The Temple Mount Institute of Jerusalem Readying For Messianic Age

 Nadene Goldfoot                                          

The Temple Institute, known in Hebrew as Machon HaMikdash (Hebrew: מכון המקדש), is an organization in Israel focusing on the endeavor of establishing the Third Temple. Its long-term aims are to build the third Jewish temple on the Temple Mount, on the site occupied by the Dome of the Rock, and to reinstate animal sacrificial worship.  

Although Orthodox Judaism generally agrees that the Temple in Jerusalem will and should be rebuilt, there is a substantial disagreement about whether this should occur by human or divine hands. The Temple Institute interprets the opinion of the Rambam (Maimonides) as saying that Jews should attempt to build the Temple themselves, and have a mitzvah (obligation) to do so if they can. The Rambam's opinion, however, is a controversial one and has aroused substantial opposition.

The Temple Institute's view of the Rambam's opinion is not universally accepted by Maimonides scholars. According to seventeenth-century Rabbi Yom Tov Lipman Heller in his commentary on the tractate Yoma, the Rambam did not say that any Jew can build the future Temple, only the Messiah.

The Temple Institute aspires to reach this goal through the study of Temple construction and ritual and through the development of actual Temple ritual objects, garments, and building plans suitable for immediate use in the event conditions permit its reconstruction. It runs a museum in the Jewish Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem in Israel. 

It was founded and is headed by Rabbi Yisrael Ariel. Rabbi Yisrael Ariel, founder and head of the Temple Institute, served in the paratrooper brigade which liberated the Temple Mount in the Six Day War of 1967, and was one of the first soldiers to reach the Mount. Rabbi Ariel was the Rosh Yeshiva and spiritual leader of the city of Yamit in the Sinai, which was dismantled as part of the peace accords with Egypt. Rabbi 

Ariel is a scholar of great renown, and is also the author of many Hebrew works, including the highly acclaimed "Atlas of the Biblical Boundaries of the Land of Israel."

Its current director general is Dovid Shvartz, and the International Department is headed by Rabbi Chaim Richman. New York billionaire Henry Swieca has supported the institute. The Israeli government has also provided funding.

As part of its ongoing effort to prepare for a future rebuilt Temple, the Temple Institute has been preparing ritual objects suitable for Temple use. Many of the over ninety ritual items to be used in the Temple have been made by the Temple Institute.

As of June 2008, a major project of the institute was the creation of the sacred uniform of the Kohen Gadol, the High Priest, and the ordinary priests. This project, the culmination of years of study and research, had already been underway for several years. The High Priest's Hoshen (breastplate) and Ephod have been completed. The Tzitz, the golden crown of the High Priest, was completed in 2007.  The Temple Institute is designing the garments for the lay priests intended for purchase by Kohanim. 

 (Most Cohens know they are Cohens as their fathers pass on this fact orally to their sons), but today we can also proved this by DNA testing.  The Y haplogroup would read as J1 or something very close to it.  We had a relative, a Hochfeld, who was  a Cohen-knew this and served as a Cohen in the synagogue as one of the 1st readers.  DNA testing proved this to be correct.  

 Stanley and his family in early days, wife was Rebecca Finger.  Interesting that she married a Goldfoot.  Stanley was a writer, known for his "Letter to the World" defending Israel.  Shortly after moving to Palestine, he joined the Stern Group    and was their Chief of Intelligence.  I visited him at a hotel and at his beautiful home in Jerusalem.  He told me we were related to the Vilna Gaon of Lithuania.  He was the 1st publisher of "The Times of Israel." Chaim Herzog worked for him.  Age 69 when I met him,  he had white curly hair, tall, lean, energetic, healthy, had a mustache, and a British/South African accent.  When I met him, his 2nd wife was Helen Stutzen or Saffer.  

My 3rd cousin, Stanley Goldfoot (b: 1914 Johannesburg, South Africa-d: 2006 Jerusalem), was a member of this group before 1980 when I made aliyah to Israel.  He showed me their plans that he had rolled up in a scroll.  Today on youtube, I saw a video made by "rapture revealed," a Christian group watching their actions, of the group's Succot activities this year.  They mentioned seeing the water libation, something done before the building of such a Temple.  

