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muman613:
--- Quote from: דוד בן זאב אריה on June 10, 2010, 10:44:48 PM ---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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Shalom David,
Is it not King Herod, not King Herold?
http://www.aish.com/jl/h/48942446.html
--- Quote ---Herod, the Great (Part 31)
Herod, the Great (not to be confused with Herod Antipas who came later) is one of the most important characters in Jewish history. He was ambitious, cruel and paranoid to be sure, but, nevertheless, he remains a very significant person in the terms of understanding this period of Roman domination of the Jewish people.
Herod first leadership role was as governor of the Galilee, a position granted to him by his father, Antipater. Early on in his career he demonstrates his brutality by ruthlessly crushing a revolt in the Galilee.
The background to Herod's rise to power is the Roman civil war that will transform Rome from a republic into and empire ruled by the Caesars or emperors. In 44BCE Julius Caesar is murdered by Brutus and Cassius who are in turn defeated by Anthony and Octavian in 42 B.C.E.. The Battle of Actium in 31 B.C.E., is the final showdown between Octaviun and Anthony. Octaviun emerged as the unrivaled victor, changing his name to Augustus and becoming the first Roman emperor.
Herod had originally sided with Anthony but switches allegiance at the last minute and backs Octavian. His last minute support for Octavian earns him Augustus's confirmation as King of Israel.
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HEROD'S TEMPLE
The most ambitious of Herod's projects was the re-building of the Temple, which was almost certainly an attempt to gain popularity among his subjects who, he knew, held him in contempt and also to make amends for his cruelty toward the rabbis.
It took 10,000 men ten years just to build the retaining walls around the Temple Mount (on top of which the Muslim shrine, the Dome of the Rock, stands today). The Western Wall (formerly known as the Wailing Wall) is merely part of that 500-meter-long retaining wall that was designed to hold a huge man-made platform that could accommodate twenty four football fields. When it was completed, it was the world's largest functioning religious site and until today it remains the largest man-made platform in the world.
Why did he make the Temple Mount so large?
There's no question that Herod had a huge ego and liked to impress people with grandiose building projects. But there is also another more practical reason. Historians estimate that there were about 6-7 million Jews living in the Roman Empire (plus another 1 million in Persia), many of whom would come to Jerusalem for the three pilgrimage festivals: Passover, Shavuot and Sukkot. So you had to have a huge space to accommodate such a huge number of people. Hence the size of the platform.
When it came to building the Temple itself on top of this platform, Herod truly outdid himself, and even the Talmud acknowledges that the end-result was spectacular. "He who has not seen Herod's building, has never in his life seen a truly grand building." (Talmud-Bava Basra 4a)
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Sefardic Panther:
Everyone always says that the pyramids and Stonehenge must have been built by aliens. If the Beit HaMikdash was still intact we would have a building far more impressive than all those places. There are massive stones in Har HaBayit that could’nt have been put there by humans. This proves what the Talmud says that Shlomo HaMelek used the king of the demons to build the Beit HaMikdash.
I still would’nt advocate walking around on Har HaBayit.
דוד בן זאב אריה:
As I have said before Rav Meir Kahane went up Rav Binyamin Ze'ev Kahane went up all his followers go up including his Rosh Yeshiva HaRav Yehuda Krozer. And I will say this again Har HaBiyet is only a 250 Meter area that the Temple stood on. The rest the area we know as Mount Moriah is called Herold's Plaza because King Herold built it it isn't were the Temple stood so it is permited. All Rabbis who say don't go up agree there are areas that you can go
angryChineseKahanist:
Which David are you?
What's the temperature?
What are you wearing?
דוד בן זאב אריה:
--- Quote from: angryChineseKahanist on July 07, 2010, 01:38:10 PM ---
Which David are you?
What's the temperature?
What are you wearing?
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Huh
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