With all the success of the fledgling nation, one thing was left undone: the Temple in Jerusalem, the Beit HaMikdash, was not yet built.ĭavid requested permission from the Almighty to build the Temple. Jumping to the year 869 BCE, the Jewish monarchy has been established in Israel with David as king. 2 Jacob visits the same location when he flees from his brother Esau and has his fateful dream of a ladder ascending to the heavens with angels going up and down. The Book of Genesis refers to this place as Mount Moriah. In the year 1678 BCE God tells our forefather Abraham to bring his son Isaac as a sacrifice to this place, with the Foundation Stone serving as the altar. And Adam, the first man from whom we all descend, was formed from dirt taken from this spot. According to Jewish tradition, this is the very spot of the Foundation Stone from which the world was created. To understand this, we must go 5782 years back in time. What is the significance of the Temple Mount and the Temple? Why do the Jewish people continue to mourn for thousands of years? The Three Weeks is a period of mourning bookended by the fasts of the 17th of Tammuz and Tisha B’Av, the national day of Jewish mourning that marks the destruction of the First and Second Temples on Jerusalem’s Temple Mount.
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