Arab MKs Disrupt Temple Mount Committee Session

November 13, 2013 A recent debate on a bill that would guarantee Jews access to the Temple Mount, Judaism’s holiest site, as well as equal prayer rights there, sparked an angry response from Arab-Israeli MKs (members of parliament). During the debate MK Miri Regev stressed that no attempt is being made to bar Muslims from praying at the Al Aqsa Mosque, Islam's third holiest site.

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Fast of Tammuz: Is the Temple Mount Holy?

June 24, 2013 Tzom Tammuz (Fast of Tammuz / 17th of Tammuz) memorializes the breaching of Jerusalem's walls by Nebuchadnezzar after a long siege that brought starvation to those inside Jerusalem’s walls. On this day, the priests in the First Temple stopped offering the Tamid (Perpetual Offering) because the walls were breached, and they had run out of lambs for the offerings. Within weeks, the First Temple was destroyed and all the houses burned. The majority of the Jewish people were taken captive.

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Parasha Vayikra (And He Called): Drawing Near to God

March 22, 2013 This Shabbat is also the first Sabbath (day of rest) in the Hebrew month of Nisan, which God ordained as the first month of the Biblical calendar. Biblically speaking, then, we are in a new year! God made Nisan the first month of the year because it was the month in which the Jewish people were freed from slavery in Egypt and became a nation. Nisan is regarded today as the start of the ecclesiastical new year, but the first of Tishri, which is the seventh month, is regarded as the start of the civil year.

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Parasha Terumah (Offering)‏‏‏: The Dwelling Place of God

February 28, 2013 God wants to ensure that His people will remain in communion with Him, so He commands Moshe (Moses) to build the Sanctuary as a visible reminder that God dwells among them. He also tells Moses to ask the children of Israel to give an offering (terumah) towards the construction of the Sanctuary. Only those stirred in their hearts with a desire to participate in this holy work are to donate their material goods. No one is to give grudgingly or out of a sense of duty but out of love and gratitude towards God.

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The Red Heifer and the Third Temple in End-Time Prophecy

July 13, 2012 Throughout almost 1900 years of exile, the Jewish people yearned to return to Israel, rebuild the Temple in Jerusalem and restore the Temple service. Three times a day, observant Jews pray, "May the Holy Temple be rebuilt speedily and in our day." Although Jewish people have always lived in the Holy Land, after the Holocaust the Jews began returning to Israel en masse. In 1948, the Jewish nation was prophetically reborn (Isaiah 66:7–8 ) as the State of Israel, and ever since Jews have been streaming back to the Land from all four corners of the earth.

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Parasha Tzav (Command): The Sacrifice of Praise

March 30, 2012 God describes the different laws of sacrifices, providing a distinction in the processes for sin offerings, burnt offerings and thank offerings. While such offerings seem strange, even outrageous, to modern man, understanding them ultimately helps us to understand what Yeshua (Jesus) did for us on the execution stake, and why His death was necessary.

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