Descending from the mountain
This morning on Mt Temple, the holiest place in Judaism, were built where the First and Second Temple Jerusalem, the muezzin yelled so loud that throughout Jerusalem, the eternal capital of Israel, we heard the loud calls of "Allah Hua Kbar. I thought that for once, we Israelis should take a lesson from the Swiss) to emulate the Swiss with their referendum on minarets.
On the Temple Mount, pious Arabs praying in his back, kneeling and prostrating themselves in the post with the location of the alleged Holy of Holies. In doing so, they attest to themselves healthy geography of Saudi Arabs - Jerusalem and the Land of Israel, they are only foreigners in transit. In the same way as we Jews were in exile, in transit, sometimes long, North Africa, Poland and France. I wanted to introduce myself
on the Temple Mount, the highest site of Judaism. I wrapped the tallit, the prayer shawl and with tephilin , phylacteries one of which is wound in the arm and the other resting on the top of the forehead. The Israel Police, the police in my country I am proud to be citizens and to hold an identity card and passport, police in the Jewish state for Jews forbade me access Mount temple, while a crowd of tourists around the world with the insignia of crosses and other religious faiths were allowed, equipped with cameras and dress not very consistent with universal standards in places of worship. I protested by invoking my freedom to worship as a Jew in the Land of Israel, Jerusalem, the holiest site of Judaism for more than 3000 years, in vain.
However, this ban would let me consistent if the Place of the Kaaba, the black stone in Mecca, there would be a huge synagogue and would be allowed to enter all except devout Muslims - and if the St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, the only access was prohibited to Catholics thinking. One officer made me realize that if a Jew should get into with tallit and tephilin on the Temple Mount, this could trigger riots in the Arab-Muslims throughout the globe and to escalate into nuclear blast globally, the world's end what. I looked into his eyes with an amused smile and full of bitterness at the same time. He was very serious and certain that there was peace in the world has not he protected by preventing a single Jew, with the terrible weapon of tallit and tephilin to enter in the place which is the culmination of all the hopes and Jewish prayers. Unable to grasp the absurdity of what in other circumstances would have been considered a joke in very bad taste. This Israeli policeman is certainly not a bad guy. As a good servant, it applies strictly to the guidelines of which the ability to understand the historic process unbelievable that we live in Jerusalem is very, very limited.
What is absurd is still a lot of us do not yet understand fully that we are back to the house in Israel, we came back to reconnect with our history and continue, we're back Bet Hamikdash for , the House of Holiness - to this House for which we both wept and prayed, each of which breaks a glass under the wedding day the wedding canopy in order not to forget even the fact The most gratifying life sentence of Bet Hamikdash destroyed by Titus in 70 AD.
Here, on the Temple Mount that will decide the outcome of the conflict between us and the Arab-Muslim world. If we continue to give him the Mt Temple, God forbid, we risk being swept away.
This morning on Mt Temple, the holiest place in Judaism, were built where the First and Second Temple Jerusalem, the muezzin yelled so loud that throughout Jerusalem, the eternal capital of Israel, we heard the loud calls of "Allah Hua Kbar. I thought that for once, we Israelis should take a lesson from the Swiss) to emulate the Swiss with their referendum on minarets.
On the Temple Mount, pious Arabs praying in his back, kneeling and prostrating themselves in the post with the location of the alleged Holy of Holies. In doing so, they attest to themselves healthy geography of Saudi Arabs - Jerusalem and the Land of Israel, they are only foreigners in transit. In the same way as we Jews were in exile, in transit, sometimes long, North Africa, Poland and France. I wanted to introduce myself
on the Temple Mount, the highest site of Judaism. I wrapped the tallit, the prayer shawl and with tephilin , phylacteries one of which is wound in the arm and the other resting on the top of the forehead. The Israel Police, the police in my country I am proud to be citizens and to hold an identity card and passport, police in the Jewish state for Jews forbade me access Mount temple, while a crowd of tourists around the world with the insignia of crosses and other religious faiths were allowed, equipped with cameras and dress not very consistent with universal standards in places of worship. I protested by invoking my freedom to worship as a Jew in the Land of Israel, Jerusalem, the holiest site of Judaism for more than 3000 years, in vain.
However, this ban would let me consistent if the Place of the Kaaba, the black stone in Mecca, there would be a huge synagogue and would be allowed to enter all except devout Muslims - and if the St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, the only access was prohibited to Catholics thinking. One officer made me realize that if a Jew should get into with tallit and tephilin on the Temple Mount, this could trigger riots in the Arab-Muslims throughout the globe and to escalate into nuclear blast globally, the world's end what. I looked into his eyes with an amused smile and full of bitterness at the same time. He was very serious and certain that there was peace in the world has not he protected by preventing a single Jew, with the terrible weapon of tallit and tephilin to enter in the place which is the culmination of all the hopes and Jewish prayers. Unable to grasp the absurdity of what in other circumstances would have been considered a joke in very bad taste. This Israeli policeman is certainly not a bad guy. As a good servant, it applies strictly to the guidelines of which the ability to understand the historic process unbelievable that we live in Jerusalem is very, very limited.
What is absurd is still a lot of us do not yet understand fully that we are back to the house in Israel, we came back to reconnect with our history and continue, we're back Bet Hamikdash for , the House of Holiness - to this House for which we both wept and prayed, each of which breaks a glass under the wedding day the wedding canopy in order not to forget even the fact The most gratifying life sentence of Bet Hamikdash destroyed by Titus in 70 AD.
Here, on the Temple Mount that will decide the outcome of the conflict between us and the Arab-Muslim world. If we continue to give him the Mt Temple, God forbid, we risk being swept away.
Jerusalem spoken of our sources, the Temple Mt. It is time that we are remembered for real, that it be printed in our hearts, not just wishful pseudo piety pronounced lip. This must be reflected in our actions. This must become the focus of debate in Jewish politics - that our leaders speak out on it to get elected, as Chazal, our Rabbis teach us return to what is essentially the worship of the Torah, ie the instructions on the construction and the cult of the Bet Hamikdash . (Those who doubt need only open their prayer book of Yom Kippur.) That is not vain oath to David, the first king of Israel who reigned in Jerusalem - Psalms (137, 5 )
"If I forget you Jerusalem, may my right hand service."
Meir Ben-Hayoun
Meir Ben-Hayoun
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