(Video) Jerusalem's Temple Mount, the 9th of Av and the Arab Spring

Yishai Fleisher..
Eye On Zion..
10 July '13..

Yishai Fleisher with a message for Muslims and Jews direct from the Temple Mount during the solemn period of the Nine Days preceding the 9th of Av, the day both Holy Temples in Jerusalem were destroyed. This year the Nine Days coincide on the calendar with Ramadan. But while the 2nd Temple was destroyed 2,000 years ago, the Muslim world of today is in great turmoil. Yishai asks whether their problems are tied into the Muslim authority's denial of prayer rights for Jews on the Temple Mount. If you deny blessings to others, will you be blessed?



Camera: Yishai Fleisher
Date: Av 3 5773 / July 10, 2103
Location: Jerusalem, Israel

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Kushner- From Israel: Before Tisha B'Av

Arlene Kushner
Arlene from Israel
08 August '11

Tonight begins the Ninth of Av, the day on which we mourn the destruction of our Temples in Jerusalem, and mark several other tragedies that have befallen the Jewish people on this date over the years.

It is a day of considerable solemnity, in which we afflict ourselves. It is the only full -- 25 hour -- fast in the calendar other than Yom Kippur. We don't bathe and we sit low to the floor. Eicha, the Book of Lamentations is read.

This day is the culmination, so to speak, of three weeks, and then with greater stringency, nine days, which began the process of mourning.

If we're honest about it, we are mourning not just because of the destruction in history, but because the destruction continues. We are told that the Second Temple was destroyed by the Romans in 70 of the Common Era because of causeless hatred (sinat hinam) between Jews, and we are not yet where we should be as a people.

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But it is also a time of hope. For tradition tells us that the Moshiach will be born on this day. It falls to us to bring him, I believe. Bring him by virtue of how we act.

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Tomorrow, Amcha-Coalition for Jewish Concerns, the group led by Rabbi Avi Weiss in New York, will be holding its 34th annual outdoor mincha service for Tisha B'Av. It will be for Jews in danger worldwide.

2:00 PM at the Isaiah Peace Wall, First Avenue and 43rd Street, NYC, opposite the UN. Torah reading will be lead by Rabbi Weiss. Bring your own siddur, men, tallit and tfillin if possible.

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I wanted to go back once again and describe the latest happenings with regard to the tent demonstrations. But I don't believe I can do it justice today, and will save it for another posting to follow soon.

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© Arlene Kushner. This material is produced by Arlene Kushner, functioning as an independent journalist. Permission is granted for it to be reproduced only with proper attribution.


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The Fifth of Iyar has Not Replaced the Ninth of Av

Dr.Israel Eldad z"l
ZFA
Published in Sullam
5710 (1950)

The unfortunate fact embodied in the title symbolizes more than anything that the historical occurrence begun on the eve of the Ninth of Av, that which we call Exile, has not yet come to its conclusion. And not necessarily because Jews still remain in the Diaspora, for even before the destruction of the Temple Jews were living in Diaspora countries.

Of course the in-gathering of the exiles is the goal of Zionism. Of course the conquest of the land is the goal of the liberation movement, but redemption, that primary and deepest and most encompassing concept of the Hebrew language, this Redemption cannot be without the abrogation of Tisha B’Av, which means the actualization of that symbol whose destruction began the Diaspora, though there were Romans in this country even before then and there were Jews dispersed in the world before then, and though there was a Jewish majority in this country even hundreds of years afterwards. And just as there is no substitute for Eretz Israel so can there be no substitute for that singular site.

The Building of the Third Temple is not the goal of Redemption, it will be the expression of Redemption. The Redemption of the nation and of its G-d. And this focal point will radiate power.

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