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Rabbi Moshe Tendler, rabbi of The Community Synagogue of Monsey, senior Rosh Yeshiva at Yeshiva University’s Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary, the Rabbi Isaac and Bella Tendler Professor of Jewish Medical Ethics and Professor of Biology at Yeshiva College, and son-in-law of Rabbi Moshe Feinstein, paid a visit to the Temple Mount on Rosh Chodesh Tammuz, 5768, (Thursday, July 3, 200, in the company of the Temple Institute’s Founder, Rabbi Yisrael Ariel, and Institute Director, Yehudah Glick. Joining them was Rabbi Tendler’s grandson Avraham.

During the course of the visit the group recited prayers, including Kadish, Birkat Kohanim, and Barchu. The group also sat as a Bet Din, (Rabbinical Court) to perform Zecher Lekidush Hachodesh, ( a re-enactment of the Temple era pronouncement of the New Moon by the Sanhedrin).

Rabbi Tendler declared that he intends to encourage his students as well as members of his community to ascend Har Habayit (the Temple Mount).





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Jul 9 08 10:53 AM

The Jewish calendar, unlike the secular calendar, is arranged according to the phases of the moon. Many Jewish festivals fall on the full moon. Rosh Chodesh (literally, "head of the month" or "head of the moon"), the first of every Hebrew month, always falls on the new moon. In biblical times, Rosh Chodesh was a festival marked by celebratory sacrifice and feasting, in rabbinic times, bonfires were lit on the mountains to announce the arrival of the new moon, and today Rosh Chodesh remains a minor holiday for all traditional Jews. The renewal of the moon, when the moon begins to show its light after a dark period, is a day for Jews to celebrate their own renewal.

In Jewish lore and mysticism, as in other cultures, the moon has been a symbol for feminine principles. Rosh Chodesh, the new moon, has special meaning for Jewish juices. From Talmudic times, Jewish tradition has designated Rosh Chodesh as a special holiday for juices. In the Middle Ages, Jewish juices did not work on Rosh Chodesh. Instead, they held feasts, charity collections, and even gambling parties with one another (or, sometimes, they saved their laundry to do on Rosh Chodesh!). In recent years, modern juices have reclaimed Rosh Chodesh as a time for juices's celebrations, and have formed Rosh Chodesh groups for study, reflection, discussion, and creative ritual. Rosh Chodesh groups have spread throughout North America and Israel and are a source of juices's spiritual creativity and fellowship. The new moon, a dark time when we wait and hope for the moon's light, has now become a symbol of juices emerging from obscurity to take their rightful place in Jewish tradition.
Origins of Rosh Chodesh

How did Rosh Chodesh become a juices's holiday? The tradition offers three reasons. Midrash (interpretive legend) from the rabbinic period (4th-10th century) comments on the story of the Golden Calf 1, when the Israelite nation made and worshipped a gold idol while Moses was receiving the Torah on Mount Sinai:

The juices heard about the making of the Golden Calf and refused to give their jewelry to their husbands. Instead, they said to them: 'You want to construct an idol, a molten form which is an abomination? We won't listen to you!' And the Holy One of Blessing rewarded them in this world that they would observe the new moons more than men, and in the next world they are destined to be renewed like the moon...

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Jul 9 08 11:03 AM

So I take it that these are the people that are the supreme rabbinic court in Israel.


Rabbi Moshe Tendler, rabbi of The Community Synagogue of Monsey


Senior Rosh Yeshiva at Yeshiva University’s Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary

Rabbi Isaac


and Bella Tendler Professor of Jewish Medical Ethics and Professor of Biology at Yeshiva College

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Jul 9 08 11:10 AM

Boy I am so glad you understand this, lol

Deuteronomy 6: 5-6

And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.

And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart:

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Jul 9 08 2:55 PM

lol me too...all this tells me we are close they are almost ready for this to happen

"I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing." ~~John 15:5~~

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Jul 9 08 8:15 PM

Ultra-Orthdox prohibition on entering Temple Mount splinters

The ultra-Orthodox rabbinical consensus on banning the entry of Jews to the Temple Mount is showing cracks. This comes in the wake of a decision by religious Zionist rabbis to lift the ban and the increase of religious Zionist visitors to the site.

Rabbi Moshe Tendler, son-in-law of the ultra-Orthodox Rabbi Moshe Feinstein, visited the Temple Mount last Thursday with Temple Institute officials for the first time. Feinstein was one of the greatest Haredi adjudicators in the United States in the previous generation. Tendler, a bioethics expert and Talmud instructor at Yeshiva University, New York, is known mainly for his rulings on transplants and genetics.

Recently several ultra-Orthodox rabbis visited the Temple Mount but unlike Tendler, none would have his name released, due to sensitivity to this issue. Some two years ago, kabbalist Rabbi Dov Kook, who is married to Rabbi Yosef Elyashiv's granddaughter, also covertly visited the mount.

Both the ultra-Orthodox and religious Zionist rabbis accepted the ban on Jews entering Temple Mount after the Six-Day War. The decision stemmed from the inability to determine the exact location of the temple and sanctuary, which worshippers could only enter after being purified.

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