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Kahane-Was-Right BT:
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--- Quote from: דוד בן זאב אריה on April 15, 2010, 02:55:52 PM ---but what I am really looknig foward to is going up to the Temple Mount. I am going up on Yom Yurusaliem (Jerusalem Liberation Day).
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I would’nt do that!!!
Many Rabbis have said that if a Jew sets foot on Har HaBayit he will die prematurely. Without the ashes of the red heifer no one is pure enough to trod through the Holy of Holies.
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He's not going into the Holy of Holies. No one goes there.
Ascent to the Temple Mount is halachically feasible with proper attire and footwear and after ritual immersion in the mikweh, to areas which we know are NOT the forbidden areas up there.
Kahane-Was-Right BT:
--- Quote from: Sefardic Panther on April 15, 2010, 10:18:42 PM ---Nevertheless leading Poskim including HaRav Ovadia Yosef shlita ruled that it is forbidden to enter the site.
Anyone who goes to Har HaBayit does’nt live past 70 –
Do you know anyone who went there and lived past 70?
I would’nt take the risk.
I really don’t understand why anyone condones visiting Har HaBayit. Is it just to make a political statement?
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Condones? Forget about condoning. Why don't you explain to me why the Rambam himself ASCENDED the Temple Mount.
Kahane-Was-Right BT:
--- Quote from: Sefardic Panther on April 16, 2010, 06:52:20 AM ---But no one knows exactly where on Har HaBayit the Holy of Holies was. People walking around on Har HaBayit would inadvertently walk through it.
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We know several places up there definitely where it WASN'T. It is only in these places that people go.
Sefardic Panther:
--- Quote from: Kahane-Was-Right BT on June 09, 2010, 05:15:10 PM ---Why don't you explain to me why the Rambam himself ASCENDED the Temple Mount.
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I never knew the Rambam ascended Har HaBayit. But bear in mind there are a lot of bubbe meisers about what the Rambam did. He was even supposed to have become a Kabbalist later in life and renounced all his rationalistic positions (which I don’t believe by the way).
Not only is the Kodosh HaKodoshim area forbidden only the Kohanim were allowed into the Hekel.
דוד בן זאב אריה:
I did acend to Har HaBiet on Yom Yerushaliem. The area which the Temple stood is not premited to walk on and I didn't. I went on an English guided tour. We know where the Temple stood there is a raised area where the Golden Mosque is (tecnicly it's not a Mosque) standing. We went on the permititer. The extended area where the Temple didn't stand are known as Herolds Plaza the Plaza that King Herold built.
If you have any questions I would be happy to answer I've spent a lot of time studing the laws of this.
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