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
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.
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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. 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
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