The Third Temple ... are we closer than we think?

As world events spin and turn, we are hearing and reading in the headlines more and more about our Holy Yerushalayim and the Temple Mount. Are we entering a new phase of the End of Days scenario?

Could this be?

LaMikdash proposes: A Third Jewish Temple in Jerusalem including both the (Muslim) Dome of the Rock and the Jewish Beis HaMikdash on Mount Moriah.

Picture shows the main street of Yerushalayim , crushed by the stones of the Temple buildings which were hurled by the Romans during the destruction.

So says Yoav Frankel, "This vision of religious shrines in peaceful proximity can transform the Temple Mount from a place of contention to its original sacred role as a place of worship shared by Jews, Muslims and Christians." "God's Holy Mountain Vision" project hopes to defuse religious strife by showing that Jews' end-of-days vision could harmoniously accommodate Islam [and their vision of their Al Aksa].

Picture shows massive Herodian stones that were pushed off the Temple Mount during the Roman destruction.

Baruch Ben-Yosef, chairman of the Movement to Restore the Temple, made it clear that the Temple had to be built where the Dome of the Rock presently stands. "Anybody who says anything else simply does not know what he is talking about," he said. "A prophet does not have the power to change the law which explicitly states the location of the Temple." "All you need is a Sanhedrin."

While the Chief Rabbinate of Israel and some Rabbis have issued a prohibition to Jews from entering the Temple Mount area due to ritual purity issues. However, several grassroots organizations such as the Movement to Restore the Temple, and maverick rabbis, including Rabbi Israel Ariel, head of the capital's Temple Institute and a leading member of the revived Sanhedrin led by Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz, have called to take steps to renew the sacrifices on the Temple Mount and rebuild the Temple.

Full article at Third Temple ... and the Dome of the Rock

Visit LaMikdash to see some fascinating photos of the area, and listen to an interview with Yoel Keren of LaMikdash, and a fascinating article on Shechitah.

[Interesting, the halacha of Shechitah has been in the news these past few years. Read here a spicy halachic view on eating meat.