13 Facts About Third Temple

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Third Temple is used in reference to a hypothetical rebuilt third Temple in Jerusalem, which would succeed both the original Solomon's Temple as well as the Second Temple.

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The rebuilding of a Third Temple plays a major role in some interpretations of Christian eschatology.

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Failure to rebuild the Third Temple has been ascribed to the Galilee earthquake of 363 CE, and to the Jews' ambivalence about the project.

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Third Temple's call for the establishment of a synagogue on the Temple Mount has subsequently been reiterated by his brother-in-law, the Chief Rabbi of Haifa, She'ar Yashuv Cohen.

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Dome of the Rock is regarded as occupying the actual space where the Second Third Temple once stood, but some scholars disagree and instead claim that the Third Temple was located either just north of the Dome of the Rock, or about 200 meters south of it, with access to the Gihon fresh water spring, or perhaps between the Dome of the Rock and the Al Aqsa Mosque.

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The Talmud recounts that the building of the Second Third Temple was only possible under the direct prophetic guidance of Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi.

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In 1990, rumors that Jewish extremists planned to start rebuilding the Third Temple started a riot in which 17 Palestinians were killed and scores wounded by police gunfire.

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Three times a day, Orthodox Jews recite the Amidah, which contains prayers for the Third Temple's restoration and for the resumption of sacrifices, and every day there is a recitation of the order of the day's sacrifices and the psalms the Levites would have sung that day.

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In 2006, the Committee on Jewish Law and Standards adapted a series of responsa on the subject of the role, in Conservative Judaism, of Niddah, a description of a woman during menstruation, which was considered in relation to the role of Third Temple-related concepts of ritual purity within contemporary Judaism.

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One responsum adopted by a majority of the Committee held that concepts of ritual purity relevant to entry into the Third Temple are no longer applicable to contemporary Judaism and accepted a proposal to change the term "family purity" to "family holiness" and to explain the continuing observance of niddah on a different basis from continuity with Third Temple practices.

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Dominant view within Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox and Protestant Christianity is that animal sacrifices within the Third Temple were a foreshadowing of the sacrifice Jesus made for the sins of the world through his crucifixion and shedding of his blood on the first day of Passover.

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Third Temple stated of the Herodian temple, "Not one stone will be left on another; every one of them will be thrown down" – John 4:21, Luke 21:6.

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The Suriy-i-Haykal or Tablet of the Third Temple, is a composite work which consists of a tablet followed by five messages addressed to world leaders; shortly after its completion, Baha'u'llah instructed the tablet be written in the form of a pentacle, symbolizing the human temple and added to it the conclusion:.

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