In addition to a variety of items required for service within the Temple, the institute has attempted to locate a parah adumah (red heifer) consistent with the requirements of Numbers 19:1–22 and Mishnah Tractate Parah for purposes of taharah (purification) necessary to enter the Temple sanctuary proper in most circumstances. In recent years, the institute identified two candidates, one in 1997 and another in 2002. The Temple Institute had initially declared both kosher, but later found each to be unsuitable.  Stanley Goldfoot died in 2006 before finding a Red Heifer.  

Stanley would have been excited about the Red Heifers that have arrived in Israel already  on Thursday, September 15, 2022, 5 PM, 5 perfect, unblemished red heifers arrived in Israel from the USA. A modest ceremony was held at the unloading bay of the cargo terminal at Ben Gurion airport, where the new arrivals were greeted and speeches were made by the incredible people who have put their hearts and souls and means into making this historic/prophetic day become a reality.  They were needed before any Temple could be built.  

This year they had a special moment according to their web page.  A Temple Mount Moment is the joint project of the Temple Institute and the High on the Har organization. Temple Mount experts and co founders of High on the Har, Dr. Melissa Jane Kronfeld and Rabbi Yehuda Levi present each week fascinating facts and insights about the Temple Mount and the Holy Temple, its past, present and future!

It seems that many watched the water Libation, another act that must occur before building the 3rd Temple. On Tuesday, a full-dress reenactment of the water libation as it was performed in the Temple was held in Jerusalem with several hundred participants led by Kohanim in priestly garb, accompanied by Levites playing musical instruments. (Levites can be determined by DNA as well).  Levites also know who they have been for hundreds of years as being from the tribe of Levi but not a direct descendant of Aaron, brother of Moses).  

The event began at Shaar Hashpot (the dung gate) in Jerusalem’s Old City where participants joined Kohanim (priests) in Biblically mandated vestments and Levites with musical instruments, also wearing special vestments. The musically gifted Levites led the ceremony with joyous music on drums, violin, guitar, and clarinet, winding down ancient walkways into the valley below the Temple Mount. The crowd sang and danced as they passed from the archaeological remains of the ancient City of David, through an Arab village, to the Shiloach (Siloam) Spring which was used in Temple times. The procession was punctuated by stops during which four-foot-long pure silver trumpets were sounded.                               

The event was overseen by Rabbi Yisrael Ariel (the founder of the Temple Institute), Rabbi Dov Lior, Rabbi Aryeh Shtern (the chief rabbi of Jerusalem), Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu, Rabbi David Chai HaKohen, Rabbi Ra’am Hakohen, Rabbi Menachem Bornstein, Rabbi Uri Cherki, and other distinguished rabbis.  

Christians have been working with Temple Mount members and cousin Stanley was one involved.  Cooperation  has developed between evangelicals and Jews around the prospect of rebuilding the Temple. Many premillennialist evangelicals, especially since the 1980s, consider this task to be of special interest. A number of evangelical writers and activists have considered the rebuilding of a Jewish temple to be an essential event of the apocalyptic era. The 1980s saw the beginnings of efforts to prepare for that project, with conservative evangelicals offering financial aid and moral support to groups of observant Jews, some of them ultra-Orthodox, intent on rebuilding the Temple. The attempt to rebuild the Temple on the Temple Mount, where its former ruins are said to be located, necessarily affects Muslims, who also have an interest in the site. The chapter then looks at evangelical attitudes toward them and highlights Arab attitudes toward evangelical–Jewish relationships.

In 1993, Stanley was the lecturer at the Temple Mount.  The Jerusalem Temple Foundation

    Stanley Goldfoot  (Audio File missing)

Then:  This article below represents only a brief summary of the voluminous material gathered by the task force since the Nov. 4, 1995 assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.

