Kosel Rav, HaRav Shmuel Rabinowitz, on Tuesday instructed the employees of the Western Wall Heritage Foundation to ban the entry of animals to Har HaBayis.
The step was taken on the background of the annual attempts of activists to offer a Korban Pesach on Har Bayis and the day after police arrested Rafael Morris, a well-known activist, and his minor son, for allegedly intending to offer a Korban Pesach on Har HaBayis.
Morris is the head of the Return to the Mount [“חוזרים להר”] movement, which advocates for Jewish rights on Har HaBayis.
In recent days, the movement has posted notices on social media offering a reward of NIS 20,000 to anyone who succeeds in bringing the Korban Pesach on Har HaBayis.
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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Poor Shefaleh
Any idiot seeking to sneak animals up to the har habayis to bring a korban that virtually all rabbonim have said is asur, should be sentenced to spend 30 days cleaning up the animal pens at the Tel Aviv zoo. Its not funny and puts both themselves and the security personnel at risk. In these types of cases, stupidity risks bloodshed and should not be tolerated.
Why not just offer on a bamah at Shiloh?
2 points to bring up
1) “Kosel Rav, HaRav Shmuel Rabinowitz, on Tuesday instructed the employees of the Western Wall Heritage Foundation to ban the entry of animals to Har HaBayis.”
Won’t barring the Arabs make them upset (עם הדומה לחמור)
2)” In recent days, the movement has posted notices on social media offering a reward of NIS 20,000 to anyone who succeeds in bringing the Korban Pesach on Har HaBayis.”
Only 20,000 shekalim?!? To put one’s life on the line?
The provocation is al aqsa mosque
20,000 shekel is nothing compared to fulfilling the command of G-D and one the fundamental Laws of the covenant
I would go myself, if we had a tzibur.
But if you’re doing it for money, you won’t do it correctly and risk kares
Next year he will prevent provocation of seculars by preventing people from eating matzoh
Why are you calling an attempt to fulfil a Mitzvas Asei d’Oreisa a “provocation”? There is a very strong tzad that there is a chiyuv to bring a Koran Pesach b’zman hazeh – and while it may not be politically easy to do so, and there are many reasons for not bringing it in practice, calling it a provocation is echoing the propaganda of our enemies.
We don’t need to apologize for trying to be mekayem mitzvos.
an Israeli Yid
Don’t worry about offering korbanos in their place while that place is occupied by a kofer toevah-pushing regime that literally tortures Jews in places like the Russian Compound and Kfar Shaul literally just for attempting to do mitzvos in their designated places. The kofer toevah-pushing occupation regime is shmadding it up right now pretty seriously and shmadding itself. It’s literally a milchamah. You just need to survive. You need to wait for the vaxed to all clog up, including all those magavnik sadist meathead drones who guard mitzvah places to prevent mitzvos there. Once the magavnik meatheads all clog up or get their turbocancers, then there may be opportunities to do mitzvos in their designated places. It’s sort of like when Dovid counted the nation and then a malaach started offing the unjustified until finally they offered korbanos in their place. We’re still the phase of the unjustified being offed. When they’re all gone, then we can offer korbanos. Everything is in order.
Bringing a korban Pesach is a Torah obligation that applies at all times. We are required by the Torah, even nowadays, to go up to the Har Habayis and bring a korban. The only halachic excuse for not doing so is that the police will prevent us, and that the Arabs will murder us. The police are a weak excuse, because if that were the only barrier then we should defy the police and be willing to be arrested for the mitzvah, just as in the USSR. The Israeli police are certainly not more frightening than the NKVD! So the only real excuse is that it’s pikuach nefesh; the Arabs will murder us and the police won’t prevent them.
In 1968 the Arabs were still afraid, and would not have murdered anyone who came with a korban, so the only barrier was the police. That is why the Lubavitcher Rebbe advised people that year not to be in Yerushalayim on Erev Pesach, so as not to incur the obligation to fight the police and be arrested in order to fulfill the mitzvah. By 1969 the Arabs had got their courage back, and it became once again a matter of literal pikuach nefesh, so the Rebbe told people it was OK to be in Yerushalayim that day.