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NEW 'SANHEDRIN' CALLS FOR ARCHITECTURAL BLUEPRINT TO REBUILD JEWISH TEMPLE
World Net Daily ^ | Joseph Farah

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.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: sanhedrin; templemount
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To: Iam1ru1-2

The Temple will be rebuilt. The antichrist will sit upon the throne. The Messiah will RETURN.

It is all in the propehecies. Jesus spoke of it.
EVEN SO COME LORD JESUS.


61 posted on 06/11/2005 2:51:02 PM PDT by Conservatrix ("He who stands for nothing will fall for anything.")
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To: muawiyah

This certainly goes for Christian points of view as well!


62 posted on 06/11/2005 2:52:50 PM PDT by Conservatrix ("He who stands for nothing will fall for anything.")
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To: muawiyah

The crowning achievement of King Solomon's reign was the erection of a magnificent Temple (Beit ha-Midkash) in Jerusalem. His father, King David, had wanted to build a great Temple for God a generation earlier, as a permanent resting place for the Ark containing the Ten Commandments. A divine edict, however, had forbidden him from doing so. "You will not build a house for My name," God said to [David], "for you are a man of battles and have shed blood" (I Chronicles 28:3).

The Bible's description of Solomon's Temple suggests that the inside ceiling was was 180 feet long, 90 feet wide, and 50 feet high. The highest point on the Temple that King Solomon built was actually 120 cubits tall (about 20 stories or about 207 feet). According to the Tanach (II Chronicles):

3:3 The length by cubits after the ancient measure was threescore cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits.
3:4 And the porch that was before the house, the length of it, according to the breadth of the house, was twenty cubits, and the height a hundred and twenty; and he overlaid it within with pure gold.

He spares no expense in the building's creation. He orders vast quantities of cedar from King Hiram of Tyre (I Kings 5:20­25), has huge blocks of the choicest stone quarried, and commands that the building's foundation be laid with hewn stone. To complete the massive project, he imposes forced labor on all his subjects, drafting people for work shifts lasting a month at a time. Some 3,300 officials are appointed to oversee the Temple's erection (5:27­30). Solomon assumes such heavy debts in building the Temple that he is forced to pay off King Hiram with twenty towns in the Galilee (I Kings 9:11).

When the Temple is completed, Solomon inaugurates it with prayer and sacrifice, and even invites non­Jews to come and pray there. He urges God to pay particular heed to their prayers: "Thus all the peoples of the earth will know Your name and revere You, as does Your people Israel; and they will recognize that Your name is attached to this House that I have built" (I Kings 8:43).

Until the Temple was destroyed by the Babylonians some four hundred years later, in 586 B.C.E., sacrifice was the predominant mode of divine service there. Seventy years later, a second Temple was built on the same site, and sacrifices again resumed. During the first century B.C.E., Herod greatly enlarged and expanded this Temple. The Second Temple was destroyed by the Romans in 70 C.E., after the failure of the Great Revolt.


63 posted on 06/11/2005 2:53:09 PM PDT by tomahawk (http://tomahawkblog.blogspot.com/)
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To: Leapfrog
One strange Christian Church with neither an Altar nor an Offering Table.

Can you provide us a picture of this?

64 posted on 06/11/2005 2:54:10 PM PDT by muawiyah (q)
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To: RS
"Visit Spain and Portugal and you'll see a lot of Mosques converted into Catholic Churches.... so ?"

So? I guess even confirmed atheists are required to pick their poison.

65 posted on 06/11/2005 2:55:19 PM PDT by Reactionary
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To: muawiyah

Sure thing.

Picture Jesus standing in front of you.

There you have it.


66 posted on 06/11/2005 2:56:30 PM PDT by Michael Goldsberry (an enemy of islam -- Joe Boucher; Leapfrog; Dr.Zoidberg; Lazamataz; ...)
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To: Leapfrog
Maybe in your translation, but I use English myself, which is a satisfactory language for this day and age.

That's so pretentious to use the YHWH business when EL is probably closer to the original.

You do, of course, pray after the manner of Ma-Nu (Noah in the Christian Bible) ~ he would begin "OMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM".