On Oct. 16, Israeli police turned back members of the Temple Mount and Land of Israel Faithful Movement, as they attempted to enter the Dome of the Rock to anoint the cornerstone of a Third Temple. It was an extraordinary provocation, given that, for the previous 17 days, the Israeli military and police had been waging a round-the-clock shooting war against Palestinian protesters, armed mostly with stones. Dozens of Arab demonstrators had already been killed, and Jerusalem was about to explode in religious warfare.

An earlier press release by the Temple Mount Faithful had claimed that "the event has the approval of the Israeli authorities and will be protected by the Israel security forces."

The press release, written by Faithful leader Gershon Salomon, proclaimed, in blood-curdling language, "Now it is the time to rebuild the House of G-d on the holy Temple Mount, the location of the First and Second temples. G-d is ready for this and He expects Israel to re-liberate the Temple Mount from the pagan Arab worshippers and to rebuild His house to again be the heart, soul, and focus of Israel and all the nations. . . . Come and see for yourself what G-d is doing with Israel at this great time and be a part of this major end-time event."

To me, this is NOT blood curdling language, though for a secular person may be scary.  

So time marches on toward the year 6,000 and we find that the Temple building may be in the coming forecast.  What can happen within the next  year or by the next 17 years?  

Dr. McCall has most recently been Professor of Theology and Scholar-in-Residence at Asbury University. Prior to this, he served for sixteen years as Professor of Biblical and Systematic Theology at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois, where he was also the Director of the Carl F. H. Henry Center for Theological Understanding. During this same time, he held an appointment as Professorial Fellow in Exegetical and Analytic Theology at the University of St. Andrews.

Dr. Thomas McCall, Christian Church leader asked Salomon when the Temple would be built.  Gershon Salomon, was the leader when I was in Israel in 1980-85 and still leader of the 1996-famous group in Israel called the Temple Mount Faithful, as he referred to Satan in the Sanctuary, the first book that Zola and McCall wrote together (long ago, it seems) in 1973.

The cooperation  developed between evangelicals and Jews around the prospect of rebuilding the Temple. Many premillennialist evangelicals, especially since the 1980s, consider this task to be of special interest. A number of evangelical writers and activists have considered the rebuilding of a Jewish temple to be an essential event of the apocalyptic era. The 1980s saw the beginnings of efforts to prepare for that project, with conservative evangelicals offering financial aid and moral support to groups of observant Jews, some of them ultra-Orthodox, intent on rebuilding the Temple. The attempt to rebuild the Temple on the Temple Mount, where its former ruins are said to be located, necessarily affects Muslims, who also have an interest in the site. What were the evangelical attitudes toward them and Arab attitudes toward evangelical Jewish relationships?

“Yes, but you made the foundation stone,” McCall replied, as if he needed to remind Salomon of the most significant thing, from a prophetic point of view, that he had ever done. We laughed, but this exchange launched a discussion that lasted for over thirty minutes about the future Temple in Jerusalem. 

Interesting that there are evangelical Christians who respect Jews and back us while there are others who feel Jews are not longer necessary and believe they have taken our place in the religious world.  This shows up in the politics of the USA as well.  Religion and politics, both subjects we shouldn't talk about with friends, as they say.   

Resource:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ekZ-rGeyos   water libation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Temple_Institute

https://templeinstitute.org/

https://academic.oup.com/nyu-press-scholarship-online/book/21864/chapter-abstract/181890230?redirectedFrom=fulltext

https://israel365news.com/355457/reenactment-of-the-water-libation-held-to-prepare-for-the-third-temple/

http://www.templemount.org/goldfoot/index.html

https://larouchepub.com/other/2000/temple_mount_2743.html

https://www.levitt.com/essays/temple

Israel Now Has Red Heifers : Needed Before the Temple

 Nadene Goldfoot                                            

Israel has tried and tried to find a red heifer, but usually some little white patch has appeared on it's body as it aged, making it unusable. A heifer is a young female cow who has not yet had a calf.  

