Professor Lawrence Schiffman, a noted scholar, details the rich historical significance of the sacred sites of the Western Wall and the Temple Mount in Jerusalem up ... More
Professor Lawrence Schiffman, a noted scholar, details the rich historical significance of the sacred sites of the Western Wall and the Temple Mount in Jerusalem up until their modern day status.
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Jerusalem and the Temple mount are biblical places and must never be given to the Muslims and Arab world. Israel stand up for your holy places and never give up!
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May G-d give the Israeli Government the courage to take back control of the Temple Mount. Give all peaceful non-Jews (including Muslims) access to visit all parts of the Mount. But make no mistake it is part of Jerusalem, which belongs 100% to Israel.
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How sad it is to sense that Israeli tolerance has spawned intolerance as the Temple Mount is carelessly excavated and Jewish history is deliberately destroyed..
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fantastic information and very thorough
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It is possible to be a Christian or practice Judaism and also be a freemason which exposes the worship of a different god and is totally contrary to the Judeo-Christian fundamental belief enshrined in The Shma that G-d is one.
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I am a Christian and a Freemason and I totally agree with the professor. Thank you for teaching me. We all know this Temple was initially Jewish. So do all the millions of Freemasons.
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I am going to begin by recommending a change in the language that Rabbonim and Jewish professionals use when referring to 'Judaism'.
It is important that we appreciate that 'Judaism' is really a misnomer. The Jewish people are an ethnic group, albeit one that people can indeed become a part of by valid halachic conversion. It is disingenuous to refer to this people as a mere Jewish 'religion' because it is a) not something that people can simply profess or not profess and be considered a 'believer'. In almost all areas of halacha, belief is unimportant, or at least secondary to the practical outcome in the world of the act, as the Rabbis in Ethics of our Fathers have taught, 'the essential thing is the deed'.
When we refer to the 'Jewish religion' it goes against the entire Tanya and Torah generally. Never in the Torah are we called a religion; we are called 'b'nei Yisrael' (the children of Israel) 'am Yisrael' (the nation of Israel), or 'Tzion.' This is because Jewish souls intrinsically are 'literally a part of G-d above'.
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This would have been far more captivating if diagrams would have been displayed simultaneously while Professor Schiffman explains the historical landscape of the Temple.
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