Shalom, this video is about the history of the three main center of religious institutions in Jewish history. The first, of course was, the Mishcan and the torah, in the book of exodus. The torah describes god commands Moises to have the tabernacle erected. It consisted of a holy holiest which have the arc in the scrolls of the covenant. Even after they were smashed their different opinions in Jewish history, but some of the great commentators believed that the broken pieces were also kept in the arc. I know there is various other aspects of the ancient tabernacle including a table for showbread and then menorah and alter for the sacrifices. There was a ten structures that surrounded it. The Levi for charged with taking it apart, putting it together, taking care of it, the Cohanime, the priest, who was the immediate descendants of Aaron, starting with Aaron, the high priest. Brother Moises were the ones who officiated at the services and then when they can not move they have disassembled the Mishcan and picked it up again and put elsewhere. This is not the house of god, the tourist has specifically bernouili asu li mikdash, make me a mikdash, vaishno hanti vitrohm and I will draw among you. Now when they finally got to Israel, they settled in Jerusalem, and David established Jerusalem as they holy city. He wants to build a temple but he learned that god said “No, your son Solomon will build it”. So Solomon builds the first temple in the 900 bce. And it survived until then, until it was destroyed by the nabuchadnezzer in the Babylonians in 586 B.C.E. Described in the first book of kings. Then the Iranians, the Persians at that time, conquered the Babylonians and let the Jews go back and let rebuild the temple and survived until the year of 70 of the common year and it when was destroyed by the Romans.
So those are the basic stories of the three main ancient temples.
Now, what happens to arc was a subject of a lot of this inquiry. Indiana Jones movie has it sitting in a storage box in JFK Airport. The first book of kings described that it was lost after the destruction of the first temple. Second book of the Maccabees which is the apocrypha literature, tells a little bit about hatum. There are all kinds of speculations. You can see a show on TV, which claims, is a Nich. Place and that place with simply do not know.
Now, there are Jews who believed that the third temple should be rebuilt on the same spot. There is of course a political problem which is that the Arab controls it. Now, the temple mount, the alas amaska, the domain racker up there. But there are very religious kind of extremist Jews who pray for the, who believed that it would be rebuild first of acts Judaism still prays for it to be rebuilt their praise in the Sabbath most of services Macriven says that we will sacrifice again. The conservative prayer book, even the most traditional way, says resource to our land where ancestors once did sacrifice and worship there and we will once again worship.
There are even plans now people are building some of the different culturements to use the temple. There are young Cohanim who are being trained to do so that kind of French group of Jews. And, I do not know what going to happened when the Messiah comes but let us consider to be one of the preconditions of the masiana care for Jews and I know there are plenty of bible believed in Christians who believed that too that the temple were destroyed. But basically the Jews today have their own synagogues there were synagogues who existed even in the time when the holy temples did. But Jews have now their own synagogues and remodel them in some way after the ancient temple. We have an arc. We have an internal life. We have a menura, we have of course a Taurus cultures instead of the Ten Commandments that were not the original arc but we have our own temples and we remember the ancient temple. And I think the reason why the tabernacle takes up so much of the story of the Book of Exodus and intrigues us still because we are inspired by the dedication of our ancients who in the midst of their dessert experienced responded is they heard god command them. And they were eager to create this visible symbol of their devotion to god. So that is a little bit of the history of ancient temples.
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