Buried under a Palestinian orchard near the city of
David, Bethlehem, a mysterious 2,800 year old pillar has been discovered by an
Israeli tour guide. In the month of
February, 2013, a Israeli tour guide was taking a group of Israel lovers though
an underground tunnel near to the ancient home of King David, when they accidently
stumbling over a pillar with exotic carvings by expert stonemasons attributed
to the era of King Solomon’s Tomb.
Binyamin Trooper, the tour guide reported his find to
the Israel
Antiquities Authority and to his surprise, they knew about it, and urged
him to “keep it quiet” and let it remain unnoticed beneath two yards of dirt
and rubble.
Trooper, a worker at the field school in Kibbutz Kfar
Etzion, was informed of finding such a politically charged pillar of antiquity
attributed to the era of Kings David and Solomon, that was buried beneath land
that was privately owned by a Palestinian. Known full well, that the Department
of Antiquities would not dare to excavate in this region, he instead reported
it in the Hebrew local press this potentially “huge find” which have filtered
out in Israel over the last few weeks.
Though the location has been kept secret to keep it
out of the hands of Palestinian thieves of works of antiquities, this site has
been secretly visit by several noted Israeli archeologists including Yosef
Garfinkel, professor of archeology of Hebrew University, who agreed that “there
is no doubt that the remains are those of monumental construction from the time
of the First Temple [of King Solomon].”
According to the analysis of Professor Garkinkel, the
capital of the pillar at the top, is identified as “proto-aeolic” in
construction whose style dates to about 2,800 year ago, within two hundred
years of Kings David and Solomon during the era of the kings of the Northern Kingdom
of Judah. The top of the pillar,
known as a capital, is of a type known as proto-aeolic, he said. That style
dates to around 2,800 years ago.
The
evidence appears that this pillar was a “marker” to the entrance of a carved
water tunnel that tunneled underground at least 250 yards. According to Garfinkel,
this type of construction would have required the skill masons that were hired
by the central administrative government in the City of David that ruled over
the Northern Kingdom of Judah.
This
type of construction as explained by the eminent archeologist appears to be
patterned like another grand water project during the era of the First Temple;
the Siloam
Tunnel in Jerusalem,
that today is tunneling under the modern-day Arab neighborhood of Silwan, that
is believed to have been constructed during the days of King Hezekiah who was
preparing the city for the siege of Sennacherib, the King of Assyria in the 8th
century BCE.
So
now this site, never in the possession of the Palestinians 2,000 years ago yet
under the rule of the Jews during the era of the Temple of Herod is now internationally
contested to be Palestinian homeland. That is property that was under the
possession of the Jewish people from the temple era days of Kings David and
Solomon until the Temple of Herod was destroyed with Jerusalem in 70 CE.
Not
only that, this pillar is in the vicinity of Bethlehem, never an Arab city in
antiquity but the esteemed birthplace of King David. As was noted by Hezekiah’s
grand water tunnel, this water tunnel site also suggests that it was a royal
sponsored project nearby to a royal palace, a government building or an
agricultural center, for as Garfinkel mused:
Israeli Archeologist Binyamin Garfinkel - “The
construction is first rate. There is definitely something important there from
biblical time, the 9th to the 8th century BCE.”
According to the principles
of true Zionism, the re-discovery of archeological remnants of the ancient past
have always shown the long history and the depth of the presence and love of
the Jewish people for the “Holy Land of Israel.” This has recently since the 1840s been a
rediscovery for not only the Jewish people, but also the Lost Ten Tribes of the
House of Israel who through their Christian roots have rediscovered their own
Hebrew roots, once lost but now being revealed to be the Lost brothers of
Judah, seeking to be reunited to Klal Yisrael, All Israel in the era just preceding
to the Jewish messianic age.
It’s no wonder that the
Palestinians have no sympathy to any discovery that identifies Bethlehem in
which they control, as a new archeological site identifying Jewish presence on land
in Israel which they claim as their own and part of their ancient cultural
inheritance. According the Mufti of Jerusalem, who was given governance but not
possession of the Temple Mount it has been a part of his grand scheme to destroy
all Hebrew and Jewish presence upon the Temple Mount. This is part of their way
of denying Jewish history on land in which they contest is part of their
ancient past but now claimed by the State of Israel as being part of the
ancient Jewish Kingdom of Judah.
The Jewish tour guide,
Benyamin Trooper stated that it was his hopes that interest in this site and
the pillar that marks its archeological worthiness will eventually stimulate
the Israeli government to conduct such an excavation. As Trooper stated:
Benyamin
Trooper – “This
site could be a source of income for the Palestinian owners and the nearby
village.”
Yet,
the Israel Antiquities Authority has been careful in its reports to the public
responses of this archeological treasure, so they also have not ruled out that
they could plan to excavate on this site also. As the Israel Archeological
Authority did recently state:
Israel Antiquities Authority – “This is
indeed an important find, which preliminary information dates to the time of
the kings of Judah. At the same time, it should be known that the subject is
sensitive and requires treatment that is delicate and responsible. The
Antiquities Authority, along with all other relevant authorities, has been
dealing with this for some time in an attempt to bring about the complete
excavation of the remains, and will continue its attempts to do so.”
This international conflict
for the possession of the tribal lands of Shomron and Judea, may be a conflict
that is about over. According to the Prophet
Zechariah, he was given a prophecy by the G-d of Israel in Hadrach, near
Damascus that a apocalyptic calamity would occur in Damascus that would change
the whole equation of Syrian rule by President Bashar Assad and would virtually
destroy the Syrian government and those lands under her influence through her
surrogates; Hizballah in Lebanon and Hamas in Gaza. According to Ibn Ezra, sometime in a future
era before the revealing of the messiah, a tsunami, or the sea would inundate
Tyre and carry away her possessions (Ezekiel 26:3, 19) and fire would destroy
her buildings, and this region will become a part of the Land of Israel.
Zechariah
9:1-7 (parts) – “Toward Hashem will be the eyes of mankind and all the tribes
of Israel (12-tribed Israel)…Tyre built herself a fortification…the L-rd will
impoverish her and He will strike her wealth with the sea (tsunami), and it (Tyre)
will be consumed by fires…
Gaza
will see and tremble greatly…for the one to whom she looked [for protection]
has been humiliated (Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood). A King (Hamas political
bureau chief, Khaled Meshaal or Hamas Prime Minister of Gaza Ismail Haniyeh) will
perish from Gaza…and I (G-d of Israel) will eliminate the pride of the
Philistines (Palestinians). I will remove his blood from his mouth and his
abominations from between his teeth, and then he too will remain for our G-d.
He will be like a master in Judah, and Ekron will be like the Jebusites.”
According to the sages of
Israel the Palestinians (ancient Philistines) will stop their bloodthirsty and
idolatrous practices, their genetic hatred to the Jewish people and will join
the Jewish people in Judah in worshiping the G-d of Israel. At that time, the Palestinians
will become like the leaders of Judah, and Ekron will be as Jewish as the former
Jebusite city of Jerusalem; totally assimilated into the Jewish economy. This will be a day to pray to come swiftly!
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The spiritual fight to corrupt the covenant relationship
between G-d and the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob has been ongoing
for over three thousand years. According to the Chumash, according to the
rabbinic commentators, G-d’s covenant with Israel was a covenant that could not
be broken, even though there was a party not deserving of it being fulfilled
for all eternity. Yet, HaSatan and the forces of evil will continue to lead us
to believe that if we fail and break the covenantal demands, it’s over for
us. That’s not true. For the G-d of Israel has promised that even if the
Jews and the Lost Ten Tribes of the House of Israel are both guilty of breaking
the covenant, yet, at the end of time, He will honor His Holy Name, and we both
will be redeemed; at least those who desire to be included as one of G-d’s
redeemed.
As we see in the article above, the same hold true for the
Palestinian Arabs whose genetic past has blended to a significant event with
the local Jewish Israelites living in the Land of Israel. The day will soon
come when the assimilation process that has caused such destruction to the
Jews, in Europe, America, and also in the Middle East will soon end. The flow
of assimilation will soon reverse, not away from historic Judaism but back
towards Judaism.
For the Christian Lost Ten Israelites, this will also be a
rediscovery that their “Jesus Christ” was a Prince of David, a Jewish rabbi,
who lived his life as a Hasidic Jew above and beyond the letter of the Jewish
Torah law. His call to you today, is the
same as his call was to his disciples two thousand years ago. If you want to be his disciple; follow him by
doing as he did and doing as he said; to live the life of Torah observance like
any Orthodox Jew is doing today.
So today, the G-d of Israel is whistling or coaxing you to
come back to the brotherhood of Klal Yisra’el (All Israel). To learn more about
this redemptive process, you are Welcome to Contact “Kol Ha'Tor”, the Voice of the
Turtledove. Here is a joint Orthodox Jewish and 10-Triber Vision to bring
awareness of the imminent fulfillment of the Biblical Prophecies regarding the
Redemption of all Israel (12 Tribes Re-conciled and Re-United). This super
Event of all Times will entail establishing in the region of Shomron (the
Ancient Bible Heartland of the Patriarchs) and the Judean Wilderness into a new
homeland for the Return of the Lost Ten Tribes of Israel when All Israel will
finally be redeemed.
For inquiries about Kol Ha Tor Vision for the Lost Tribes of
Israel, Visit – “Shomron
Lives!”,a Spiritual Retreat and Guest House in Samaria,
that hosts Shomron (Samaria) Tours to reacquaint the Returning Lost Tribers of
the House of Israel.
Nearby to the Ramat Shlomo
Quarter, a large Ultra-Orthodox Haredi Jewish neighborhood nearby to and
northwest of Jerusalem, another Herodian Quarry of limestone used in the
quarrying of smaller megalithic stones for King Herod’s Temple has been
discovered. Over 2,000 years old, this ancient excavation site was discovered
prior to the paving of a Highway 21 by the Moriah Company, according to the
Israeli Antiquities Authority (IAA).
This quarry which is about one
dunam in size is estimated to be 2,030 years old or about the year of 27
BCE. Located on Shmuel Hanavi Street
nearby to the neighborhood of Jerusalem’s American Colony, the excavation site
is bordered by the Jerusalem neighborhood Ramot to the west, Har Hotzvim to the
south and the Shuafat neighborhood to the east.
Originally call Reches
Shuafat (Shuafat Ridge), this rocky ridge was later named after the
Orthodox Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Auerbach, one of Judah preeminent rabbinic
scholars whose estimated 300,000 – 500,000 supporters lined the streets of
Jerusalem in 1995 when this rabbinic Torah giant died. His first major publication, Meorei Esh
was written on the use of electricity on the Jewish Shabbat and endorsed by
Rabbi Chaim Ozer Grodzinsky with these words; ‘A New Light will Shine upon
Zion’.
The quarry excavation site is
currently being explored by Dr. Ofer Sion and Yehuda Rapuano of the IAA, before
this area will be paved over with a street and developed into residential
buildings. According to Irina Zilberbod, IAA excavation director:
IAA Excavation Director Irina Zilberbod – “The quarrying phenomenon created a spectacular sight of bedrock columns and
steps and craters of sorts that were the result of the rock-cuttings. What
remained are rock masses in various stages of quarrying, and there were those
that were found in a preliminary stage of rock-cutting prior to detachment.”
According to Dr. Ofer Sion,
the large limestone blocks were excavated here and reused for the Temple Mount walls
nearby to the grand expansion and enlargement of Zerubabbel’s Temple into King
Herod’s Temple. This large stones were about the maximum height of two meters
(6.0 to 6.5 feet) and weighing in “tens if not hundreds of tons”. In total, the team
uncovered an area of around 11,000 square feet where the ancient quarry formerly
existed.
Yet, this was not the only quarry in the region. This
northern region, located along the entire slope of the rocky ridge from Musrara
Quarter to the Sanhedria Quarter have been the exploration grounds of prior
discovered quarries. This has prompted the name for this region as Jerusalem's
“city of quarries.” The youngest quarry dates from the Second Temple Era period.
Among the
artifacts discovered at the excavation site were multiple pickaxes plus metal
wedges that were used to “sever” the cut stones from the surrounding limestone
foundational layer. There was also an iron key, that was possibly used in a
large monumental door such as one of the gates to Jerusalem, or to King Herod’s
temple, plus metal plates or wedges that were used to sever the stones from the
bedrock, and coins and pottery shards dating back to the end of the Second
Temple period (the first century BCE). As Archeologist Irina Zilberbod, the
excavation director said in an official statement for the Antiquities
Authority:
Archeologist Irina Zilberbod - “The pick axes were used to cut the severance channels around the stone
block in the bedrock surface and the arrowhead-shaped detachment wedge, which
is solid iron, was designed to detach the base of the stone from the bedrock by
means of striking it with a hammer. The key that was found, and which was
probably used to open a door some 2,000 years ago, is curved and has teeth.
What was it doing there? We can only surmise that it might have fallen from the
pocket of one of the quarrymen (or a Temple Construction Supervisor).”
One of the prior excavations
sites nearby that was explored by the IAA over five years ago in 2007 were larger
megalithic stones reaching upwards to 26 feet in length and no doubt weighed over
100 tons in weight. These were used by King Herod and possibly even earlier by King
Solomon for Jerusalem’s monumental building projects. As Dr. Ofer Sion,
excavation director reported:
Dr.
Ofer Sion – “We know from historical
sources that in order to build the Temple and other projects which Herod
constructed, such as his palace, hundreds of thousands of various size stones
were required - most of them weighing between two and five tons each. The
dimensions of the stones that were produced in the quarry that was revealed are
suitable for the Temple walls.”
The
reason for the ridge site as a quarry zone is the fact that the Meleke
limestone rock formation was easily quarried for after the limestone was cut, shaped
and exposed to air, the limestone rock would harden immediately. The region of
the quarry was at a higher elevation than the Temple Mount so the transport of
the enormous limestone stone would have been taken downhill along a
first-century road that was discovered nearby.
