Now that the whole world is talking about the Third Temple in Jerusalem, let’s go there.

I am a Jew, a Chabad’nik, a Rabbi, so you can trust what I’m going to share a lot more than what podcasters have tried to share in ‘my name’.

Yes, Jews believe that we will have a Third Temple, on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, in the same location where our first two Temples once stood. It’s not some secret that the Mossad is hiding, nor something that Chabad subtly pushes, and certainly not a code being signaled through patches on IDF uniforms.

It has been in the public record for thousands of years:

2800 years ago, Isaiah prophesied: “… concerning Judah and Jerusalem … at the end of the days, the mountain of the Lord’s house shall be firmly established at the top of the mountains … and many peoples shall go, and they shall say, “Come, let us go up to the Lord’s mount, to the house of the God of Jacob …”

2600 years ago, Ezekiel prophesied: “In the visions of God … He placed me on a very lofty mountain and upon it was like the building of a city from the south … And He said to me, this is the place of My throne where I shall dwell … this is the teaching of the House; Upon the top of the mountain, all its boundary round about shall be most holy…”

2000 years ago, Jewish sages composed a blessing in our daily prayer liturgy: “Return in mercy to Jerusalem Your city and dwell therein as You have promised … rebuild it, soon in our days, as an everlasting edifice … restore the service to Your Sanctuary and accept with love and favor Israel’s fire-offerings and prayer…”

1900 years ago, the Talmudic sage Rabbi Yehuda composed a prayer, which we recite several times every day: “May it be Your will, L-rd our G‑d and G‑d of our fathers, that the Holy Temple be rebuilt speedily in our days.”

So now that we’ve cleared that up, let’s continue.

What about the Al-Aqsa mosque? And the Dome of the Rock shrine? Aren’t we going to be sensitive to these holy Islamic sites? I suppose this will be a consideration, but I wonder........

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