Today, Tuesday July 15th 2014, is the 17th day of the Hebrew month of Tammuz, 5774, a fast day for able-bodied Jews. 3327 years ago on this day, Moses broke the tablets he brought down from Mt. Sinai (see Charlton Heston or Mel Brooks for innacurate representations.) Between now and the 9th of the Hebrew month of Av (3 weeks from today) Jews commemorate events in our history that had not-positive outcomes (Breaking the Tablets, breaching the walls of Jerusalem by Babylon, leading and up to the...) The 9th of Av marks the destruction of the first Holy Temple by Nebuchadnezzar (and the second Temple by Rome on the same Hebrew date.) So we customarily study the know details about the Temple(s.) --their dimensions, materials, purposes, usage.
This essay describes the most fundamental point about the Temple--it was never, in essence, destroyed. The Holy Ark remains buried beneath the mount, never to be found by the willing-to-desecrate WAKF Arabs, and only to be revealed by the Messiah when he comes. At that time the Ark will be brought up to it's place again within the Holy of Holies in the third, eternal Temple.
It's a short essay, particularly relevant to (the vast majority of) those who seek to do G-d's will but have until this moment-- and no longer-- fallen short.
When in the last short paragraph the Rebbe writes "...furtive, convoluted path..." [to the hidden chamber of the Ark] he is alluding that we all have this inner resting place of the 10 commandments (the Ark and its contents, the distilled essence of the 613 Commandments) within us, waiting to be tapped, however difficult the path of discovery. Within each of us is a miniature Holy Temple, in all of it's power. We can each reveal G-d's glory with acts of kindness and with personal, complete repentance, and hasten Moshiach's coming, speedily in our days.
Ping— wondering if you’ve seen this concept before.
Re: your comment about the hastening of the coming of Messiah.
Don’t you have a statement somewhere in your Talmud about, your Messiah cannot come until the world has become entirely good or entirely evil? And since the former is not going to happen (the world entirely good), the latter is what will bring your Messiah in (the world entirely evil). From the looks of things, your Messiah cannot be that far off!
According to Rabbi Marvin Antelman, that effort to hasten the coming of your Messiah has been ongoing for sometime now - I refer to his classic, “To Eliminate the Opiate.”
His book is quite an eye opener, in it he reveals the subversive, behind the scenes, Sabbatai Zevi-Jacob Frank-Adam Wisehaoupt’s Illuminati- Rothschild-Karl Marx-Socialism/Communism-Haskala-Reform Judaism connection. Doing what I mentioned above, the making of the world evil (by the subversive hand of Socialism, eliminating the “opiate,” i.e., belief in God, in both conservative Christianity and orthodox Judaism) in order that Messiah can come.
Antelman’s book, and he himself, himself bitterly opposed to all of this, and apparently a Chabad himself, you fellows must be aware of. If so, what is your opinion of Antelman’s Sabbataen subversion of the world in order to bring in Messiah? Surely that is not what you meant, when you spoke of “hastening” the coming of your Messiah?
But, doesn’t Second Maccabees say it was buried in a cave in Jordan?
This sentence in the article really struck my heart as His Word says,
Jer 3:16 “And it shall be, when you have increased, and shall bear fruit in the land in those days,” declares יהוה, “that they no longer say, ‘The ark of the covenant of יהוה.’ Neither would it come to heart, nor would they remember it, nor would they visit it, nor would it be made again. 17 “At that time Yerushalayim shall be called the throne of יהוה, and all the nations shall be gathered to it, to the Name of יהוה, to Yerushalayim, and no longer walk after the stubbornness of their evil heart.
According to His Word, the Ark represents Moschiach. Yeshua is the Moshiach, and since He is no longer concealed but has been revealed through His death and resurrection, it is only through Him, the Ark of the covenant of Elohim, that Israel will be regathered, healed and restored. This is the reason the Ark was never in the 2nd temple and the reason it no longer exists. We are to focus on Moshiach and follow the example of His faith & testimony rather than continuing to focus on an object made by the hands of men.
Shalom Alecheim!
When they say tunnels in the ancient world, they can mean it. In the former Roman province of Syria, which is now in Jordan, the Romans built an underground aqueduct that is over 66 miles long. With walls plastered with water resistant mortar.
Some of the underground passageways run up to 80 meters (262 feet) below the surface. It eventually ends up in a series of three tunnels, one of which is about as long as the main tunnel, the other two of which are 1 and 11km in length.
Granted, Solomon ruled about a thousand years before then, but tunnel building was well established long before then.
Thank you for that fascinating article.
It reminds me of the wonderful line from Psalm 119:’’Thy Word i have hidden in my heart, that I might not sin against Thee”.
The article paints a beautiful picture of the Ark hidden in the earth, Much like us hiding G-d’s law in our hearts for the time of evil, when the written Word is taken away from us.
I am a Christian, and found this article to be harmonious with my beliefs.
Pray For the Peace of Jerusalem.