How it
was transported was not exactly known except during the time of the Roman
Empire the use of giant wood-lifting devices were used and oxen plus giant
rollers could have brought the stones down to the site of the temple
reconstruction area by King Herod the Great. As explained by Dr. Ofer Sion:
Dr. Ofer
Sion – “The massive quarrying
effort, on the order of hundreds of thousands of stones, lowered the topography
of Jerusalem in the vicinity of the Old City. Today, with the exposure of this
quarry, the intensity of the building projects as described in the historical
sources can be proven.”
Quarried Stones on King Herod’s Temple Mount near
the Western Wall – Archives BibleSearchers
Reflections
Flavius
Josephus wrote that before Herod built the Temple he prepared the
infrastructure for it by quarrying stones north of the Temple Mount for eight
years in preparation for the largest platformed Temple in the entire Roman
Empire. With the preparation done, Herod’s Temple took only two years, a
remarkably short time to build such a monumental edifice. As Dr. Ofer Sion
continued:
Dr. Ofer Sion – “With
the exposure of the quarries in Sanhedria and Ramat Shlomo, it is clear that
Herod began quarrying closest to the Temple and worked away from it; first he
exploited the stone on the nearby ridges and subsequently he moved on to quarry
in more distant regions.”
According
to the archeologists, these multi-ton limestone stones were transported
downhill from the site of the quarry along an ancient road to the walled city
of King David, Jerusalem to the south where they would have been used in the
construction of the platform walls on the Temple Mount, King Herod’s Temple on
its own platform mount to the south, other monumental buildings such as King
Herod’s Palace nearby to the west.”
What is
clearly depicted is the historical fact that the Jewish people were living on their
own divinely appointed tribal homeland called the Roman Province of Judea under
the rule of King Herod the Great. They were participants with a massive
construction project to enlarge the Temple Mount site and to rebuild King
Herod’s Temple to the honor of the G-d of Israel as early as 30 BCE on a temple
site that was at least 500 years old at the time. This was more than 720 to
1220 years before the Islamic Shrine Masijd Qubbat As-Sakhrah was completed in
691 CE at the order of Umayyad Caliph Abd al-Malik.
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The Battle for the
Minds of the Human Race is now coming to its fullest revelation. The forces of
Darkness battled against the Forces of HaShem’s angels of Light as the final
battle over 2000 years ago for the souls of men on Planet Earth. It was the
divine rule of HaShem that the Sheep of the House of Judah would be sent into
one last exile, yet out of this epic war would set the stage for the restoration
for Lost Ten Tribes of the House of Israel and the final redemption of All
Israel; the Ten Lost Tribes of the House of Israel and the Jews of the House of
Judah.
The Roman Empire was a
major part of this Drama of the Ages then and continues to be so today with its
Christian descendants, the Roman Catholic Church and her children of the Christian
Protestant faith. They will all be participants in the Final Act of that Divine
Drama.
These participants not
only include the Jews of the House of Judah, the Lost Ten Tribes of the House
of Northern Israel; both of the House of Jacob (Israel), but will include the
Roman Edomites of the House of Esau, the brother of Jacob of the House of Isaac
and the Arabs of the House of Ishmael, the brother to Isaac of the House of
Abraham.
If you want to learn
more, Contact “Kol Ha Tor Vision”, the Voice of the Turtledove. Here
is a joint Orthodox Jewish and 10-Triber Mission to bring awareness of the
imminent fulfillment of the Biblical Prophecies regarding the Redemption of all
Israel (12 Tribes Re-conciled and Re-United).
The author of this
blog is a supporter of Kol Ha Tor Vision and while we are publishing material
that may be relevant to the Lost Ten Tribes of the House of Israel, the
leadership of Kol Ha Tor do not necessarily agree with everything we have
published. Yet, we understand, until the Messiah son of David comes to give us
full insight into what is happening to our lives and our world today, we may
know only in part while we continue to support the rabbanim of Israel and seek
reconciliation with the Jews of the House of Israel until we are finally one
family; the family of our Patriarchs Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
This reunification
will truly be a super Event of all Times that will entail Establishing Shomron
(the Ancient Bible Heartland of the Patriarchs) and the Judean Wilderness as
part of the Land of Israel, and preparing the “Land” for the Return of the Lost
Tribes of the House of Israel and then the Redemption of All Israel.
For inquiries about
Kol Ha Tor Vision for the Lost Tribes of Israel, we invite you to make a
personal Visit to Israel and stay at “Shomron Lives!”,a Spiritual Retreat and Guest House
in Samaria, that hosts Shomron (Samaria) Tours to reacquaint the Returning Lost
Tribers of the House of Israel.
Latest word from Israel from Kol Ha Tor
Director, Ovadyah Avrahami:
“This is 2nd in a series of Blessings observed in Israel
since Pesach. Is this the year of Blessing; the start of the Blessings foretold
by HaShem for the Time of gathering in the nation?
Surely this places His Nation under obligation for reciprocal Thanksgiving
Teshuvah ('turn around') especially in this time when our rulers are NOT tuned
in on the Will of HaShem, but rather on the will of Obama and the nations for
Israel - even for the interest of our enemies? In this respect, Jews are great exemplary executors of the NT "turn the other
cheek" (which Judaism does NOT interpret in Christian terms). Whatever the
case - the Blessings are coming!
Since Independence Day from last Monday, April 15 to
Shabbat on April 20, 2013 we have had untimely rains, more than the average
summer volume for a week! In fact, we
are back on our full winter clothing after summer had been breaking around
Pesach time!
I remember well in the 80’s, when we first came to Israel
on Aliyah. Summer would beat down relentlessly for 8 months a year without a
cloud in the sky. The seasonal change
over at end summer and end winter would take no longer than on e week. Over the
last few years we have noted a definite change in all these weather
patterns. Now abundant summer rains
after Independence day and back to winter.
This is time for Thanksgiving - and 10-Israel should join
with Judah in this celebration. HaShem's favor cannot be bought by our
'righteousness' - but, we surely could stand guilty of throwing His Kindness
and Blessings back in His Face, or for taking it simply as for granted, leaving
His Interest to find its own success.”
May His nation and people and all mankind
exalt Him!
May His people help tirelessly to build His Kingdom!
Ovadyah Avrahami
Destination Yisrael - During this weekend,
the storms and rains did wonders for the Sea of Galilee as she continued to
inch upwards from the water tables of the once “black line” and now standing at
212.12 meters upwards of 35 millimeters in one week. Reported storm, hail and
strong winds also caused significant damage upwards to NIS 35 million of damage
to fields of produce, that include avocados, citrus, fruits and vegetables,
field crops and ornamental plants plus hail damage that also did extensive
damage to numerous outdoor nurseries. These figures came from KANAT, the
insurance for natural damages in agriculture according to survey in 400
different points of crop damages.
Between the dates of
February 23 to March 4, 2013, the Mountain of Israel in Shomron and Judea
garnered the largest gains in water between 150 to 200 centimeters of water,
plus another 130-160 millimeters of rain water in Galilee and the Golan Heights
region to the northeast.
It appeared that the
final divine blessing of the “Latter Rain” may now be upon us, and will be
exemplified in a complete climate change in the Land of Israel. What we may be
witnessing is the prophetic fact that the Land of Israel and throughout the
regions of the future Greater Israel will again become a “Land flowing with
Milk and Honey”, not just by Jewish agricultural ingenuity but by the direct
blessings that Israel will be tectonically moved into a new latitude and
longitude and soon become again a tropical paradise. This fact dovetails with
the prophetic end time messages of Joel and Zechariah:
Joel
2:23
– “Be glad then ye
children of Zion and rejoice in the Lord your God: for He hath given you the
former rain moderately, and he will cause to come down for you the rain, the
former rain, and the latter rain in the first month” [Thus Nissan and the
beginning of Pesach (Passover) season].
Zechariah
10:1 –Ask the Lord for Rain in
the time of the Latter Rain.The Lord will make flashing clouds;He will give them Showers of Rain,Grass in the Field for
Everyone.
And then we must take
another look at the famous prophecy of the Last Seven Years before the Coming
of the Messiah by the famous Prophecy
of Rabbi Yochanan ben Zaccai of Yavnah after the city of Jerusalem and the Holy
Temple were destroyed in 70 CE:
Sanhedrin 97a – “Rebi Yochanan ben Zaccai of Yavnah
said: In the generation that Ben Dovid will come, talmidei chachamim, the
“pupil of wisdom” known as the Torah sage or scholar, will decrease, and the
eyes of the remainder will protrude from sighing and sorrow; many chastisements
and many evil decrees will be renewed; one will not cease before another
begins.”
Today we can begin to perceive the
unfolding drama of the last few years before the coming of the Messiah son of
David (Maschiah ben Dovid). Now that we know when
the fifty year Jubilee Cycles will end, it now appears that the new Messianic
Age will begin in the year of 2017; according to the 13th century
prophecy by “Rabbi
Judah ben Samuel of the last 10 Jubilees before the revealing of the Messiah”.
Rabbi Judah ben Samuel - “When the Ottomans
(Turks) – who were already a power to be reckoned with on the Bosporus in
the time of Judah Ben Samuel – conquer Jerusalem they will rule over
Jerusalem for eight jubilees. Afterwards Jerusalem will become no-man’s
land for one jubilee, and then in the ninth jubilee it will once again
come back into the possession of the Jewish nation – which would signify
the beginning of the Messianic end time.”
Then we complete the
Prophecy of Rabbi Judah ben Zaccai of Yavneh of the last Seven Years before the
coming of the Messiah as we read these words:
In the first year (2009 starting with Rosh Hashanah 2008),
the following prophecy in Amos 4:7 will be fulfilled “I caused it to rain on
one city, but, on another city, I did not cause it to rain.
In the second year (2010, starting with Rosh Hashanah 2009),
there will be a “slight famine” in which according to Rashi, “no place will be
completely satisfied”.
In the third year (2011 starting with Rosh Hashanah 2010),
“famine will be great, and men, women, children, pious people, and men of good
deeds will die; Torah will be forgotten by those who learned it.”
In the fourth year (2012, starting with Rosh Hashanah 2011),
“some will be satiated while others are not.”
In the fifth year (2013, starting with Rosh Hashanah 2012),
there will be plenty and people will eat, drink, and be joyous, and the Torah
will return to those who learned it.”
In the sixth year (2014, starting with Rosh Hashanah 2013),
there will be voices which according to Rashi depict either the blowing of the
shofars (war) or the hints and voices about the coming of the messiah.
In the seventh year (2015, starting with Rosh Hashanah
2014), there will be war.”
The eighth year will be the Year of the Messiah when it will be expected that he will be fully revealed by the G-d of Israel in the year beginning with Rosh Hashanah 2015 and Planet Earth’s calendar year of 2016. The inaugural reign of King Messiah will begin as all the kings of Israel in the next year when the Jubilee Year ends on Rosh Hashanah 2016. Will we enter the new era of the Messiah in the Jewish Year 5777 (5000 + 777) or the Planet Earth’s calendar year of 2017?
To the Jews of the
Land of Israel, by Rosh Hashanah, you will be fully in perception that the G-d
of Israel is holding out His hand of mercy to you and the Land of Israel. At that time we will then see the fulfillment
of the prophetic promise of Ezekiel given to him by the G-d of Israel (Ezekiel
36) to be given to the Lost Ten Tribes of the House of Israel; the land of
Israel will be restored to Gan Eden, the restoration of the Garden of Eden.
Also at the time will
be the great ingathering of “All Israel”; the Lost Ten Tribes of the House of
Israel plus the ingathering of all the Jews of the diaspora. Hundreds of
millions of Lost Israelites will be returned to the “land of their forefathers
and return in love and fellowship with their brothers the Jews of the House of
Israel.
Ezekiel
36:22-23, 24-28 (parts); 33- - “Therefore, tell the house of Isra’el that
Adonai Elohim (L-rd G’d) says this:I am not going to do this for your sake, house of Isra’el, but for the sake
of my holy name, which you have been profaning among the nations where you
went. I will set apart my great name to be regarded as holy, since it has
been profaned in the nations – you profaned it among them. They will know that I
am Adonai,’ says Adonai Elohim, ‘when, before their eyes, I am set apart
through you to be regarded as holy.
For
I will take you from among the nations, gather you from all countries,
and return you to your own soil. Then I will sprinkle clean water upon
you…I will cleanse you from your uncleanliness…I will give you a new heart and
put a new spirit inside your…You will live in the land I gave to your
ancestors. You will be my people, and I will be your G-d…
When
the day comes for me to cleanse you from all your guilt, I will cause cities
to be inhabited and the ruins to be rebuilt. The land that was desolate
will be tilled, whereas formerly it lay desolate for all passing by to see.
They will say, ‘the land that used to be desolate has become like Gan Eden
(Garden of Eden)…Then the nations around that remain will know that I,
Adonai, have rebuilt the ruins and replanted what was abandoned. I, Adonai,
have spoke; and I will do it!”
If that
fact does not make your heart palpitate, will anything else?
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The G-d of Israel is
working with imperfect people in order to restore this planet to a messianic
era in which our lives can be focused on holiness, righteousness and justice.
If so, you might desire to reconnect with the Biblical portrayals of what is
and will be happening in your near future.
This Biblical portrayal
includes Prophecies that the Lost Tribes of the House of Israel are about to
return to the Land of their Biblical Inheritance. This is Divine Destiny in
living reality as the 10 Lost Tribes of Israel return to their Homelands first
in Shomron (Samaria), Israel.
If you want to learn
more, Contact “Kol Ha Tor Vision”, the Voice of the Turtledove. Here
is a joint Orthodox Jewish and 10-Triber Mission to bring awareness of the
imminent fulfillment of the Biblical Prophecies regarding the Redemption of all
Israel (12 Tribes Re-conciled and Re-United). This super Event of all Times
will entail Establishing the Shomron (the Ancient Bible Heartland of the
Patriarchs) and the Judean Wilderness as part of the Land of Israel, and
preparing the “Land” for the Return of the Lost Tribes of the House of Israel
and then the Redemption of All Israel.
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Tribers of the House of Israel.
