A Grok AI summary of Rabbi Weber’s talk on the Temple Mount:
Tue, 25 November 2025 = 5th of Kislev, 5786
#### In English – Reader-Friendly Summary
Rabbi Eliyahu Weber gave an emotional and powerful short talk on the Temple Mount on a rainy day, explaining why precisely in our generation it is a great mitzvah and urgent obligation to ascend to the Har HaBayit.
He begins with the famous Midrash on Jacob’s ladder:
The angel of Babylonia climbs 70 years and descends, the angel of Persia 52 years and descends, the angel of Greece 180 years and descends, but the angel of Rome (Edom – Christianity and the Western world) keeps climbing and climbing and does not come down. Jacob is afraid and asks God: “Will he ever come down?” God promises him that yes, he will.
But there is another, lesser-known Midrash (Midrash Rabba Emor and Pesiqta de-Rav Kahana for Rosh Hashanah) that adds a dramatic twist:
After the four angels of the four kingdoms have gone up and down, God turns to Jacob and says: “Now it’s your turn – climb!”
Jacob looks and sees that the top of the ladder reaches the Temple Mount. He becomes afraid and refuses to climb.
God tells him: “Do not be afraid, Jacob… Had you climbed, you would have stayed on top forever and never come down again.”
Because Jacob did not climb, the Jewish people remained subjugated under the nations.
Rabbi Weber explains: The four classic exiles (Babylon, Persia, Greece, Rome) are already behind us. What remains today is primarily the kingdom of Ishmael (the Arab/Muslim world) and the lingering influence of Edom (the United States and Western countries that for decades have pressured Israel not to exercise full sovereignty on the Temple Mount).
The reason we are still under their pressure is that “we do not ascend” – meaning the Jewish people are not yet ascending en masse to the Temple Mount to pray there.
He points out that Jacob instituted specifically the evening prayer (Arvit/Ma’ariv) on the Temple Mount (“And he encountered the place and spent the night there”). In other words, the Temple Mount is the source of all Jewish prayer.
Therefore God is calling to us today: “Don’t be afraid! Come up! Pray here morning, afternoon, and evening!”
Anyone who ascends to the Temple Mount in purity and prays there receives multiplied blessings, especially on a rainy day when every blessing and every coin in the wallet is multiplied.
Closing message:
Our fear of ascending to the Temple Mount today is the very same fear Jacob had in the dream.
If we overcome that fear and start ascending in great numbers, we will merit complete redemption and the rebuilding of the Third Temple speedily in our days, Amen
