According to MK and Temple Mount Activist Yehuda Glick, some 1,400 Jewish people visited the Har HaBayis on Tisha B’Av. This total breaks the previous record of 1,300 visitors who ascended to the Temple Mount last year on the fast day.
The mass of pilgrimages brought rebukes from both the Palestinian Authority and the Jordanian government who oppose Jews being allowed to visit the site.
The Media Coordinator of the Muslim Waqf told the PA state-run news outlet WAFA that the number was 1,023.
10 of the visitors were arrested by the Israeli Police for what they deemed to be inappropriate conduct while visiting the site. Most of those arrested were released shortly afterward.
Glick said that he hopes to see “thousands of Jews visiting the site.”
It should be noted that Gedolei Yisrael throughout the generations along with the Chief Rabbinate of Israel, have prohibited visiting Har Habayis as there is an Issur Kares.
This young man quickly tears kriya on his shirt while reciting Dayan HaEmmes and then falls to the ground reciting Shema. He is promptly removed by police.
Police remove another mispallel as the crowd shouts, accusing police of using unjustified force during his removal from the holy site.
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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Extremists & teenage hoodlums are found in every spectrum of Klal yisroael, making a scene on har habayit is detrimental to everyone!!!
your title is pathetic….. Remember many poskim including rav moshe Fienstien dont hold its assur to go to certian parts of Har Habayis
why is it “hashem yerachem”????????? it deosnt sound like your such a baki in these halachos ywn,bec as “j” pionted out many poskim hold the current day temple mount isnt the same dimensions of the har habayis of old (which has the issur kares). even common sense dictates that bec. acc. to the mishna the har habayis (after herod) was square shaped, however what the Arabs and the Israelis call the temple mount is actually rectangle shaped. especially these days with all their technology that basically the entire area in Jewish hands today is all dug up, shedding light on the exact dimensions of where the har habyis stood. and besides a tamei meis is able to go onto the har habayis just not the azara (which is tacking a big risk considering the issur of kares). there are actually religious soldiers who before having duty on the har habayis are tiovel in the mikva and go. the reason the rabbanut put on the issur is probably because of as i said its a big risk but it doesn’t have any halachic basis and technically speaking, parts of the temple mount are more mutar to step foot on than your bedroom. although i would warn against going there not because of kares but because of chilul hashem . it is arab land, until moshiach comes it will be arab land and trespassing would be a great chilul hashem and a violation of the 3 shevuos (which yes are still in affect today).
It is hard to say that there is a universal psak hallacha. Many respected talmiday chachamim, including rabbanim in the yeshivish world, are now going up to Har Habayis.
Waiting for those who love to scream about chareidi extremism (which I totally don’t agree with) to make the same level of stink about issurei kareis. Oh wait, what’s that? Silence…
jdb
Please give examples of “rabbanim in the yeshivish world” who are now going up there.
I live in Eretz Yisroel and have not heard of this at all.
The Rabbinut say it is an issur Kares
Rav Elyashiv and Rav Ovadia Yosef both said it was forbidden.
YWN is 100% correct in their headline
To bring the Geulah Shleimah BV”A we should study the Nevuah of Bais HaMikdash HaShlishi YVBV”A [Sefer Yechezkel/Ezekiel, Chap. 40-43]. The following may be helpful: http://crdesignable.com/our-special-mitzvah/
The reason the Chief Rabbinate forbids going up isn’t because of kares. It’s already been pointed out that there are (disputed) ways around kares. Their issue is it invited the Arabs.
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