In Part One of this series, we once again witnessed the
continuing quest of a few of the religious Zealots who like their ancestors of
old, sought to return Judaism to the life of their ancient forefathers of old.
If only, they believe from the depths of their hearts, that if Torah observant
Jews fulfilled the exact precepts of Torah law including the sacrificing of the
Korban lamb upon the Temple Mount, their hopes and dreams would precipitate the
coming of the Maschiah ben Dovid (Messiah son of David).
So we ask; is the Zionist State of Israel part of the social
profane, or the sacred? If we truly believe that the G-d of Israel is the Sovereign
G-d of the Universe, then we also will believe that He alone is stirring up the
nations to the final fulfillment of prophecy that a future Messianic Age will
come.
Can we then believe that the words spoken by the G-d of
Israel spoke through the pen of the Prophet Zechariah to the Jews that returned
back to Jerusalem after the Babylonian captivity also have a meaning to not
only to the Jewish people today but also to the Lost Ten Tribes of the House of
Israel?
Zechariah 1:3-6 – “Thus said HaShem,
Master of Legions: ‘Return to Me – the word of HaShem, Master of Legions – and
I will return unto you…Do not be like your fathers, to whom the prophets of
old, called out, saying…Return now, from your evil ways and from your evil
deeds, ‘but they did not listen nor pay attentions to Me…
Your forefathers, where are they?
And as for the prophets, could they live forever? However, My words and My
decrees, which I commanded My servants the prophets, did they not befall your
fathers? They repented and said, ‘Just as HaShem Master of Legions, thought to
do to us, according to our ways and our deeds, so did He with us.’”
Within the Prophetic Book of Zechariah
G-d left behind a message to us today, in the transliteration of the Prophet
Zechariah’s name in Hebrew: Zekaryah ben Berechiah ben Iddo (Zechariah
son of Berechiah grandson of Iddo). So we also learn, according to the traditions of the Hebrews, the names of the authors in the prophetic book of the TaNaKh have a special significance. In this prophetic book written for our end times, we see the following meaning of Zechariah unfold:
Zechariah (Zekaryah) is known as “HaShem remembers”, or “HaShem has remembered.”
Berechiah, the meaning of the name of the father of Zechariah is: “G-d blesses”
Iddo, the
meaning of the name of the grandfather of Zechariah was: “At the appointed
time”.
So the end-time message is: “G-d remembers and God blesses at the
appointed Time”
As Hebrew is translated from right to left, then, we might also consider that the following meaning of Zechariah’s
name spoken in reverse also means:
“At the Appointed Time, G-d blesses and G-d
remembers”
So today, we are witnessing prophecy in
fulfillment. Jewish organizers of the Sacrifice of the Korban Lamb/Goat rehearsal
that was now denied by the Israeli Veterinary Society, took a petition to the Jewish
court in Jerusalem. There they received a ruling that gave permission for the
Passover ritual of the sacrificing of the lamb or goat to continue. You may
witness this event below.
The Jewish Passover sacrificial ritual continued. It was
presided over by Rabbi Yehuda Glick, who, earlier had his Korban goat
“arrested” and later slaughtered by the command of the Israeli
Agricultural Minister at the Wildlife Supervision Department. Rabbi Yehuda
Glick later described that this riveting ritual was carried out with the
greatest of care for its biblical accuracy.
As he described:
Rabbi Yehuda Glick –
“We took the goat, as the Torah commands, we had an altar
built like the real one, and a cooking pit built according to halakhah (Jewish
Torah Law) We slaughtered the goat with Leviim singing and priestly clothing,
just like in the real Passover sacrifice. The ritual was emotionally moving.
The symbolism of standing opposite the Temple Mount and preparing for the real
Passover sacrifice – it was without doubt a special moment.”
Today, Rabbi Yehuda
Glick is the founder of the organization called “The Movement for the
Establishment of the Temple”. According to Rabbi Glick, the Jewish people
have become “psychologically connected, over the centuries, to the Western Wall
of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem because the rebuilding of the temple seems
like an impossible task.” It was only 25 years ago they the Jewish people
actually started ascending upon the Temple Mount. First it was small groups but
now hundreds of Jews and Christians are now going up upon the Temple. Yet,
recently the Jewish people once again been discriminated
against and not allowed to ascend to the Temple Mount
while Christians and Muslim are still allowed. So who is this Movement for the
Establishment of the Temple that is gaining so much public attention?
Motti
Inbari – “This article discusses the internal world of the Movement
for the Establishment of the Temple, a small and unique group within modern-day
ultra-Orthodox circles in Israel. This group seeks to achieve a religious
revolution within Israeli Orthodoxy through its demand to rebuild the Temple
and to abolish the grave halakhic prohibition against entering the Temple Mount
area. The movement argues that Orthodox passivity on this issue is due to a
theological error, and accordingly it offers an alternative historiographic and
theological approach.
The article discusses in
detail the manner in which this group has attempted to achieve religious change
and to address the dilemmas raised by this demand. It also discusses the manner
in which the group acts to encourage messianic activism within traditionalist
Orthodox circles.
This discussion may
provide valuable information regarding the behavior of modern-day
ultra-Orthodox society. The article describes the theological crisis provoked
in certain Orthodox Zionist circles by the Oslo process, which was based on a
territorial compromise between the State of Israel and the Palestinians in the
Land of Israel, and explains why this crisis enabled the movement's ideas to
penetrate growing circles within the rabbinical leadership of Gush Emunim.
Concern that the State
of Israel might hand the Temple Mount over to Palestinian control led to a
change in what had been considered for centuries to be a grave religious
prohibition.”
This Temple Mount
Movement understandably has caused great dissension among the Islamic people,
who believe that the Temple Mount is holy only to the Muslim people. Yet, Rabbi
Glick is now calling on all the Jewish people to unite and make every effort to
go to this sacred site and focus their prayers upon the rebuilding of the next
temple in Jerusalem.
In fact, it was back
April, 2011, that Glick claimed that the Children of Israel were commanded “in
perpetuity” to sacrifice a lamb or a goat on each anniversary of the
Exodus. Even though the current belief
that without the temple, that was last destroyed less than 2,000 years ago, in
the days of the Exodus, there was not a temple. The first Passover (Pesach) was
conducted by every Israelite family, and according to Glick, so they should be
doing so today.
Back in 2011, Rabbi
Glick, along with several influential rabbis, as written in The Jewish Daily Forwards
in the article titled, “300
Goats and Sheep, 20 Slaughterers, One Willful Rabbi”, we
learned that Rabbi Yehuda Glick contracted Jewish farmers to provide him with
300 sheep and goats for a sacrifice, should the Messiah come. Also, there were
20 Jewish slaughterers on stand-by. This event was written about on Destination
Yisrael in the article titled, “Will the Sacrifice of the Pesach
Lamb be reinstituted in Jerusalem in 2011?”
For those who wanted to
“share”, that is one ounce of lamb or goat meat, prepared according to the
halakhic command of a sacrificial animal, they were invited to purchase it by
phone, and a credit card for 12 shekels which was about $3.00. By the eve of
Pesach over 3,000 people had signed up.
The official inauguration
of the sacrificial ritual is, according to Rabbi Glick, the next step to the
actual fulfillment of biblical prophecy. At that time the work of the Temple
Mount Faithful will become fulfilled. According to the Temple Mount Faithful,
all the implements that are needed to be used in a new temple have been made.
This included the knowledge of where the site of the new Jewish Temple is to be
built upon the Temple Mount.
The Great Golden Menorah
to be used in the next Jewish Temple has been built and housed in a glass
protective casing for the visiting public to inspect. Also all of the 28,000
priests needed to conduct the sacrifices in the next Jewish temple have been
trained. Their priestly garments are now ready to be used.
Now, according to Rabbi
Glick, it is time for the Jewish people to become accustomed to “ascending the
Temple Mount” and now only to learn how to pray but to become involved as
participants in the future Temple services.
As such Rabbi Yehuda Glick has now proclaimed; “There should be no more
prayers at the Western Wall, but instead, let’s go up to the Temple Mount.”
Sanhedrin
97a – “Rebi Yochanan said: In the generation that Ben Dovid will come, talmidei
chachamim, the “pupil of wisdom” known as the Torah sage or scholar, will
decrease, and the eyes of the remainder will protrude from sighing and sorrow;
many chastisements and many evil decrees will be renewed; one will not cease
before another begins.”
Let us now look at the final four
years in this collections of passages in the Talmud in Sanhedrin 97a, as was
given by the famous Jewish sage, Rabbi Yochanan ben Zaccai:
According to Rabbi Yochanan ben Zaccai, these
immediate future days over the next 3½ years are part of HaShem’s vision for
our future life. Here was Rabbi Yochana’s vision of the final four years that
began with the Last Sabbatical Week of Years on Rosh Hashanah 2008. Here is how
he envisioned what will happen in the Land of Israel in the final four years as
the world is sinking into the economic
abyss, it’s affect upon the Land of Israel that will begin to improve in the
year of 2013, and the contagiousness about the coming of the Messiah will
become serious in the Jewish population by the years of 2014 to 2015.
Talmud
Sanhedrin 97a – “In the fourth year (2013), some will be satiated while
others are not,
In
the fifth year (2014), there will be plenty and
people will eat, drink, and be joyous, and the Torah will return to those who
learned it.
In
the sixth year (2015), there will be voices which
according to Rashi depict either the blowing of the shofars (war) or the hints
and voices about the coming of the messiah.
In
the seventh year (2016), there
will be war (GogUMogog War or Armageddon).”
Rabbi
Judah heHasid – “In the ninth jubilee (1967-2917) Jerusalem will once again
come back into the possession of the Jewish nation – which will signify
the beginning of the Messianic end time.”
As Destination Yisrael wrote:
Destination
Yisrael - “This leaves one more Jubilee,
the tenth Jubilee since the Ottoman Turks took control of Jerusalem and the
Land of Promise in the years of 1517. According to this Jewish sage, the end of
this tenth Jubilee will “signify the beginning of the Messianic end time.”
As
we review the Sabbatical Week of Years, this present Sabbatical Cycle began on
Rosh Hashanah 2008 5778. The 8th year would have been the day of the
Messiah ending Rosh Hashanah 2009, but the Messiah did not come.
If
this Sabbatical Messianic cycle 2009-2017 is completed and the GogUMogog war
does begin within the year between Rosh Hashanah 2015 to Rosh Hashanah 2016,
then the Messianic Era will commence before Rosh Hashanah 2017. We are
currently in the 4th year of the Sabbatical Messianic Cycle that
began on Rosh Hashanah 2009, now in the Jewish year 5773 (2013).
There
is still time for the Messiah the Prince, the anti-Messiah to forge a covenant
with the “Holy Ones” of the rabbanim of Jerusalem for a seven year hudna, for
the biblical text in Daniel clearly states that it will be abrogated by the
anti-Messiah within 3½ years.
Can
we look forward to a Middle East Peace Accord by Passover 2013? If so, 3½
years later, will be see the revealing of the Maschiach ben Dovid before Rosh
Hashanah 2016 (Jewish year 5777 between Rosh Hashanahs 5776-7)?
If
so, the Epic Year of the Messiah will be here on Rosh Hashanah 2016 or the
Jewish year of 5000 plus 777 years. The age of the Enlightenment of the Torah
will have begun. The forces of evil will have been destroyed and the Kingdom of
G-d on Planet Earth will begin with the Maschiach ben Dovid ruling with the
“rod of iron”.
The day will soon be
here when the HaShem, the G-d of Israel will open the gates of the supernal
heavens, and at that time, no man or any group will be able to stop the final
prophetic river from flowing towards the mighty waterfall that will cascade us
into the Age of the Messiah.
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2013 Passover Series: The Jewish Quest to
Observe Torah Law on the Temple Mount
The Exodus and the Pesach Festival are an indelible link of
the ancient Israelites to the modern Jewish people. Even the Lost Ten Tribes of
the House of Israel who are predominately worshipping in Christian Churches
today, worship the Passover in a corrupted festival of Easter initiated by the
First Church of Rome in the 3rd century CE. Yet, there is still real
spiritual imagery that if taken back to their Hebrew-Judaic roots could become
the pathway of the Lost Christian Israelites to be reunited back with their
Jewish brothers of the House of Judah.
To understand more about the Return of the Lost 10
Tribes of Israel to their
Homeland in Israel, Contact “Kol Ha Tor”,
the Voice of the Turtledove. Here is a joint Orthodox
Jewish and 10-Triber Vision destined to bring awareness of the imminent fulfillment of the Biblical Prophecies regarding the Redemption of all Israel (12 Tribes
Re-conciled and Re-United). This super Event of all Times will entail
Establishing the Shomron (the
Ancient Bible Heartland of the Patriarchs) and the Judean Wilderness as part of the Land of Israel, and preparing
the “Land” for the Return of the Lost Tribes of the House of Israel and then the Redemption of
All Israel.
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a Spiritual Retreat and Guest House in Samaria, that hosts Shomron (Samaria) Tours to reacquaint the Reawakening
and re-identifying Lost Tribers of the House of Israel with the actuality of
the Land and its population – the Jews, and how this integration can possibly
take place.
With
the recent election of the new Pope, Pope Francis I will now sit on the throne
of the Vatican in Rome. This new “Jesuit Saint” whose ministry to the poor and
the downtrodden in Argentina, has been carefully scripted into his future image
is now being transmitted around the world as the new personification of the
Roman Catholic “Jesus Christ” who will bring “Peace” to the Middle East.
Looking
through the telescope of history, it is thereby important for descendants of
the “Lost Sheep of the House of Israel” to bear in mind that it was this same Orthodox
Jewish rabbi who spoke to his disciples concerning the “last days” but gave
with this prophecy a warning:
Matthew 24:4 – “Watch out! Don’t let anyone fool you! For
many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am the Messiah!’ and they will lead many
astray. You will hear the noise of wars nearby and the new of wars far off; see
to it that you don’t become frightened. Such this must happen, but the end is
yet to come.
