Jerusalem and The Holy Temple

While the Mishkan/Bet HaMikdash may be (temporarily) absent, each of us can ourselves become one.

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Torah directs man to confine himself to an abstract spiritual world

In the Holy Temple, between the women's courtyard and the Israelites' courtyard, there was a gate called the Gate of Nikanor

we shall see how the entire Jewish life order was bound up with the concept of rain in Israel.

we believe that every realistic reason is coupled with a halachic one.

Recently, someone asked me a shaylah that involves what is probably one of the most heart-breaking issues I was ever asked. The question was: “Are there any halachic issues involved in sifting through the earth removed by the Waqf from the Makom HaMikdash?” To explain this shaylah, I will first explain what has happened, then discuss the halachic issues involved — and finally explain the answers. There is also a fascinating halachic-architectural issue that I noticed while studying photographs of the Moslem construction, which I will discuss at the end of this article.