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A delegation of national Zionist rabbis visiting the Temple Mount in Jerusalem on Sunday. (Photo taken by participant)
Last update - 18:11 13/05/2007
Dozens of rabbis ascend Temple Mount in unprecedented visit
By Nadav Shragai, Haaretz Correspondent

Dozens of rabbis from the national Zionist camp visited the Temple Mount on Sunday in order to increase awareness and emphasize Jewish linkage to the site.

A few days ago, the rabbis had released an announcement permitting Jews to enter the Temple Mount.

Sunday's visit marks the first time such a large group of rabbis, including the head rabbi of the Yesha Council Rabbi Dov Lior, Ma'ale Adumim Yeshiva head Rabbi Nahum Rabinowitz, and Rabbi Daniel Shaleh, have visited Temple Mount together.
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Last weekend, the religious media published a notice signed by Bnei Akiva Yehiva head Rabbi Chaim Druckman, his colleague Rabbi Avraham Zuckerman, and Kiryat Shmona Chief Rabbi Tzfania Drori. The rabbis called on "the entire holy public to ascend the Temple Mount in purity ... to arrive in coming days to the allowed sites near the entrance to the Temple Mount."

By publishing the announcement, rabbis Druckman, Zuckerman, and Drori joined dozens of other rabbis from the national Zionist camp who have recently decided to permit Jewish entry into the Temple Mount, subject to halakhic (Jewish law) restrictions.

Allowing the entry is a clear deviation from the general halakhic rabbinical consensus, including both from the ultra-Orthodox camp and the national Zionist camp, which maintains that Jewish entry to the site is forbidden.

The accepted explanation for the entrance ban throughout the years was that the exact location of the temples and the Holy of Holies is unknown, meaning Jews could unknowingly set foot in forbidden areas.

