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Reflections on a Profound Experience Visiting Har Habayit September 2014 ~ Elul 5774 - Tishrei 5775 Page 1 of 5 Kol Bogrei Rambam is the Alumni Committee’s monthly e-newsletter for and about Maimonides School graduates. Each month we share infor- mation on individual graduates’ ventures and accomplishments, as well as general news notes, all reflecting the school’s mission of preparing educated, observant Jews to be contributing members of society. Your ideas and accomplishments will help sustain and strengthen this key com- munications tool; please forward to [email protected]. Reflections on a Profound Experience VisitingHar Habayit 8 (Following are excerpts from an account Devarim refers to as “makom asher As we waited at the security gate to by Noam Shapiro ’97. Among those yivchar Hashem.” All of the services, walk up the bridge that leads into Har also in the contingent was his neighbor in sacrifices, all of the myriad halakhot, all Habayit, I was struck by a poignant Efrat, Dvir Weinberg ’96.) of the history, all of the divine sanctity, contrast. While we had spent days and I would be there. preparing, woken up early in the Approximately three years ago, at a panel discussion about Har Habayit in Yeshivat Har Etzion, I heard Rav Meidan (Rabbi Ya’akov Meidan of Yeshivat Har Etzion) speak passionately about the halakhic argument to be made in favor of visiting Har Habayit, as well as the religious and political reasons for doing so. I walked out of the room (somewhat surprising myself) with a profound desire to go to Har Habayit. My halakhic nervousness and general lack of adven- turism took over, however, and I never acted upon those feelings. Fast forward three years. I learned that a trip was being organized by members of my community to visit Har Habayit. After some initial feet-dragging, I decided to join. I spent time learning the relevant halakhot and reading up on the basic archeology so that I Noam Shapiro ’97, left, and Dvir Weinberg ’96, second from right, listen to a guide’s lecture atop would be prepared for the momentous Har Habayit. occasion. morning to immerse in the mikvah, My preparations really did the trick and I was also overtaken by a sense of and eagerly looked forward to this helped get me in the proper frame of excitement and joy. “Samachti biomrim moment, other random tourists from mind. One of the mitzvot that can be li beit Hashem nelech!” How fortunate I all over the world had simply looked at fulfilled when going to Har Habayit was to be able to walk in the areas that their tour itinerary and showed up. As is the mitzvah of “umikdashi tirau” – Jews, far greater and far more pious they nonchalantly filed in, we waited feeling a sense of awe, fear, or rever- than me, only dreamed of even coming on the side, as our T.Z. (identity cards) ence for walking in a place of increased close to. True joy is defined halakhically were inspected. sanctity. I definitely felt those emotions as standing “lifnei Hashem.” And how and wondered if I would succeed in better to experience standing “lifnei Our wonderful tour guide led us in following all of the necessary halakhic Hashem” than walking on Har Habayit. Psalms and song as we walked up the guidelines. I also thought about the notion of being in a place that Sefer continued on page 2 Visit Maimonides on Facebook Follow our Twitter feed, KolRambam Subscribe to our YouTube channel, MaimoTube September 2014 ~ Elul 5774 - Tishrei 5775 Page 2 of 5 Reflections on a Profound Experience continued from page 1 8 ramp. “Shir Hamaalot liDavid, sa-machti lurking in the dirt, I could only think of ness. There is a piece of land that is biomrim li Beit Hashem nelech!” The the verse “Shualim hilchu bo...foxes walk dedicated towards one thing: unifying sounds of the shofar from Jews through [the Temple Mount]...” man in the service of God. And it is davening down below serenaded us as attainable -- it is tangible. It is right We walked around to the eastern gate we walked. I looked at my fellow Jews here before us. Lo ba-shamayim Hi. It is and made sure to stay away from any praying at the Kotel, and suddenly real- not in the Heavens. Bringing God into area that was too sanctified to walk ized just how second-rate the Western our life should never feel like too lofty through, any areas where the Temple Wall is compared to where we were a goal. If we think of it as other-worldly, itself stood. As we approached the area headed. As I had learned that week, it remains in other