For people will fight each other, nations will fight each
other, and there will be famines and earthquakes in various parts of the world;
all this is but the beginning of the ‘birth pain.’ At that time you will be
arrested and handed over to be punished and put to death, and all peoples will
hate you because of me.
At that time many will be trapped into betraying and
hating each other, many false prophets will appear and fool many people; and
many people’s love will grow cold because of increased distance from the
Torah.”
With these words in mind, recently the
outgoing Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon left his official post in the
Israeli government and when he did, it was revealed that he has left a stain of
deception which screamed out in the recent headlines in the Jerusalem Post that announced:
Jerusalem Post – “Jerusalem is on verge of signing agreement
to formalize diplomatic relations with the Holy See.”
Why would the
State of Israel be signing diplomatic relations with the Vatican? The international news has been quiet for
almost eight years on any diplomatic moves by the Vatican with the State of
Israel. With this announcement there
came the report of “conflicting and disturbing reports” concerning the status
of the “Upper Room” (Cenacle Shrine of the Coenaculum) where it is believed
that the Jewish rabbi, Yahshua HaNotzri (Jesus the Nazarene) once hosted with
his disciples the “Last Supper” that occurred on Wednesday evening according to
the Passover traditions of the Essenes.
What is most
interesting is that this Prince of David was actually presiding over a
“Passover” season meal with his disciples in a place that the Nazarene history
called the “House with the Upper Room.” What was even more amazing was that this
“Upper Room” was located physically in the midst of the Essene Quarters of southwestern
section of the ancient walled city of Jerusalem. Not only that, this Prince of King David,
known as Rabbi Yahshua was sitting right over the traditional Tomb of King
David; a powerful political statement.
Today, this same
site is now the central campus of the Diaspora Yeshiva on the hill called Mount
Zion. Back in October, 2005, BibleSearchers Reflections
quoting Israel National News stated this report:
Israel National News – “An official
Vatican newspaper has reported that during his upcoming visit to the Vatican, President Moshe Katsav will sign an
agreement giving parts of David’s Tomb over to papal control. If such an
agreement is signed, it will put an end
to drawn out negotiations that began in 1998. Israeli and Vatican
representatives began discussing issues
of jurisdiction over certain sites around seven years ago. These sites include various buildings and parcels
of land that the Catholic Church claims it used to control.
The church is now seeking to reclaim
its ownership of these sites. Among the places under debate is an area
that the church refers to as the site
of the “last supper,” which is situated at the burial site of Kings David, Solomon, Rechavam (Rehoboam), Assa (Asa),
Chezekiyahu (Hezekiah) and Amatzia (Amaziah). The Vatican newspaper, El
Messagero, reports that President
Katsav is expected to sign an agreement during his visit that will give the
church control over the upper part of David’s Tomb. The church has
already shown Israel a trial agreement, according to which the Vatican will
receive.”
The news after that
time went underground. Now eight years later it is resurfacing again. This time
it was not open to the media or to the Jewish people but in the back offices of
the Foreign Ministry department. In 2005, there was an uproar that was led in
part by the indomitable Jewish Israeli reporter
Barry Chamish, that uncloaked the underhanded diplomatic agreements
that were about to be signed by the Israeli President Moshe Katsav. This
included also the threat, later to Israeli President Olmert of creating a “Jewish
Holocaust in Rome” if the State of Israel did not accept the Vatican sovereignty
to the site of the “House with the Upper Room”, and did not accept the “Spanish
Initiative” to remove Israeli soldiers in Gaza and replace them with soldiers
from Vatican Europe.
The Times on Line – “Vatican is hoping to regain control of the Room of the Last Supper in
Jerusalem, one of the most sacred sites in
Christianity. It will, in exchange,
hand over to the Jewish community
the historic synagogue at Toledo in Spain, at present a Catholic church.
The proposals, contained in a draft
agreement between the Israeli
Government and the Vatican, come on the eve of a state visit to the Vatican next month by President Katsav. Final
details on a long-delayed accord on the status of Roman Catholic properties in
the Holy Land are expected to be agreed during the visit, marking a new era of reconciliation between Christians and Jews after centuries of hostility.”
The
current site of the “Church with the Upper Room” was rebuilt by the Roman
Christian Crusaders in the 13th century upon the earlier foundations
of the original Jewish
Hebrew Nazarene Synagogue that was spared
by the Roman general Titus in the Roman destruction of Jerusalem in 70
CE. Today, it is also believed that
three walls of this current structure still exist from its earliest Jewish
roots built by the guardians of King David’s Tomb.
The
Holy Zion Octagonal Church was later built by Theodosius I about 382 CE, and
later enlarged by Bishop John II into a rectangular basilica with five naves
alongside and outside the original and ancient foundations of the historic
Synagogue of the Nazarene’s Apostles. This latter building was razed by the
Persian in 614 CE, and partially rebuilt by the Patriarch Modestus.
It
is stated that the entire structure was razed to the ground by the Muslim
caliph, Al-Hakim in the 7th century CE, and afterwards was replaced
by the current structure built by the Roman Christian Crusaders in the 12th
century as a five aisled basilica in what is called today the Dormition Abbey named
after the Jewish Princess of David whom the Roman Christian Church recognizes
as Mary, the mother
of Jesus.
In
ancient times, there were four
religious parties in the 1st century Temple of Herod era culture
in Jerusalem. These were the Sadducees that included the aristocratic families
of the high priests of Jerusalem, the Pharisees Beit Shammai,
the competing yeshiva (Jewish seminary) to Beit Hillel, the party of the Scribes
and the Lawyers (Mechoqeck), and what was known as the 4th Philosophy or
the 4th
Party of Judaism; the Essenes and the Hassidim. As BibleSearchers
Reflections wrote in 1999:
BibleSearchers Reflections – “The tradition
of the Essenes goes back to about 150
BC when the Chasidim, rebelled and split off from the Jewish hierarchy
in protest to their secular accommodation with Persian and Roman
authorities. They were the most
mysterious of all the sects in Judea. Outside of Josephus and Philo, the early Jewish
and Christian scholars had very little documentation until the Dead Sea Scrolls
were uncovered in the Qumran site near the Dead Sea about this mysterious sect.
The most prominent thesis accepted today is that Qumran was a library and manuscript production site, and
possibly the major headquarters of the Essenes in Judea. Hundreds
of documents, scrolls and fragments have been discovered and catalogued on every book of the Old Testament except the
Book of Esther. Also included were scores of books and commentaries outside the Old Testament Canon.
What was even
more revealing were the words and their meaning of their literature such as, ‘the poor’, ‘the meek’, the ‘four thousand’,
the ‘five thousand’, the ‘elect’, which were used in the teachings and
ministry of the Nazarene. They were a prophetic group with a defined
apocalyptic mission. They felt they were to wait the soon coming messiah
and to protect him when he arrived.
The Essenes, about one hundred fifty years before Yahshua HaNotzri’s
(Jesus the Nazarene’s) birth, split as part of the Chasidim separatists, over the Sadducee party who were working as
‘accomplices’ with the Romans to rule and for the security of Judea. To
them, the Sadducees were usurpers of
the role of the temple priests. Later the High Priest from the descendants
of the Levitical priestly line of Zadok, the appointed High Priest of King
David, but they too, were collaborators with Herod the Great, who brought them
over from the Jewish
temple in Leontopolis in Egypt.”
Understandable, during this era, Imperial
Rome was trying to take control of Judea using Herod the Great as their ally
and accomplice. In the year of 37 BCE,
Herod the Great sent a courier to Alexandria, Egypt and to the Jewish temple at
Leontopolis. The noted priest by the name
of Boethus was requested to return to the land of Israel and assume the control
of the office of the high priest in the Temple in Jerusalem that Herod the
Great was now expanding to become the largest and most opulent temple in the world.
The Zadokians, according to some experts had set up a separate Temple service outside of Jerusalem,
at Khirbet Mird, a Hasmonean Palace, which they claimed was ministered
by the pure line of Zadok temple priests. Yet, it was in year of 6 CE that
the high priests now ruling as the official high priests of the House of Zadok became
corrupted when the famed high priestly dynasty of Ananus (Ananias) the Great
took control of the office of high priest by out bidding “bribing” the
Procurator of Rome sent to rule the Roman province of Judea and whose dynastic
family virtually controlled the office of the high priest until the temple was
destroyed in 70 CE.
The
Cenacle was later destroyed again in 1219, yet was again spared and rebuilt in
1340 CE, when the Franciscan Order of Friars took custody and possession of this site. This
possession by the Roman Catholic Church lasted only 200 years when in 1552, the
Ottoman Turks took possession and transformed this building into an Islamic Mosque.
The
truth of this fact is that within the Cenacle is a semicircular niche called a
mihrab that indicated to the Muslim worshippers the qibla, or the direction where the Kaaba in Mecca was located. This
was important to know by every Muslim worshipper for they were to pray towards
that direction; not towards the Temple Mount and the sight of Solomon’s Temple but
towards Mecca. This again suggests the
disregard that the Arabs who lived during the Middle Ages had towards the
Temple Mount. Even then the Arabs did not place any sanctity to this place but
only further to the East in Mecca.
It
was in 1967, when the State of Israel won the 6-day war against her Muslim
neighbors who once again sought to annihilate the Jewish people in Israel.
Amazingly, it was seven hundred years earlier that a famous 12th
century Jewish rabbinic sage, Rabbi
Judah ben Samuel predicted, in that in the year
of 1967 the Jewish people would once again take possession of all Jerusalem and
the Temple Mount.
He
proclaimed that they, the Jewish people, would hold possession of this site for
one Jubilee (fifty years) before the Messiah son of David would begin his
messianic reign in Jerusalem in the year of 2017. Nowhere in any biblical or Jewish prophecy
does it suggest that the Jews with the State of Israel will relinquish
sovereignty of the Temple Mount. The Nazarene Judaism prophetic testimony
stated that there would be “Two Witnesses” who would protect Jerusalem and the
Holy Land for 1260 days (3½ years) up until about 18 hours before the revealing
of the Messiah, when they would be executed as the Islamic hordes dance over
their bodies. That said, there are numerous hints that a Jewish temple or a
Temple for all religions (Masonic Temple) would be built upon the Temple Mount
in an ecumenical bid to “Peace, with Great Security” for the whole earth.
Since
1967, the Jewish government in Jerusalem has faithfully guarded and allowed
peoples from all religions to worship in every holy site in the State of Israel.
This is a historical fact to the credit of the Jewish people and the State of
Israel. It contrasts, non-the-less,
against the Arab guardians of the Temple Mount called the Islamic Waqf, who
have desecrated every bit of Jewish evidence upon the Temple Mount even though
the State of Israel still maintains sovereign control and that they have been
given only semi-autonomous rule over the Temple Mount.
When
we look at the history of the Roman Christian Church, we also see an even more
predator like role, of possession for the sake of power, greed and control.
This gave rise to the Roman
Catholic Inquisition in the 13th century and its role of
destroying all forms of free speech and the right to the free expression of
worship.
What
is the historical truth today? Of all
peoples that come to worship in the Holy Land of Israel, as former Labor MK
Daniel ben Simon shockingly observed, only the Jewish
people are discriminated from worshipping upon the Temple Mount in Jerusalem; the holiest sacred place in Judaism today.
Another historical truth, the Cenacle where the disciples of the Jewish rabbi
called Jesus the Nazarene participated in a sacred ritual called the “Last
Supper” that was akin to the Wednesday evening Passover rituals as celebrated
by the ancient Essenes in Judea.
As
a matter of symbolism, it was a statement of authority when Yahshua, the Prince
of David sat in his reclining couch as was the custom in that age. Why? He was
sitting directly over the Tomb of David. The fact that it was protected and
guarded by the Essenes in its original site in the 1st century city
of Jerusalem and that it was the Essenes who were the guardians of all Princes
of David, suggest, that layers of hidden truth still remains as to the identity
of this mysterious rabbi who claimed that his only mission was that he was
“sent by his Father, to find the “Lost Sheep of the House of Israel.” (Matthew 15:24)
When
all the apparent and literal knowledge we know of this “One Man” who has made
the most profound impact upon human history, whether it be in its most simple
understanding (peshat) or in his most
hidden and mysterious meanings (sod)
and understandings, the most profound implication is that the Roman Christian
“Jesus Christ” and the Jewish Orthodox Nazarene “Jesus the Nazarene” are about
the same historical man, but the Roman Christian Jesus of corruption of the
Prince of David Yahshua.
There
is overwhelming evidence that the Jewish messiah of the Nazarenes was lifted
out of the philosophic and religious domain of historical Judaism in the 1st
century Temple of Herod era and corrupted and replaced with the philosophical
and religious understanding of the Greco-Roman Hellenistic world at that time.
The
archetypical and historical reality is that when the Jewish (yehudi) neshama soul was placed in time
and space in Judea and Galilee as an observant Jew, a prince of David, and a
Jewish Pharisee who evoked the halakhic understanding of Torah after the
Yeshiva (school) of Hillel the Great, his imprint upon the majority of the
peasantry class of Jews was profound in its impact. Yet this understanding was three
centuries later carefully remolded and amalgamation with the surrounding pagan
ideas of Mithraism and the Roman gods of the Greco-Roman world.
It was the First
Church of Rome that destroyed the documentation and original historical archives of
this Jewish prince of David and messiah and replaced its authentic Jewish
history with a power structure that rose up in history as the Roman Catholic
(world-wide) Church who sought to smother all of his authentic Jewish roots.
The
facts still exist that the pathway of halakhic Torah truth as espoused by 1st
century Judaism was permitted by the G-d of Israel to become the pathway of
restoration eventually for the Lost Ten Tribes of the House of Israel. It was they who completely lost their identity,
their way, and their G-d. Even so, the G-d of Israel promised them that He
would restore them also to their chosen destiny as Klal Yisrael (All Israel).
Since
the day of the liberation of Eastern Jerusalem from the Occupiers of the State
of Jordan in 1967, this site, the “Upper Room” sitting directly over the Tomb
of King David has also been for almost one Jubilee the site of Jewish religious
schools called yeshivas. Today they are teaching the new generations of
observant Jews how to live and keep the commands of the Torah.
