Excerpt from Arnon Segal’s words, translated to English:
Blowing the shofar on the Temple Mount on the first day of Rosh Hashanah. Here, we see the shofar blower being detained by the police. Filmed by a non-Jewish tourist named Amber Northrop.
Seven Jews were detained on the Mount and removed by the police during the two days of the holiday for blowing the shofar and trumpets. Kudos to all the devoted individuals fighting for the sanctity of Israel. Thanks to you, Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell securely on this good mountain.
The video of the event is on Arnon Segal’s Hebrew Facebook page posted a few hours after the end of the Rosh Hashana holiday 5786.
According to Rambam, Hilchot Shofar 1:2 as translated by Eliyahu Touger, the following is the ideal way to blow the shofar in the mikdash area:
In the Temple, on Rosh HaShanah, they would blow [the shofar in the following manner]: There was one shofar and two trumpets, [one on either] side. The sounding of the shofar was extended, while that of the trumpets was shortened, because the mitzvah of the day is performed with the shofar.
Why were the trumpets sounded together with it? Because [Psalms 98:6] states: “You shall sound trumpets and the voice of the shofar before God, the King.” However, in other places on Rosh Hashanah, only the shofar is blown.
Prayer
May it be the will of Hashem, let his name be exalted and known throughout the entire world, that he fulfills in our lifetime, the last verse of chapter 27 in the book of Yishayahu (Isaiah)
And it shall come to pass on that day, that a great shofar shall be blown, and they shall come who were lost in the land of Assyria, and the outcasts in the land of Egypt, and shall bow to Hashem in the holy mountain at Jerusalem.
Excerpt from the post: Rabbi Kook Did Not Subscribe to Rabbi Yitzchak Yosef’s “Land for Peace” Ideology Regarding the Temple Mount. The Grandson of Rabbi Kook, Rabbi Shlomo Raanan HY”D Sets the Record Straight.
Rabbi Kook’s Position
Appendix: From the words of Rabbi Yehuda Kroizer [Yibaneh
Hamikdash, issue 225, page7].
Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak Kook and Rabbi Tzvi Yehuda Kook and Ascent to the Temple Mount
The opponents of ascent to the Temple Mount usually rely on the reply of Master Authority Rabbi Kook, Z.T.L. in Mishpat Cohain (96) that seemingly disallowed entrance to the Mount, however, this is not so. Rabbi Eliyahu Shlomo Raanan, Z.T.L., HY”D, the grandson of the Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak Kook Z.T.L. publicized the following call and thus he wrote:
I join in this the call of Rabbis who recommend in favor of ascending the Temple Mount, in the permitted areas, for it is a matter without any shade of doubt that my grandfather our Rabbi, Avraham Yitzchak Kook and his son Rabbi Tzvi Yehuda did not forbid ascending to the permitted areas, and certainly it is a big mitzva to conquer the place of the Temple from the hands of strangers, however, only in the permissible manner. Behold I now sign: the grandson of the Master Authority, the honorable Rabbi Z.T.L., Eliyahu Shlomo Raanan Kook (Sefer Hazikaron of Rabbi Shlomo Raanan ,HY”D,
“Neshama Shel Shabbat”).
There also it told about him: Rabbi Shlomo learned the book, Mishpat Cohain, with Rabbi Tzvi Yehuda, Z.T.L.; in the book there is an extensive reply on the matter of the Temple Mount. Rabbi Shlomo understood from Rabbi Tzvi Yehuda, that in our days the conditions have changed, and therefore he ascended the Temple Mount from time to time, to the permitted places.
In letter #4 Topic 12 and Letter #5 to Rabbi Avigdor Neventzal shlit”a I bring further evidence that this was the position of Rabbi Avraham Kook and his son Rabbi Tzvi Yehuda Kook, see there for details.
If this is Correct Why Only about Half of the Rabbis in the Religious Zionist Camp Support Ascent to the Temple Mount?
At the height of the second intifada violence by Muslim fanatics and P.L.O. terrorists, the author of this post asked the head of Mercaz Harav Yeshiva and a former Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of the State of Israel for a Psak Halacha regarding ascent to the Temple Mount. That is to say I asked Rabbi Avraham Shapira.
He told me if he knew where it is permitted to ascend it would be a mitzva to ascend, however, he himself lacked the clarity about the boundaries between the permitted sections and the forbidden sections and therefore told me not to go to any part of the Mount. He did however, at the same time judge those that ascend the Mount for the benefit of the doubt, by saying, “they apparently know”.
After the start of the Gaza War, I asked one of the Gedolei Torah of our generation, do we know more about the Temple Mount today than we did in the days of Rabbi Avraham Shapira, z”l. He told me yes and gave me permission to ascend in accordance with halacha.
authored by Shlomo Moshe Scheinman