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Showing posts with label Dome of the Rock. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dome of the Rock. Show all posts
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Monday, January 21, 2013
Jerusalem Temple makes appearance as election topic
Jerusalem Temple makes appearance as election topic
Monday, January 21, 2013 | Israel Today Staff
Amid all the pre-election arguing over diplomatic, security and economic issues, the rebuilding of the Temple in Jerusalem made a brief appearance as a topic of fiery debate between two Israeli candidates.
The episode began when Israel's Channel 2 News in its Friday evening coverage of the election aired a video showing a member of the right-wing Jewish Home party purportedly stating that it "would be incredible" if the Dome of the Rock were to be blown up and a Jewish Temple rebuilt in its place.
The remark was made by American-born Jeremy Gimpel, who places number 14 on Jewish Home's party list, and therefore has a very real shot at becoming a Knesset member.
The way Channel 2 edited the clip made it sound as though Gimpel was calling for someone to blow up the Muslim structure.
But the full statement, which Gimpel delivered to a group of Christian Zionists in 2011, was as follows: "Imagine today if the golden dome, I'm being recorded so I can't say blown up, but let's say it was blown up, right, and we laid the cornerstone of the temple in Jerusalem. Can you imagine what would be. None of you would be here. You would be going to Israel. It would be incredible."
To further put Gimpel's words in context, he had just finished quoting from a passage in the Book of Ezra that deals with Israel's rebuilding of the Temple following the nation's exile in Babylon and Persia.
None of that mattered to Tzipi Livni, head of the new left-wing party The Movement, who immediately demanded Gimpel be disqualified from the election. Livni also used Gimpel's remarks to attack Jewish Home as a party of fanatics.
"The strange list that [Jewish Home] is taking to the Knesset seeks to inflame the Middle East and to bring on a third World War with its crazy visions of building a temple," Livni said.
Livni later displayed overt hostility in a media appearance with Jewish Home leader Naftali Bennett.
Gimpel later defended himself by calling his earlier remarks a "parody of the fanatics that want to blow up the Temple Mount. Of course I am against this."
But Rabbi Chaim Richman of the Temple Institute wrote in an op-ed for the Times of Israel that Gimpel and other Jews longing for the day the Temple will be rebuilt shouldn't have to apologize.
"Isn’t it a shame that an observant, land-of-Israel-loving, enthusiastic candidate for Israel’s Knesset has to quickly explain that whatever reference he made to rebuilding the Holy Temple, was only a joke?" asked Rabbi Richman.
The rabbi went on to note the hypocrisy of Gimpel being harassed by the same leftist leaders who opposed the disqualification of Arab candidates Haneen Zoabi and Ahmed Tibi for their repeated and quite serious efforts to demonize the Jewish state and provide succor to its violent enemies.
Tibi in particular has spent years publicly praising Palestinian terrorists who mercilessly slaughter Jewish men, women and children.
http://www.israeltoday.co.il/NewsItem/tabid/178/nid/23633/Default.aspx
The episode began when Israel's Channel 2 News in its Friday evening coverage of the election aired a video showing a member of the right-wing Jewish Home party purportedly stating that it "would be incredible" if the Dome of the Rock were to be blown up and a Jewish Temple rebuilt in its place.
The remark was made by American-born Jeremy Gimpel, who places number 14 on Jewish Home's party list, and therefore has a very real shot at becoming a Knesset member.
The way Channel 2 edited the clip made it sound as though Gimpel was calling for someone to blow up the Muslim structure.
But the full statement, which Gimpel delivered to a group of Christian Zionists in 2011, was as follows: "Imagine today if the golden dome, I'm being recorded so I can't say blown up, but let's say it was blown up, right, and we laid the cornerstone of the temple in Jerusalem. Can you imagine what would be. None of you would be here. You would be going to Israel. It would be incredible."
To further put Gimpel's words in context, he had just finished quoting from a passage in the Book of Ezra that deals with Israel's rebuilding of the Temple following the nation's exile in Babylon and Persia.
None of that mattered to Tzipi Livni, head of the new left-wing party The Movement, who immediately demanded Gimpel be disqualified from the election. Livni also used Gimpel's remarks to attack Jewish Home as a party of fanatics.
"The strange list that [Jewish Home] is taking to the Knesset seeks to inflame the Middle East and to bring on a third World War with its crazy visions of building a temple," Livni said.
Livni later displayed overt hostility in a media appearance with Jewish Home leader Naftali Bennett.
