Posted on 04/24/2006 6:48:22 PM PDT by Iam1ru1-2
"It's not a question of 'maybe' or 'if'," says the Temple Institute's Rabbi Yisrael Ariel. "Bringing the Paschal sacrifice is a Torah obligation incumbent upon the People of Israel these very days."
Speaking with Yoel Yaakobi of the weekly B'Sheva newspaper, Rabbi Ariel said that though there are some grave Halakhic [Jewish legal] problems associated with bringing the Paschal sacrifice, "we have found the solutions, and the obligation is as strong as ever. This is one of the only two positive Biblical commandments that those who forsake it are liable to receive the ultimate karet [cutting off] punishment. From the moment that a Jew stands on the Temple Mount and the site of the Holy Temple is under our control, the Jewish People are immediately obligated to bring this sacrifice."
Sixteen of the 613 Biblical commandments relate to the Paschal sacrifice, which must be brought on the 14th day of the month of Nissan - Passover eve - and eaten on the night of the 15th. Today, this sacrifice is remembered only in the form of the Afikoman, the piece of matzah snatched and hidden by children during the Pesach seder meal, by the small roasted shank-bone on the Seder plate, and by prayers and study.
Rabbi Ariel said, "After the destruction of the First Temple, when the Jews began returning from Babylonia to the Holy Land, they brought the Paschal sacrifice during the course of 22 years even though there was no Holy Temple. They also were considered ritually impure - because there was no Red Heifer by which to become pure - yet they still brought it... There is currently no genuine impediment to bringing the Paschal sacrifice."
There have been other attempts to renew this sacrifice over the years, or at least to solve the Halakhic problems involved. Speaking about the rabbis who came to the Holy Land 700 years ago and sought to pave the way to offer the Pesach lamb, Rabbi Ariel said,"It is simply disgraceful when we compare our actions with theirs. They were here after the Crusaders, when there were perhaps 1,000 Jews in the whole land, which was totally desolate, and tried to renew this commandment. And yet we have 5-6 million Jews, and we have an army with tanks and planes, and what are we doing? ... Over 2,000 years ago, the Jews were afraid to live in Jerusalem, yet they made it obligatory for one out of every ten men to work towards building the Holy Temple, and they started the sacrifice services amidst the ruins of the First Temple. And where are we? Should we not be ashamed?"
Among the problems that Rabbi Ariel says have been solved by the Temple Institute he heads in Jerusalem are the following: Ritual impurity (which applies only to individuals, not to the entire nation), the precise location of the altar, and the sacred priestly garments, which the Institute has recently completed fashioning according to Biblical requirements. He emphasizes, of course, that the exact details of these and other issues are complex and must be reviewed with rabbinical experts. "I don't say that there aren't problems, but as the Maharatz Chayut has written, there is no Halakhic problem in the Temple that cannot be solved."
"Why then do you not go and sacrifice the Pesach sacrifice yourself?" Rabbi Ariel was asked.
"Have you just now returned from the moon?" he answered with pain. "The government has established a special police unit just for the Temple Mount. A Jew is forbidden even to move his lips there - and you want me to go there with my sheep and building tools to build an altar?!...
"The problem, which has received the silent backing of the rabbinical world, is that we have allowed the Arabs to be in charge of the Mount, and so they play soccer there. That's what happened when Moshe Dayan gave the Temple Mount keys to the Arabs after the Six Day War. First they give them the keys, then they say, 'It's impossible to regain control,' and then they say, 'We don't know [all the details of the Temple Mount and the altar, etc.].' The 200 commandments that are connected with the Temple cry out every day, 'Jews, where are you?!'"
That is an abomination!!!
Interesting. Ping to read later.
Okay, I cannot tell from, the article: is this the bit where they chop up a lamb or something?
Google "korban pesach" and you'll find out more than you ever wanted to know about this.
R. Ariel, BTW, VASTLY understates the difficulties in reinstituting sacrifices.
Ugh. You got that right.
Well, when the Temple is back, I'll consider it.
Galatians 3:10(NASB) For as many as are of the works of the Law are under a curse; for it is written, "(A)CURSED IS EVERYONE WHO DOES NOT ABIDE BY ALL THINGS WRITTEN IN THE BOOK OF THE LAW, TO PERFORM THEM."
