HaMikdash

The Simple Difference.

Popes are chosen by men.

Kohanim were chosen by G-d.

It is time for the Catholic Church to immediately relinquish all Jewish artifacts that they hold in the Vatican including our Holy Temple vessels.

SAVE THE TEMPLE MOUNT!

Urgent Call-Email Campaign to the Orthodox Union:

Stop the desecration of Judaism’s Holiest Site!

Rocks and Firebombs on the Temple Mount

(Source: israelnationalnews.com)

A Prayer Request…

A dear family friend has been battling cancer for a few years.  She had a brain scan on Thursday.  On Friday her doctor called her husband and asked where he was.  He said he was driving home.  The doctor told him to pull over.

The doctor told him that his dear wife has seven tumors in her brain.  The largest is over an inch and a half in diameter and is in the front of the brain.  That is what was causing her to have seizures.  They need to remove it surgically as soon as possible.  And the other will be dealt with using strong doses of radiation.  She has already had a double mastectomy and has been fighting bone cancer.  The family has been living in hell for many years.  It is so serious that her doctor demanded that she drive to the hospital on Shabbos to meet with the brain surgeon.

A little bit about this family:  They are mamesh Tzadikim.  They are Gerim who have devoted their entire lives to Torah and good deeds.  The mom who is suffering with cancer is in her late 40s and a mother to five holy children. 

This past week my wife and I have been dealing with the tragedy of having a miscarriage.  We were 15 weeks in and so far everything was going great.  We went in for a routine checkup and the Dr. couldn’t find a heartbeat.  Within 24 hours my wife was having surgery (a D & C).  Our family was heartbroken.  The family above demanded to make Shabbos for us so my wife could rest.  they receive the bad news about the tumors Friday afternoon AND STILL MADE AND DROPPED OFF FOOD TO OUR HOME!  THEY DIDN’T WANT TO TELL US THE UPSETTING NEWS SO IT WOULDN’T RUIN OUR SHABBOS!  This are the type of people they are.

Please… I beg you… say tehillim and daven for DEVORAH MIRIAM BAS SARAH.  She is a Tzadekis who has suffered so much in the past few years.  She deserves life and health.  She has a wonderful family… I can’t even imagine Chas v’shalom should something happen to her what would become of the family.

I will (bli neder) be fasting, davening saying tehillim for her.  I will (bli neder) be learning the laws of Lashon HaRa and try to be stricter with my midos in her merit.  I am sorry for the babbling but it has been a horrific few days and I am exhausted.

Please add the name DEVORAH MIRIAM BAS SARAH to your shul’s refuah list - email it to other shuls.  Take on something in her merit.  Do chessed.  Give Tzadukah in her name.  

The world would be a much worse place (Chas v’Shalom) without her.  Let’s beg Hashem Yisborach - Ha Rachman - Baal Refuos to heal Devorah Miriam Bas Sarah and give her a long life of health!

Amen

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Mosque places a fatwa on Christmas.

communismkills:

Even wishing someone a merry Christmas is a sin.

ME:  Oh, please.  Not everything about Islam should be distasteful to Westerners.  People are so used to seeing “West” vs. “East” when it comes to religion and values that they forget that both Judaism and Islam are Eastern religions.  “Judeo-Christian” values is a term tossed around by people in the West as if Judaism and Xtianity are in agreement when it comes to faith and are in some way compatible.  Nothing could be further from the truth.

There is a great Simpsons episode where Lisa questions why Krusty the Clown would do a X-Mas special.  Bart replies: “Christmas is a time when people of all religions come together to worship Jesus Christ.”  Sadly, this is the perception in most of America.

X-mas is a very “in your face” holiday.  We are bombarded with it for months whether we like it or not.  And while there is no “war on X-mas,” Christians need to be aware that not everyone celebrates it and for some of us, it is forbidden.

In fact, X-mas goes AGAINST the very core of both Judaism and Islam which hold that the worship of Jesus is idolatry.  So the fact that a Sheikh or Imam would issue a religious ruling that X-mas is forbidden is not only not shocking, but expected.  Jews are forbidden to even say “Jesus” let alone have anything to do with X-mas.

Judaism and Islam are very much on the same page when it comes to Paganism, idolatry and Xtianity.  I am sorry if Xtians find that offensive.  It’s the truth.  I for one, respect and applaud this man for this ruling.  He doesn’t want a forbidden element from another religion seeping into his monotheistic faith.  I agree.

Jews and Muslims are worlds apart when it comes to politics, Zionism, Israel, Jewish holy sites and many other issues.  When it comes to monotheism and worshiping only one G-d, we are nearly identical.

Jerusalem Official Complains of Temple Mount Discrimination

A Jerusalem city council member tells Arutz Sheva of his humiliation and discrimination against Jews at the Temple Mount.

Jerusalem city council member Yair Gabai told Arutz Sheva of his first-hand humiliation and of discrimination against Jews, especially those who are religious, trying to visit the Temple Mount. He said he has asked Public Security Minister Yitzchak Aharonovitch to order equal treatment for Jews and Arabs but doubts any action will be taken, at least not before next month’s elections.

“The only group of people prohibited from the Temple Mount are Jews, even though it is our holiest place and holier to us than to any other people,” he said.

Immediately after he arrived, Gabai said he experienced the discrimination against religious Jews like himself.

“We were interrogated with questions such as where we were going, why we came and what we intended to do on the Temple Mount, questions that non-observant Jews are not asked.”

Gabai said that if the interrogation was for security issues, he would not have complaints, “but these kind of questions are unacceptable. He added, “Special police were needed, not to protect us from Arabs but rather to make sure we would not utter even one verse of prayer,” which the Muslim authorities on the Temple Mount forbid, not allowing freedom of religion to Jews.

