The Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi just released a statement on Har HaBayis that contradicts an entire polemic that he gave himself in the span of just a few days.
On the one hand, he delivers a whole halachic discourse on how one should bow on Har HaBayis — the angles, the posture, the kavanos — and then, in just a few days he issues a sweeping prohibition against going up at all.
Everyone understands what’s going on here.
The Chief Rabbinate has, for decades, taken its cues from the political establishment. It was built as an arm of the secular government, and its positions on Har HaBayis have always reflected that reality. This latest psak isn’t about halachah — it’s about maintaining the traditional political line.
And instead of thinking independently, instead of addressing the real halachic discussions happening across the Torah world, he simply defaulted to the old script.
But the Torah world has moved on.
In the video below, you can see respected chareidi rabbanim — serious poskim, not fringe voices — who permit ascending Har HaBayis lechatchilah, with clear halachic guidelines, based on Chazal, Rishonim, and the Rambam’s own descriptions of the Mikdash boundaries.
So when a talmid asks the obvious question — “How can you write a whole treatise on how to bow on Har HaBayis and then prohibit going up?” — he’s not being disrespectful. He’s being honest.
Because the contradiction is real. And the political pressure behind it is real. And the growing number of Torah authorities who reject that pressure is also very real.
The Chief Rabbinate can keep issuing statements that try to satisfy the government, but the Torah world is no longer pretending not to notice the gap between halachic reality and political convenience.
If the Chief Rabbinate wants to forbid Har HaBayis, fine — but writing a whole guide on how to bow there before prohibiting it is the kind of contradiction that only happens when politics holds the pen.
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R. Dov Kook is not a mainstream figure.
Very confused!
So who is "mainstream?" And by whom?
Yeshivishe re-writers of history?
This is the typical Yeshivishe response!
when we quote Dati-Leumi Rabbanim and Gedoilim, they say "well, they are not Chardeie"
When we quote Chardeie Gedoilim, then they are not "mainstream."
Harav Dov Kook is the son-in-law of Rav Zilberstein of Bnei-Brak, but to these Yeshivishe shventz who were indoctrinated and brainwashed by their naive Roshei Yeshiva, especially in a way that kind of limits critical thinking, he is not "mainstream."
The troll that kept writing about the Tzaddik Harav Kook Shlitah, will no longer get a voice on this post!
I deleted all your dumb comments!
Kish mich vee dee yiden huben ge'reet
The reason he is not mainstream because he is not in a wheelchair!
To the troll that made a comment (which I deleted) that Harav Dov Kook retracted from his statement that it is permitted to go onto the Har Habayis and even brought as a "raayeh" wikipedia
You are an unmitigated liar, I myself saw him 7 weeks ago and asked him this question, and he answered me very strongly that not only was it permitted to ascend but added that it is a "mitzva"
The farshtinkine Yeshivishe kockers tried that with the Amshinover as well! But thank G-d we have the discussion verbatim!
So first they say that they 'retracted," then when we show that they didn't retract, they come up "Oh he is not mainstream," or the Amshinovers great-great-grandfather's cat had a bizarre calendar.
But we are no longer fooled, and these dreks can no longer pull the wool over our eyes!
1) If a commenter relied on Wikipedia, it is not his fault if they said something incorrect, don't blame him, blame Wikipedia.
2) You didn't address other things, like his gittin that were declared invalid.
Dummy 3:37
An entire Yeshive of Rav Dov's Kook's Yeshiva went up to the Har Habayis to daven for his refuah, and we showed a video in real time of that event, yet you brought a Wikipedia?
How is that not your fault?
You tried to deliberately distort Rav Kook's statement but when caught with your hand in the cookie jar, you cry "Its not my fault"
I am not going to address the "gitten issue"
You can do that with the Ritvah, the Rashba, The Pnie Yeshuah, the Chasm Sofer, Chazon Ish, and in all poiskim, you will always find a controversial psak. This has nothing to do with the discussion!
The fact that there are Gedoilim that hold that going up to the Har Habayis is not only allowed but a mitzvah!
You listen to your poiskim and I'll listen to mine!
I find it fascinating that all the roaches that always condemn the Rabbinate are now coming out of the cracks, all quoting the psak that prohibits the aliya !
Fascinating!
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