The Red Heifer was important in ancient days because it played an important part in making a sacrifice, a congregational sacrifice.  The ashes of a red heifer had to be mixed with water, and it was used to remove any impurity created by contact with the dead. Cohens were not allowed to touch the dead and not allowed to do so even today.  

The ashes had to be from an all red heifer, quite a rare find today and most likely then as well,  had to be unblemished and never yoked (used in the fields).  The burning of its body had to take place outside the camp at Jerusalem, on the Mt of Olives.  Even those that handled all this also required purification (Num 19).  

Update: A recent delivery of five red heifers from Texas to Israel is causing quite a stir. Talk is growing that their arrival is prophetic, and a prerequisite to the return of the Messiah.  Some rabbis believe the ashes of a red heifer are necessary for purifying priests to serve in a future Temple. The heifers were discovered and brought to Israel with the help of the Boneh Israel – “Building Israel” – organization and its team leader, Byron Stinson. 

From the time of Moses (1391BCE-1271BCE)  to the time of the 2nd Temple-the return of Jews from Babylon that were allowed to leave and rebuild their Temple  (538 BCE), only 9 red heifers had ever been used in such a sacrifice. Many people have tried to raise a perfect red heifer, but all have failed until now.     

All this information is found in the Mishna, a legal book containing the core of the Oral Law of Moses, compiled by Rabbi Judah Ha-Nasi on the basis of previous collections and arranged logically, divided into 6 groups (sedarim).  It deals with religious laws pertaining to  agriculture, seasons, Sabbath and festivals, women, marriage and divorce, damages of civil and criminal legislation,, holy things like ritual slaughter, sacrifices, purities. It's an encyclopedia of all the 613 laws we follow.  

The very 1st red heifer was processed by Moses.  The 2nd red heifer was done by the prophet Ezra during 1st Temple days.  The 2nd Temple lasted until till 70 CE (538 + 70=608 years.  During those 608 years, only 7 more heifers were used for the ashes it produced, enough to provide for the nation of Israel and then just Judah to purify people and things for all those years.

The high priest at that period had to prepare those 7 heifers.  They were 1. Shimon the Just and 2. Yochanan.  Each had 2 heifers to prepare.  3. El'yhoeini ben Hakof;  4. Chanameil HaMitzri;  and 5. Yishmael ben Pi'avi processed one heifer each.  

Since the beginning with Moses till 70 CE, purifying ashes have been produced by the hands of these high priests, and 9 heifers have been involved.  

Actually, the act has not been repeated since then since the Jewish people were almost completely destroyed by the Romans who took survivors of the burning of Jerusalem and the Temple as slaves, while others managed to escape and find refuge.  We have so much history of this event written by Josephus.  https://jewishbubba.blogspot.com/2022/09/the-history-and-genealogy-of-flavius.html  When reading Josephus, you have to realize he was their prisoner, and he was writing for a Roman audience, so he would be very careful to flatter them, not to insult them.                                         

We have Israel once again.  When King Solomon died in 920 BCE, his son, Jeroboam was the heir, but he continued the heavy taxation of his father for the Temple, and the people saw Solomon's death as a time for change to get rid of the taxation, and chose to have a Civil War and new king.  They ceded from the Union of the 12 tribes, leaving Solomon's son's state of Judah which had already taken in most of Simeon and Benjamin. The Ten Tribes ceded, only to become the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel which we are now finding again as some have already made their way back home.  The Ethiopians, not of the 10 but created according to the history of the Queen of Sheba visiting Solomon and her leaving pregnant, have just had their last group return to Israel, being the newest immigrants.                               

The provisional government was created. David Ben-Gurion, leader of Mapai and head of the Jewish Agency, became Israel's first Prime Minister on May 14, 1948.

          David Ben Gurion, Prime Minister of Israel on Time by 16 August 1948.  

May 14, 1948 was the birth of the new nation of Israel.  The Temple is not yet rebuilt, but they have the ability to make all the ashes they will need now for a long time to come.  Since before 1980, the Temple Institute, of which Stanley Goldfoot was a member, had been preparing for the day the Temple would again be built. Stanley had been the Chief of Intelligence for the Stern Group. 