Police were particularly aggressive in their attitude, according to Gabai. He said they remove anyone who even appears to be praying from the Temple Mount.

In addition, on the day he visited, Jews were restricted from ascending the Temple Mount except for one hour.

Due to the extensive interrogation, he said little time remained to actually be on the Temple Mount.

On the other hand, Arabs are given free entry, he added.

(Source: israelnationalnews.com)

Likud’s Feiglin Visits Har HaBayis to Thank HKBH for Victory

The leader of the Likud’s Manhigut Yehudit faction, Moshe Feiglin finally landed a realistic slot ahead of the general elections for the 19th Knesset.

On Monday, Feiglin visited Har HaBayis, as is his custom to do every month, accompanied by many supporters. He began the visit with a dvar Torah, and he told those accompanying him he wished to thank Hashem for the victory in the party’s primary elections.

He concluded with a tefilla, to oust the “Muslim robbers” from the holy site and return them to their lands as the construction get underway for the Beis HaMikdosh.

The group began singing עוד ישמע when they realized a chosson on his wedding day was among the visitors to the area. Also addressing the group was Rabbi Yisrael Ariel, who shared his story with the group, speaking about 45 years earlier when he served in the IDF and was saved on 19 Kislev after Arabs attacked his group in the Jordan Valley. He made the bracha שעשה לי נס and the group responded אמן.

A Public Water Reservoir Dating to Bayis Rishon Next to Kosel

According to Eli Shukron, excavation director on behalf of the Israel Antiquities Authority, “It is now absolutely clear that the Jerusalem’s water consumption during the First Temple period was not solely based on the output of the Gihon Spring, but that it also relied on public reservoirs”

The find was presented to the public on Thursday 19 Elul 5772 in the “City of David Studies” conference that will be held in Jerusalem

A large rock-hewn water reservoir dating to the First Temple period was discovered in the archaeological excavations that are being conducted in the Jerusalem Archaeological Garden at the foot of Robinson’s Arch. The excavations at the site are being carried out by the Israel Antiquities Authority, underwritten by the Ir Dovid Foundation and in cooperation with the Nature and Parks Authority.

The impressive reservoir was presented together with other finds from this past year at the 13th annual conference on the “City of David Studies of Ancient Jerusalem”.

The excavation, during the course of which the reservoir was discovered, is part of an archaeological project whereby the entire drainage channel of Jerusalem dating to Bayis Sheini is being exposed. The channel runs north along the City of David spur, from the Siloam Pool to a point beneath Robinson’s Arch. The route of the channel was fixed in the center of the main valley that extends from north to south the length of the ancient city, parallel to Har HaBayis. In his description of Jerusalem in the Second Temple period, Josephus refers to the valley by its Greek name “Tyropoeon”, which scholars believe means “Valley of the Cheese-makers”. Another interpretation identifies the valley with the “Valley of the Decision”, mentioned in the Book of Yoel.

It became apparent while excavating the channel that during the construction of this enormous engineering enterprise its builders had to remove earlier structures that were situated along the route of the channel and “pass through” existing rock-hewn installations that were located along it. An extraordinary installation that was exposed in recent weeks is a large water reservoir treated with several layers of plaster, which probably dates to the Bayis Rishon period.

The reservoir has an approximate capacity of 250 cubic meters and is therefore one of the largest water reservoirs from the Bayis Rishon period to be discovered so far in Jerusalem, and this was presumably a reservoir that was used by the general public.

According to Eli Shukron, the excavation director on behalf of the Israel Antiquities Authority, “While excavating beneath the floor of the drainage channel a small breach in the bedrock was revealed that led us to the large water reservoir. To the best of our knowledge this is the first time that a water reservoir of this kind has been exposed in an archaeological excavation. The exposure of the current reservoir, as well as smaller cisterns that were revealed along the Tyropoeon Valley, unequivocally indicates that Jerusalem’s water consumption in the Bayis Rishon period was not solely based on the output of the Gihon Spring water works, but also on more available water resources such as the one we have just discovered.

According to Dr. Tvika Tsuk, chief archaeologist of the Nature and Parks Authority and an expert on ancient water systems, “The large water reservoir that was exposed, with two other cisterns nearby, is similar in its general shape and in the kind of plaster to the light yellow plaster that characterized the First Temple period and resembles the ancient water system that was previously exposed at Bet Shemesh. In addition, we can see the hand prints of the plasters left behind when they were adding the finishing touches to the plaster walls, just like in the water reservoirs of Tel Be’er Sheva, Tel Arad and Tel Bet Shemesh, which also date to the First Temple period”. Dr. Tsuk says, “Presumably the large water reservoir, which is situated near the Temple Mount, was used for the everyday activities of the Temple Mount itself and also by the pilgrims who went up to the Temple and required water for bathing and drinking”.

The exposure of the impressive water reservoir that lies below Robinson’s Arch joins a series of finds that were uncovered during recent excavations in this region of the city, indicating the existence of a densely built-up quarter that extended across the area west of the Temple Mount and predating the expansion of the Temple Mount. It seems that with the expansion of the Temple Mount compound to the west and the construction of the public buildings and the streets around the Temple Mount at the end of the Second Temple period, the buildings from the First Temple period and early Second Temple period were dismantled in this region and all that remains of them is a series of rock-cut installations, among them the hewn water reservoir.

According to Dr. Yuval Baruch, archaeologist in charge of the Jerusalem Region of the Israel Antiquities Authority, “Upon completion of the excavations along the route of the drainage channel, the IAA will examine possibilities of incorporating the impressive water reservoir in the planned visitors’ path”.

(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)

(Source: theyeshivaworld.com)