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Last update - 18:04 08/07/2008 Ultra-Orthdox prohibition on entering Temple Mount splinters By Nadav Shragai, Haaretz Correspondent Tags: Ultra-Orthodox, Temple Mount  The ultra-Orthodox rabbinical consensus on banning the entry of Jews to the Temple Mount is showing cracks. This comes in the wake of a decision by religious Zionist rabbis to lift the ban and the increase of religious Zionist visitors to the site. Rabbi Moshe Tendler, son-in-law of the ultra-Orthodox Rabbi Moshe Feinstein, visited the Temple Mount last Thursday with Temple Institute officials for the first time. Feinstein was one of the greatest Haredi adjudicators in the United States in the previous generation. Tendler, a bioethics expert and Talmud instructor at Yeshiva University, New York, is known mainly for his rulings on transplants and genetics. Recently several ultra-Orthodox rabbis visited the Temple Mount but unlike Tendler, none would have his name released, due to sensitivity to this issue. Some two years ago, kabbalist Rabbi Dov Kook, who is married to Rabbi Yosef Elyashiv's granddaughter, also covertly visited the mount. Advertisement Both the ultra-Orthodox and religious Zionist rabbis accepted the ban on Jews entering Temple Mount after the Six-Day War. The decision stemmed from the inability to determine the exact location of the temple and sanctuary, which worshippers could only enter after being purified. The Chief Rabbinate put up a sign warning Jews not to enter Temple Mount, saying the penalty of doing so was divine punishment by untimely death or eternal excommunication. This position has not changed over the years. However, an increasing number of religious Zionist rabbis have recently permitted Jews to enter Temple Mount. This followed an intensification of the struggle between Jewish and Muslim establishments over the Temple Mount and damage to Jewish areas. Well-known religious Zionist adjudicators who have changed their approach include Kiryat Shmona Rabbi Zfania Drori, the chairman of the West Bank settlers rabbis committee, Rabbi Dov Lior, head of the hesder yeshiva in Ma'ale Adumim, Rabbi Nahum Rabinovitch and dozens of others. Some of these rabbis said Jews must be permitted to enter the Temple Mount to liberate it from the Muslim occupation, which is denying any Jewish affiliation - historic, religious and national - to the site and its past. Related articles: Give them the Temple Mount Arab League blasts Temple Mount dig for 'altering features' of Jerusalem Dichter rules area near Temple Mount off-limits to Muslim burial Bookmark to del.icio.us   By the numbers A study shows Jewish Israeli men live almost four years longer than Israeli Arabs. Local threat The Shin Bet arrests two Bedouin, accused of supplying information to al-Qaida.   1.   Freedom of religion 19:07  |  Polybios 08/07/08   2.   the anchor around Israels neck splinters 19:17  |  superjew 08/07/08   3.   Jews shouldn`t hide in tunnels to be close to mount 20:51  |  Slappy 08/07/08   4.   Why do these crazy Jews ban other Jews from the temple mount? 21:10  |  yeah 08/07/08   5.   Moshiachzeit 21:35  |  Joe 08/07/08   6.   Frontal assault 21:36  |  Avi Yerushalmi 08/07/08   7.   build a beit knesset on Temple Mount 22:17  |  David K 08/07/08   8.   Solution/Justice on Temple Mount 23:10  |  Martin 08/07/08   9.   Rabbi Tendler`s Views 23:44  |  Up The Hill 08/07/08   10.   R. Tendler is Modern Orthodox 23:58  |  Moshe 08/07/08   11.   Visits and prayers 00:01  |  jackie 09/07/08   12.   Reply to # 4 Ban on Temple Mount 00:16  |  Sherlock Holmes 09/07/08   13.   What was once ours will be ours again 01:24  |  Jay Colbe 09/07/08   14.   Temple and Religion 01:54  |  Aish 09/07/08   15.   Avoid listening to haredim at all costs? 02:00  |  Yaakov 09/07/08   16.   A very special place to visit. 12:18  |  sandra chitayat 09/07/08   17.   Rabbis or G-d ? 23:09  |  Avi 09/07/08

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