Yet,
like the Temple Mount, who also the State of Israel claims sovereignty rights
over its possession, did give control of the Temple Mount to the Islamic Waqf,
only to have the Waqf begin a process of systematically destroying all the
evidence of its Jewish heritage and replace it with Islamic mosques forbidden
by Jews and Christians alike from entering. So today, the sites of these Jewish
seminaries (yeshivas) are now being threatened to be turned over to the control
of the apostate Christianity called the Roman Catholic Church.
Yet,
Jews have already walked that walk before, when in 1967, they turned over the
managing control of the Temple Mount to the Islamic Waqf of Jerusalem. What did
they receive in return; riots, Jewish people arrested, rocks thrown down from
the Temple Mount to the praying worshippers below and more recently
throwing “fire bombs” as Israeli police
protecting the Temple Mount that turned one policeman into a fireball? All of
these things are committed by the Islamic occupiers while the Jews have to observe
that the sanctity of the site where once stood the two sacred temples of
Judaism; Solomon’s Temple and King Herod’s Temple while they also observe children
playing games, adults loitering with abandonment, and no real care given to the
real sanctity of this site to the G-d of Israel.
At
that time, the official negotiator of the “Upper Room” was the President of
Israel, President Moshe Katsav. Yet this same Israeli president later received
his reward by the Divine when on December 3, 2011, President Moshe Katsav began
serving a seven year sentence in the Israeli Maasiyahu Prison in Ramlafor two counts of rape,
obstruction of Justice plus other charges in a landmark decision that was
upheld by the Israeli Supreme Court. Will this same scenario also be repeated
today? Or will the City of Jerusalem truly have to descend once again to the 49th
level of Tuma (Degradation) as it did in the 40
years between 30 CE and 70 CE
when the entire city of David and Herod’s Temple were destroyed in a fiery
inferno. As BibleSearchers Reflections wrote in 2005 in the article titled: “The
Vatican seeks to reclaim it own; “The Vatican wants Jerusalem”:
BibleSearchers Reflections – “Within all the conflicts of the Middle East, the first
implication is what Jesuit Father
Francesco Rossi de Gasperis of the Pontifical Biblical Institute of Jerusalem called
a “theological negation of the people
of Israel, a kind of cultural and spiritual Shoah, not dissimilar to what was
seen in the churches of Europe during the age of ‘Christendom’.”
By creating a Catholic Church within Israel and “for
Israel” comes from its deep seated denial for even the very existence of the
state of Israel. Over the course of Christian history, the original “Church”
was actually a Hebrew community composed of Jews that were faithful to the
Torah, believers in the Jewish rabbi, Yahshua haMaschiah (Jesus the
Messiah). Is the guiding hand of
the G-d of Israel even calling the core of the Catholic faithful back to
a “historical turning point,” nominating
a Catholic bishop ´ad Judaeos´? Is the soul of the Catholics also at stake in
that the overarching bid to gain
control over the holy sites of Jerusalem will in turn radically change the nature of Christian
Catholicism today?
While this shift may isolate the Jewish
secular Zionists, it also isolates
a Latin patriarchate that is intentionally of an “overwhelming
Palestinian character.” This political
and religious battle for the hearts of souls of both the Arabs and the Jews,
the Vatican is playing very carefully. It is a battle that does have its costs.
Over
the years the Latin patriarchate has
overtly declared its diminishing interest in any dialogue with the Jewish
people. In the city of
Jerusalem, there is no Catholic library at all. In 2001, the Pontifical Institute “Ratisbonne” in
Jerusalem was shut down and placed for sale. The contenders to buy
were the Opus Dei (of Dan
Brown’s “De Vinci Code” fame), the Salesians
and the Neocatechumenal Way.
Abbot Gourion came under the
wrath of the patriarchate for receiving an honorary award in one of the halls of the Knesset, the Israeli parliament
while the Melkite pastor of
Nazareth, Émile Shoufani, who though an Arab is not anti-Semitic
nor anti-Israeli when he was
attacked mercilessly for taking an ecumenical pilgrimage of Jews and Palestinians together to Auschwitz.
While
the prophetic vision of bringing all
men to Jerusalem as the “house of the Lord of hosts” is seriously
considered in the revival of Hebrew
Christianity, the Jewish
rabbinate see a threat to the survival of Judaism with the rise of Jewish
believers who believe in Jesus as the Jewish and Christian messiah.
The pathway to the expectations of the
coming of the coming messiah may bring some unexpected surprises to both Christians and Jews.
This rift or fissure in the Catholic community is
serious and thought provoking
especially within the orthodox circles
of the Roman Church. The Christian Church is already fractured by
many different denominations. Now within the Catholic community the dialogue centers around whether the
Hebrew-speaking Catholic ecclesiastical church should remain separate or in
close affiliation with the Arab Latin patriarchate. Though the Jewish Catholic members number about 250
members, it is a vibrant community with its leader, French Benedictine abbot, Fr. Jean-Baptiste Gourion of
the Monastery of the Resurrection in Abu Ghosh. What is
fascinating is that in Israel, two of
the three main Catholic representatives in Israel are of Jewish descent.
This tension between the Jewish and the
Arab interests keeps the
Roman Catholic Church embroiled in the
broader issues between the
Israeli-Palestinian and the
Jewish-Christian.”
With
the inauguration of the new Pope Francis I, as the visible supreme head of the
Roman Catholic Church, we may be in for a big surprise if the Prophecy of St.
Malachi comes to its final prophetic fulfillment.
Today,
the outgoing Deputy Foreign Minister, Daniel Ayalon, who has retired and
Israel’s Foreign Minister, Avigdor Lieberman,
who has recently taken a leave of absence awaiting trial for charges of fraud
and breach of truth are about to face off in court over charges that include money
laundering and bribery. Both of these
“servants of the State of Israel” officially represented the State of Israel
with the Vatican in Rome’s legal dispute for sovereignty rights to multiple
sites in Judea and Samaria.
According
to the LA Times, outgoing Deputy Foreign Minister Daniel Ayalon will now
become an instrumental witness against his former boss and Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu’s senior ally with Lukud-Beitinu Party, Avigdor Lieberman.
It was this controversial Israeli foreign minister who was indicted in
December, 2012 on charges of fraud and breach of trust that included prior
charges of money-laundering and bribery.
Yet,
Danny Ayalon
also has shadows of corruption hovering over him. Over the years he has been
implicated in cozy relations now not only as the chief negotiator with the Vatican
in Rome but with numerous Christian Evangelical Organization who also continually
seek possession to claim and possess the sacred land in the Land of Israel, but
also the political rights, to “missionize” and proselytized Jews into becoming “apostate
Christians.” According to JewishIsrael:
Both Daniel Ayalon and
his wife, Anne, are intimately involved with the Evangelical and Catholic
communities and have comfortably appeared on missionary television. Anne hassignificant business and real estate dealingswith the Christian community and was listed as a "Talking Head" for the
Pope's Visit on Christian-Israeli Relations” in a pamphlet put out by The
Israel Project (T.I.P.) at the time of Pope Benedict XVI’s visit in May 2009
In November 2005, this
writerreacted
to reportsof an apparent swap deal
between Israel and the Vatican which would grant the Vatican control of the
Upper Room. I was in correspondence with David Chappell, then deputy managing
editor of the Times of London,
who confirmed my concerns of a draft agreement. At the time, a number of
activists formed theCommittee to Save Mt. Zionand effective pressure was exerted on the
Israeli government to abandon the plans to relinquish control of the Upper Room.”
It
is important to look at the context of the above international diplomatic push
for the Roman Catholic Church to take possession of one of Israel’s most
important landmarks, the tomb of King David. It is also important to see these
present international Vatican thrusts to not only grab Mount Zion that not only
includes the ancient site of the “Church with the Upper Room” and sits
literally over the “Tomb of King David”.
So
we ask, will we soon see Pope Francis I, who is being reincarnated as the new
Francis of Assisi in the Roman Catholic Church, now carry forth the mantle of the
Franciscan Order of Friars who have over
the centuries sought complete control and rights to the Land of Israel?
Will
this current pope, representing the Roman Catholic “Saint” Francis of Assisi, one
of the most venerated religious figures in religious history also carry the
mantle of the transformed human life by giving up wealth and fortune and become
one of the iconic poor where wealth is evil and poor is righteous except for global
possession, when “The Church” has every spiritual right to become the temporal and
spiritual ruler over the entire world?
Though
Barry Chamish and Benjamin Fulford do not walk in the corridors of international
power that seek Power, Greed, and Control over the entire world, they both,
being Jewish, do appear to pose the microscope of international investigation
with the same premise, the global powers that have controlled the world of the
past, are still active and well today. As Benjamin
Fulford recently posted his perspective on the New Pope, the New Israeli
government and their relationships as the One World Order is created to rule
during the “Last Days”, as we read the hints of this fact in the following:
Benjamin Fulford – “It may
be just a coincidence but it may also be a sign that something big is about to
happen. There will be a new Pope, a new Bank of Japan governor and a new
Israeli government taking office on March 19th, a date of occult significance
for Asian secret societies (and also, by sheer coincidence, this writer’s
birthday).
Pope Francis has
already made it clear the soon to be reformed Vatican bank will now be spending
its money helping the poorest and weakest people on the planet. Haruhiko
Kuroda, the new BOJ governor, also supports plans to use Japan’s overseas
assets, the world’s largest, to finance a major campaign to end poverty and
stop environmental destruction. The new
Israeli government is bankrupt and cannot finance anything but perhaps they
are about to become serious about peace for the first time since that troubled
country came into being.
There are also many
reports of bad guys dropping off the radar screen recently.
In Japan, for
example, the Zionist slave and war-mongering right-wing crypto-North Korean pseudo-nationalist politician Shintaro Ishihara has gone into hiding, according
to Japanese military intelligence. This is clear a sign the entire post-war
cabal apparatus for secret control of Japan is falling apart. In the US and
Europe the arrests and resignations are continuing as well. See this site
for a partial list:
As far as Queen
Elizabeth, (who like the Pope supports a big push to end poverty), is
concerned, this is what an MI5 source had to say:
“She is well. She has
some ‘lingering’ symptoms which she said last week that the doctors can’t
explain. This serves to confirm our previous reports of avoiding the Rome trip
[for security reasons]. She has missed some public appointments in the UK also
but is working hard behind the scenes.”
However, the biggest
change in the past week has been at the Vatican. Pope Francis, the first Jesuit
to become Pope, chose March 19th to formally take the job
because it is theFeast
day of St. Joseph, the guardian of Jesus.
The name Francis was
chosen for a series of reasons, according to a P2 freemason source. First of
all, St. Francis of Assisi, among other things, introduced the concept
of caring for nature to Catholicism. Another namesake, Francis Xavier,
was the top Jesuit for Japan and India. Finally, the third head of the Jesuits,
Francis Borgia (from the aristocratic Italian family) challenged corrupt
popes.
The Jesuits are also
featured as prominent fighters against Satan, notably in the movie the
Exorcist, which was supposedly based on a true story.
However, there is
also a spooky side to the name because the Pope’s family comes from Rome and
one of his birth names was Peter. For believers in the prophecies of St.
Malachi, it means he is Peter the Roman, the last pope. The prophecy of
Malachi, according to Wikipedia, ends thus:
“Peter the Roman, who will pasture his sheep in many
tribulations, and when these things are finished, the city of seven hills [i.e.
Rome] will be destroyed, and the dreadful judge will judge his people. The
End.”
If Pope Francis is
serious about reforming the Vatican bank, he will confront the Satanic cabal
that has illegally commandeered the Western financial system. The last time
somebody tried to do that, the (Rothschild) cabal staged the 911 terror
attacks to preserve their financial control. It is thus extremely urgent to
make sure the cabalists are prevented from any attempt to destroy Rome and its
priceless cultural and social heritage.”
As
we see with the “Signs of the Times” swirling around us, it suggests that there
is truly more undercurrents flowing in the vast prophetic river than we can
imagine. It appears that all the mini-streams of prophetic history are now
merging into the final raging vortex of the “time of the end”. The important
thing to remember, the G-d of Israel is the sovereign G-d of the Universe. His
power and control is universal and in the end, the rule of our planetary system
will be by the Maschiah ben David, who will rule with the “Rod in his mouth” as
evil people and as evil systems will be destroyed. Only then will the Era of Messianic
Torah Enlightenment begin in Israel.
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Re-unification of the 2-Houses of Israel without
proselytizing
BibleSearchers
Reflections and Destination Yisra’el is a supporter of The Kol HaTor Vision and
recognizes the great Stumbling Block that evangelizing of Jews presents in the
Reconciliation Process between Judah and Messianic 10-Israel. The most extensive
damage done to the Jewish people over the centuries has been the attempts Christians
to convert the Jews to Apostate Roman Christianity.
Kol HaTor, as a
representative Voice not only of Judah, but also of Returning 10-Israel, does
not support any of these missionary activities, either historically or
currently. Kol HaTor associates of the House of 10-Israel declare their commitment
not to proselytize Jews, or to influence Jews in any way whatsoever to
abandon their historic and correct faith.
Rather, Kol Ha Tor
strives to influence re-identifying 10-Tribers to return to their Hebraic
Roots of the Original One True Faith, to Torah and to Jewish Halakhah and
Rabbinic authority.
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We
invite You to Read both Parts of this Destination Yisrael Series: “Pope Francis
I and the Final Days”
The Battle for the
Minds of the Human Race is now coming to its fullest revelation. The forces of
Darkness will battle with the Forces of HaShem’s angels of Light as the final
battle for the souls of men are played out on Planet Earth. Out of these epic
war will come the restoration and redemption of All Israel; the Ten Lost Tribes
of the House of Israel and the Jews of the House of Judah.
