[Avodah] leviim on duty

[Zev Sero via Avodah]

On 07/12/2016 04:27 PM, Ben Waxman via Avodah wrote:
> On 7/8/2016 10:27 PM, saul newman via Avodah wrote:

>> in my notes i found 2 reasons why leviim don't currently stand
>> guard duty at Har Habayit. one, jews don't control the area.

> I thought that they did their shmirah outside of the Temple Mount.

No, outside the Mount what is there to guard?  The first mishnos of
Tamid and Middos say that "Kohanim guard in three places, and Leviyim
in twenty-one", and all those places are on the Mount.


> Plus, who exactly are they going to tell not go up? The goyim or
> secular? The Dati Jews who do go prepare themselves?

The guards are not supposed to tell anyone anything.  They're supposed
to stand there, just like those men with the funny hats outside Buck House.
(Though not with such tough discipline; the gemara makes it clear that
they're allowed to sit, and to talk to each other.)

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