Ezekiel of the 6th century BCE had had  vision of the Temple.  He was also a priest of the family of Zadok and may have served in the Temple before its destruction in 586 BCE.  Ezekiel was among those exiled before that date to Tel Abib on the river Kebar in Babylonia where he prophecied over a period of at least 22 years.   

In ancient days, the 2nd Temple had been built over the 1st Temple that was built by Solomon from 538 to 515 BCE during the period of Simon the Just, the high priest. and  Judah the Maccabee, Simon the Hasmonean, and Herod.  The Herodian Wall (Western Wall, Wailing Wall, Kotel) that surrounded the Temple hill measured 913 x 1,515 x 1,586 x 1,050 feet.  The area enclosed had to be leveled and filled between the Tyropoeion and Kidron valleys.  One entered by the many gates and approached by 4 bridges.  

The Temple itself was divided into the hall, the shrine and the holy of holies which was empty and entered only by the High Priest on the Day of Atonement or Yom Kippur.  The holy of holies is sacred, the reason why many rabbis discourage their followers from visiting the Temple Mount.  They are afraid they will be walking over this area.  After its destruction, the Romans were still there, and built themselves a Roman Temple over the remains.  After that when Mohammad had died in 632 CE, a mosque, the Mosque of Omar, was built over the Roman Temple.    

We have plenty of people who are descendants of the Levite priests, as found by DNA bearing the Y haplogroup of J1.  Israel does not have a high priest.  The Chief Rabbis are elected for 10-year terms. The present Sephardi Chief Rabbi is Yitzhak Yosef, and the Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi is David Lau, both of whom began their terms in 2013. The Rabbinate has jurisdiction over many aspects of Jewish life in Israel. The 10 years are almost up, as 2023 is not far off.  

Resource:

The New Standard Jewish Encyclopedia

https://templeinstitute.org/red-heifer-the-tenth-red-heifer/

https://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/israel/2022/september/texas-red-heifers-arrival-stirs-prophetic-excitement

 

Seeking the Perfect Red Heifer

Nadene Goldfoot                                                                    

The Red Heifer mentioned in the bible is  being sought once again by the Temple Institute.  Such a perfect animal was used for a congregational sacrifice whose ashes would be mixed with water. It was used in order to remove impurity created by contact with the dead.

It had to be unblemished and never yoked. It has to be totally red without any white spots.   In the ancient days BCE, it was burnt outside the camp at Jerusalem on the Mountain of Olives while those that  handled it also required purification.  This is in detail in Numbers 19.
                                  
Later generations, finding the ceremony incomprehensible, put forward various explanations such as that the red heifer atoned for the worship of the golden calf or that the color of the heifer symbolized sin.  What we do know is that the ashes will be used to 

"purify today's Levitical priesthood and to "purify" the temple mount in 

preparation for the building of the Third Temple."  
                                                                       

The Temple Mount group in Jerusalem was planning on building the 3rd Temple when the time is right.  They had been planning and preparing before 1980.  "Israel is clearly moving towards the time when the Holy Temple on Mount Moriah - the prophesied Third Temple - will be rebuilt." 
                                                    

 My 3rd cousin, Stanley Goldfoot, was one of the leaders of the group but passed away in November 2006.   He spoke all over the USA in football stadiums about doing it.  "The honor of this last house will be greater than that of the first, says the Lord of Hosts; and in this place I will grant peace, says the Lord of Hosts" (Hagai 2:9)."  

The Temple must be built before the Moshiach arrives.  "But the sages of Israel enigmatically stated that when the Messiah arrives, he will stand atop the roof of the Holy Temple and cry out: "Humble ones! The time of your redemption has arrived!"  Throughout Judaism, Christianity and Islam, the feeling of the end of days for such an event is close at hand.  It's so hard for most of us to think of such a thing as we prepare dinner, shop and see a football game. " Nonsense," we say, but here we are with a world full of killing , Iran is about to have nuclear weapons, and the atmosphere is so full of hatred that even G-d himself must feel it.  
                                                         

The Temple Institute feels that "the fate of the entire world depends on the red heifer.the ashes of the red heifer rectifies humanity's most basic flaw: despair. The despair brought about by the loss of the Temple and the Divine Presence amongst us.

