Rabbi calls for sacrifice on Temple Mount......

Ynet News ^ | April 5th, 2011 | Kobi Nahshoni

[TaraP]

Jews evading Passover mitzvah are risking supernatural punishment, warns Safed's Chief Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu... The annual attempts to resume the Passover sacrifice received a first significant rabbinical backing recently. Safed's Chief Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu, a prominent religious Zionism leader, has called on the public to perform the sacrifice mitzvah on the eve of the Jewish holiday, in about two weeks.

Speaking during a Halacha lesson in Jerusalem last week, the rabbi warned that Jews evading the mitzvah were risking "Kareth" - a supernatural punishment for transgressing Jewish Law.

[struggle]

So Revelations shall begin soon.

[TaraP]

True, however I don’t believe most people are going to go for animal sacrafice...Bring gifts to the altar....

[runninglips]

What would be wrong with sacrificing a lamb? It will smell very good, and it is after all just cooking...with a little more intensity.

[Larry Lucido]

WHAT shall begin soon??

[Red_Devil 232]

How about a bunch of mohammedans instead of lambs?

[TaraP]

Sacrafice is something you deny yourself...

[mardi59]

Our Lord made sacrifice while He was on earth. If it was good enough for Him, it’s good enough for them to do it now. PETA has no vote in this. Animals are sacrificed everyday for our consumption. I pray this brings the Lord closer to His return.

[Shadowstrike]

Because Jesus was the ultimate sacrifice, God no longer wants animal sacrifice.

Hope they come to know Jesus soon.

[Veritas01]

I hope this happens: does the rebuilding of the temple need to really be rebuilt in the lieral sence?

[RJR_fan]

Because Jesus was the ultimate sacrifice, God no longer wants animal sacrifice. Hope they come to know Jesus soon.

You would think the Jews would have learned in 70 AD that choosing animal sacrifices over God's Son is a bad idea.

My prediction? If they actually try it, that would precipitate the dramatic and catastrophic end of a certain experimental, socialist, Jesus-hating nation in the Middle East. God takes such sacrilege, such blasphemy, rather seriously. You would think the Jews would have learned in 70 AD.

[RJR_fan]

ping

[sheik yerbouty]

They can all be “Martyrs”!

[Cronos]

You would think the Jews would have learned in 70 AD that choosing animal sacrifices over God's Son is a bad idea.

hmmm... I'm not sure I know what is the Jewish take on the destruction of the Temple.

[RJR_fan]

They mourn the temple’s destruction with every wedding ceremony when one of the party breaks a goblet underfoot. I gotta say — it’s nice to worship in / with the eternal and indestructible temple! God’s true and new dwelling place on earth!

[Cronos]

I thought the breaking of the glass is to send away bad spirits? Or am I mixing it with something else?

[Tzfat]

You would think the Jews would have learned in 70 AD that choosing animal sacrifices over God's Son is a bad idea.

Oh please. This is based on a 2,000 year old blood libel. Pick up your Bible and read. No where in the New Testament does it say that, even though 1/4 of it was written after the destruction of the Temple. Not only that, PAUL a JEW and JAMES a JEW would strongly disagree with you. Read Acts 21. James asks, and Paul agrees to go himself and to pay for 4 others to complete their vow in the Temple. The Bible clearly identifies how to complete a vow - with ANIMAL offerings. Not just one, but three (Paul paid for 15 of them in Acts 21:26). Read Numbers 6:13-21 to see what he was going into the Temple to do.

[Tzfat]

I thought the breaking of the glass is to send away bad spirits? Or am I mixing it with something else?

No, it is to mourn the Temple. Like Daniel, who mourned the destruction of the first Temple (destroyed 586 BCE), we have mourned the destruction of the second Temple for nearly 2,000 years.

Before the destruction of the first Temple, Jeremiah prophesied that it would be destroyed. He used wedding language to show the type of mourning that would occur (eg. the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the bride will not be heard). Later in Jeremiah he uses the same language to reveal that G-d would again build His Temple again in Jerusalem (which He did after the return from the Babylonian captivity in the Fifth Century BCE).

So these words are remembered at Jewish weddings. There is mourning for the Temple, but there is hope that as Ezekiel 40-48 reminds us, our mourning will be turned into joy, and He will rebuild His holy Temple again, in Jerusalem...

"The voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the voices of those who sing, as they bring thank offerings to the house of the L-RD" Jeremiah 33:11

[Cronos]

thank you TZ. RJR — it seems the the destruction of the temple as per Jewish understanding is not related to the acceptance/rejection of Christ as messiah, but per OT prophecies.

[jjotto]

It should be noted that this question has popped up every year since the ‘67 War.

The short answer is that the Temple Mount is controlled by the Muslim Waqf and not by Jews, so it is not really a practical question.