March 6, 2005

(IsraelNN.com) Tapuach resident David Ivry today unveiled a new initiative to reconnect Jews with the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. Ivry has launched a "ten Thousand to the Temple Mount" campaign to persuade ten thousand Jews to make a pilgrimage to the temple mount. The pilgrimage is planned for the beginning of the month of Nissan.

Traditionally, Nissan was a month when Jews would come from all over Israel as part of a Biblical commandment to show their faces three times a year on the holidays of Pesach, Shavuot and Succot. In recent years there have been numerous attempts to bring large numbers of Jews onto the mount. However these groups, most notably Gershon Salomon's Temple Mount Faithful have been consistently refused entrance on the grounds of security concerns.

The Temple Mount is the holiest site to the Jewish People, hosting both the First and Second Temples and will be the site of the Third and permanent Temple in the future.

SOURCE: Arutz Sheva