Gimpel later defended himself by calling his earlier remarks a "parody of the fanatics that want to blow up the Temple Mount. Of course I am against this."
But Rabbi Chaim Richman of the Temple Institute wrote in an op-ed for the Times of Israel that Gimpel and other Jews longing for the day the Temple will be rebuilt shouldn't have to apologize.
"Isn’t it a shame that an observant, land-of-Israel-loving, enthusiastic candidate for Israel’s Knesset has to quickly explain that whatever reference he made to rebuilding the Holy Temple, was only a joke?" asked Rabbi Richman.
The rabbi went on to note the hypocrisy of Gimpel being harassed by the same leftist leaders who opposed the disqualification of Arab candidates Haneen Zoabi and Ahmed Tibi for their repeated and quite serious efforts to demonize the Jewish state and provide succor to its violent enemies.
Tibi in particular has spent years publicly praising Palestinian terrorists who mercilessly slaughter Jewish men, women and children.
http://www.israeltoday.co.il/NewsItem/tabid/178/nid/23633/Default.aspx
Saturday, October 20, 2012
A Cave under the Temple Mount's Foundation Stone?
A Cave under the Temple Mount's Foundation
Stone?
More Mysteries Documented in Ancient Pictures
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| Descent under the "great rock"
on Mt. Moriah (under the Dome of the Rock). Woodcut in explorer Col Charles Wilson's book, Picturesque Palestine, Sinai and Egypt. (1881, New York Public Library) |
For
centuries, the Temple Mount in Jerusalem has been the focus of worshippers,
scholars and explorers.
But few archaeologists have explored history's secrets hidden in the caves, tunnels and cisterns beneath the Hiram el-Sharif -- controlled by the Muslim Waqf.
But few archaeologists have explored history's secrets hidden in the caves, tunnels and cisterns beneath the Hiram el-Sharif -- controlled by the Muslim Waqf.
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Interior of Mosque of Omar (Dome
of the Rock) and the
Foundation Stone. (circa 1870, Bonfils, Library of Congress) See also photo from American Colony Collection (circa 1900). According to Jewish tradition the stone was the site for Abraham's "binding of Isaac" and the location of the Temples' Holy of Holies. Muslims believe it was from where Muhammad ascended to heaven. |
The Israel
Daily Picture site provided last week photos from the Library of Congress
archives taken after a 1927 earthquake destroyed parts of the el-Aqsa mosque.
We
were very curious when we discovered additional photos in the American Colony
and Felix Bonfils collections showing the entrance to a cave beneath the
"foundation stone" (even hashtiya in Jewish tradition) on
which the Jewish Temples and the Mosque of Omar* were built.
The Temple Institute in Jerusalem provided details on the cave:
Beneath the rock is a hewn cave [some claim the cave is natural] seven-by-seven meters wide. In the cave's ceiling is a hole approximately half-a-meter in diameter, a sort of chimney going up.
The Temple Institute in Jerusalem provided details on the cave:
Beneath the rock is a hewn cave [some claim the cave is natural] seven-by-seven meters wide. In the cave's ceiling is a hole approximately half-a-meter in diameter, a sort of chimney going up.
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| Entrance to the staircase to
the cave beneath the Foundation Stone (Bonfils, circa 1870). See also American Colony photo |
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| "Solomon's Prayer Place" can be seen in the above woodcut to the left of the staircase |
A
feature in National Geographic suggested that the beneath the cave may be
another chamber hiding the Ark of the Covenant: "Knocking on the floor of the
cave under the Muslim Dome of the Rock shrine elicits a resounding hollow echo,
[but] no one has ever seen this alleged chamber....Famed 19th-century British
explorers Charles Wilson and Sir Charles Warren could neither prove nor disprove
the existence of a hollow chamber below the cave. They believed the sound
reportedly heard by visitors was simply an echo in a small fissure beneath the
floor."
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| The cave under the Foundation
Stone today (with permission of Ron Peled, All About Jerusalem) |
The
American Colony photos include a picture taken in the cave captioned "Solomon's
prayer place under rock of Mosque of Omar [i.e., Dome of the Rock]." The prayer
niche is more likely an ancient Muslim Mihrab pointing to Mecca.
*According to National Geographic, "the dome, called Qubbat as-Sakhrah in Arabic, is not a mosque. Rather, it is a shrine built over the rock."
*According to National Geographic, "the dome, called Qubbat as-Sakhrah in Arabic, is not a mosque. Rather, it is a shrine built over the rock."
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