THE TEMPLE OF JERUSALEM
The Temple of Jerusalem is the heart of Judaism:
• Fundamental stone on which, according to tradition, was created the world;
• the place where the dust was formed the first man, Adam and Eve;
• Mount of the sacrifice of Isaac
• Place of the the ladder of Jacob
• Center for the cult of Jewish monotheism: the obligation to ascend to the Temple three times a year during the pilgrimage festivals (Sukkot, Pessah, Shavuot).
• Mount of the temple upon which all people will rise to worship the One G-d.
Since two millennia the Jewish people, dispersed throughout the world, in all the prayers that mark its life, pleading G-d to rebuild the Temple in His Dwelling Place. The reconstruction of the Temple, the spiritual and material, is the ultimate goal of returning the people of Israel in the land that G-d has promised to our fathers.
In Judaism art is closely tied to the Temple of Jerusalem. The Torah gives a sacred to art when it is placed at the service of divine worship.
The young artist Betzalel and his school, are appointed directly by G-d to the construction of the Tabernacle, the manufacture of objects intended for worship and the creation of liturgical vestments (Exodus 36-38). In this sense, the Torah art rises the role of mitzvà, of positive commandment, as the execution of the construction of the Temple becomes a fulfillment of the divine order.
The Kabbalah reveals that Betzalel was aware of the combination of letters. In his name, which literally means "behind the scenes of Eternal", the kabballistic secrets are kept relating to the sphere of art, light and colors.
The Academy of Fine Arts of Jerusalem bears his name.
One of the aims of the site is to deepen, through the handouts made available, the study of the symbolic Temple of Jerusalem and its furnishings from a kabballistic point of view: what lies behind the cycles of construction and destruction of the Temple? What is the esoteric meaning attached to the idea of "rebuilding the Third Temple? What mystery is hidden behind the curtain of the Tabernacle?
INSTITUTE OF TEMPLE
Even today the art is tied to the Temple of Jerusalem as a pedagogical tool that allows us to cross the threshold of the high divine spheres. It is thanks to the work of many artists and craftsmen if today the objects of the Temple can relive.
It has been founded after the reconquest of Jerusalem by Rabbi Israel Ariel, the Mah'on Hamikdash, the Museum of the Temple, located in the old city of Jerusalem, a few steps from the Kotel, it preserves and exhibits the faithful reproduction of all the objects related sacred worship in the Bet Hamikdash, as well as numerous paintings, illustrations and paintings that attempt to reconstruct in detail, according to the detailed descriptions collected in the Mishna, as well as life took place inside the Temple.
The Institute of the Temple, headed by Rabbi Haim Richman and Rav Jean Mark Rosenfeld,
plays various educational activities in schools and universities in the world for the dissemination of knowledge of the Bet Hamikdash and its universal role in the construction of peace in the world.
It is good to make a clarification: the Jews have no intention of destroying the Mosque of Omar to rebuild the Temple, as Rav Rosenfeld says, "If that was the idea, we would not have waited until now sure!
The prophets have announced that a supernatural phenomenon will allow the rebuilding ... for peace and the good of the whole world, then the Righteous of the Nations will wake up and will say : « this is the only solution! Because until now we did not find a political solution. World peace will be generated only through the Temple. »
The artist Shazarahel works with the Institute of the Temple of Jerusalem and is the author of a film script that illustrates the role and symbolic message of the Temple of Jerusalem, which will be rebuilt to be the house of all nations.
Il Miskan, il Tabernacolo nel deserto
MENORAH
Jean Mark Rosenfeld
temple-europe@012.net.il
