JEWS BEGIN BUILDING THIRD TEMPLE ON ISRAEL INDEPENDENCE DAY
While most Israelis were celebrating Independence Day by having family barbecues, a small group gathered in the Old City of Jerusalem and began chipping away at stones, preparing them to be used to build the prophesied Third Temple.
Rabbi Lipo realized that it was possible to begin to actually perform this mitzvah by preparing the stones that will be used to build the Third Temple. He explained that Rabbi Moses ben Maimon, the medieval Torah authority known as Maimonides or by the acronym Rambam, taught that the stones for the Temple building were cut outside of the Temple Mount and transported to the Temple Mount. Once on the Temple Mount, it was forbidden to use iron tools to form the stones. It was, of course, forbidden to use iron tools at any stage to form the stones for the altar.
Lipo plans on holding more events of this type to prepare more stones for the Third Temple.
“This was an important act unto itself and a message to the nation as well as to the world, but it was also message to Hashem that we were not just sitting around waiting for the Messiah,” Wander told Israel365 News. “We had the intention to show that we are actively working to bring the Third Temple, as prophesied and as commanded.”
The stones are being stored for their intended purpose.
Cutting stones for the Third Temple (Photo courtesy Joshua Wander)
Though political considerations prevent actual construction, a small group of Jews has begun cutting stones in preparation for the construction of the Third Temple.
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