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Activists arrested for attempting sacrifice on Temple Mount

The group claims they intended to reinstate the biblical daily offering.

Activists arrested for attempting sacrifice on Temple Mount

Shlach: Offering wine and flour

Israel's first Chief Rabbi: The Temple service was meant to encompass all aspects of creation.

Shlach: Offering wine and flour

Tazria: Shiloh and the Birth-Offerings

Israel's first Chief Rabbi: True morality cannot sanction a mechanical Temple service, disconnected from the people and their lives

Tazria: Shiloh and the Birth-Offerings

The spiritual defect of a depleted pocket

Selected commentators explain why the priests had to be urged to bring the burnt offering as opposed to other offerings.

The spiritual defect of a depleted pocket

The offering of self

The wondrous burnt offering and what its purpose is. A selection of renowned commentators.

The offering of self

Will there be animal sacrifices in the Third Temple?

Israel's first Chief Rabbi: Compassion for animals should recognize the issue's fundamental morality.

Will there be animal sacrifices in the Third Temple?

Vayikra: Being on call

It is not by accident, obviously, that 'calling' is introduced in relation to the sacrifices.

Vayikra: Being on call

Rabbi Hirsch on the parasha: Are we doomed without Korbanot?

How can we be forgiven without the essence of Temple worship, the offerings brought to God?

Rabbi Hirsch on the parasha: Are we doomed without Korbanot?

An altar of earth? Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch on the parasha

This is one of the places in the Torah where Rabbi Hirsch's philosophy of Torah and Derekh Eretz can be understood.

An altar of earth? Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch on the parasha

Violence and the sacred

Sacrifices divert the destructive energy of violent reciprocity. But justice could do the same, if society reached that level.

Violence and the sacred

Perpetual sacrifice

Jerusalem stood by virtue of the Tamid offering, the perpetual sacrifice which corresponds to the Holy City and its characteristics.

Perpetual sacrifice

Sacrificial Offerings, so far and yet so near!

Insights into the more symbolic and mystical aspects of the sacrifices as taught by the Zohar and other sources.

Sacrificial Offerings, so far and yet so near!

Vayikra: There is no free lunch

We ourselves are the sacrifice that can bring us to a true attainment of forgiveness, in terms of heavenly judgment.

Vayikra: There is no free lunch

Shelamim: Peace to Am Yisrael and to the world

Shelamim means whole. Peace is completeness, harmony, the feeling that one thing complements another, and both are equal parts of a whole.

Shelamim: Peace to Am Yisrael and to the world

Vayikra: The traits of a Shaliach

The attributes of a dedicated Shaliach mirror the message behind one of the offerings in the Temple.

Vayikra: The traits of a Shaliach

Coming closer

What is the idea behind bringing offerings to the Temple? Will that resume?

Coming closer

History and destiny

This coming Shabbat's parashah spells out the details of the offerings once brought to the sanctuary, but today read each morning..

History and destiny

Why civilizations die

Contemplate worst-case scenarios. Ask what we would do, if…

Why civilizations die

Police arrest Jews for trying to offer sacrifice on Temple Mount

Jerusalem police stress importance of 'keeping the peace'; Temple Mount rights organization calls on Israel to keep the mitzva.

Police arrest Jews for trying to offer sacrifice on Temple Mount

'Write about Jewish law, get banned from the Temple Mount'

Rabbi Yehuda Kroizer reveals police banned him from Mount because 10 years ago he wrote about legal facets of Temple offerings.

'Write about Jewish law, get banned from the Temple Mount'

Rabbi Ronsky: We Are Fulfilling the Will of the Fogel Family

4 years since the brutal Fogel family murder, Itamar remains defiant. 'The terrorists want to get rid of us, but we hold tight to the land.'

Rabbi Ronsky: We Are Fulfilling the Will of the Fogel Family