Rabbi Dr. Yitzchak Breitowitz, lecturer at Ohr Somayach Jerusalem, detailed in his lesson the boundaries and laws of impurity regarding those who ascend the Temple Mount and are careful to immerse before visiting the Mount.
Rabbi Breitowitz noted that a person who is impure due to contact with the dead may enter a large area of the Temple Mount, but he may not go near where the Holy of Holies stood.
"So some say, don't go to the Har Habayis (the Temple Mount) at all, because you never know," he explained. "But in truth, in truth, we kind of do know. And we do have kind of an unbroken mesorah (tradition) that the Machanah Shechina ('Camp of the Divine Presence,' where the holiest parts of the Temple stood - ed.) begins in very close proximity to the Dome of the Rock. The Dome of the Rock itself is on the site of the Holy of Holies. And if you then work backwards in terms of measuring the Mikdash (Temple), you can determine it."
He added,
"I myself have never been on the Har Habayis. I don't go to the Har Habayis myself, and I am machmer (stringent), but I'm not sure if I need to be machmir, because ... there's absolutely a safe zone" where someone impure from contact with the dead is allowed to go. At the same time, "in terms of the government, people can go wherever they want."
Rabbi Breitowitz stressed, "There are religious people who go. You will always notice that they do have a requirement that if you want to go to the Har Habayis, you must go to the mikveh (ritual bath)."
Additionally, he noted, the Orthodox groups that go have prepared very careful maps, and at the same time, "there are also those who are so stringent that they do not even go to the Western Wall."
Rabbi Breitowitz joins a growing list of haredi rabbis who encourage ascending the Temple Mount, and some of whom even ascend the Temple Mount themselves. Among these are Rabbi Dov Kook, Rabbi Daniel Stavsky, Rabbi Mendel Tobias, and Rabbi Yitzchak Brand, as well as rabbis Tikochinsky, Frank, Zilberman, and Rosenthal.
9 comments:
This is an edited video. It is not right to edit this being such a sensitive topic where there is Kareis involved. Every drop of nuance & context is important to see. Anyone can watch this in the undoctored version online. Rabbi Breitowitz discusses the topic in more than one shiur.
So in a nutshell all the lightweight rabbis allow? and the heavyweight rabbis dont allow?TYPICAL
I watched the entire Breitowitz Video and this edited clip is 100% his view, and I personally spoke to him.
"lightweight rabbis vs heavyweight rabbis"
This is typical Charedie response to critical issues!
How about the Rambam" was he a "lightweight rabbi?" Because we have a letter from the Rambam himself celebrating the day that he went up on the Har Habyis:
שנת ששה ועשרים ליצירה, יצאנו מעכו לעלות לירושלים , תחת סכנה, ונכנסתי לבית הגדול והקדוש, והתפללתי בו, ביום חמישי,
ששה ימים לירח מרחשון,
הימים האלו, נדרתי שיהיו לי כמו יום טוב, ותפלה ושמחה בהשם, ואכילה ושתיה.
אלקים יעזרני על הכל ויקים לי נדרי להשם אשלם אמן
וכשם שזכיתי להתפלל בה בחורבנה, כך אראה אני וכל ישראל
בנחמתה מהרה אמן
It is arrogant even for the sweet Rav Breitowitz to think that he knows better than Harav Kook Harav Eliyashev Harav Yosef etc who didn't know where a טמא מת can enter
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Your comment is disingenuous!
Rav Kook and Harav Eliyashiv didn't know what we all now know, and that is that we now know exactly where the Kodshi Hakodism was.
And it's not only Rav Breitowitz its also Harav Dov Kook!
Thank G-d we have brave people who are not afraid of speaking truth to power.
I was on the Har Habayis not too long ago, and there was a huge Chareide presence based on this new knowledge!
Sticking your head in the sand and shlepping Rav Kook (that you hate) and Rav Eliyashiv into your cesspool will not change the new reality!
Wow, so now someone who disagrees with Rav Kook and Rav Eliyashiv is "arrogant?"
With your twisted reasoning, we would never have any debates in the Talmud.
Rabbi breitiowitz seems typical HARADEI response I myself am machmir lol, its like u ask the masgiach can I eat the meat at the chasana and he says eat the fish lol, the meat is kosher but im machmir .when when when rabbi breitowitz goes up ill go up.practice as u preach is what counts.
So then why edit it? No one said he doesn’t permit it. Just that editing it can change context and nuances do make a difference.
(See Gemara Horayos 12 w/ Maharsha)
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