Purification with the red heifer reminds us that man has the potential to rise above his transitory physical existence, with all its false sense of hopelessness and misery... the "impurity" of death. This is the role of the Third Temple for all mankind, and this is the Messianic vision of the future: the call to live an eternal life, liberated from the sham and unhappiness which is the sum total of the human condition for so many people. The call for the true joy of living life to the fullest - with the knowledge of G-d.

The great sages of Israel consider this precept to be the deepest mystery of the Torah. For a great, enigmatic contradiction surrounds it: although the ashes of the red heifer have the inexplicable power to cleanse all those who have been rendered unclean, contact with the very same ashes for those who are pure has the opposite effect... it makes them unclean!  This seems to be a riddle that even King Solomon didn't understand, so don't feel bad if you don't, either.  

We humans just don't understand this, but it's one of those things you will do in your religion out of love and fear of G-d.  We don't always understand things at the time given, and this was given to Moses long ago (1391-1271 BCE).  Our people committed the great sin with the Golden Calf while waiting for Moses to come down from the mountain with the 10 Commandments.  They were told to wait patiently.  They built this calf and danced around it when they thought it was past time for him to be down.   The red heifer serves to atone for the spiritual chaos brought into the world through the golden calf.

Evidently with all the illogical thinkers, terrorist killers and hatred in the world, we still need something physical to use in order to understand.  It's back to the drawing board with an animal sacrifice.  

"For the entire time that the Temple stood in Israel, a total of nine red heifers were used. Jews believe that the appearance of a perfect red heifer would usher in the appearance of the long-awaited Messiah. The 10th red heifer has been found in America, and preparations are now underway to bring the animal to Israel."  This was written in June 20, 2014.  

Then again, one such animal has been born in Israel already.  "Much excitement has been generated by the arrival of a "Red Heifer"¹ in Israel. The birth of a red heifer (cow) on a farm in the religious youth village of Kfar Hasidim (near Haifa) has excited sectors in the Israeli religious community."  It must be 2 years old before it can be sacrificed.  According to the Torah, the red heifer must be without blemish, and must be without defect.  

One slight problem exists besides finding the perfect red heifer without blemish.  The Arabs do not want their mosques torn down.  How is the 3rd Temple to be built and where?  Just as Zechariah predicted, Jerusalem is indeed becoming "a cup of trembling" and a "burdensome stone" to all the nations of the earth. The rebuilding of the Temple will be another intensifying aspect in the present Middle East imbroglio.  As it stands today, the Muslims refuse to allow the Jews on the mount to do any prayers at all where their 2nd Temple had stood.  This is causing the Pope to come up with an answer offered in 1947 and refused by the Muslims. "We understand that the Vatican has offered to "internationalize" the Temple Mount:They say to let the Muslims use it on Friday (their holy day); the Jews use it on Saturday (Shabbat), and the Christians on Sunday. This appears consistent with their ambition and agenda to lead the worldwide "ecumenical" movement, the Evangelicals feel.  The Jews will not go for it, either as  Jerusalem is all one city and happens to be the capital of Israel.  It's simply another  idea to take away the Israeli role here.  

This red heifer plays an important part of Christianity in their predictions, and they have a different assumption as to the meanings of all this.  

One thing we know is that the heifer comes before the Temple and the Temple comes before the Moshiach.  Of course the ashes can always be saved until the right time. 

 Interesting since ashes and animal fat are mixed with lye to 

make soap which purifies.  

Resource: http://www.templeinstitute.org/red_heifer/introduction.htm
http://www.nowtheendbegins.com/blog/?p=22780
http://www.khouse.org/articles/1997/15/
http://www.templemount.org/goldfoot/index.html
http://www.motherearthnews.com/homesteading-and-livestock/how-to-make-soap-from-ashes-zmaz72jfzfre.aspx