67 posted on 06/11/2005 2:56:34 PM PDT by muawiyah (q)
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To: Conservatrix

Yes, there are various Christian points of view. After all Jesus said "In My Father's house there are many mansions", and so there are, but who the heck are all those other guys, eh?!~


68 posted on 06/11/2005 2:58:21 PM PDT by muawiyah (q)
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To: muawiyah

Oh, yes of course... English. Well, that's good as I have a very hard time with Hebrew myself.

Okay, back to God it is then.


69 posted on 06/11/2005 2:58:54 PM PDT by Michael Goldsberry (an enemy of islam -- Joe Boucher; Leapfrog; Dr.Zoidberg; Lazamataz; ...)
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To: muawiyah

No sorry, I have attended plenty of churches that have no altar at all.
Quakers have no altar.
Mennonites have no altar.
House churches have no altar.
Charismatics have no altar.

A true Christian is not going to worship an image in stone or on a canvas, whether that image is Jesus or his mother or Kermit the Frog. A true Christian worships the Lord is spirit and in truth.
No idol worship for me!!!


70 posted on 06/11/2005 2:59:46 PM PDT by Conservatrix ("He who stands for nothing will fall for anything.")
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To: tomahawk

Then what Temple was it the Egyptians destroyed between the construction of the first Temple and the destruction by the Babylonians?


71 posted on 06/11/2005 3:00:26 PM PDT by muawiyah (q)
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To: Reactionary
What does that have to do with the mosques converted to churches and the churches converted to mosques found all over Spain and Sicily?

They did this quite regularly.

72 posted on 06/11/2005 3:01:36 PM PDT by muawiyah (q)
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To: SampleMan; basil
Would you believe October 4th 2005.

B'Shem Y'shua

73 posted on 06/11/2005 3:04:26 PM PDT by Uri’el-2012 (Y'shua <==> YHvH is my Salvation (Psalm 118-14))
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To: muawiyah
Then what Temple was it the Egyptians destroyed

You just tripped over your own conspiracy theories by referencing that in a discussion about Christ.

You know, that whole Old Testament - New Testament thing?

74 posted on 06/11/2005 3:05:19 PM PDT by Michael Goldsberry (an enemy of islam -- Joe Boucher; Leapfrog; Dr.Zoidberg; Lazamataz; ...)
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To: Leapfrog

The New Testament (RSV) contains the word "Altar" 25 times. I can't recall any Christian church I've ever been in that didn't have an altar.


75 posted on 06/11/2005 3:08:05 PM PDT by muawiyah (q)
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To: muawiyah

Whoops, sorry. Your logic is so twisted, I had to go back and read it again...


76 posted on 06/11/2005 3:08:11 PM PDT by Michael Goldsberry (an enemy of islam -- Joe Boucher; Leapfrog; Dr.Zoidberg; Lazamataz; ...)
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To: muawiyah

The Egyptians never destroyed any Temple, to the best of my knowledge.

The Babylonians destroyed the First, the Romans the Second.

There were tabernacles at various times, but only two Temples, both on Mount Moriah (the Temple Mount).


77 posted on 06/11/2005 3:08:19 PM PDT by tomahawk (http://tomahawkblog.blogspot.com/)
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To: muawiyah

Okay, have an altar.


78 posted on 06/11/2005 3:09:08 PM PDT by Michael Goldsberry (an enemy of islam -- Joe Boucher; Leapfrog; Dr.Zoidberg; Lazamataz; ...)
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To: Leapfrog

Good. We can get somewhere in English. Hebrew is as alien to me as Sanskrit is to you I am sure.


79 posted on 06/11/2005 3:09:17 PM PDT by muawiyah (q)
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To: Conservatrix
Quakers (or Camisards) are not Christians (first of all), and there's the doctrine of "home as a sacred place" and "church as a sacred place", which makes the whole building the "altar".

Regarding Charismatics, there are even Roman Catholic Charismatics so you'll have to be a bit more specific. Remember, some Charismatics deviate so far from the pale of orthodoxy as to be considered something other than Christian.

80 posted on 06/11/2005 3:11:37 PM PDT by muawiyah (q)
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