worlds. This surreal of the eastern wall that is just opposite the Western Wall is actually not even place where we can serve God, where the gate which would lead directly the wall surrounding the original Har we focus our energy on feeling God’s into the Temple, I tried to block out the Habayit. It is a much later expansion presence, is actually something real. noise and utter a silent prayer. Jewish that was built following the destruction prayer is officially forbidden on Har The truth is, I have trouble, generally, of the Temple. Habayit so I had to do so very silently, connecting to spatial sanctity. Instead, As we entered the gate, we immedi- barely moving my lips. I feel sanctity in people, in human ately could see the Makom HaMikdash. beings who are kind, righteous, and The religious power of the moment The Al Aqsa mosque was to our right, good, and in certain moments. But I did was a bit of a challenge. Not only along the southern wall, and the Dome experience something on that moun- because of the hateful screams, but of the Rock to our left. As we walked tain. This is where our people served because it can be a shock when a along the southern side, groups of God millennia ago, and this is where dream becomes a reality. When that Arabs, men and women separately, God-willing we will do so again one which was surreal becomes simply took turns screaming at us “Allahu day. and powerfully real. I liken my feelings Achbar” – God is the greatest! Though to the way I experienced marriage, in I didn’t want to go to the mountain they are apparently paid to sit there some ways. Before you get married, with any political agenda. I wanted and do this, their shouts were full of it seems surreal. It’s hard to imagine it to be a spiritual experience only – anger. It was hatred more than reli- what that would actually be like – connecting to God, to my nation, to my gious fervor – yelling at us, rather than the wedding, sharing your life with history, and to myself. But that brings crying out to the heavens. someone, raising children together. us back to the reality point. You could sense their deep resentment And then, thank God, I did experience Perhaps the admittedly political act at our very presence. It was a very sad those things…. of ascending the mountain will have moment for me. This is truly a state of And far from being far-off hard-to- some ramifications on the status quo. churban – destruction. Jews are being imagine parts of life, they simply were. And I think that is OK; in fact I think it is taunted for simply walking along Everything became very real. At first it good. the grounds of their ancient Temple takes away from the magic; I thought Mount. Ironically, there was a part of We can determine our reality by taking this was supposed to be other-worldly! me that thought of the Rambam who the initiative. Isn’t that what religious But then you realize that it is in the describes Islam as an important step Zionists believe? I’m not saying we very reality of the experience, that the in world history towards the ultimate build a Temple tomorrow, but wouldn’t power of what it is comes to be truly acceptance of monotheism. After all, at it be special if instead of the Kotel, the felt. In the simple, real, day-to-day life the end of the day, these Arabs were at Temple Mount itself became the place of marriage -- therein lies its power and least referring to the same One God to where Jews go for their most funda- beauty. whom I pray too. mental spatial-spiritual recharge? To some degree, this is what I expe- Still, it was upsetting. And I felt similar I hope my words and pictures may rienced on Har Habayit. A place that moments of mourning when noticing strike a chord in others who will feels so far off, so heavenly – and yet, the tourists meandering around, Arabs consider being “oleh lihar Hashem – when you get there, you find that at walking through the spot where the Ascending the Mountain of God.” its most basic level, it is a place. It is Holy Sanctuary once stood, as if it were simply a swath of land in Jerusalem. another city plaza. And then later I saw And then I realized: that is its great- a cat. As I caught a glimpse of a cat September 2014 ~ Elul 5774 - Tishrei 5775 Page 3 of 5 Brand New Jewish Leadership Position for 1992 Graduate Rabbi Ari Rockoff ’92 is the first to build a “culture of mentorship and a training platform for other boards director of leadership development for membership” in the organization.
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