Obviously, I am not. However, there are other issues involved. Even if we received the consent of every Muslim in the world to raze or move the various Mosques from the Temple Mount, we still would not be permitted to rebuild the Holy Temple just yet. Nowadays it is forbidden to enter the precise area where the Holy Temple used to be, because we are all ritually impure. In order for any of us to be able to become ritually pure, we would need the ablutions of the ashes of a red cow administered by a Cohen Priest.
Let us assume we have performed this ritual, and are now pure. Now we need an altar. The next problem is the location of the Altar. The Law is very precise about just where the Holy Altar must be located.
It is forbidden to place the Altar anywhere else. When they built the Second Holy Temple, they had to find reliable witnesses who could testify to the exact spot. Thus, until a prophet we assume that it will probably be Elijah comes and tells us where to build the Altar among many other things we need to know first , we cannot build the Holy Altar. The Persians initially rewarded the Jews for their support by granting them permission to rebuild their temple.
However, Jewish relations with the Persian emperor Khusraw rapidly deteriorated and permission was quickly withdrawn. When the Arabs conquered Jerusalem in and erected the current Dome of the Rock on the site of the old temple, Jewish dreams faded into the eschatological distance. Their temple, most believed, would be rebuilt only after the Messiah came. With the rise of the state of Israel in the midth century, however, the hope of rebuilding the temple has again come to life, at least in the minds of some enthusiasts.
Recent disturbances on the Temple Mount have been caused by increasing Jewish agitation to have Jewish prayers on the Muslim holy site and, ultimately, to establish a permanent Jewish presence there. Surrounded by armed Israeli guards, small groups of activists have recently marched onto the Temple Mount, provoking raucous and sometimes violent reactions from Muslim worshippers who see such acts as an intentional provocation and as the preliminary to full Israeli military occupation of the Temple Mount, the destruction of their shrines and the rebuilding of the Third Temple.
Information on some of these radical Jewish Third Temple movements can be found at templemountfaithful. William Hamblin teaches history at BYU and is the author of several books on premodern history.
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By choosing I Accept , you consent to our use of cookies and other tracking technologies. Print Subscriptions. And the notoriously hardline Likud politician, settler and Knesset member Moshe Feiglin — who believes Israel ought to annex all of the West Bank and Gaza — stepped up the pressure on Binyamin Netanyahu in a speech in New York last week, calling on him to restore Jewish sovereignty over the site.
It would be hard to overstate how dangerous an idea this is. The vast majority of orthodox rabbis have reiterated their opposition to it.
But the settler mentality is now increasingly focusing on what is politically the most explosive site on the planet. If they succeed, a billion Muslims worldwide would go ballistic. Shlomo Ansky got it more or less right about the potential consequences of impure thoughts on Temple Mount. This article is more than 8 years old. Giles Fraser. The settler mentality is now increasingly focusing on what is politically the most explosive site on the planet.
Israeli school children look over Jerusalem and the walled Old City, including the Dome of the Rock and the al-Aqsa mosque.
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