During a recent archaeological inspection of the Temple Mount, carried out by the Israel Antiquities Authority on the maintenance work of the Waqf, an apparently sealed archaeological level dated to the First Bais Hamikdash era was exposed in the area close to the south-eastern corner of the raised platform surrounding the Dome of the Rock.
Archaeological examination of a small section of this level, undertaken by Yuval Baruch, the Jerusalem District Archaeologist, uncovered finds that included fragments of ceramic table wares and animal bones. The finds are dated from the eighth to the sixth centuries BCE.
The finds include fragments of bowl rims, bases and body sherds; the base of a juglet used for the ladling of oil; the handle of a small juglet and the rim of a storage jar. The bowl sherds were decorated with wheel burnishing lines characteristic of the First Temple Period. In addition, a piece of a white washed handmade object was found. It may have been used to decorate a larger object or may have been part of a figurine.
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The Waqf is building the foundations for the Third Beis Hamikdash, TB”B.
why don’t they order the arabs to stop digging up the har habayhis
Do you mean the 3rd Bais Hamikdash that chazal tell us will come down in fire? Even so I would doubt that they would be given the zechus, nor would we have a Bais Hamikdash that was built by tumah!
Is this an issue that raises an eyebrow in the Torah world? Do we care that the entire har habais area is being razed by the arabs, all evidence of Judaism destroyed, eradicated and shredded to bits? Should this be a tishabav to our generations as the destruction of the mikdash was to yesteryears? Are our neshamoes yearning for this spirituality, of a renewed beis hamikdash?
You all know the answers to the above questions!! Now the clincher, why DON’T we care?
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come, move. i’ll help you out.
maybe if more of us left america and showed a REAL desire to come home, He’ll make it finally Home.
4. Stan and 5. Sudog – Let me know when and I’ll greet you at the airport here. 🙂
built by fire or laser? Sooner than anyone thinks or wants. Or chodosh al tziyon taeer.
What!? and leave flatbush, boro park, with our lexus’s behind?
if you think that moving to Israel is the answer to all our problems, or the beginning of Mashiach, then you are very sadly misguided. Open your eyes, only hashem will bring us to Eretz Yisroel with Mashiach.
pinchas, I’LL go with you to greet them….
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Take the lexus with you
NeveAliza, we hope you are waiting for Moshiach too…
NeveAliza, Since you say you are machmir with everything else, okay. Can’t argue with that!
NeveAliza, You commented in YW’s “Jewish Chaplain In Iraq” article that you are from the UK… ich farshtay nisht!
NeveAliza, So why davka the UK (and not, say, the US or all coalition forces)?