According to INN, more and more groups of Haredi people can be seen regularly ascending Har Habayit. This has led to a group of Haredi rabbonim, instigated by Rav Rabinovitch, rav of the Kotel, to renew their call prohibiting aliyah l'har.
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| Haredim visited Har Habayit on Hannukah |
According to Rabbi Rabinovitch, some are saying that the prohibition that has been in place is no longer relevant, therefore they have decided to renew and strengthen that prohibition. And it seems the reason they need to do this now is because the consensus has been broken.
Interestingly, he does not just say that they think its ok so we are refreshing the prohibition - he adds a couple of words and says [their thinking the original prohibition is no longer in effect] "for whatever reason, and I do not disparage that".. in a certain sense he even validates their right to an opposing opinion, but says this group of rabbonim believe it is prohibited.
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I'm not sure if this is new, or just a renewed attempt to suppress the opposing opinion. You may want to contact Rav Tsvi Rogin for the Temple Mount Information Center, who has a list of "Haredi" haskamoth re: going on Har HaBayith, as well as a wealth of information to answer "Haredi" questions on this matter.
ReplyDeleteRb. Yosef Elboim of Belz is also an excellent resource.
http://www.hakirah.org/Vol%2010%20Messner.pdf
ReplyDeleteArticle with all relevant info.
The common rule is to not make a gezirah that the public cannot practice. Since the Beit Mikdash has been destroyed, music became forbidden. Can you imagine going through life without that? So the rabbis have allowed music.
ReplyDeleteI think that many rabbis also ban learning kabbalah for a bunch of reasons. Some of them tell the public that we should not learn kabbalah because the unlearned public might misunderstand or be taught 'secret' stuff, but they do themselves. My analogy is that many rabbis have banned going up to the Temple Mount, but not really because it is actually forbidden in halacha, but rather for other reasons. One being - to not provoke the goyim. There was a reason why Hashem united Jerusalem for us and a massive mistake that we conquered Har Habayit, and then went down to the kotel to pray :-s It took over 40 years to correct this mistake and more and more people are showing a growing desire back to the Mikdash. Enough already about the Western Wall being the goal. The galut is ending.