The Walfish Aliya Blog: August 2011

It's Been a YEAR since the last post and A LOT has happened in that time.

Perhaps I will add some photos and videos of the past year highlights.

But for now the 9th of Av Just ended and I just finished a great meal made by my wife to break the fast.

Today I believe something historic and revolutionary happened.

I decided the most appropriate action to take on 9th of Av is to Assent to the Har Habayit.

After all it's the Beit Mikdash that Jews have been crying about and fasting for, for 2000 years.

I could just get in my car drive 30 min. Go up to Har Habayit and do whatever I can to show that I really want there to be a 3rd Beit Mikdash by taking some practical action not just praying and expecting the 3rd Temple to fall out of the sky.

I ran to the Mikva 6:00PM before the fast went to sleep. Next morning 9th of Av I picked up my friend Paysi Gulumb from Kehilot Tehilla in Beit Shemesh and zoomed to Har Tzion. We parked and joined Rabbi Chaim Richmands group of about 20 people at 7:15AM. We walked around the left side of Har Habayit as should be done when in Avelut, and met Haggai Yekutiels group of about 20, we then all walked together some more and bumped into Moshe Feiglins group of about 20, Now it was quite a crowd. Which the police usually do NOT allow. We all wanted to hear something inspiring so the leaders of the groups each spoke, Moshe Feiglin, Rabbi Chaim Richman from the Temple institute, Haggai Yekutiel. We were then joined by ANOTHER group and were about 80-100 Jews on Har Habayit on Tisha B'av. This has not happened in 2000 years and I was proud to be there. We continued our walk and met Rav Ariel the founder of the Temple institute and one of the paratroopers who liberated the Temple mount in the 6 day war, one of the Great Gedolei Hador, and then heard from Noam Federman another proud Jewish activist.

When I have been to Har Habayit before they usually let us stay from 20-30 minutes tops, today we were there for FOUR HOURS.

Had the police and Muslim Wakf NOT been there we could have built the Mizbeach in that amount of time with the people there.

The overall consensus on the Temple mount was "Stop Praying Stat Building!" The interest in the Third temple is increasing all the time, please join us and together we can make it a reality.

R. Chaim Richman (Mechon HaMikdash)