Holy Temple Myth Busters: Part I - Introduction

We must wait for Moshiach to build the Holy Temple. Fact or myth?

The Holy Temple will descend ready-made from heaven. Fact or myth?

Building the Holy Temple will cause World War III. Fact or myth?

Rabbi Chaim Richman provides the answers from the sources of Torah wisdom to these questions and many more in this multi-part series which will bust all of the myths that have come to clutter Jewish thought concerning the building of the Holy Temple and its significance to the entire world.

This video was made possible in part by the Shraga family of the USA

SOURCES:

*breaking the glass: BT Talmud Berachot 30,31

*fruit was lost: Sotah 9, 12

*all the Torah's commandments are for all of israel to fulfill - Rambam, Igeret HaShmad (Letter on Persecution), Yitzchak Shilat Edition, Volume I, pp. 57-58

*Rambam, Sefer HaMitzvot, Positive Commandments number 20

*Rashi on BT Sukkah 41:a, Ezekiel 43:11 ("so that they keep: They will learn the matters of the measurements from your mouth so that they will know how to do them at the time of the end.")

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[KennyJoe]

Shalom :-) Thank you for all of your wonderful videos, Temple Talk Radio and Weekly Torah Portions all year round. We LOVE them!  from Kenny and Debra in Australia.

[claudiareginateixeira]

Baruch HaShem! This video is a confirmation of a prayer I made in the wester wall. While I was praying with my hands on it. I felt like my arms changed into a tree and as I was praying that was growing up higher than the walls!

I believe HaShem had a message of keep praying there....

[realdan]

Jeremiah 7:4 Do not trust in the deceptive and lying words [of the false prophets who claim that Jerusalem will be protected by God because of the temple], saying, ‘This is the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord.’

[Moshugaani]

*_- "Sir, "_* *the woman said, * *_"I can see that you are a prophet. Our ancestors worshiped on this mountain, but you Jews claim that the place where we must worship is in Jerusalem."_*
*_- "Woman, "_* *Jesus replied, * *_"believe me, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. You Samaritans worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews. Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth."_*
*- The woman said, * *_"I know that Messiah is coming. When he comes, he will explain everything to us."_*
*- Then Jesus declared, * *_"I, the one speaking to you--I am he."_*

John 4:19-26

I know Jews couldn't care less for the Christian scriptures, but I just wanted to put this out in the public in the hopes of stirring some thoughts. I will always pray for the descendants of Jacob, even if I don't condone everything the Israeli state does.

[snowstephenanderson]

Amen Rabbi Chaim! Seems we are at the perfect crossroads, close, all the heaviness in my heart due to Hamas was lifted just listening to the 1st Temple Video...thanks God Bless

[markomarttila]

Build the Temple and the Anti Messiah will come and he will bring Jacob's trouble, the 7 year tribulation.

The last week of years of Daniel.

Daniel 9:27
He will confirm a covenant with many for one ‘seven.’ In the middle of the ‘seven’ he will put an end to sacrifice and offering. And at the temple he will set up an abomination that causes desolation, until the end that is decreed is poured out on him.”

Daniel 11:31
“His armed forces will rise up to desecrate the temple fortress and will abolish the daily sacrifice. Then they will set up the abomination that causes desolation.

[joeanddawn]

Is the Temple going to be built 1000 feet south of Ft. Antonia or will it be on the fort of Antonia where the Dome of the Rock sits?

[stevenalves]

I've always been sceptical about the Temple but if the last couple of years have taught me anything it's that you should do your own research on things and not listen to all of them conspiracies.
I'll be looking forward to the myth busting.

[realdan]

Isaiah 66:1 This is what the Lord says, “Heaven is My throne and the earth is My footstool. Where, then, is a house that you could build for Me? And where will My resting place be?

[craftingstones]

What is the Temple Institute's position on the abomination that Daniel 9 and 11 speaks of with regard to their efforts to build the Temple? I cannot seem to find any reference to these chapters from them. I am very interested in knowing their thoughts on this.

[biblecharlie]

Cute. But seriously, when the 3rd temple is rebuilt will it be using the dimensions as found in Ezekiel (Ezek. 40-48)? And it will it be built on the ancient site of Shiloh (Joshua 18:1, where it remained until the death of Eli) or will it be built south of the temple Mount in the ancient city of David (where truly Solomon's/Ezra's/Herod's temple was)?

[raphaelbarcid]

“And you shall make a sanctuary for Me that I may dwell among
them” (Exodus 25:8). It is a positive commandment just like laying
tefillin or eating matzah on Passover.

One of the leading arguments preventing Jews from taking
this commandment seriously is the notion that we must wait for the
Messiah to fulfill it. In other words, the mitzvah of building the Temple is not incumbent upon us, but rather upon the Messiah.

But is this really so? Let us take a look at the words of the Rambam at the very beginning of Hilchot Beit HaBechirah (1:1): “It is a positive commandment to construct a house for G-d, prepared for sacrifices to be offered within. We must celebrate there three times a year as it is written, ‘And you shall make a sanctuary for Me.’ ”
Does the Rambam restrict this mitzvah to the Messiah? No. No one in his right mind can take this mitzvah - or any mitzvah, for that matter - and claim that the Messiah has some kind of exclusivity over it. The mitzvot were given to the Jewish people to fulfill, and we dare not excuse ourselves from even one mitzvah by passing it on to someone else, no matter how great that someone else may be.

