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Since I have not heard from Gershon Soloman, I am currently raising money on behalf of Shmuel Balzam, the architect chosen by the Temple Institute to make the architectural plans for the Third Temple. I will be meeting with Gershon Solomon on Tish B'Av. Currently the Temple Institute is planning to create architectural plans similar to the Second Temple. Discussions about this and about the Third Temple design are taking place between members of Rabbi Ariel's yeshiva, and myself and Eliyahu Shcatz, a member of the Sanhedrin, Rabbi Chiam Clorfene of Sphefat, the creater of several models of the Third Temple,and Chiam Schlomo, an interested party.
April 2009I had discussions with the Director of the Temple Institute about raising money for Shmuel Balzam, the architect chosen by the Sanhedrin to make the architectural plans for the Third Temple. I then learned that Gershon Solomon had already commissioned an architect to make architectural plans. I met with Gershom Solomon , Director of the Temple Mount Faithful. I agreed to accompany him, his architect and the plans, after Pesach, when we will go to the Municipal Building in Jerusalem to request a building permit for the Third Temple.
January 2009By law, any building project in the Old City of Jerusalem must be preceeded by a thorough archeological dig. Since the ultimate purpose of determining the exact location of the earlier Temples, is to prepare for building the Third Temple, I concluded that any request to explore on the Temple Mount, should be linked to a request for a building permit for the Third Temple. According, during Chanukah of 2008, I visited the Division of the Jerusalem Municipal Building to ask about the requirements for obtianing a building permit to build the Beit HaMikdash. I was told that we must appear on the first, third, or fifth day of the week in the morning, and we must bring an architect. I am curently trying to get in touch with the architect who already made some of the plans for the Beit HaMikdash, while under the employ of the Temple Institute.
September 2008We have been informed by UNESCO, that our organization is now listed on the official UNESCO list of community association archive web sites in the Israel region.
August 2008We have written a letter in Hebrew, and sent it out to all members of the Knesset, concerning efforts of our organization to build a Succoth at the Petra Hostel in the Old City of Jerusalem. We link this effort to the goals of the organization, because it's an effort to gain permission to do a Jewish mitzvoth in an area of Israel currently under Arab control. The project is even more directly related to this organization in that the hostel sits on ground owned by King Abdullah, one of the Arab Kings most opposed to effort s to rebuild the Temple. For more information on that effort, click on the link below.
June 2008We have communicated with all three experts holding theories about the location of the First and SecondTemple. We subsequently talked with the Antiquities Authority, the Israeli agency that gives permits for archeological excavation. The Antiquities Authority told us that requests to explore in important archeological sites will only be taken seriously if they come from an experienced archeologist with academic affiliation, who is capable of publishing the results of his exploration. Of the three recognized experts holding theories as to the location of the First and Second Temples only Professor Ritmeyer of England has the needed qualifications to request permission to explore on the Temple Mount. Therefore, our organization is currently encouraging Professor Ritmeyer to prepare a proposal, which we will deliver on his behalf to the Antiquities Authority in Jerusalem
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October 2007:
We met with Professor Asher Kaufman, architect of the Northern theory of the location of the First and Second Temples. We communicated with the other two major world experts on the location of the First and Second Temples. We learned that all the experts agree that more exploration on the Temple Mount is needed to surmount the differences in the theories as to where the First and Second Temples were located. We subsequently formed AIFO, as a sub organization of People for a Bill to Build the Beit HaMikdash. AIFO, Hebrew for "where," is dedicated to helping the recognized experts about the location of the First and Second Temples, gain permission to excavate and or explore in limited and defined areas of the Temple Mount. For more details please click the link below to read about "Project AIFO."
August - September 2007:
We further solidified plans to formally register our organization as a substructure of the Amutah "Canfei Nesharim. We drew up the papers in Hebrew and are now finalizing the legal paper work and preparing to go to court.
June - July 2007:
We met with Professsor Eidelberg of the Yamin Party. We decided to support the Yamin party in future Israeli elections, because it is the only party which has openly included a statement about building the Third Temple in the official list of their party goals. Professor Eidelberg subsequently gave two radio talks about the need to build the Third Temple, and changes that need to be made in the Government of Israel, to create a political foundation conducive to the building of the Third Temple.
June 2007:
- We have talked with MK Uri Uriel He is currently focused on efforts to build a Beit Knesset on the Temple Mount.
- We have purchased a P.O. Box in Jerusalem: P.O. Box 6049; Jerusalem, Israel 91060
- We scheduled a meeting with Professor Paul Eidelberg, founder of the Yamin Party in Israel; the only party which lists the building of the Beit HaMikdash as an official purpose of the party.
May of 2007
We received 3 emails from The International Association of
Open Letter to King Abdullah:
Recently the newspapers carried accounts of the plans of King Abdullah, of Jordan to build a new Minaret on the Temple Mount. Our organization helped the Vaad HaMoshiach to send a response letter to the actions of the King. Please click the link below to read an open letter from the Vaad HaMoshiach to King Abdullah:
