FYI, ping!
Mama called and Papa sent ?
I can't see anything good coming from this except it fills a newspaper column.
Is there not a chain of hereditary succession which has been broken?
First thing they will have to do is move the al Aqsa mosque. I do not believe that will go well...
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but Thursday was 10 Nisan, the date when the lambs were chosen, but 4 days before the date they were sacrificed on the evening of 14 Nisan.
The sacrifice of animals is causing all sorts of screaming arguments between the Orthodox and the more PETA-worshiping Jews. I knew one Orthodox who just loved a good argument, and even he said that was one argument he wanted to avoid, because it often got out of control.
Perhaps if there is anything to this “blood moon business” it would signify the beginning training of the priests and then the laying of the corner stone of the third temple.
Tradition says it would be rebuilt on the Mosque site in Jerusalem....but there is no strict biblical command or stipulation that it be built there or that tradition be strictly followed. The Bible doesn’t even say specifically where it would be built exactly, just that it would be built.
In 2003, one Orthodox priest in training laid a “corner stone’ at the edge of the Mosque site, basically saying that there is no reason why it couldn’t be built nearby the mosque site or in its vicinity....caused a kerfuffle but the point was made.
In short...the mosque on the temple mount,need not vanish for there to be a third temple built...only God’s allowance for the timing.
I suppose an Israeli could have English as bad as portrayed here, but even the terms used indicate no knowledge of traditional Jewish practice.
I happen to know R. Yehoshua Friedman. Something about this story just doesn’t sound like him. Here’s a you tube of R. Friedman talking about non-Jews:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ekB7SJ7FkA