CITYsights: Jewish temple brought to LifeThoughts:
By ITRAVELJERUSALEM.COM TEAM
01/10/2012 15:45
How a visit to the Institute's museum can bring the reality of the Jewish temple to life.
Founded in 1987, the Temple Institute in the Old City of Jerusalem is dedicated to the building of the Third Temple in Jerusalem. The Institute focuses a lot of energy on practically preparing the fine details for the Third Temple as well as lighting the flame of the temple in Jewish hearts through seminars, publications, conferences, and the production of educational materials.
The Institute has created replicas of many of the ritual objects used in the Temple, including the Temple vessels, trumpets, and priestly vestments, all constructed according to Biblical specifications and ready to be put into service should the need arise. After many years of effort, the Institute has completed the three most significant and central vessels of the Divine service: the seven-branched Menorah made of pure gold; the golden Incense Altar, and the golden Table of the Showbread.
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1. There's a nice 60-second video of some of the replicas, which look cool.
2. The article might have indicated what the Institute plans to do about the Islamic shrines that are already there on the Temple Mount. This is not a trivial issue.
3. Again (and again and again), no digging on the Temple Mount Platform apart from scientific archaeological excavations. Preferably not even those. Let's wait a couple of decades until we can use non-destructive scanning and molecular technologies to uncover what's there.