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IN THE NEWS (AND ALSO ON THE PARSHA)

Arutz-7 News: Tuesday, March 18, 1997

HOLY COW!

The birth of a red heifer (cow) in a farm in the religious youth village of Kfar Hasidim (near Haifa) has excited sectors in the religious community. A delegation of some 25 experts, including Rabbis Yisrael Ariel and Yoseph Elboim, visited the farm last week to examine the six-month old cow, and concluded that it is in fact an acceptable red heifer, according to Torah requirements. However, the cow must be at least two years old before it can be used. Until then, the cow will be carefully watched to ensure that nothing occurs to invalidate its status. According to Biblical law, the cow's ashes are used for purification from certain forms of impurity, and is therefore a prerequisite for the renewal of Holy Temple service.

THE MID-EAST DISPATCH, DAILY NEWS FROM ISRAEL - ISSUE 237 - 16th March 1997

RED HEIFER SIGNALS THIRD TEMPLE

The birth of a red heifer in Israel is being hailed by religious Jews as a sign from God that work can soon begin on building the Third Temple in Jerusalem.

A team of rabbinical experts last week confirmed that the animal, born six months ago on a religious kibbutz near the north Israeli port of Haifa, meets the correct Biblical criteria for a genuine holy cow. According to the Book of Numbers (XIX: 2-7), the animal is needed for an ancient Jewish purification ritual.

"Speak unto the children of Israel that they bring thee a red heifer without spot, wherein is no blemish, and upon which never came yoke," says the fourth book of the Old Testament, also part of Jewish holy scripture, the Torah.

The heifer will be slaughtered and burned, and its ashes made into a liquid paste and used in a ceremony which religious Jews believe they must undergo before they can enter the old Temple site in Jerusalem to start building a new structure.

Since Herod's Temple was destroyed by the Roman emperor Titus in AD 70, no flawless red heifer has been born within the biblical land of Israel, according to rabbinical teaching.

The birth of the animal, to a black-and-white mother and a dun-colored bull, is being hailed as a "miracle" by activists who want to rebuild the Third Temple and prepare the way for the Jewish messiah's entry to Jerusalem.

The faithful will need to wait until the heifer is at least three before it can be used in a ritual sacrifice. That would enable religious Jews to start the new millennium (a Christian event, but still regarded as portentous) in a state of purity.

News of the red heifer's appearance, however, will not be well received by Muslims. The site of the old Jewish temples in the Holy City is now occupied by one of Islam's holiest shrines, the Dome of the Rock. Jewish extremists want to destroy the Dome and the adjoining Al-Aqsa mosque to make way for a new temple. In 1985 a group of Jewish terrorists were jailed in Israel for planning to destroy the Dome with high explosives.

But Jewish activists say they regard it as their divine mission to build a new Temple. "We have been waiting 2,000 years for a sign from God, and now he has provided us with a red heifer," said Yehudah Etzion, the ringleader of the Eighties' plot to blow up the Dome, who was present at last week's inspection of the red heifer at Kfar Hassidim. "There were a couple of little white hairs which worried us, but the rabbis are satisfied that it is the red heifer referred to in the Bible," said Mr Etzion. (SUNDAY TELEGRAPH (London) 3/16)

DAILY NEWS FROM ISRAEL - ISSUE 251 - 21st March 1997

Ok-- this one's not about Parshat Para :-)

SIX JEWS ARRESTED FOR TRYING TO PRAY AT TEMPLE

Police arrested six members of the Hai VeKayyam group who tried to enter the Temple Mount to pray. One of those detained was the son of Yehuda Etzion, described by radio station Kol Israel as "a member of the Jewish terror underground."

(KOL ISRAEL 3/21)

CORRESPONDENCE

R' Tsvi Rogin wrote:

The golus is long.

I read the e mail from E kaufman and your reply.

Unless someone has done some very recent infra red, there is nothing to show m'kom ha Mikdash north of kipas haSela', adaraba, Tuvia Sagiv claims that his infrared shows the opposite.

If you study the topographic maps of Charles Warren, Wilson, etc, you will see that Har hamoriah only extends a little bit north of the raised platform on which the kipas haSela' sits. That is one of the proofs against Asher kaufman and the northern shita. Incidentally, those same maps will show you that the entire t'phillah plaza by the kosel hamaaravi, and the entire kosel at that point is also not on har hamoriah. The valley (R'chov Hagay i.e. valley street) angles in and crosses the wall just a little south of Wilson's arch. The whole southwest corner of the walls of Haram es Shariff is not on har haMoriah.

