Jerusalem – Chief Rabbi: Talk of 3rd Beis Hamikdash A Lie

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    Rabbi Yona Metzger during a Opening Ceremony in the newly renovated Hurva synagogue in the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem's Old City March on 15 March 2010..photo by Abir Sultan/Flash 90 .photo by Abir Sultan/Flash 90Jerusalem – Chief Rabbi of Israel Yona Metzger sent a calming message to the Muslim world Monday, amid tensions over the inauguration of the Hurva Synagogue in Jerusalem.

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    Metzger and Western Wall Rabbi Shmuel Rabinowitz both set the mezuzah at the synagogue jambs earlier in the afternoon.

    “Pay no attention to malicious slander. All we are doing is resurrecting the ‘Hurva,’ which was destroyed 60 years ago. We have no intention of rebuilding the temple, not this week – unless the Almighty God descends it from the heavens,” said the chief rabbi during the inauguration ceremony.

    “All the rumors that suggest we will later march on Temple Mount are just that – rumors. A media spin by anti-Semites that wish us harm.”

    Knesset Member Danny Danon (Likud) also attended the ceremony and protested the controversy sparked by the decision to reopen the synagogue.

    “Nothing is more in the heart of the Israeli consensus as building a synagogue in the Jewish Quarter,” he said, “But anything Jewish immediately sparks controversy. We have to tell our American friends – ‘keep your hands off Jerusalem and afford Jews their right to pray in the Old City.'”

    The reconstruction of Hurva Synagogue, he continued, “symbolized the renewed construction in Jerusalem… The Palestinian Authority turns every project in the capital into an international incident, and unfortunately it was able to do that concerning Ramat Shlomo. We cannot walk into that trap.”


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    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    Obama, Clinton, and the rest of the anti-Israel lobby in Washington:

    Please examine how Middle East politics works. If you can’t figure it out, get out of the kitchen.

    Muslims will use any excuse, true, false, or plain creative fiction to write sentences that legitimize acts of terror, murder, violence, and make political claims. It was bad enough when much of the non-free world bought that garbage. It made the UN into an enemy of Israel. But you guys have jumped onto that bandwagon.

    Israel can build anywhere it wants, and you guys – hands off and mouths shut. We did not send you into office to make the Axis of Evil into our allies, and Israel into the US enemy. Stop listening to the Arab excuses to avoid negotiation. They do that to provide the excuse to shoot, kill, and act barbaric. We voters thought you were all smart enough to recognize that.

    Perhaps you are not. Repeat after me: Israel is the friend of the US. The Arab-Muslim world is not. The Arab-Muslim world, for the most part, is the enemy of democracy, and wants all Jews dead. Remember genocide? It can’t be painted friendly by political tinkering. Don’t get sucked into that sick thinking.

    Henocj
    Henocj
    14 years ago

    It may pacify our enemies, but it is contrary to Rambam Hilchos Bais HaBichirah 1:1 as well as Sefer HaChinuch and numerous other sources, that there is a mitzvah to build it even in our day.

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    It’s about time we stopped apologizing every time Israel does something or even thinks of doing something. No one should be able to dictate to a sovereign, democratically elected nation where & what they can build or do. And that includes those Muslim terrorists AND the US.

    As for the Bayis Hashlishi…halevei Moshiach comes today! Then that structure on Har Habayis will be gone. and all of Israel is ours, free & clear. I am sorry Rabbi Metzger shlita felt it was necessary to placate the Arabs.

    Say the tuth
    Say the tuth
    14 years ago

    Why be apologetic instead of saying it boldly as follows:

    All Arabs and the USA and everyone else in the world should be put on notice that the rebuilding of the Beis Hamikash is a 100% certainty and we are not going to ask what the USA thinks and for sure not what Arabs think or want.

    The timing will be when G-d wants it to be with Moshiach and that can be any second including this very second.

    Achake Lot Bechol Yom, Sheyovo and that can be today and the Beis Hamikdash Hashlishi can be in it’s place today regardles of what any Arabs want or think and even if Netenyahu or Lehavdil Obama will not be happy it will not be any deterrent.

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    What shtus these people won’t leave us in peace even for the restoration of a shul. I hope the bais hamikdash is rebuilt sooner than these shgotzim can criticize our wonderful nation

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    the discusion above regarding building the beis hamikdosh is an intersting one, I hope no am ha’aratzim like some litvish guy who only learns gemora will start advertising his am ha-aratzus.
    regarding what 4 says: it is not poshut, it would come out from the conclution of the rambam and poiskim that hashem will build the beis hamikdosh, but we human beings will also have a part of it, some say moshiach will put up the doors.
    Also , you bring a good point: every day the beis hamikdosh is not built every single yid is oiver an aveira of not building the beis hamikdosh, (yet it still dose not mean we should build it now, isreal has to have cirtain conditions in order to begin, that is a long halochik descussion, be’pashtus till moshiach comes it will not have these conditions, one of the conditions is a garentee of security…. with even one arab in Jerusalem or in israel it is probebly not a safe an long secure land…….halochikly)

    josh
    josh
    14 years ago

    I am also sorry that Rabbi Metzger shlita felt it was necessary to placate the Arabs. And even saying that we have no intention to build the Beit Hamikdash this week is I think afikurs, has vhalilah, of believing the Masiach will come any day.

    What is interesting though is that the Muslims see us through their eyes. They do not see this a simple synagogue building completion as the vast majority of us (sadly) sees it. They think we are doing this a) as a provocation b) as a real sign that we will rebuild the Temple – I mean a real actual concrete plan about to happen. Halavai it would be true.