Poll: 53% of Israelis want third temple

Jerusalem Post ^ | 18 July 2002 | HAIM SHAPIRO

[Thinkin' Gal]

Jul. 18, 2002
Poll: 53% of Israelis want third temple
By HAIM SHAPIRO

Over half of all Israeli Jews would like to see the building of a third temple, according to a survey commissioned by the Reform movement's Israel Religious Action Center.

The survey was commissioned for Tisha Be'av, which falls today. The fast, which marks the destruction of the First and Second Temples, ends tonight at 8:16 p.m.

According to the survey, conducted by the Dahaf Institute, a total of 53 percent of the 775 people queried said that they would like a third temple erected on the Temple Mount.

These included some 87% of religious and haredi respondents and 64% of those who described themselves as traditional, but it also included 63% of respondents from the former Soviet Union, as well as most of those of Middle Eastern origin and those of Western origin aged 18 to 35. Only among older respondents of Western origin did a majority, 53%, not want to see the Temple rebuilt.

At the same time, 55% of the respondents said that the present arrangement on the Temple Mount, according to which public Jewish prayer is not permitted, should remain in force.

As for the fast day itself, 64% of the respondents said that they did not observe Tisha Be'av in any particular manner and 29% said they fasted. However, 72% favor the closure of places of entertainment on the fast day.

[SevenDaysInMay]

'Operation Temple parking lot' would clear Paliban cover and concealment, including that gaudy dome which looks like a gold breast. Arabs should be made to commute long distances to murder, as their West Bank and Gaza bases shrink from new concrete pavement and electrified razor wired walls defining their own grave yards.

[DainBramage]

I hear the property is available. The previous occupant went was asked to leave.

[editor-surveyor]

'Rock of offence' anyone?

[sonrise57]

FYI

[Thinkin' Gal]

Isaiah 8:14 And he shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone* of stumbling and for a rock of offence to both the houses of Israel, for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

*stone = even (alef, bet, nun) = 53

53% of Israelis want third temple

;-)

[jonatron]

Temple Institute, Jerusalem

[Freemeorkillme]

Oh, dear me. I'm getting punchy and its getting late.

Third Temple? Where? Front or rear of head?

[Salman]

Bear in mind that most religious Jews believe there will be a third Temple, after the Messiah comes. The correct interpretation of this story is that 53% of Israelis want the Messiah to come soon. Only a very few want to take over the site and build the temple first.

[Jeremiah Jr]

Ezekiel 43


The Temple, the Lord's Dwelling Place


¹ Afterward he brought me to the gate, the gate that faces toward the east. ²And behold, the glory of the God of Israel came from the way of the east. His voice was like the sound of many waters; and the earth shone with His glory. ³It was like the appearance of the vision which I saw--like the vision which I saw when He came to destroy the city. The visions were like the vision which I saw by the River Chebar; and I fell on my face. ⁴And the glory of the LORD came into the temple by way of the gate which faces toward the east. ⁵The Spirit lifted me up and brought me into the inner court; and behold, the glory of the LORD filled the temple.
⁶Then I heard Him speaking to me from the temple, while a man stood beside me. ⁷And He said to me, "Son of man, this is the place of My throne and the place of the soles of My feet, where I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel forever. No more shall the house of Israel defile My holy name, they nor their kings, by their harlotry or with the carcasses of their kings on their high places. ⁸When they set their threshold by My threshold, and their doorpost by My doorpost, with a wall between them and Me, they defiled My holy name by the abominations which they committed; therefore I have consumed them in My anger. ⁹Now let them put their harlotry and the carcasses of their kings far away from Me, and I will dwell in their midst forever.
¹⁰"Son of man, describe the temple to the house of Israel, that they may be ashamed of their iniquities; and let them measure the pattern. ¹¹And if they are ashamed of all that they have done, make known to them the design of the temple and its arrangement, its exits and its entrances, its entire design and all its ordinances, all its forms and all its laws. Write it down in their sight, so that they may keep its whole design and all its ordinances, and perform them. ¹²This is the law of the temple: The whole area surrounding the mountaintop is most holy. Behold, this is the law of the temple...

[exit82]

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