What stands in the way of rebuilding the Beis Hamikdash is not the will of the people, who in this instance are acting like sheep, but the attitudes of their leaders, the Rabbonim who tell them that it can't be done and the leaders of the so called zionist state who allow the arabs to control it.

If anyone tried to rebuild he would be stopped by so called jewish army and police.

If we had undisturbed access, we could easily find m'kom hamizbeach within a day. If the intention is to build the Mikdash or even just the mizbeach, the tuma' is not a problem.

One of the problems is that the so called religious zionists still accept the usurpation of the clal yisroel by the erev rav.

Tsvi Rogin

Response:

The Galus is indeed too long, and we must work on rebuilding the Beit HaMikdash. Rather than arguing about who to blame, we must actively work to change the situation. In a nation of millions of passive sheep, 100,000 active men on Har HaBayit could make a difference. I invite you to join our ascend Har HaBayit in purity and according to halacha and join our movement, in order to make a real difference in the progress towards rebuilding the Beit HaMikdash. (You can contact me for more information if you are interested.)

R' Tsvi Rogin wrote:

This is still not the full story on bias haMikdash, but rather another observation or insight.

On erev Channukkah, I returned from the Rockefellor Museum library where I had been doing research on m'kom HaMikdash. After walking through the so called moslem quarter (actually a half), I arrived at the Kosel HaMa'aravi for mincha. I saw a rare phenomenon, someone wearing a Litvishe capote with plush lapels. On asking, I was told that this was Rav Lau, the so called chief rabbi. He spoke either before or after Channukah licht. I stayed to hear the beginning of it, and left in disgust. I had spent the day working on binyan haBayis. He spent this time giving lip service to binyan HaBayis. In 1967, the Jews could have built the Bais HaMikdash and no one would have stopped them. The arabs were surprised that the mosques on Har HaBayis weren't destroyed, and probably scornful when the zionist army gave them the keys. Even Goren, who had established t'phillah on Har HaBayis in his book claims that he advised against destroying the mosques. Was the decision to put m'kom Beis Hashem once again under shiltom hagoyim done without consulting the religious authorities, or did those authorities, afraid of the responsibility of deciding to build or not to build, and if so where, avoid that responsibility by saying give it away?

Shortly thereafter, the chief rabbinate and the orthodox rabbinate banned all Jewish aliyah to Har HaBayis because they were unwilling to accept the responsibility of delineating where one may go and where not.

Who is Rabbi Lau to talk about binyan haBayis? Is he part of the solution or part of the problem?

L'da'avoneinu, I think that 1967 was the first time that the Jews had an opportunity to build when they did not pursue it.

In 70 ce, the BHM"K was destroyed. There is considerable evidence that Bar Kochba reinstituted korbonos. (See Reznick) and he may have built the Mikdash (see R'shas, Pesachim 74a.) In 361, the Roman emperor Julian invited the Jews to rebuild the Beis Hamikdash. Agudah/ Art Scroll so called historians downplay the whole thing, but historians writing only 80 years after the event, while there were eye witnesses still alive wrote that the building materials and the place had been prepared, and construction was ready to begin when it was halted, either by a natural (or supernatural) disaster, or because the emperor was asassinated. In any cases the Jews tried. In 611 the Persian Jews entered a military agreement with King Khoshrau which led to the Jews controlling Yerushalayim for three years, from 614-617. There is some evidence that the Jews were makriv Korbonos. Others who don't report this, at least report that htye negotiated with Khoshrau about binyan haBayis.

On none of these three occasions do we hear that anyone asked for a novi. On none of these occasions do we hear that there was a second side that said that we must wait for moshiach (except that they thought that Bar Kochba was moshiach) or that we must wait for it to descend from shomayim. When the opportunity was there, the Yidden tried to build, or at the very least to Makriv. At the time when Bar Kochba was king, they were makriv in the midst of a war to destroy them. In the time of Julian, they were ready to build even though they were totally under the control of the Roman emperor. In the time of Khoshrau (and Bustenai) they wanted to build even though they were subject to the whims of the goyishe king.

In 1967, they had just completed a miraculous war in which they vanquished all of their enemies round about Eretz Yisroel. The whole world stood in awe of Elokei Yisroel and l'havdil 'Am Yisroel. Generous, financially able Jews from Amaleka and elsewhere would gladly have paid for all of the costs of building. With the slightest of prodding, all of the Arabs would have fled the holy land. Instead, the so called zionist state, its religious lackeys, and perhaps even the Rabbonim of B'nei B'raq and Yerushalayim have almost completely rejected the neis that HaShem made for us.

People light Channukah licht, but where are the Chashmonaim of today?

Tsvi Rogin

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