The Rambam, it is true, writes at the end of Hilchot Melachim that “the Messiah will eventually arise...build the Temple in its place, and gather the dispersed of Israel.” But the Rambam does not tell us that the Messiah must build the Temple; what he means is, if the Temple is not already built by the time the Messiah comes (either because of the Jewish people’s criminal negligence or because the redemption came so swiftly that we did not have time to build it), he will build it.

Other commentators explain that the Messiah will build the Temple according to the futuristic plans outlined in the Book of Ezekiel - plans that are incomprehensible to us. In the meantime, though, we are to build the Temple based on the design of the Second Temple.
If one is not yet convinced, the following is a quote from the Rambam’s Iggeret Teiman: “The mitzvot do not depend on the coming of the Messiah; rather, we are obligated to immerse ourselves in Torah and try to perform them to perfection. After doing what we have been obligated to do, if G-d allows us or our children or our children’s children to merit seeing the Messiah, all the better. If not, we have not lost a thing; we benefited by doing what we were obligated to do.”

Let us now deal with another argument often advanced against building the Temple. This argument excuses even the Messiah from taking action. It has the Third Temple coming down from heaven, already built. Therefore, we need not do anything but sit and wait - so people claim.

But since when do we rely on aggadic sources to determine halachic matters? It must be understood that when an aggadic source mentions a Third Temple coming down from the sky, it is not teaching us how to fulfill a mitzvah rather, it is conveying an idea that goes beyond the “dry” halacha. Most commentators explain that the idea intended by the Rabbis is that once we start building the Temple (notice how they weren’t so quick to forgo such an important mitzvah G-d will rest His Divine Presence upon it. Others offer different explanations.

In any event, the halacha is clear and no aggadic source can excuse us from fulfilling a clear mitzvah in the Torah. Perhaps it would not be so bad if our inactivity resulted in the Temple Mount remaining desolate. But that is not the case. In the absence of a Jewish presence there, the Moslems occupy the site. The vacuum created by lack of sanctification of G-d’s Name has been filled by a terrible desecration of G-d’s Name. Jews go to the Kotel and ignore the Moslem domes above their heads and are oblivious to the wailing of the jackals that blares from the loudspeakers five times a day.

Every generation is obligated to build the Holy Temple, and the conquest of the Temple Mount 30 years ago gives our generation an unprecedented opportunity to fulfill this mitzvah. It is not too late to take advantage of it.

Darka Shel Torah, 1994

[ddbrosnahan]

Thank you for your devotion to the Beit HaMikdash. Isn't Haram al-Sharif built over the Roman Caustra, Antonia Fortress where the 10th Legion was garrisoned? Isn't the place of the Holy Temple 600 ft south on the Ophel of the City of David, over the Gihon Spring?

[PaultheCanadian]

Wonderful video. I hope the Jewish people build their temple soon.

[ezrasdad]

Dear Friends, The Holy Spirit has not departed from this world. He now resides in the heart of all men who have trusted Christ as the saviour of the world and the promised messiah. The presence of the Lord dwells in His temple today; a quote from Paul "Know ye not that your bodies are a temple of the Holy Ghost?" On The day of pentecaost, after the crucifixtion and ressurection of Jesus, his glory fell on the believers in Jesus, as did in the tabernacel and the 1st temple, and the sacred fire burned above thier heads as a sign that the presence of the Lord now dwells in those who have excepted Jesus as their messiah. From a heart of love, turn to Jesus now, trust in him and you can know the peace and power and presence of God, in you. He dwells among his people, by the sacrifice of His son Jesus Christ!

[tormarquis]

The practical problem is that we need to know exactly where The Ark of The Covenant sits and where The Alter sits.  Since, the Temple was "plowed under" we dont really know where they are without Divine Revelation, as it happened for the First Temple and with the 2nd Temple.  All the models they've built are merely calculations, which are not enough.

[AlessandroCastr]

Benção Shalom! sou do Brasil queria muito ir ai esta com vocês uma braço forte!!!Sou Pastor de uma Pena Igreja Evangélica....

[davidharrington]

The Torah has already been fullfield, Isaiah and Daniel wrote about the one promised to come and said his own people would put him to death but the high priest who was the one pushing it had to become a believer in Jesus because I've seen the nails that were in his tomb. Nobody could figure out why would he have just these nails in his tomb, it tells us he knew in the end he had put the son of God to death but death could not even hold him down. But u probably didn't know that but someone tell me why would he keep just those nails. Paul thought he was doing God's work by killing Christians, what made him change and nobody could explain it and he killed Christians but became one himself. The reason u don't need a temple, God gave the perfect sacrifice for sin and Jesus became the lamb of God that ended all the laws and Jesus told us our body was the temple of God. They could not get, Jesus said destroy this temple and I will build it back in 3 days. He took on all of our sins and that's why the verse u just talked about, all nations will worship the lord and I am not mad at jews, I thank them because now ur no longer his chosen people, he accepts all who call on the name of the lord,

[eliakimjosephsophia]

I had a dream of Bibi in January 2019, and he asked me "When are you coming back to Israel? I replied, "I have to go to Greece first, I could come to Israel for Christmas". Bibi replied, "You can't have a Jewish Christmas with us". LOL.

[OhevTorathMoshe]

A hearty 'kol hakavod' to Rabbi Richman on this upcoming series.  Besides the timeless message, the new media is cool and chic -- we will be following each new episode!