Famous rabbi sees
Trump rebuilding Temple
Sees it as 'final, historic reparation for his entire
nation'
President Trump places a written prayer into a crack at
the Western Wall, Jerusalem, Israel, on May 22, 2017.
WASHINGTON – Donald Trump might not be the most popular
person inside the beltway, in California, on U.S. college campuses or in the
American media, but his support is growing in Israel, with one prominent rabbi
saying he believes the president is destined to rebuild the Jerusalem Temple
before the coming of the Messiah.
Rabbi Yosef Berger, the son of a widely revered Hasidic
leader in charge of King David’s Tomb on Mount Zion, told Breaking Israel News
Trump will play this “final historic reparation for his entire nation.”
“No leader in history has recognized Jerusalem as the
capital of the Jews and Israel,” Berger said. “[Trump] has already created a
great tikkun (reparation) for the Christians through his unprecedented
relationship with Jerusalem. Trump is the representative of Edom that will
perform that final historic reparation for his entire nation by building the Temple.”
Edom is an ancient adversary of Israel, founded by Esau,
the twin brother of Jacob, whose name was later changed to Israel, according to
Genesis. As the slightly older brother of Jacob, Esau famously rejected his
birthright for a mess of pottage or stew when he was famished after a hunting
excursion. Some ancient rabbis saw Edom as a spiritual progenitor of
Christians.
Meanwhile, Trump mania runs strong throughout Israel,
according to public polls.
Public opinion surveys show Trump approved by 65 percent
or more of Israelis, who seldom form such strong consensus about politicians –
foreign or domestic.
Berger cited a medieval rabbinical source that predicted
that while the first two temples were built by Israel, the third would be built
by the “descendants of Edom,” a phrase that in some later rabbinical literature
is used as a euphemism for the Christian world.
The Temple in Jerusalem was believed by most
archaeologists to have been located on the Temple Mount in the Old City of
Jerusalem, the current site of the Dome of the Rock and Al-Aqsa Mosque, yet the
most important religious site in all of Judaism. The rebuilding of the Temple
is associated by many Jews and Christians with a coming messianic age – for
Jews, who don’t believe the Messiah has come, and Christians, who believe He
came as Jesus of Nazareth and will return to restore Israel to glory, along
with the rest of the world.
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