The Roman Catholic
Church has been a major part of this Drama of the Ages and will continue to do
so until the Final Act of that Divine Drama. It will include the Jews of the
House of Israel, the Lost Sheep of the Lost Ten Tribes of the House of Northern
Israel; both of the House of Jacob (Israel). It will also include the
Roman Edomites of the House of Esau, the brother of Jacob of the House of
Isaac. It will also include the Arabs of the House of Ishmael, the brother to
Isaac of the House of Abraham.
If you want to learn
more, Contact “Kol Ha Tor Vision”, the Voice of the Turtledove. Here
is a joint Orthodox Jewish and 10-Triber Mission to bring awareness of the
imminent fulfillment of the Biblical Prophecies regarding the Redemption of all
Israel (12 Tribes Re-conciled and Re-United).
The author of this
blog is a supporter of Kol Ha Tor Vision and while we are publishing material
that may be relevant to the Lost Ten Tribes of the House of Israel, the
leadership of Kol Ha Tor do not necessarily agree with everything we have
published. Yet, we understand, until the Messiah son of David comes to give us
full insight into what is happening to our lives and our world today, we may
know only in part while we continue to support the rabbanim of Israel and seek
reconciliation with the Jews of the House of Israel until we are finally one
family; the family of our Patriarchs Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
This reunification
will truly be a super Event of all Times that will entail Establishing the
Shomron (the Ancient Bible Heartland of the Patriarchs) and the Judean
Wilderness as part of the Land of Israel, and preparing the “Land” for the Return
of the Lost Tribes of the House of Israel and then the Redemption of All
Israel.
For inquiries about
Kol Ha Tor Vision for the Lost Tribes of Israel, we invite you to make a
personal Visit to Israel and stay at “Shomron Lives!”,a Spiritual Retreat and Guest House
in Samaria, that hosts Shomron (Samaria) Tours to reacquaint the Returning Lost
Tribers of the House of Israel.
Weekly Bible Reading #23 - Year 5773
(2012/2013) – March 16, 2013
Parashot Va'yikrah (And He called ): Leviticus 1:1-5:26
Haftarah: Isaiah 43:21-44:23
NOTE:
Kol HaTor, in its commentaries on the weekly Parashot, endeavors to search for
and accentuate the Torah Messages contained in the Parashot as applicable to
the main Theme of Tanach of the Return of the House of Israel, i.e. the Lost
Ten Tribes of Northern Israel and their Reconciliation with Judah to form the
reunited 12-Tribed Kingdom of Israel.
DISCLAIMER
- The authors whom we quote from for this Commentary are not associated
with KOL HA'TOR and need not agree with our views expressed herein or in
our other publications. While we publish their views for its
relative value to the interpretation of the Parashah, KOL HATOR does not
necessarily agree with the views expressed by these authors.
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The last five Parashot of
the Book of Exodus explained the structure of the Tabernacle and its vessels,
and Exodus concluded with an account of how the completed Sanctuary was finally
erected and arranged by Moses on the 1st of Aviv, almost one year after the
Exodus from Egypt. This was all done according to the Instructions of HaShem.
With the dedication of the Sanctuary, the Cloud of G-d's Glory (His Shechinah)
covered the Tent of Meeting.
Exodus
40:34 – “Then the cloud covered the tent of meeting, and the Glory of HaShem
filled the Tabernacle.Moses could not enter the Tent of Meeting
because the cloud had settled on it and the Glory of HaShem filled the
Tabernacle.”
We have contemplated how
one of the main purposes for the Tabernacle was, that “in this way the
omnipresent Spirit Being, the G-d of Israel, could dwell amongst His People,
guiding them by day in a Pillar of Cloud, and by night in a Pillar of Fire.”
We have also considered the possibility that HaShem, similarly, wishes to “indwell
the physical bodies” (tabernacles) of His People individually. In the same
manner, ultimately, He would “completely fill” such a person.
Now that the Sanctuary was
complete, the next step is for us to learn what is to be done in it - what our responsibilities are. The
book of Va'yikrah (Leviticus) begins with the detailed Commandments relating to
the sacrifices, since these were to be the main activity in the Sanctuary and
in the Temple throughout the generations.
Our Haftarah, in Isaiah
43:21 proclaims: “The people I formed for Myselfthat they may
proclaim My Praise.” But, in the succeeding verses He complains:
Isaiah
43:23 – “You have not brought me sheep for burnt offerings (‘Horban Olah’
elevation offerings) nor honored me with your sacrifices. You have not bought
any fragrant calamus for Me or lavished on Me the fat of your sacrifices. But
you have burdened Me with your sins and wearied Me with your
offenses."
Clearly, He requires our
thanksgivings and praises. Sins, He forgives ... but where are the
Praises and exultations?
Almost the complete book of
Va'yikrah is about sacrifices, offerings and libations. When we search it
in the spirit of finding our responsibilities in regard to our “living
Tabernacles dedicated to HaShem”, we are bound to turn what otherwise
presents the “driest” section of the entire Bible, the book of Va'yikrah
(Leviticus) into “a Fountain of Living Waters.”
Rabbi
Avraham Greenbaum from Azamra Institutewrites in his commentary on Va'yikrah:
Rabbi Avraham Greenbaum – “G-d’s challenge to ALL of the Children of Israel was to
be ‘a kingdom of PRIESTS and a holy nation.’ (Exodus 19:6). While only the
Cohen-priest may officiate at the offering of sacrifices, they could be brought
by all. Many of the other Commandments in Leviticus relating to ‘holiness’ apply
not only to the Cohen-Priests but to all of us.
At
the very heart of Leviticus is Parshas KEDOSHIM, ‘Be holy.’ (Exodus ch's 19-20)
which contains the fundamental laws governing man's behavior to his fellows.
This is explicitly addressed to all of the Children of Israel (Leviticus 19:2).
The book of VAYIKRA also contains Commandments that apply to Gentiles. These
include the laws of sacrifices with which our present Parshah of VAYIKRA,
opens: the first commandment is that of KORBAN OLAH, the ‘elevation’ or
whole-burned offering, which both Israelites and Gentiles are eligible to
bring.”
At
the Woodlands
Community Temple at White Plains, New York, Rabbi Billy Dreskin states the
following concerning the temple sacrifices given to the G-d of Israel:
Rabbi Billy Dreskin – “Leviticus,
the third book of the Torah, is not the most compelling by a long shot ...
Leviticus’ limitations aside, it’s my favorite book of the Torah, not because
it’s a page-turner, but because it’s about human responsibility. Its words have
God challenging us, saying, “You want to have a relationship with Me? Then
there’s stuff you need to do. You want blessings in your life? You’re going to
have to work for them.”
The
Torah has a way of working things out through purgation offerings. But with the
fall of the Jerusalem Temple, we had to find an alternative path to taking care
of our shortcomings. So now, the sacrificial offerings have become a symbol
of our efforts in life to make things right.
We
need a pathway to return. We may find it in prayer, in relationship, or in
brave yet difficult action. However we proceed, that path is likely to be far
more constructive (and healing) than running from the problem. Leviticus is
about sticking things out. While yes, we make mistakes—and plenty of them—we
don’t run away but, to the contrary, we try to make things right. For our
ancestors, a goat or a ram offering did the trick. For us, there are offerings
of the heart that accomplish the needed repair.”
Rabbi David Kaufman – “What do we do to make things right? With what have we
replaced these offerings? Certainly, we replace them with prayers and
songs, but words alone hardly do justice to the actions and intentions
symbolized by the ancient sacrifices.
Actions must accompany our words. I am reminded of the passage from Isaiah, Chapter
58:6–9: ‘This is the fast I desire: to unlock the fetters of wickedness, ... ;
it is to share your bread with the hungry, and to take the wretched poor into
your home; when you see the naked, to clothe him, and not to ignore your own
kin. Then shall your light burst through like the dawn ... Then when you call
out, the Eternal will answer; when you cry, G-d will
say: Hineini, Here I am.’”
Mark Kirschbaum, Tikkun Daily,
concludes the following in regard to
the Sacrificial system of the Torah:
Mark Kirschbaum – “Once we are ‘trained’ in recognizing sacred otherness in
our spiritual lives, we have the capacity to recognize that every person has
their own unique set of needs and drives, their needs are not our needs, and we
find ourselves living properly in community (perhaps this is what is meant when
Avraham is congratulated for not holding back his son from God at the Akedah –
that Avraham reached the point where he truly allowed another living being to
individuate, that is the sacrifice, the sacrifice of the illusion that one has
control over another).
Thus
the true moment of atonement comes when one realizes that the world is not
narcissistically absorbed in one’s own sins, etc., but rather, when one
realizes that all living beings, in their own unique and free way, are part of
a whole community of life, each with their own specific needs and desires,
where the truest atonement (and sacrifice) is the recognition of the Other’s
existence and autonomy.”
Consider this concise
delineation of the main purpose of the Tabernacle or Temple in the light of our
previous discussion (Parashat Va'yakhel) regarding the related root
meanings of Shechinah, viz. dwell, neighborhood, neighbor). Thus:
the indwelling Spirit of HaShem in our human tabernacles requires the corrective
attitudes and actions towards our neighbors (community) in life.
This underlies our whole duty and purpose in life - towards our fellow
earthlings and towards our Maker. This is what Torah is all about.
The interpretation of
Torah has been Divinely mandated to Judah until Mashiach ben David comes who
will rule over the nations (Genesis 49:10; refer to our Enlightening Study on this Topic, “Judah -The Lawgiver of God–Part One”
The ancient northern Ten
Tribes of Israel rebelled against this authority of Judah for which they were
exiled into oblivion by HaShem, cut off from His Covenant. Their
reconciliation, however, and Return to the Land was foretold by Divine
Oath, filling the major part of Biblical Prophecy - a process which now is in
fulfillment as millions of souls across the world are turning to Torah in
search of their original Hebraic Roots.
There can be no greater
commitment in these Times, by BOTH the Houses of Judah and 10-Israel, then to
dedicate our human ‘temples’ to the original Divine Intent, i.e. as a Dwelling
Place for HaShem; a sincere study of Va'yikrah (Leviticus) will assist the sincere
seeking soul to find its responsibilities to ensure the ultimate full
habitation of the Shechinah of HaShem (as in the Tabernacle of old).
To understand more
about the Return of the 10 Tribes of Israel to their Homeland in Shomron
(Samaria), Israel, Contact “Kol Ha’Tor”, the Voice of the Turtledove. Here
is a joint Orthodox Jewish and 10-Triber Mission to bring awareness of the
imminent fulfillment of the Biblical Prophecies regarding the Redemption of all
Israel (12 Tribes Re-conciled and Re-United).
This reunification
will truly be the supernal Event of all Times for it will entail Establishing
Shomron (the Ancient Bible Heartland of the Patriarchs) and the Judean
Wilderness as part of the Land of Israel, and preparing the “Land” for the
Return of the Lost Tribes of the House of Israel and then the Redemption of All
Israel.
For inquiries about
Kol Ha Tor’s Vision for the Lost Tribes of Israel, we invite you to make a
personal Visit to Israel and stay at “Shomron Lives!”, a Spiritual Retreat and Guest House
in Samaria, that hosts Shomron (Samaria) Tours to reacquaint the Returning Lost
Tribers of the House of Israel to their future and Prophetic Homeland.
Weekly Bible Reading #21
- Year 5773 (2012/2013) – March 9, 2013
Parashot Va'yakhel (And He assembled): Exodus 35:1 -
38:20
Parashot Pekudei: Exodus 38:21-40:38
Haftarah: I Kings 7:40-7:50
(Sephardic I Kings 7:13-7:26)
I Kings 7:51-8:21
(Sephardic) Kings 7:40-7:50)
NOTE: Kol HaTor, in its commentaries
on the weekly Parashot, endeavors to search for and accentuate the Torah Messages
contained in the Parashot as applicable to the main Theme of Tanach of the
Return of the House of Israel, i.e. the Lost Ten Tribes of Northern Israel and
their Reconciliation with Judah to form the reunited 12-Tribed Kingdom of
Israel.
DISCLAIMER - The authors whom we quote from
for this Commentary are not associated with KOL HA'TOR and need not agree with
our views expressed herein or in our other publications. While we publish their
views for its relative value to the interpretation of the Parashah, KOL HATOR
does not necessarily agree with the views expressed by these authors.
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This week's Torah reading includes both the
Parashah of Va'yakhel (Exodus 35:1-38:20) and the Parashah
of Pekudei (Exodus 38:21-40:38).
With these, we conclude the reading of the first 2 Books of the Torah.
The final 5 Parashot of the Book of Exodus (chapters 25 to
40) and the first ten chapters of the book of Leviticus, focus on one specific
theme: the Mishkan (the Tabernacle - God's Sanctuary). Volumes are written
about the meaning and importance of the Tabernacle in Jewish liturgy. The most
prominent concept, which we will also use as our theme today, is that of
providing “A Dwelling Place for G-d to live amongst His People.”
Parashat Pekudei concludes therefore, with the inspiring end
result of the newly completed Tabernacle:
Exodus 40:34-28 – “Then the cloud
covered the Tent of Meeting, and the glory of HaShem filled the Tabernacle.
Moses could not enter the Tent of Meeting because the cloud had settled on it and
the glory of HaShem filled the Tabernacle.
In all the travels of the
Israelites, whenever the cloud lifted from above the Tabernacle, they would set
out; but if the cloud did not lift, they did not set out—until the day it
lifted. So the cloud of HaShem was over the Tabernacle by day, and fire was in
the cloud by night, in the sight of all the Israelites during all their
travels.”
In this way the omnipresent Spirit Being, the G-d of Israel,
dwelt amongst His People, guiding them by day in a Pillar of Cloud, and by
night in a Pillar of Fire. In this Tabernacle, Moses would convene with G-d.
Exodus 34:35 – “But when Moses went
in before HaShem to speak with Him, he took the veil off, until he came out.
And he came out, and spoke unto the children of Israel that which he was
commanded. And the children of Israel saw the face of Moses, that the skin of
Moses' face shone: and Moses put the veil upon his face again, until he went in
to speak with Him.”
