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About 150 Jews were standing on line Sunday morning 7 Av, waiting to enter Har Habayis. Included in the group was Rosh Yeshivat Har Etzion Rabbi Medan.
Thirty minutes after the holy site opened, police announced it would only permit the Jews onto the site in group of up to 25 people.
It is reported that 278 shomer Shabbos Jews entered Har Habayis during the morning hours despite prolonged delays.
Gedolei Yisrael over the generations and the Chief Rabbinate of Israel prohibit visiting Har Habayis, which they explain carries the punishment of karess.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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the sign should be more specific and say” you are not going to get a share in the world to come by going on to the Temple Mount.”
and receive the punishment of koreis/karet…
Continuing to try to dance simultaneously at two chassanas. Does YWN uphold the ruling of the gedolei Torah on the question of going up to Har Habayis, or are you following your own opinion? The tone of this article, like so many others in the past, seem to point to the latter. Being “all things to all men” is not a Torah virtue.