How long before construction of the Third Temple begins,
in preparation for Antichrist's bloody reign?

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Prayers to Rebuild the Temple
14:13 Aug 03, '06 / 9 Av 5766
by Hillel Fendel

Today is Tisha B'Av, the 9th day of Av, commemorating many of the
worst tragedies befalling the Jewish People over the past 3,300 years.
Jews the world over are praying for the Temple's rebuilding.

Among the calamities that occurred on this day were the refusal of the
Jewish People to ignore the report of the Scouts and agree to go with
Moses to the Promised Land; the destruction of the First and Second
Holy Temples in Jerusalem at the hands of the Babylonians and Romans,
respectively; the failure of the Bar Kokhba uprising in the second
century; the deadline by which all of Spanish Jewry was to be expelled
from the country in 1492; the beginning of World War I in 1917; and
the end of legal Jewish residence in Gush Katif, in 2005.

As on every Tisha B'Av since the liberation of the Western Wall in
1967, tens of thousands of Jews frequented the Wall last night and
today, praying for the rebuilding of the Temple just behind it. Though
pleasure trips and joyous get-togethers are forbidden on Tisha B'Av,
Rabbi Eliezer Melamed - Rabbi of Har Bracha in the Shomron, head of
Yeshivat Shavei Shomron, and author of several Halakhic [Jewish Legal]
works - has written,

"It is clear that one need not refrain from going to the Western Wall
[on Tisha B'Av] for fear of meeting friends and being happy. My father
and teacher [Rabbi Zalman Melamed] has said that there is no greater
rectification [Hebrew: tikun] for Tisha B'Av than to go to the Wall,
the remnant of the destruction, and to pray for the Holy Temple to be
speedily rebuilt in our days. On the contrary: The fact that many
people go there enhances the power of the prayer, and increases Divine
honor."

Rabbi Melamed the son added that when one meets friends there, "he
should not greet them, but is permitted to grasp their hands with love
and pray with them for the rebuilding of the Beit HaMikdash."

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Full article at "Arutz Sheva" / Israel National News
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=109075


Cheers, Steve..

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