<div>I was at a meeting yesterday and Rav Yisrael Ariel spoke about the criticism the Hareidi world has against doing anything at all about the Har Habayit and visciously criticising anybody who does.</div>
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<div>In reading this:</div>
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<div><em>Concerning the issue of sinners coming to Israel. The Shomer Emunim<br>Rebbe once told me that the higher the kedusha of a place the greater is<br>midos hadin. He said he knows rabbonim who would not live in Jerusalem
<br>because of this factor. It would follow from this that the consequences<br>of sinning while living in Israel are greater than for those living in<br>New York. On the other hand the consequences of doing a mitzva are also greater. To put it another way, the chances of greater return on onc's
<br>investment in doing mitzvos has to be weighted against the chances of<br>greater loss for sin.</em></div>
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<div>I thought I'd quote something he said.</div>
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<div>The main opposition from a Halachic point of view is the possibility of karet in entering certain areas within the present-day compound. If karet is the threat, RYA said, and we shouldn't do anything to investigate, to review the literature, discuss with arceologists, etc., according to this approach, then what are we do about getting married? There are so many karet issues, down to a mustard-colored drop of blood (or not as the case may be), that this should put us off from getting entangled in the possibility of violating a lo ta'aseh which carries the karet weight of punishment not to mention other issues which marriage presents troubles for. But no one says 'don't get into any doubt'. But with Har Habayit, they all do say that.
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<div>Is the issue then halachic or...ideological haskafa?</div>
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<div>Which brings me to the Shomer Emunim and the Muncatzcher approach. In one of his books, Pierkage (sp?) traces this approach of "EY is too holy" but I think we all know that history and the thinking of the Em HaBanim S'meicha has shown how wrong-headed this was. It is not a question of proper analysis of sources but an attempt to fit the Halacha to an outlook. The same with the VaYoel Moshe who gets into exactly what the Sitra Achra knows, wants, desires and forgets about HKBH and simple Torah.
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<div><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Yisrael Medad<br>Shiloh<br>Mobile Post Efraim 44830<br>Israel </div>