The Shechinah Presence of G-d in the Tabernacle
As Rabbi Juda ben Shalom once stated:
Rabbi Juda son of Rabbi Shalom – “It
was on the Day of Atonement that Moses was commanded ‘Let them make me a
sanctuary.’ ... You will find that on the Day of Atonement their sin [of
worshipping the golden calf] was forgiven, and on the same day the Holy One
Blessed be He said to them: ‘And let them make Me a sanctuary that I may dwell
among them’ in order that all the nations should know that the sin of the golden
calf had been atoned for.”
In our previous Parashah we have seen how this atonement was
brought about by an offering of half Shekel on every member of the community -
like a national census.
The word, Shechinah, is derived from the Hebrew root שכן (sh-ch-n). In
Biblical
Hebrew it means
literally to settle,inhabit, or
dwell, In modern Hebrew, other concepts based on the same root are ‘neighbor’
(shochen) and ‘neighborhood’ (shechunah).
This close neighborly relationship is
portrayed in the community setting of the 12 Tribes in their encampment around
the Tabernacle.
Can this indicate that HaShem is purposing to dwell amongst
His People by way of indwelling the personal beings of His righteous People?
That each righteous follower would be a Living Temple for the Shechinah of
HaShem?
In previous Parashot commentary of Lech Lechah, we deliberated:
Kol Ha Tor in Lech Lechah – “When
Ephraim (the House of Israel, the re-identified Lost Ten Tribes) and Judah
(Jews) are individually regenerated and regathered into the rebuilt Tabernacle
of David, then we will begin to recognize each other as blood brothers, as
physical Israelites from different sides of the same family nation! This vision
does includes the truth of Israel's two houses and demands that Ephraim
renounce all paganism and embrace the fabric of Israelite living and holiness,
which is Torah.”
We then also considered this reconstructed and ruling ‘Tabernacle
of David’ from the vision of the prophet Daniel, as recorded in Daniel chapter
7:
Daniel 7:13-18 (parts) – “I saw in
the night visions, and, behold, one like the Son
of man came with the clouds of heaven, and came to the Ancient of days, and they brought him near before Him. And
there was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all people,
nations, and languages, should serve him: his dominion is an everlasting
dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which shall not be
destroyed.
I, Daniel, was grieved in my spirit
in the midst of my body, and the visions of my head troubled me. I came near unto one of them that stood
by, and asked him the truth of all this. So he told me, and made me know the
interpretation of the things… the saints of the Most High shall take the kingdom,
and possess the kingdom forever, even forever and ever.”
Is this not the Tabernacle that HaShem envisaged for Himself
to dwell amongst His People?
According to Jewish
tradition the radiance of the Shechinah, with its untold blessings,
"rests" upon all those who are pious and righteous. According to
ancient Rabbis the Shechinah appears in the midst of at least a minyan of
worshipers when they pray in congregation and of two or more Jews when they
engage in the study of Torah, or on a man when he recites the Shema.
The
Shechinah is said also to rest upon the chaste, the benevolent, and the
hospitable, and upon husband and wife when they live in peace and harmony. The
ancient Rabbis also said that the Shechinah appeared before Moses at the
burning bush, rested upon the Tabernacle in the Wilderness on the day of its
dedication, and in the holy of holies in the Temple at Jerusalem, and it has
illuminated the bliss of the righteous (Heb. tzaddikim) in the
world-to-come ever since.
The Talmudic Sages
conceived of the Shechinah as a spiritual essence of indescribable beauty and
exalting effect. In a commentary on
Va'yakhel, Rabbi Label Lam makes the following observation:
Rabbi Label Lam
- “The Nefesh HaChaim writes: ‘And so a person from the Holy Nation that
contains the whole organization of the creation…he is also constructed like the Tabernacle and the Temple and its
vessels, corresponding to the order and connections of the segments of
the limbs and the ligaments and their functions. So it is detailed in the Zohar how the Tabernacle and its vessels are each
referring to Man.”
There is a lot of talk in the world and great fears amongst
Arabs that the Jews will build a Third Temple in Jerusalem on the spot where
currently a Muslim Temple, the Dome of the Rock, stands. Now consider the
following statement of Jewish thought - a concept that could hint at the
possibility of such a collective body of a ‘Human’ Temple:
Rabbi Yissocher Frand - “The last 5 parshios -- Terumah, Tezaveh, Ki
Tisa, Va'yakhel and Pekudei -- have been dealing with the mitzvah of ‘You shall
make for me a Sanctuary and I will dwell therein’ [Shmos 25:8]. Apparently,
this is a mitzvah that none of us will ever have the opportunity to fulfill.
Even if, G-d willing, we will live to see the coming of Moshiach, it seems that
we will still not be able to fulfill this commandment. The reason for this is because our Sages tell us that the Third
Beis HaMikdash will descend from Heaven - theoretically complete.
This would appear to mean that in His Kindness, G-d is removing this mitzvah
from us. G-d will do it for us!”
In Lech Lecha we also noted:
Kol Ha Tor in Lech Lecha – “We have yet another
confirmation – an awesome eye-opener! It comes from the Song of Ascents, Psalm
(Tehillim) 126 - Translation and commentary by Rabbi Avraham Sutton. This Song
opens the Thanksgiving for the Meal on Shabbat – a Song of Joy by the Returnees
to Zion.”
Rabbi Sutton makes the revealing observation:
Rabbi Avraham Sutton – “When Hashem will come out of concealment (the
Return of His Shechinah, when Peace and Reconciliation is restored between the
2 Houses of Israel) and return with the
captivity of Tzion, (the exiles) we will all awaken as if from a deep
slumber; it will be so wondrous, as if an impossible dream has finally come
true.”
Rabbi Avraham Sutton continues to explain in a foot note:
Rabbi Avraham Sutton - “The verse does not state “behashiv
Hashem shivat Tzion—when Hashem will restore the captivity of Zion” but
rather “beshuv Hashem et shivat Tzion—when Hashem will return with the
captivity of Zion.” This implies that the Shechinah is in exile with the
Jewish people, and will be redeemed with us at the time of the Redemption.
The source for this teaching is found in the Talmud (Megillah 29a)."
(Refer to Lech
Lecha for full quote).
It is doubtful that this could refer to the Returnees that
have returned to the Land of Israel since 1948. It most likely could refer to
the body of ‘Holy Ones’ that the prophet Zechariah refers to in that fearful
forecast of the Day that ‘all the nations’ will draw up in battle against
Jerusalem”:
Zechariah 14:3-5 (parts) – “Then
HaShem will go out and fight against those nations, as He fights on a day of
battle. On that day His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, east of
Jerusalem, and the Mount of Olives will be split in two from east to west,
forming a great valley, with half of the mountain moving north and half moving
south. You will flee by my mountain valley, ... Then HaShem my God will come,
and all the holy ones with him.”
Can this
possibly refer to the ‘Heavenly’ Beit HaMikdash which will descend? - as that ‘Body’
that He will rule through - that Purpose for which He persisted to continue
Creation (for the sake of one righteous man and his family, Noah) rather than
destroy it? (As we have observed in our first Parashot on Creation).
Rabbi Mordechai Kamenetzky – “The
portion of Parashat Pekudei (Reckoning) begins in Exodus 38:21 – ‘These are the
reckoning of the Mishkan -- the Mishkan of testimony.’ The Medrash is bothered
by Moshe's repetitive expression. Why does he repeat the words Mishkan --
Mishkan? He should have said, “These are the reckoning of the Mishkan of
testimony."? The Medrash answers, homiletically, that the word Mishkan
has a close relative in the word Mashkon -- collateral. Moshe was
alluding, ‘to the two Temples that were taken back by G-d as collateral for the
sins of Israel.’”
Rav Zvi Shimon – “Judah son of Rabbi
Shalom said: “And let them make Me a sanctuary that I may dwell among them” in
order that all the nations should know that the sin of the golden calf had been
atoned for. It is therefore called the ‘Mishkan Eidut’ (Tabernacle of
Testimony, see Numbers 1:53), a testimony to all the inhabitants of the world
that the Holy One Blessed be He dwells in our sanctuary. Said the Holy One,
Blessed be He, ‘Let the gold of the Mishkan come and atone for the gold of
which the calf was made ...’ (Midrash Tanchuma, Exodus 25:8).”
As Rabbi Zvi Shimon continued in his remarks:
Rabbi Zvi Shimon - “According to the
Tanchuma, the construction of the Mishkan is an act of atonement by the people
for the sin of the golden calf. The people sinned with gold by building a
golden calf and atone with gold by constructing the Mishkan which included many
gold instruments. The Mishkan is a testimony to the fact that God forgave the
people for their sin and dwells among them."
The True Temple of HaShem, whether a physical building or a
Body of People, would by necessity have to be a place of supreme righteousness,
to befit the Presence (Shechinah) of the Living G-d! As such, and as such only,
could it serve as a Testimony to the nations, a Testimony of what G-d expects
of mankind:
Micah 6:8 – “What does HaShem
require of you? To act justly and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your
G-d.”
Rabbi Mordechai Kamenetzky – “These
final portions in the Book of Exodus summarize the amazing accomplishments of
the Children of Israel in building the Mishkan -- the edifice that would house
the Divine presence in this temporal world -- while in the desert. It was a
mammoth feat, an act that consumed an entire nation. Men and women, young and
old each had a share in this great endeavor.
The Torah tells us: ‘Every man whose heart inspired him
came; and everyone whose spirit
motivated him brought the portion of Hashem for the work of the Tent of
Meeting, for all its labor and for the sacred vestments. The men came with the
women; everyone whose heart motivated him brought bracelets, nose-rings, rings,
body ornaments -- all sorts of gold ornaments -- every man who raised up an
offering of gold to Hashem.’ (Exodus 35:21-22)
And then there were those who did
the work. ‘Moses summoned Bezalel, Oholiab, and every wise-hearted man whose
heart Hashem endowed with wisdom, everyone whose heart inspired him, to come
close to the work, to do it (Exodus 36:2). The wording needs clarification. Why
use the term, ‘whose heart inspired him, to come close to the work, to do it?’
Why not just say ‘whose heart inspired him, to do the work?’ What is the meaning of coming close to do the
work? Just do the work!
Building a Mishkan, like any project
that entails difficult work for the sake of Heaven, can be arduous. It can
become depressing at times and it is easy to become dispirited and desperate.
The key to the success of the building Mishkan lies in the words of the posuk,
‘everyone whose heart inspired him, to come close to the work, to do it.’ In
order to do the work, you must draw yourself close to the work. If you take
small steps with love and bring a project close to your heart, then rest
assured you will complete the work in joy!’”
Rabbi Label Lam – “What is the first thing we need before starting to build a
building? I know some people will say, ‘Money!’ There's something more basic
than that. No, not a building permit. Right! A plan! You can't get money or a
permit without submitting first an architect's scheme. The drawing itself first
requires something even more fundamental before it becomes a reality. Yes. A
motivation! A will to create or become! And that all flows from an imaginative
picture, an ideal of how things will look or be after all the work is done.
Lest we be seduced into
thinking that the building itself is more important than its true function,
Moshe set the record straight. The vessels and their special internal use are
the real purpose of the project. The Almighty is not served by a meaningless building.
There is no ‘edifice complex’ at play here.
The main part, the
essence is the realm within. The outer world serves and thrives on the inner.
For practical logistical considerations the external structure needs to be worked
on first.”
This "Realm Within" would
be the Testimony to the Nations.
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Destination Yisrael – “It appears that the transformation
and spiritual elevation of spiritual consciousness in Israel is continuing at a
rapid pace. Who would have considered that the “Rightist Nationalists” and the “Rightist
Orthodox Settlers” would be gaining an ascendant voice in the political
governance of the State of Israel today?
It is a inherent knee-gut reaction to assume that the
Leftist Knesset MKs predominately from the Labour Party are anti-nationalists,
and anti-religious Zionists. That impression appears to be changing.
Such is the implication of this new article in the
recent Israel National News (Arutz Sheva) that gives the impression that the
Israeli Knesset members are virtually clueless as to the governance of the most
sacred site in Judaism, the Temple Mount when Former Labor MK Daniel Ben-Simon
ascended upon the Temple Mount and witnessed the extreme discrimination of the
Jewish nationals who wish to visit the site where the Temple of Solomon
reportedly once stood.
If Daniel Ben-Simon’s revelation results in a profound
change of his life, and stimulates the rest of the Israeli Knesset members to
take an informed interest in the destruction and the desecration of the “House”
of the G-d of Israel that included the once most beautiful and opulent two
temples in the world, Solomon’s Temple and King Herod’s Temple, that spiritual
transformation may begin transform in a radical way of how the Israeli Jewish
populous and their political leadership may begin to transform the governance
of Jerusalem and the Temple Mount in the future.
It’s about time that the Temple Mount once again may
be considered as a Holy Sanctuary unto HaShem, the G-d of Israel.
Israel National News – “Former Labour MK Daniel
Ben-Simon cut short a visit to the Temple Mount on Sunday, after he personally
witnessed the discrimination by Israeli police towards Jewish visitors to the
holy site.
Speaking to Arutz Sheva about the experience on Monday, Ben-Simon said he was
surprised, already at the start of his visit, to see that Jews are forced to
wait in long, crowded lines to enter one of the holiest sites in the world.
Ben-Simon said that when he finally reached the end of the line-up after a long
and unpleasant wait, he was told that the Temple Mount is closed due to what was
described as "tension". He later discovered that the source of this
tension is a Quran that fell from the hands of a Muslim worshiper who came to
the Temple Mount.
The Arab worshiper claimed that an Israeli police officer had deliberately
dropped the book from her hand, but Ben-Simon expressed doubt at the
truthfulness of the story and said it was unacceptable that the area was closed
off to Jews because of such a minor event.
“Because of a fallen book they close the Temple Mount to hundreds of people who
are waiting to get in?” he said. “The Minister of Internal Security must be
summoned and asked about the reality in which the police are on high alert
because of a fallen book. Who's in charge here? All this is done without
explanation.”
Later in the afternoon Ben-Simon, who was visiting the compound as part of
research he is conducting for a book he's planning to write, returned to the
Temple Mount, getting in this time, and was shocked by what he discovered.
