WHO HAS THE KEY

Who has the key to changing the degrading status of the Temple Mount?

• The Minister of Education (Fax +972-2-560-2752), who is the chief of the Antiquities Authority and whose responsibility it is to reveal and research the many remnants of the Temple present on the Temple Mount.
• The Minister of Religion, who is required by law to set times for entrance and prayer on the Temple Mount, and who has the authority to decide who will be allowed to enter the Temple Mount and on what days.
• The Minister of Internal Security (Fax +972-2-5847872), who must dictate that on Jewish Holidays the Temple Mount should be open only to Jews, and who must enforce the Law of Antiquities and the Law of Holy Places.
• The Israeli Police, who limit the Jews entering the Temple Mount and thereby are assisting in the Islamification of our Holy Site.
• Last but not least -- you and I -- When we go up to the Temple Mount at every opportunity and see the Temple Mount as the best location to pray, we make it for that moment a Jewish site. Together, we will change the governmental treatment of the location of the Mikdash.

THE KEY IS IN YOUR HANDS AND MINE

The House of our Holiness and our Glory in which our forefathers praised You was cast into the fire, and all our Great Yearning was made barren. The location of the Temple, whose sanctity has never left, has become a place of disgusting and abominable travesties. It has turned into a retainer of abominable walking by the desecration of the location -- foreigners entering and Jews entering not in accordance with halacha.

It would be desirable to think about building a synagogue in a location permissible to enter according to all opinions, in order that the heads of the nation will gather for prayer and supplication, as was in the time of the Rambam.

May the doers and their actions be blessed, and may it be the Divine Will that we see the Beit HaMikdash in its proper location, full built. Amen.

Rav Mordechai Eliyahu, Rishon Letzion and former Chief Rabbi

It is very important these days to visit the Temple Mount, that it should not be abandoned, G-d forbid, in the hands of foreigners. After properly immersing in a mikvah and removing one's shoes, it is permissible to visit the vast majority of the area of the Mount, which is Levitic Camp, except for a small area, which is Divine Camp.

Rav Dov Lior on Arutz 7

FROM THE CUTTING CHAMBER (Lishkat HaGazit)

(Bein HaUlam LaMizbeach, issue 10)

There are several opinions among researchers today regarding the exact location of the Temple:

• The Southern Opinion (Tuvia Sagiv)
• The Northern Opinion (Prof. Asher Kaufman)
• The Western Opinion (HaRav Shlomo Goren, ztl)
• The Central Opinion (Rav Koren)

Those faithful to the branches of Torah do not change the clear ruling of the Radbaz, on which the entire Jewish People has relied on all questions of the Temple and sacrifices. Once the Radbaz has sanctioned the central opinion, it is there, it was there, and it will be there until there is a Prophet in Israel or, alternatively, until another location proven for sure to be the site -- not different versions, not questions, and not estimates.

Therefore, the Rock at the center of the Dome of the Rock is the center of the Holy of Holies, and it is the corner stone to all measurements -- the locations of the inner and outer courtyard, the location of the altar, the "chel", and the entire Mount, which is today three times as large as the original Sanctified Temple Mount. (see Tractate Middot)

G-d willing, when we will be able to dig and reveal our dear coveted glory in the depths of the Mount, we will be able to discuss whether it is the correct place. Until then, a judge can only rule based upon what his eyes see -- the halacha is not in Heaven and not overseas. Since one can execute based on an established status, one should use the established status accordingly, whether regarding the sanctity of the location and the mitzvot of the Mikdash.

One who is stringent and takes into account all possible locations or lengths of the cubit, etc. and thereby turns the Temple Mount into gentile property, causes evil for himself, annuls the words of the Torah, pushes off the End of Days. In a place where there is not sanctity, there is G-d forbid ... In all the land of your inheritance, you shall redeem the land.

IN THE NEWS

YOUNG NRP CALL FOR TEMPLE MOUNT PRAYER

Chaim Falk, chairman of the Young Generation in the National Religious Party, has called upon Religious Affairs Minister Rabbi Yitzchak Levy (NRP) to institute regulations for Jewish prayer on the Temple Mount. Falk said that Rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu, a former Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Israel, recently ruled that there is no Halakhic basis to prevent Jews from praying on the Temple Mount, if they have immersed in a mikveh (ritual bath) and if they are guided by knowledgeable rabbis. Rabbi Eliyahu said that the government should not forcefully prevent Jews from praying at the holy site.

CHAI VEKAYAM MEMBERS CLEARED, PRAY AT TEMPLE MOUNT

Five members of the Chai Vekayam movement were found innocent of all charges against them relating to their attempt to pray at the Temple Mount three years ago. The police had accused them of gathering illegally and disturbing the public peace. The Jerusalem Magistrates Court ruled that the fact that the defendants sat down outside a Temple Mount gate does not represent even the possibility of a disturbance to the public peace. Two Chai Vekayam members prayed at the Temple Mount today, commemorating today's Jewish fast day in memory of the destruction of the Holy Temple. The police would not permit the two men to pray there, but took no action after-the-fact.

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