Rabbi Yehuda Chaik, a resident of Katzrin in the Golan Heights, has been busy collecting signatures from among the members of the body that elects the chief rabbis, in preparation for the elections for these positions that will be held at the end of the Hebrew year. He has already collected quite a few signatures, although most of the work is still ahead of him.
Alongside this, Rabbi Chaik has now published the book "Gazah Mihuda", in which he discusses the question of the ascension to the Temple Mount, a subject that has already been discussed by many in recent years; but at the same time, he also deals with the renewal of the sacrificial offering, in particular the Passover sacrifice. If Rabbi Chaik is successful in becoming the Chief Rabbi of Israel, his views on the Temple Mount can completely change the public’s viewpoint on current Status Quo consensuses.
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As a rule, Rabbi Chaik is inclined to side with the Chief Rabbinate's position of denying ascension to the Temple Mount, but in his book, it is important for him to make a caveat: "We, the people of Israel, from the Torah state, must maintain Israeli Jewish sovereignty on the Temple Mount, and we must not in any way give control to the nations of the world there and, God forbid, give up a place of Our temple. That's why I added a garnet and a desire to strengthen the hands of the defenders of our holy land to increase in prayer and safeguard our sovereignty in the place of our temple."
"And here it must be firmly ordered that the Temple Mount is Mount Moriah and will be under the sovereignty of Israel forever. So that we can maintain the sanctity of the Temple Mount, and not desecrate the place of our temple. That we can welcome the Messiah of our righteousness when we guard the place of the temple and control this place and with Israeli sovereignty over a holy place The sanctuaries and the Temple in Jerusalem. Israel's control over the Temple Mount must continue, and we must not in any way give it up."
"After Israel captured the site in 1967, the Chief Rabbinate of Israel announced that entering the Temple Mount was forbidden to Jews, in accordance with a halakhic prohibition against temei ha'met (Impurity by contacting the dead, cemeteries etc)"https://t.co/y9r7m0eOcp pic.twitter.com/eTM9q18gpa
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Regarding the renewal of the sacrifice of the Passover sacrifice, Rabbi Chaik is hesitant yet extremely revolutionary as most leading rabbis wouldn’t dare even contemplate such a thing. According to him, although it is possible to calculate where the altar is according to the tradition that places the drinking stone in the Dome of the Rock and erects it there, it may be necessary for this to renew the prophecy as it was in the beginning of the Second Temple: “Fear of God blessed be He, lest there be a mistake in my words. And if we sacrifice not in the exact place of the altar, there are great prohibitions in this. Therefore, all I have left is to pray to God that He will send us a righteous Messiah and we will eat from the Passover sacrifices."