“I was surprised by the intensity of the tension. People looking at you from
all sides, examining the movements of your lips, and heaven forbid if they move
in what seems like a prayer,” he said. “When I saw this I asked my companions
to leave. This is not a visit. I do not feel comfortable when Waqf and police
accompany each step I make. I cut the visit short and left within ten minutes.”
Ben-Simon admitted that despite having served as an MK, he was previously
unaware that this reality is what Jews are always facing on the Temple Mount,
and said that most Israeli MKs do not visit the site and are unaware of this
absurd reality
“The vast majority of those present were tourists. Israelis do not visit,” he
said, adding, “This is an unpleasant experience that I would not like to go
through again. I expect to get a little respect in a place of prayer.”
The former parliamentarian said he finds it difficult to understand how Israel
got to the current situation. He likened the corridor leading to the Temple
Mount to a military facility where one cannot look left and right, fearing his
looks may be interpreted incorrectly and cause rage.
Ben-Simon said the Israeli system should examine the situation at the Temple
Mount, though he admitted it would be hard to change things in the current
political reality.
At the same time, Ben-Simon said, it is "an impossible situation that
anyone who comes to the Temple Mount is suspected of wanting to blow up the
compound." He added that delegations of Knesset members should be taken on
a tour of the Temple Mount so they can see the situation firsthand and then
closely examine appropriate ways to solve it.
“I did not know the problem existed when I was a Knesset member,” he admitted.
Israel liberated the Temple Mount during the 1967 Six Day War, leaving the Waqf
in charge of the compound.
The Waqf, in return, has removed every sign of ancient Jewish presence at the
Jewish holy site. At the entrance to the Temple Mount, a Waqf sign says, “The
Al-Aqsa Mosque courtyard and everything in it is Islamic property.”
Israeli Police, in an attempt to appease the Waqf, discriminate against Jews.
They limit the number of Jewish worshippers allowed on the Temple Mount at one
time in order to prevent conflict with Muslim worshippers. They often close the
Mount to Jews in response to Muslim riots, as Ben-Simon saw for himself on
Sunday, despite evidence that Muslim riots have been planned in advance for the
specific purpose of forcing Jews out.
Arabs continuously accuse Israel of “Judaizing” the Temple Mount, sometimes
resorting to ridiculous propaganda such as accusing Israel of using chemicals
to erode the foundations of the mosque in order to cause it to collapse.
At the same time the Waqf consistently destroys Jewish antiquities on the
Temple Mount in a direct violation of a ruling by the Supreme Court.”
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of the Temple antiquities and the persecution of Jews who ascend to the Temple
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Yesterday you
presented the position of the Orthodox Union in regard to Temple Mount, which
is that your organization will not take a position. For an organization that
professes to believe in the Torah, this position is simply unacceptable. We are
shocked at your blunt and cold response to the plight of Jews who ascend the
Temple Mount in accordance with Torah law and the fate of the remnants of the
Temple that are continually being destroyed by the Muslim authority with the
permission of the Israeli Police. This position is tantamount to public consent
to the anti-Jewish and illegal behavior of the Israeli Police and Muslim
Authority.
We demand that the Orthodox Union take immediate steps to protest the
following:
1. The persecution of Jews on the Temple Mount
Only Jews are
forced to wait an extended period of time before being allowed through
security.
Only Jews are
forced to present their ID’s to the police.
Only Jews are
followed and harassed by Israeli police and Muslim Wakf guards throughout the
entire visit on the Mount.
Only Jews are
arrested for crimes such as prayer, closing eyes, bowing down or singing.
2. The ongoing
destruction of Temple Mount antiquities.
The State
authorities do not enforce the Antiquities Law and the planning and
Construction Law on the Temple Mount and allow the Wakf to grossly violate the
law
The Wakf has
built a mass new illegal underground Mosque in the southern area known as
Solomon Stables
Many truckloads
of dirt and archaeology have been dumped illegally into the Kidron valley by
the Wakf, Israeli archaeologists are attempting a salvage effort.
The Wakf has
even continued digging around the area of the Mizbeyach and placed a large
screen around that area to hid activity.
The Wakf is now
using Mikdash columns to pave a walk way of the Har, which is part of the
Halchicly permissible path for Jews who ascend the Har according to
Halacha.
3. The Day to
day desecration of the Temple Mount by Muslim visitors.
Muslim children
hold daily soccer games and other sports activities on the Mount.
Muslim families
gather picnics and family gatherings on the Mount.
Anti Israel Marches
are held on the Har and many times enemy flags such as Turkey, Hamas and PLO
have been raised over the Mount.
The Wakf
regularly used the loudspeakers on the Mount Muslim prayer towers to broadcast
their message of hate and destruction towards the Jewish People.
We who care
about the sanctity of the Temple Mount will not cease this campaign until the
OU comes out with an official policy statement in regard to the issues
mentioned above.
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Israeli archeologists
recently discovered a temple with sacred artifacts that were over 2,750 years
old. This was during the era of King Solomon’s temple in Jerusalem and before
it was destroyed in 586 BCE; but after it was build around 1000 BCE. The artifacts were discovered in the Tel
Motza archeological site, located in a mound where a new section of the
Tel-Aviv Highway known as Highway 1 was expected to be build about five miles
west of Jerusalem. According to a recent
interview with the directors of the Israeli Antiquities Authority; Anna Eirikh,
Dr. Hamoudi Khalaily and Shua Kisilevitz, we learned:
Eirikh, Khalaily and
Kisilevitz Interview – “The ritual building at Tel Motza is an unusual and
striking find, in light of the fact that there are hardly any remains of ritual
buildings of the period in Judae at the time of the First Temple…
The uniqueness of the
structure is even more remarkable because of the vicinity of the site's
proximity to the capital city of Jerusalem, which acted as the Kingdom's main
sacred center at the time…Among other finds, the site has yielded pottery figurines
of men, one of them bearded, whose significance is still unknown.”
Tel Motza and the surrounding region are renowned for their
prime archaeological importance. Many finds have previously been uncovered at
the site, from a variety of different periods. The prime reason for the
excavations was the identity of the site with the Biblical settlement called
“Mazah” identified in the Book of Joshua that was built the tribal borders of
Judah and Benjamin in Joshua 18:26.
There they did find a settlement that included a large public
building, another large structure identified as a storehouse and numerous silos
in the vicinity. On this evidence the Israeli archeologists then identified
that these buildings were run by high-ranking political officials and used to
house grain supplies for the capital city of Jerusalem. As identified by the
archeologists:
Israeli Antiquities Authority – “The
current excavation has revealed part of a large structure, from the early days
of the monarchic period (Iron Age IIA). The
walls of the structure are massive, and it includes a wide,
east-facing entrance, conforming to the tradition of temple construction in
the ancient Near East: the rays of the sun rising in the east would have
illuminated the object placed inside the temple first, symbolizing the divine
presence within.
A square structure which was
probably an altar was exposed in the temple courtyard, and the cache of sacred
vessels was found near the structure. The assemblage includes:
Ritual pottery vessels, with fragments of chalices (bowls on
a high base which were used in sacred rituals),
Decorated ritual pedestals, and a
Number of pottery figurines of two kinds: the first, small
heads in human form (anthropomorphic) with a flat headdress and curling hair;
the second, figurines of animals (zoomorphic) – mainly of harnessed animals.
The find of the sacred structure
together with the accompanying cache of sacred vessels, and especially the
significant coastal influence evident in the anthropomorphic figurines, still
require extensive research.”
In other archeological research sites in Israel excavated in
the past, they also have noticed certain ritual figurines, vessels and chalices
that included pottery figurines and sacred objects, and have uniformly been
identified as personal or domestic ritual objects. Yet there was a difference at the site at Tel
Motza for here was something different;
A ritual platform plus the
Identity of a temple outside the Solomon’s Temple located in
Jerusalem.
As the archeological site directors affirmed:
Israeli Antiquities Authority directors – “The
finds recently discovered at Tel Motza provide rare archaeological evidence for
the existence of temples and ritual enclosures in the Kingdom of Judah in
general, and in the Jerusalem region in particular, prior to the religious
reforms throughout the kingdom at the end of the monarchic period (at the
time of Hezekiah and Isaiah), which abolished all ritual sites,
concentrating ritual practices solely at the Temple in Jerusalem.”
During the days of King Hezekiah, there was a religious
reformation under the influence of the “Prophet
Isaiah, the prophet of Catastrophes”, they both witnessed the wrath of
the Divine for the apostasy of the Northern Kingdom of Israel when the it was
destroyed by King Sargon from Assyria in 720 BCE and nineteen years later, the
last siege and captivity of the Israelites left just prior to the invasion and
siege of Jerusalem by King Sennacherib in 701 BCE that was aborted by the
direct intervention of the Divine with a “blast from the heavens” incinerated
the entire Assyrian army when their metal shields, lances, spears and armor
became a “ground” that attracted a multi-million volt bolide of fire from the
heavens and Jerusalem was divinely spared.
Prior to this period of the great apostasy in the Kingdom of
Judah, the Northern Ten Tribes of the House of Israel rebelled against the G-d
of Israel. They refused to worship in the Temple of Solomon, refused to accept
the divinely appointed high priest and Levites to be their temple priests,
refused to accept the Jewish prophetic warnings, and opened their own sacred sites
and began again the worship of the Golden Calf after the disastrous rebellion
by the “Erev Rav” just before Moses received the Ten Commands laser engraved on
two stone tables, and refused to accept the Torah Law judges of Judah, later
known as the Pharisee and the Rabbanim, to be their legal judiciaries of Torah
Law.
They, the Northern Ten Tribes later formed their own pagan
cults and apostate temples in Dan and in Samaria, the later located in the
region called the “disputed territories” in the region of Shomron today. Without the inflow of pilgrims coming in from
the Northern Tribes to the yearly festivals, the unifying significance upon the
people even in Judea was affected aversely.
The apostasy of the Northern Kingdom began to creep into the
Southern Kingdom of Jerusalem. This cultic site was one of numerous sites that
peaked during the reign of King Manasseh. The spreading of cultic sites
throughout Judea diluted the influence of the Solomon Temple culture upon G-d
chosen peoples.
According to the ancient histories in the TaNaKh (Old
Testament), King Hezekiah abolished idolatry in the Kingdom of Judah, by
destroying the high place (bamot) and
the “bronze serpent” (Nehushtan) made
by Moses when the G-d of Israel punished the Children of Israel for their
rebellion against going across the Jordan into the Promised Land (Numbers
21:8). It was later used later as an object of idolatrous worship (2 Kings
18:4). The worship of HaShem was again centralized at the Jerusalem Temple of
Solomon, and King Hezekiah reinstituted the Passover Festival (2 Chronicles
30:5, 10, 13, 26).
As we are beginning to see, the archeological data that is
now being revealed in multiple sites across the Land of Israel states one
relevant truth. Through a covenant
relationship and also through apostasy, the presence of both the Jewish and the
Lost Ten Tribes of the House of Israel will eventually become an irrevocable
truth. Since the days of the Sumerians, when Abraham was first given the call
to go to the “land of promise”, the presence of Abraham and his descendants can
no longer be disputed.
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The spiritual fight
to corrupt the covenant relationship between G-d and the descendants of
Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob has been ongoing for over three thousand years.
According to the Chumash, according to the rabbinic commentators, G-d’s
covenant with Israel was a covenant that could not be broken, even though there
was a party not deserving of it being fulfilled for all eternity. Yet, HaSatan
and the forces of evil will continue to lead us to believe that if we fail and
break the covenantal demands, it’s over for us.
That’s not true. For the G-d of Israel has promised that even if the
Jews and the Lost Ten Tribes of the House of Israel are both guilty of breaking
the covenant, yet, at the end of time, He will honor His Holy Name, and we both
will be redeemed; at least those who desire to be included as one of G-d’s
redeemed.
So today, the G-d of
Israel is whistling or coaxing you to come back to the brotherhood of Klal
Yisra’el (All Israel). To learn more about this redemptive process, you are
Welcome to Contact “Kol Ha'Tor”, the Voice of the Turtledove. Here
is a joint Orthodox Jewish and 10-Triber Mission to bring awareness of the
imminent fulfillment of the Biblical Prophecies regarding the Redemption of all
Israel (12 Tribes Re-conciled and Re-United). This super Event of all Times
will entail establishing in the region of Shomron (the Ancient Bible Heartland
of the Patriarchs) and the Judean Wilderness into a new homeland for the Return
of the Lost Ten Tribes of Israel when All Israel will finally be redeemed.
For inquiries about
Kol Ha Tor Vision for the Lost Tribes of Israel, Visit – “Shomron Lives!”,a Spiritual Retreat and Guest House
in Samaria, that hosts Shomron (Samaria) Tours to reacquaint the Returning Lost
Tribers of the House of Israel.
You are Israel!
The History was Revealed by the Prophets and Confirmed by Archeology, the Judgment of the God of Israel was Sealed as they were Exiled to Khurasan in Northern Iran, Eastern Afghanistan and Western Pakistan. They Disappeared into the Mists of History as they Migrated in Waves up through Georgia through the Caucasus and Followed the Tracks of their Cousin Dan who left his Name on the Rivers of his Passage (Don, Dniester, Dnieper, and the Danube) as they Migrated Northwestward towards Denmark. They Erupted into Northern Europe in the 3rd Century BCE as the Royal Scythians, Celts, Cymrics, Cimmerians, Goths, Angles, Saxons, Ostrogoths, Visigoths and Frisians.
They Populated the Lands of Scandinavia (Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Denmark), the Isles of the West (Britain, Ireland, and Scotland) the Lowlands (Netherlands and Belgium), the Colonies of Great Britain (United States, Canada, Australia, South Africa) plus the Lands of Northern France, and Germany. These today are the Lost Tribes of Israel!
If your Ancestry comes from any of these Lands,
Welcome, You are a “Lost Ten Triber” of the House of Israel!
The Prophets have Proclaimed, at the Time of the End, You will Return Home!
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