[Bernard's Note: Last week I had a quiet talk with Rabbi Lazaroff, head Lubavitch Rabbi in Houston. We were both eating at My Pita, an Israeli Kosher restaurant. We talked about may thing: religion, history and mutual friends we had.
Over Shabbat night, I dreamed that Jews once again could pray at the Temple Mount. Today I read the story below and weeped.
I had a vision that Jews and Christians ascended the Temple en mass. At a signal, dropped to the ground, held hands and prayed to the Almighty to protect them. I believe that no earthly power, Israeli or Moslem could stop them.
From my mouth to G-d's hear................]
Visiting Temple Mount? Don't Move
Report of new police instructions for non-Muslims:
Don't close your eyes, rock back and forth or read a note.
By Gil Ronen
First Publish: Arutz Sheva -5/22/2012, 11:44 AM
Visiting the Temple Mount
Israel news photo: Flash 90
Police have reportedly issued new draconian instructions for non-Muslims who ascend to the Temple Mount, Judaism's holiest site, which has been under Muslim occupation for centuries. According to a report in the daily newspaper Ma'ariv, non-Muslims are now not even permitted to close their eyes while on the Mount, or do anything that could be interpreted as praying.
While Jews have not been allowed to pray on the Mount since the Muslim riots of the year 2000, and their entry has been restricted to specific hours and days, the new instructions take the restrictions to an even greater extreme.
A delegation of 30 public figures and rabbis headed by Rav Dov Lior and MK Uri Ariel arrived at the Temple Mount last week and encountered the new restrictions. When they reached the entrance area at the Mughrabim Gate, a police officer showed up and presented the instructions.
"The officer said that closing eyes and rocking the body back and forth constitute prayer, and therefore anyone who does any of these things will be immediately removed from the Mount," MK Ariel recounted.
Taking a note out of one's pocket was also listed as a no-no.
According to the report, the Jerusalem District Police responded to the story by saying only, "This was a statement by an officer who explained to the visitors to the Temple Mount about the characteristics of prayer that are forbidden during the visit there."
"First They Came for the Jews"
By Pastor Niemoller
First they came for the Jews and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for the Communists and I did not speak out because I was not a Communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists and I did not speak out because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for me and there was no one left to speak out for me.
IT IS HAPPENING AGAIN
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