JERUSALEM (VINnews) — MK Itamar Ben-Gvir ascended to Temple Mount Thursday as is his custom on every eve of Rosh Chodesh. Ben-Gvir, accompanied by tens of policemen, claimed that Hamas’s spokesman had threatened him and questioned why Israel does not eliminate him. “He threatened me? I am the proprietor of the State of Israel,” Ben-Gvir said. “Surrendering to terrorists and to threats just invites further terror.”
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לאורך כל הלילה דובר חמאס איים עליי שלא אעלה להר הבית, אני לא מבין למה לא מחסלים אותו בסיכול ממוקד? עליתי הבוקר להר הבית להתפלל ולהעביר מסר: אסור לנו להתקפל ולהכנע בפני איומי המחבלים. מי ששולט בהר הבית, שולט בארץ ישראל כולה. זו הארץ שלנו.
צילום: מנהלת הר הבית. pic.twitter.com/GzayClQ8jA
— איתמר בן גביר (@itamarbengvir) March 31, 2022
Asked whether his ascending Temple Mount prior to Ramadan might cause a renewed intifada, Ben-Gvir answered that if Hamas wanted it could always instigate such an intifada. Ben-Gvir also criticized the decision to reduce Jewish entries to Temple Mount in accordance with a Jordanian demand. Claiming that members of the Waqf who maintain Temple Mount are “terrorists”, Ben-Gvir said that the “message to Hamas by surrendering on Temple Mount is that it can attack in all of Israel.”
Ben-Gvir added that “the prime minister hasn’t spoken to me since Sheikh Jarrah. I’m there already for a month and a half and all is quiet. He didn’t ask me not to ascend and I only dealt with the police, which proved that when it wants it can do anything.”
Even though Ben-Gvir’s visit, which took place very early Thursday morning, passed quietly, in the aftermath he received death threats which caused police to raise his level of protection to 6, the highest level of threat against any person.
Ben-Gvir was also sharply attacked in the Chareidi Yated Neeman newspaper, which criticized him for “transgressing a Kareis prohibition while endangering Jews” and labelled him a “nationalist who is trampling the sanctity of the mountain and could ignite the entire Middle East in a fiery vengeance.”
This MK was criticized for transgressing a Kareis prohibition. I do not believe this is accurate. While I disagree with those who ascend Har Habayis for multiple reasons, those that do believe they are not treading on the Makom Hamikdosh. As such, this is not an issur Koreis.
There are other problems here, and I am not even addressing doing things that the Arab chayos find irritating to them. Firstly, there is a psak halacha that was the consensus of all the rabbonim many years back that the entire Har Habayis needs to be considered the makom Hamikdosh, and we may not enter anywhere. Secondly, the prevailing belief is that the location of the Beis Hamikdosh is in the center of the mount. In consistence with this, they mark the Dome as the location of the Kodesh Hakodoshim. This theory is known as the Central Theory, and it is the most popular. There is a location in the covered area of the Kosel that is labeled as being directly opposite of the Kodesh Hakodoshim. However, there is another theory that is more rooted in support from Divrei Chazal, known as the Southern Theory. This places the makom Hamikdosh directly behind the Kosel where we Daven, the exposed area. There are numerous supports for this. The trouble now is that the entry point for those who ascend Har Habayis is directly onto this location, which would actually be the issur Koreis, not because of the consensus psak but because of the actual location.
May HKB”H get rid of the goyim, return us our Makom Hamikdosh, the Bais Hamikdosh, and we should merit celebrating pesach with the requisite korbonos and avodah.
Nauseating. Besides that he’s חייב מיתה for ascending the temple mount, he will be responsible G d forbid if any violence occurs due to his despicable desperate attempt to demonstrate his fake idealisms of Zionism. Its a shande on all fronts.
UKRAINE ATTACKED RUSSIAN FUEL DEPOT INSIDE RUSSIA. NOW THAT’S NEWS.
He’s with a big rabbi in the pic. Obviously it’s OK
I applaud him just for his bravery and not giving into both Soros funded liberals and Arab terror.
Is the word Jerusalem mentioned in the Koran?
“Nationalist who is trampling the sanctity of the mountain…” If the mountain is so holy, why are Muslims allowed to trample it? Are they holier than a Religious Jew, who keeps the Sabbath? The Rambam explicitly states that Jewish ascent is permissible (in areas that were not sanctified by King Solomon, of Blessed Memory.) The Ramban brings the verse “Strangers have defiled it” to mean that the Temple Mount is “defiled” now, and not holy. Even so, Rav Frank z’l (Har Tzvi) says we are profaning by “sight-seeing” without praying, or saying Psalms.
Kol Hakavod.
He does this every year. Seems nothing bad happens to him. He is surrounded by policemen when he does it. He seems to get some angry phone calls. Hardly seems noteworthy to me.
Rodef. Endangering the Jewish people, doing an issur karet to stick it to the Arabs. Ben Gvir is worse than any terrorist.