[Avodah] Going up to Har HaBayis

[Micha Berger]

On Sun, May 20, 2007 7:57 pm, R Dov Bloom wrote:
: The subject of going up to Har Habayit nowadays has been written about
: in dozens if not hundreds of tshuvot and articles over the last 40
: years since 1967, as well as a number of monographs, books and
: scholarly articles and lectures. The main effort is to determine the
: exact location of the "mekom hamikdash" and therby identify the parts
: of "har habayit" - the area enclosed in the inner walls of the Temple
: Mount - that Jews should be permitted to enter.

I would think that people who do not wear Radziner or murex dyed
tzitzis for the Brisker reason that scientific research lacks the
halachic authority to reestablish mesorah would not change their
practice due to such efforts.

This may explain why RALichtenstein would be opposed to going up to
Har haBayis. Even if he thought the science was theoretically correct,
it carries no halachic weight.

Tir'u baTov!
-mi

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