Packed Throngs went to the Western Wall during Passover 2010
This is the question that Israel National News asked when the amazing number of people returned to pray at the Western Wall plaza over the recent Passover holiday was discovered to be over 600,000 people, according to the Israeli Police and the Kotel Heritage Fund. From all around the world, rich and poor, the youth and the infirmed, the orthodox and the secular, all sensed that a profound change was occurring within their land. For the first time in two thousand years the Jews had a national synagogue and were actively thinking about the construction of a Third Temple.
Day after day, vast streams of pilgrims, like in the days of old, kept arriving 24/7. They all had to walk as no private vehicles or touring buses were allowed in the Old City of Jerusalem. They arrived through the Jaffa Gate, the market entrances, the Damscus (Shechem) Gate and through the Jewish Quarters of the Old City.
As Rabbi of the Kotel, Rabbi Shmuel Rabinovich remarked as he praised the Jerusalem Police for their marvelous work of securing the region of the Western Wall:
Kotel Rabbi Shmuel Rabinovich – “These statistics point to the fact that that the Kotel is a spiritual home for all of the world's Jews, without any barrier or difference in status, and I hope that this trend will continue and that there will not be a single Jewish boy or girl who does not visit the Kotel.”
More amazing that while the American White House was demeaning the Israeli administration for the lack of willingness to partition Jerusalem and give the heartland of Ancient Israel, where the Patriarchs lived and traveled, to the Palestinians for an Islamic State dedicated to the destruction of the Jewish people, the largest modern number of devotees to the G-d of Israel were flocking to the Holy Land. Unknown to them also, most of the Christian pilgrims from America and Europe were also their Lost Tribal cousins of the Lost Tribes of Israel. They were sharing as one people the sacredness of walls that that once shadowed the base of the former Second Temple of G-d, the Temple of Herod.
The mystical and esoteric sacredness of the number of 600,000 is profound to the Jewish consciousness and spiritual significance of their faith. It was the number of Israelite males that made the great “Exodus” to their freedom from spiritual and physical bondage back to the ancestral homeland of their patriarchal forefathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob that occurred on the first Pesach about 3550 years ago. It was also the number of Jews that were first redeemed back into the land after their second exile from the Great Holocaust that formed the new Jewish State of Israel in 1948. It was also the number of Israeli Defense Force soldiers that fought to remain free occupation by the Five Islamic Nations during the Six Day War in 1967 when Jerusalem was liberated from the occupation of the Nation of Jordan. Now with Jerusalem under their control, and the National Hurva Synagogue now rebuilt for the third time in the midst of the Jewish Quarters, the rumors were swirling around that it was time to build the Third Jewish Temple.
The Israeli Hurva National Synagogue in Jerusalem
The Islamic Waqf should have laughed at the foolishness of the Jewish people for they claim that there is no evidence for the Jewish presence on the Temple Mount. They should know for they have been the ones doing indiscriminate digging through ancient sediment and throwing the debris into a big pile. Instead they preached their fears of hatred to the Jews and roused up a rebellion on the Temple Mount in a new intifada proclaiming loud and clear that what they believed in their hearts was that the Jews do have ancient rights to the Temple Mount and were about to claim their own ancestral heritage.
It was three thousand years ago, about 1000 BCE that the Temple of Solomon was built by King
Solomon and destroyed almost four hundred years later by the Nebuchadnezzar and the forces from Babylon. Seventy years later, under the Jewish Persian governorship of the Prince of David Zerubabbel, the Second Temple was built as the Zerubabbel Temple. It was later rebuilt and enlarged as the Temple of Herod.
Believed by some to have been built on the Temple Mount and others on a platform over the Gihon Springs to the south now called the Ophel Archeological Gardens that was razed totally to the ground, the Temple of Herod was sacked by the Roman soldiers in 70 CE and truly leveled to the ground. Six hundred years later, the Muslims conquered the city of Jerusalem in the 7th century CE and built their sacred mosques atop the Temple Mount that may have been only a Roman garrison representing the Roman occupation powers of a pagan imperial nation.
Are not the twists of history a strange coincidence that the Muslim Waqf may be representing a pagan occupier, which they are by their presence there, and also a usurper seeking to take possession of what was not theirs as a modern day occupying force in Samaria and Judea, a word which they are trying to apply to the Jewish people. The day will come when the Jewish people will claim what is rightfully theirs and reinsert their destiny not only on all Jerusalem, the Temple Mount but in all Israel, Samaria and Judea alike. 600,000 the population of Israel in 1948, 600,000 the number of soldiers in the 1967 Six Day War, and today, 6,000,000 in Israel when the Messiah comes.
Credits to Gil Ronen – “Jewish Spiritual Awakening? 600,000 visit Kotal over Pesach –
Israel National News, April 6, 2010