Summary
Shlomo Goren, former Army Chief Rabbi and Ashkenazic Chief Rabbi, presented by Lustick as the most influential of the rabbis who used archeological finds to eliminate the halachic restrictions against Jewish entry onto the Temple Mount (For the Land and the Lord: Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel, Chapter 6).
Details
- Some leading rabbis used recent archeological finds to eliminate religious restrictions against Jewish entry onto the Temple Mount; the most influential was former Army Chief Rabbi and Ashkenazic Chief Rabbi Shlomo Goren, supported by Eleazar Waldman, Sephardic Chief Rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu, and the chief rabbis of Tel Aviv, Netanya and Haifa (For the Land and the Lord: Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel, Chapter 6, lines 8487-8736).
- Chapter 6’s note 43 records Goren’s construction of a sculpture overlooking the Temple Mount consisting of six Jewish stars atop flames burning in fountains: officially a Holocaust memorial, but Goren acknowledges that the fire and water recall the libations and offerings on the altar of the Temple (For the Land and the Lord: Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel, Chapter 6 note 43, lines 8759-9128).
Related pages
For the Land and the Lord: Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel, Temple Mount, Gush Emunim, Eleazar Waldman