Jews pray on Jerusalem's Temple Mount as decades-old status quo begins to shift

Jerusalem Post/Israel News ^ | FEBRUARY 13, 2026 | LINDA GRADSTEIN

[jroehl]

Escorted by police, a group of about 25 people walked across the Temple Mount esplanade to the steps leading up to the Dome of the Rock, the site where the First and Second Temples once stood.

They climbed a few steps toward the mosque, singing “Yedid Nefesh” (“soulmate”), usually sung on Friday nights.

“Are you with us?” a policeman asked this reporter.

[jroehl]

Interested in comments from people who know more than I.

[Big Red Badger]

Prey for The Peace of Jerusalem,
Keep your Eyes on the
Temple Mount.

[Jewbacca]

From a theological point, I’m not sure it’s appropriate for us Jews to be on the mount at this time.

People who have studied the issue harder than me would know the answer better.

I’m not a Cohen, so I ain’t going regardless. Not my place.

[kawhill]

“Are you with us?” a policeman asked this reporter. I wonder who that is.

[jjotto]

Almost old news by now:

https://www.israelhayom.com/2025/08/04/there-is-no-status-quo-on-the-temple-mount/

and

https://israel365news.com/415950/rabbi-arab-presence-on-temple-mount-dropping-due-to-jews-conquering-site-by-bowing-to-god/

...According to the rabbi [Tzfat Chief Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu], a friend of his spoke with a senior Arab official on the Mount and asked directly why fewer Arabs were coming. The answer was blunt and revealing.

“The reason is that you started bowing on the ground to the Holy One, Blessed Be He. When we see you bowing, we are afraid of you, because you humble yourselves before God. If you humble yourselves before G-d, who can stand against you. So, we don’t come anymore.”...

[beethovenfan]

The temple will be rebuilt. It is prophesied very clearly.

[onthelookout777]

Thanks for posting. Glad to hear this.

[jjotto]

https://jcfa.org/article/the-political-role-of-the-israeli-chief-rabbinate-in-the-temple-mount-question-2/

[Miami Rebel]

Idiotic and irreligious.

The Chief Rabbinate of Israel and many rabbis advise against entering the Temple Mount, as the exact location of the ancient Holy of Holies is uncertain, and strict laws of ritual purity apply to the entire site.

[Big Red Badger]

Interesting FRiend.
I spent a Day or two at The Temple site.
Many hours at the Wailing Wall and walking around to the different Gates. The One place I didn’t care to go to was atop the Temple site. I understood I was allowed under certain circumstances but I just wasn’t interested. That was 1995.IIRC

[Eli Kopter]

Having lived there and having many friends still living there, I can tell you that there is a strong wind blowing from Zion. It will reach all corners of the earth very soon. The struggle is as it always has been. The Secular are battling the Religious.

[Big Red Badger]

So What might Your idea or Question be?
.
Political or Spiritual?
Just Curious as I was hoping
For a Good thread.

[jroehl]

I was hoping for a good thread also.

The whole idea that you may step on the area of the holy of holies is very interesting.

[jjotto]

I’m curious if champions of the haredi view also follow the haredi view in other matters.

A view of the differences in approach to Temple Mount between haredi and dati leumi:

https://iyun.org.il/en/sedersheni/the-temple-mount-and-the-religious-divide-between-faith-and-identity/

[Cronos]

The prophecies were about the building of the second temple. The one that was completed by King Herod the great.

That temple was destroyed in 70 AD as Jesus prophesied in the Olivet discourse. This happened during the lifetime of the tree generation that was listening to Him. The Jesus followers living in Jerusalem in 67 AD listened to His warnings to run to the hills, and they ran to Pellas. Not one Christ follower died during the destruction.

After the city fell, the temple was inadvertently set on fire, melting the gold in 8t. So Titus made his legions tear it and its foundations apart to get the gold. This fulfilled Jesus’s prophecy that not one stone would sit upon the other.

All that remained was a foundation wall of the raised platform on which the temple mount was. That is the Wailing wall, not a foundation wall of the temple, but a foundation wall of the platform on which the temple was built.

Josephus records that during the siege, inside Jerusalem there were 3 factions of Jews and they actually conducted a civil war DURUNG the siege. They burnt each other’s food granaries, leading to starvation and cannibalism.

Josephus also records that people saw strange movements in the skies as if armies of Angels had gathered.

After Jerusalem was utterly destroyed, its stones dispersed. Then 59 years later the Riman empire under Hadrian built a new city on top of Jerusalem, calling it Aelia Capitolina. That is what we call Old Jerusalem tiday

[beethovenfan]

Matthew 24: 15-22 (and other places): this cannot refer to the 2nd temple destroyed in 70 a.d.

[Notthereyet]

“An infant girl 1 day old can contract nidah impurity.
At 10 days old, she can contract zivah impurity. (Menstruates on day born and then
experiences uterine bleeding on eight, ninth and tenth days. This would make her a major
Definition of Zav, Zavah, Nidah , Yoledet (People who Transmit Impurity by Sitting or
Lying Down)
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zavah.)
A female of 3 years old can impart impurity through sexual relations.”
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Oh, dear.

I missed reading that in the Old Testament.

If a 3 year old girl who has been sexually violated is impure please tell me what the person who sexually violated her would be... Aside from a pervert.

This would be in the same league as the Catholic Church telling mothers of children not yet baptised they would never go to heaven. And, yes, the Catholic Church did indeed tell women that bit of information. Having been raised Catholic I found it appalling the Priests couldn’t figure out why mothers of children not yet baptised would go insane from grief.

What would a mother feel after learing her little girl is impure?

What about male children? It would have to do with the blood line I suppose going through the women in the tradition.... in this case the young boy’s okay just placing an extra bit of guilt on the girl.

Oi.

Is this a ruling made by the LORD God or man-made in this particular case? Because of loss of virginity....

And HOW THE HECK would someone even come up with the AGE of what’s impure????

I tend to read as much of what I can on FR and it just blew my mind away. Truly, truly, so sad for the little girl child.

I tend

[jjotto]

Not sure how the ritual status of a sexually abused toddler is relative to the Temple Mount question here.

[Cronos]

The abomination of desolation in Matthew 24:15–22 (and parallels in Mark 13, Luke 21) fits the events of AD 70 perfectly, not a future rebuilt temple.

Jesus ties it to Daniel, where it involves desecration leading to the temple’s end. Historically, during the Roman siege:

- Zealot factions desecrated the temple with bloodshed and misuse (e.g., appointing unworthy high priests, turning it into a fortress).
- Roman armies surrounded Jerusalem (Luke 21:20 explicitly calls this the sign), with their idolatrous standards brought into the sacred precincts—fulfilling the “standing in the holy place.”
- This triggered unprecedented tribulation: starvation, cannibalism, over a million deaths, and the temple’s total destruction.

Christians heeded Jesus’ warning and fled to Pella before the worst, escaping as He instructed.

The passage emphasizes urgency for Judea (flee to mountains), short duration (”days cut short” for the elect’s sake), and ties to “this generation” (Matt 24:34)—all pointing to AD 70, not a distant future event.

No need for a third temple or pre-trib rapture; Jesus’ prophecy was fulfilled when the second temple fell, as He foretold.

[Cronos]

Luke gives us more specific direction as to what to look for in this “desolating sacrilege.” He writes, “When you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then know that its desolation has come near” (Luke 21:20).