Galatians 2:16(NASB)nevertheless knowing that (A)a man is not justified by the works of the Law but through faith in Christ Jesus, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, so that we may be justified by (B)faith in Christ and not by the works of the Law; since (C)by the works of the Law no flesh will be justified.
BTW, I hope you guys get your temple mount back soon. God bless.
Jewish tradition identifies Christianity as Esau/Edom. You might want to check the Book of Obadiah and see your future.
Deuteronomy 27:26 Cursed is he who does not confirm the words of this law by doing them.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.'
Two questions. How can you believe that you keep the Law of The Torah, when in fact, you do not practice many of the rituals and traditions listed in Leviticus and Deuteronomy. And secondly, at what point do you know that you have fulfilled enough of(assuming of course you will never be able to fulfill all of)the laws and rituals demanded you by the perfect and Holy Jehovah Jirah? What makes the Levite worthy of Heaven over the Samaritan?
Deuteronomy 30:10 If thou shalt hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God, to keep His commandments and His statutes which are written in this book of the law; if thou turn unto the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul.
30:11 For this commandment which I command thee this day, it is not too hard for thee, neither is it far off.
30:12 It is not in heaven, that thou shouldest say: 'Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it unto us, and make us to hear it, that we may do it?'
30:13 Neither is it beyond the sea, that thou shouldest say: 'Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it unto us, and make us to hear it, that we may do it?'
30:14 But the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it.
You think your own righteousness can get you to Heaven. Very sad.
Isaiah 60:21
Thy people also shall be all righteous: they shall inherit the land for ever, the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, that I may be glorified.
Romans 9-12
What then? Are we better than they? Not at all; for we have already charged that both Jews and Greeks are all under sin;
as it is written,
"THERE IS NONE RIGHTEOUS, NOT EVEN ONE;
THERE IS NONE WHO UNDERSTANDS,
THERE IS NONE WHO SEEKS FOR GOD;
ALL HAVE TURNED ASIDE, TOGETHER THEY HAVE BECOME
USELESS;
THERE IS NONE WHO DOES GOOD,
THERE IS NOT EVEN ONE."
Jeremiah 31:31-34--"The days come, saith the Lord, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah, not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, which, my covenant, they broke, although I was an husband unto them, saith the Lord. But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel: After those days, saith the Lord, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts, and will be their God, and they shall be my people. And they shall teach no more every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord; for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the Lord; for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more."
bingo!
the new testament and christian teachings completely contradict the words of the Holy Torah
Only the Holy Sages of Israel can interpret the Jewish Bible:
DEUTERONOMY
17:8 If there arise a matter too hard for thee in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, even matters of controversy within thy gates; then shalt thou arise, and get thee up unto the place which the Lord thy God shall choose.
17:9 And thou shall come unto the priests the Levites, and unto the judge that shall be in those days; and thou shalt inquire; and they shall declare unto thee the sentence of judgment.
17:10 And thou shalt do according to the tenor of the sentence, which they shall declare unto thee from that place which the Lord shall choose; and thou shalt observe to do according to all that they shall teach thee.
17:11 According to the law which they shall teach thee, and according to the judgment which they shall tell thee, thou shalt do; thou shalt not turn aside from the sentence which they shall declare unto thee, to the right hand, nor to the left.
I'd have to agree with "christian teachings completely contradict the words of the Holy Torah". The text in question (Romans 3:10-12) is from Psalm 14. Verse 5 of the Psalm should dispel christian hyper-literalism:
5. They were in great fear; for G-d is in the generation of the righteous:
If nothing else I suppose the psalm highlights the stark difference between sons/children of men/adam (v.2) and the children of Hashem. After all, everything depends on the woman. :-)
The "righteous" are the forgiven. Never could anyone be truly "righteous," that is, be righteous as far as God is. Only a substitute for us could match this standard of perfection. The human race is all under the curse of sin. Only a Son of Man who is truly righteous as God is, could be the right substitute for us. Only God can obtain His own righteousness, so God became Man and fulfilled all the law for us.
What's that suppose to be, the whore of Babylon or something? "How many fingers am I holding up? No, the horns don't count."
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