this sounds, there is no rabbinic authority that disputes this, and everything stands ready to make this 2,000-year dream of the Jewish people materialize.

 

The strongest argument, notes Rabbi Richman, co-founder and International Director of the Temple Institute, is that the Torah specifically designates this mitzvah (Torah commandment) as being eternal.

 

And ye shall observe this thing for an ordinance to thee and to thy sons for ever. Exodus 12:24

 

There are only two mitzvot for which non-compliance receives the most severe punishment mandated by the Torah, karet (being cut off from the community, or excommunicated): brit milah (circumcision) and the korban Pesach (Passover sacrifice).

 

Despite various issues of Jewish law, such as ritual impurity, lack of a high priest, and lack of an altar, Jews are still required - and able - to bring the sacrifice, the rabbi declares.

 

"Today, under the present circumstances, all this could actually be done," Rabbi Richman concluded. "Let's get serious about fulfilling our eternal obligation."

 

Bringing the Passover Sacrifice

 

Though Rabbi Richman's call for the reinstatement of the official sacrifice may sound extreme, Rabbi Hillel Weiss, spokesman for the nascent Sanhedrin, assured Breaking Israel News that there is no Torah authority that rules otherwise.

 

"I am surprised this subject still comes up," Rabbi Weiss said. "This was settled by Jewish law over one hundred years ago, when it was decided that the requirement still existed."

 

Though non-fulfillment of this important mitzvah bears a harsh punishment, Rabbi Weiss explained that since the Jewish people were being prevented from performing the mitzvah, according to Jewish law, the Jews are exempt.

 

"All of Israel should receive the punishment," Rabbi Weiss said. "But since they are being prevented, against their will, the judgement is not against them."

 

In this case, the sacrifice is stopped by Israel's government. The Jerusalem police recently rejected a petition from the Sanhedrin from holding a reenactment of the Passover sacrifice in Davidson Center, an archeological park adjacent to the Western Wall. The area has no significance to Islam, but police are concerned that this open display of the Temple ceremony will lead to Islamic violence.

 

The man responsible for preparing the Temple Mount for the sacrifice is Yaakov Hayman, head of the Friends of the Temple organization. He stated that everything stands ready to perform the Passover sacrifice.

 

"If the government gave us permission 24 hours in advance, it would be difficult but I am sure we would find a way to make it happen," Hayman told Breaking Israel News. "The main difficulty is that the altar has to be built from the correct stones in the correct place."

 

Hayman noted that the stones for the altar may not be quarried, or shaped by iron instruments.

 

And if thou make Me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stones; for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast profaned it. Exodus 20:21

 

"I am working on a project of gathering together stones and numbering them so they can be assembled immediately, within one hour," Hayman said. "It won't be ready for this year, though. Monday is the day the sacrifice should be brought, and that seems unlikely, but for next year, we certainly need to be prepared."

 

Israel Takes Baby Step Toward Rebuilding Temple? - http://www.prophecynewswatch.com/article.cfm?recent_news_id=1130

 

With June marking the 50th anniversary of Israel's reunification of the capital city of Jerusalem along with the Temple Mount, the Israeli government is considering a proposal to create a new foundation responsible for providing "research, information and advocacy" about the Jewish connection to what many consider the holiest site in all of Judaism - the place where the Temple stood until A.D. 70.

 

The Temple Mount Heritage Foundation was proposed by Culture Minister Miri Regev and Environmental Protection and Jerusalem Minister Ze'ev Elkin, with an annual budget starting at $550,000. It will be based on the government-funded Western Wall Heritage Fund, which administers the site adjacent to the Temple Mount - believed to be the retaining wall for the 35-acre foundation upon which the Temple was built.

 

The project is getting high praise from Israel advocates for rebuilding the Temple.

 

Rabbi Yehuda Glick, a target of an assassination attempt in 2014 for his Temple advocacy, said he welcomed the plan for a Temple Mount Heritage Foundation and has personally lobbied for its creation.

 

"We need to state clearly: The Temple Mount is the foundation of the history of the Jewish people and of the return to the land since the beginning of Zionism," he said.

 

Temple Mount activism has become an increasingly prominent issue in the Israeli political debate, even as Arab Palestinians have sought to deny any connection between the site and the Jewish Temple - in some cases, aided by the United Nations.

 

The foundation proposal makes direct reference to the attacks on the historicity of the Temple Mount.

 

"In recent years the State of Israel has been facing a delegitimization campaign based on a distortion of facts regarding the history, tradition and culture of the Jewish people," reads the explanation of the proposal.

 

"One of the peaks of this trend took place recently with the October 2016 UNESCO decision to attempt to nullify the connection of the Jewish people to the Temple Mount. In light of this trend, the government of Israel sees itself as responsible to prevent this disinformation and distortion of historical truth."

 

The controversial UNESCO resolution used only Muslim names for the Jerusalem Old City holy sites and was harshly critical of Israel for what it termed "provocative abuses that violate the sanctity and integrity" of the area.

 

Lawmakers from both the right and left of the Israeli political spectrum slammed the decision and accused the U.N.'s cultural arm of anti-Semitism. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the decision "absurd," while President Reuven Rivlin called it an "embarrassment" for UNESCO.

 

Today the Temple Mount is administrated by Jordanian Islamic clerical authorities, despite its recapture by Israel in the 1967 Six-Day War.

 

Muslims, however, call it the Noble Sanctuary and believe it is the spot where their prophet, Muhammad, ascended to heaven. Some claim it as the third-holiest site in Islam that houses the Al-Aqsa mosque and Dome of the Rock shrine.

 

Jews and Christians are discouraged by Israeli authorities from praying on the Temple Mount so as not to enflame tensions with Muslims.

 

Recently, Regev unveiled the logo to be used in the upcoming celebrations marking the 50th anniversary of reunification of Jerusalem under Israeli authority. The emblem features an Israeli flag flying atop the Old City walls and the Temple Mount and is accompanied by the slogan: "50 years since the liberation of Jerusalem."

 

Regev said her insistence on using the word "liberation" and not "reunification" in the logo's design sought to counter efforts to distort the Jewish connection to Jerusalem. Regev also stressed that part of the image featured "an Israeli flag that has returned to fly above the old city walls, the Western Wall and the Temple Mount."