Another central explanation maintained that by allowing a general entrance, the general public would arrive at the site, and could set foot in the forbidden areas as well
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  1.   Entry to the Temple Mount 13:50  |  Eli 13/05/07
  2.   Remember Sharon`s visit? 14:50  |  Yonatan 13/05/07
  3.   Mind the terminology, please! NOT national Zionist 14:57  |  Michael Steiner 13/05/07
  4.   to Steiner #3 15:10  |  SLAVO 13/05/07
  5.   To Eli 15:22  |  Yoel 13/05/07
  6.   Dozens of rabbis go up to the Temple Mount in first recent trip 15:37  |  Firozali A.Mulla MB 13/05/07
  7.   Dozens of rabbis go up to the Temple Mount in first recent trip 15:40  |  Firozali a Mulla MBA 13/05/07
  8.   temple 16:25  |  michael 13/05/07
  9.   Yonatan #2 16:30  |  Jon 13/05/07
  10.   To #3 Michael Steiner 16:34  |  Jon 13/05/07
  11.   # 7 Firozali a mulla 16:37  |  Jon 13/05/07
  12.   Unlike Steiner, they live in Israel, serve in the army 17:05  |  Dani 13/05/07
  13.   It is time for the Jews to build... 17:10  |  Moshe 13/05/07
  14.   Mashiach hasn`t yet arrived 17:11  |  Avi Yerushalmi 13/05/07
  15.   To the Rabbis 17:15  |  Jim 13/05/07
  16.   Temple Mount 17:21  |  Naim S. Mahlab 13/05/07
  17.   If the Muslims really wanted peace, they would have said to the 17:25  |  Dan Finklstein 13/05/07
  18.   What did Daniel say? Did anyone read that? 17:25  |  RP 13/05/07
  19.   Avi Yerushalmi- Rambam ascended and prayed there 17:26  |  Aaron 13/05/07
  20.   # 11 Jon 17:27  |  Jim 13/05/07
  21.   Michael Steinhart- totally inapropriate 17:32  |  Prof David Freidman 13/05/07
  22.   if we listened to ultra-orthox there would be no israel 17:40  |  ralph 13/05/07
  23.   #14. stay home or whereever you are and wait see you in next life 17:41  |  ralph 13/05/07
  24.   #2. crap. you wait, this is our space our land 17:42  |  ralph 13/05/07
  25.   i went to the temple mount world did not end this is my land if 17:45  |  ralph 13/05/07
  26.   Response to #18 17:57  |  Matthew 13/05/07
  27.   Tool 18:11  |  Angela 13/05/07
  28.   Re: #18 RP, what did those two angels say? 18:13  |  Moshe 13/05/07
  29.   Not to be taken lightly 18:15  |  Joe 13/05/07
  30.   The Temple 18:16  |  David ben David 13/05/07
  31.   Aaron#19 18:22  |  Avi Yerushalmi 13/05/07
  32.   Just Be Ready 18:25  |  Yosemite 13/05/07
  33.   Re: #26 Matthew 18:32  |  RP 13/05/07
  34.   #2 Sharon`s visit was only a pretext 18:36  |  Elihu 13/05/07
  35.   stupid provocation 18:43  |  margaret 13/05/07
  36.   # 21 Professor 18:47  |  Jim 13/05/07
  37.   # 22 ralph 18:56  |  Jim 13/05/07
  38.   #18 RP 19:02  |  Yoel 13/05/07
  39.   Hurray! The Temple is the greatest building of Jewish people 19:05  |  Hal 13/05/07
  40.   Muslims in the Land of Israel must come to terms 19:11  |  Hal 13/05/07
  41.   Re: Margeret...stupid provocation? 19:12  |  Ruth 13/05/07
  42.   # 32 Yosemite 19:20  |  Jim 13/05/07
  43.   Avi- don`t put words in Rambam`s mouth 19:24  |  Aaron 13/05/07
  44.   # 35 margaret 19:30  |  Jim 13/05/07
  45.   #32 Yosemite 19:35  |  Boycott 13/05/07
  46.   # 39 Hal 19:38  |  Jim 13/05/07
  47.   Jim 19:38  |  Yosemite 13/05/07
  48.   # 40 Hal 19:47  |  Jim 13/05/07
  49.   This is a good first step 19:48  |  Chaim 13/05/07
  50.   Temple Mount. 19:48  |  sandra chitayat 13/05/07
  51.   Avi Yerushalmi 19:54  |  Allon 13/05/07
  52.   Israeli Apartheid 19:58  |  Steve 13/05/07
  53.   # 41 Ruth 20:00  |  Jim 13/05/07
  54.   # 43 Aaron 20:13  |  Jim 13/05/07
  55.   Why can`t the Muslims simply allow the rabbis to come in. They 20:22  |  Deuel 13/05/07
  56.   # 47 Yosemite 20:26  |  Jim 13/05/07
  57.   Naim is right: Internationalize the Temple Mt. 20:29  |  Yitzhak 13/05/07
  58.   Declaration of war 20:30  |  Jan Elshout 13/05/07
  59.   EU`s 7-Year ENP w/Israel; Foretold 7-year covenant of Dan. 9:27? 20:35  |  D.C. 13/05/07
  60.   # 49 Chaim 20:36  |  Jim 13/05/07
  61.   #54 Jim 20:37  |  Yishai Kohen 13/05/07
  62.   Strange Story of False Temple Mount 20:45  |  Peter 13/05/07
  63.   # 50 Sandra chitayat 20:45  |  Jim 13/05/07
  64.   JAN ELSHOUT: Declaration of War??? 20:50  |  Brant 13/05/07
  65.   # 51 Allon 21:02  |  Jim 13/05/07
  66.   # 55 Deuel 21:08  |  Jim 13/05/07
  67.   Allon #51 21:26  |  Avi Yerushalmi 13/05/07
  68.   Aaron #43 21:30  |  Avi Yerushalmi 13/05/07
  69.   #22 21:36  |  Jane 13/05/07
  70.   #55 21:37  |  Jane 13/05/07
  71.   #58 21:39  |  Jane 13/05/07
  72.   #61 Yishai Kohen 21:40  |  Jim 13/05/07
  73.