• Jul-31-2017
• Articles, Identity, Media, Temple Mount
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Those who wonder why we need a day of mourning for our Temple when we have a State, a Knesset, a government, a flag, an army and police force got their answer over this past week. All the state mechanisms, […]

• Mar-03-2016
• Articles, Torah Thoughts
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One day when I was in grade school, a rabbi came to my classroom with an impressive photo album. The album contained beautiful pictures of the reproductions of the Temple vessels and the priestly garments. The Temple Institute had not […]

• Dec-07-2015
• Articles, by Shmuel Sackett, Leadership
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We have all become accustomed to the wonderful holiday of Chanukah but when you think about it, it really doesn’t make a lot of sense. What exactly are we celebrating? An amazing defeat of our enemy? Not really… the war […]

• Jul-30-2015
• Articles, Torah Thoughts
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This Tisha B’Av, as usual, I felt uncomfortable with the Kinot, which have become nothing more than lip service. We are actually in love with destruction. We have exchanged the essence of the Temple Mount for the Western Wall, the […]

• May-28-2015
• Articles, Torah Thoughts
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Sometimes I think that if those who we call ‘seculars’ would understand what the Temple really means, they would run and build it – despite the loud protests of the religious.
The Temple expresses the unmediated connection between man and G-d. […]

• Dec-23-2014
• Temple Mount
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“Chanukah is drawing to an end and my heart is heavy,” said MK Moshe Feiglin on the seventh day of Chanukah.  “Every evening at candle-lighting, we sing the traditional song, Maoz Tzur, repeating the words, ‘Then I will dedicate the altar […]

• Oct-11-2014
• Articles, Torah Thoughts
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“And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left of all the nations that came against Jerusalem shall go up from year to year to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, and to keep the feast […]

• Jul-30-2014
• Articles, by Shmuel Sackett, Land of Israel, Meaning, Temple Mount
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2 Av, 5774/July 29, ‘14
This Shabbos is called “Chazon” which means vision and looking towards the future. It’s not a personal vision but a national one and based on that, I always ask myself the same question: Exactly what is […]

• Apr-16-2014
• Articles, Identity, Land of Israel, Temple Mount
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13 Nissan, 5774/April 13, ‘ 14
This week, the senior staff at Channel 2 news interviewed arch-terrorist Gibril  Rajoub. Long ago, the magic Oslo laundromat turned the veteran murderer into a much sought-after  interviewee, his face frequently beamed onto a giant […]

• Apr-08-2014
• Temple Mount, Video
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