Posted on 06/11/2005 1:45:05 PM PDT by Iam1ru1-2
New 'Sanhedrin' Calls For Architectural Blueprint To Rebuild Jewish Temple
The Israeli rabbinical council involved with re-establishing the Sanhedrin, is calling upon all groups involved in Temple Mount research to prepare detailed architectural plans for the reconstruction of the Jewish Holy Temple.
The Sanhedrin was a 71-man assembly of rabbis that convened adjacent to the Holy Temple before its destruction in 70 AD and outside Jerusalem until about 400 AD.
The move followed the election earlier this week of Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz as temporary president of a group aspiring to become Judaism's highest-ranking legal-religious tribunal.
However, although Steinsaltz's involvement with the endeavor adds important rabbinic legitimacy, other major halachic authorities, including Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv, the leading haredi Ashkenazi spiritual leader, and Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, the premier Sephardi halachic opinion, have refused repeated requests to offer their support.
Nevertheless, the group will establish a forum of architects and engineers to begin plans for rebuilding the Temple – a move fraught with religious and political volatility.
The group, which calls itself the Sanhedrin, is calling on the Jewish people to contribute toward the acquisition of materials for the purpose of rebuilding the Temple – including the gathering and preparation of prefabricated, disassembled portions to be stored and ready for rapid assembly, "in the manner of King David."
Rabbi Hillel Weiss, spokesman for the burgeoning Sanhedrin, said in an official statement that because of "concerns that external pressure would be brought to bear upon individuals not to take part in the establishment of a Sanhedrin, the names of most participants have been withheld up to this point."
"The increasingly anti-Jewish decisions handed down by the Supreme Court prove the need for an alternative legal system based on Jewish sources," said Weiss. "More and more people, including Torah scholars, are beginning to understand this."
The Sanhedrin was reestablished last October in Tiberias, the place of its last meeting 1,600 years ago. Since then, it has met in Jerusalem on a monthly basis.
What are you on anyway? God was the creater of the Universe, centuries before the Anglo/Saxon language came into being.
There is an old Confutze saying that you should take to heart: It is better to keep one's mouth closed and be thought a fool, than to open it.......and remove all doubt.
What you have is something that's accepted as "fact", but where is the cooborative evidence?
This happens to be why archaeology is so important when it comes to Temple Mount. If a Temple is to be built, we need to know if this really is the site, and not just something accepted as the site.
Schneerson was usually way ahead of his followers, and still is.
I miss the old guy.
There are variations on this belief, but if you celebrate Holy Communion you hardly set the bread and wine on the floor!
If you do not celebrate Holy Communion, I would be persuaded that you are not Christian.
We are speaking of a word spelled "G" "O" "D", not G-D. Thor was a god, for example.
>>I don't think an altar is required to be saved<<
Phew! THAT'S a relief! I was getting worried there for a minute.
Excellent comment, dear Leapfrog.... and right on the mark. Everything that isn't contributive to "The New Caliphate" makes Muslims hopping mad. And.....make no mistake. They're all working like a busy bee hive to bring about this "New Caliphate."
Question: Don't these eager-beaver "moderate" American Muslim groups (CAIR, MPAC etc) understand that the "new caliphate" equals the now extinct Talibanic Afghanistan?...Where would worker bees like Ibrahim Hooper and Sarah Elkanawah end up, if the "new caliphate" became a global reality? They don't seem to be looking ahead down the road they are so assiduously traveling.
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You should go back and read slowly and catch all the subtle nuances like DIFFERENT PARAGRAPHS, DIFFERENT WORDS, DIFFERENT RELIGIONS.
You need an altar to conveniently serve communion to large numbers of Christians.
You are really showing your total ignorance of Biblical History. There was NO David's Temple. He was not permitted by God to built it because he shed blood. That task was given to his son Solomon. That Temple was destroyed by the Babylonians under Nebuchadnezzar in 586 B.C.. It was rebuilt by the Jews under the edict of King Cyrus of Persia: "Thus says Cyrus, King of Persian: All the kingdoms of the Earth the LORD God of Heaven has given to me, and He has commanded me to build Him a house at Jerusalem (Yerushalayim), which is in Judah. Who is there among you of all His People? May his God be with him! Now let him go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and build the House of the LORD God of Israel (He is God), which is in Jerusalem. And whoever remains in any place where he sojourns, let the men of his place help him with silver and gold, with goods, and livestock, besides the freewill offerings for the House of GOD which is in Jerusalem." Ezra 1:14. The Second Temple was inhanced by Herod, and it was destroyed 40 years after Jesus began His minstry by General Titus Flavius Vespasian in 70 A.D.
You ready yet Leapfrog? Did you go back and READ ALL THE STUFF, not just the part you agreed with?
So, does God look down on their sacrifices and accept them?
My my mistake, I've never heard of it before.
A quick Google of said church (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22Apostolic+Charismatic+Church+of+the+First+Born%22&btnG=Google+Search) yields all of three entries... two of which were authored by *ding-ding* YOU!
(Or, shall I call you "TainanCowboy?")
You ready yet muawiyah? Did you go back and READ ALL THE STUFF, not just the part you agreed with?
You continue to show your total ignorance of Biblical history. "El or Elohim" was FIRST name that was given to mankind by God in the Garden of Eden. In Genesis He revealed a second name to Abraham: "EL Shaddai" - "God Almighty", But in Exodus, He reveals another of His Names to Moses (Moshe). Exodus 6:2-3 : And God spoke to Moses and said to him: "I AM the LORD. I appeared to Abraham, Isaac, and to Jacob, as "God Almighty", but by My Name LORD I was NOT KNOWN TO THEM. LORD is the English for YHWH.
May we suggest that an Egyptian sacked the Temple and hauled off the treasure. Try 2 Kings 22 starting with 1 and the word "Josi'ah.
What do you imagine has happened in between to cause such devastation to the House of the Lord (i.e. The Temple) to require major repair, and why are these people down to ONE REMAINING COPY OF THE LAW?
BTW, they not only had only one copy, they had a hard time putting it all back together! That meant that the entire caste of men who memorized the entire Torah had disappeared.
Might we suggest that the Egyptians had come in, smacked them down, hauled off the loot, and then disappeared leaving the Jews alone in their little part of the world.
This all happens before the Babylonian devastation.
This more readily explains the differences in the name by which God is addressed in the different texts.
There are, of course, theological explanations of all that.
Ya meen tah say, POOOOOOOFFFF!!! Tribulation Temple just appears out of thin air?
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