The Third Temple

 The temple to be built on the Temple Mount. Its foundation is in an ideal description in the Book of Ezekiel of a Temple of Restoration in this place that was destroyed in the First Temple. Since the Temple built by the Immigrants at Shivat Zion ("the Second Temple") was not built in its form, its form remained for the complete hoped-for redemption, along with the fulfillment of the other visions of the prophets. And in the books of Halacha, Kabbalah and Chassidut. The eighteenth prayer ends with a request: "Let the Temple be built soon in our day and give us a share in your Torah".

 The idea of the Third Temple was used by Jews to describe a wish that was second to none in the Middle Ages.editing

However, many prophecies in the Bible refer to complete redemption, the gathering of the exiles and the end times as the system of the Temple being at its center. Thus, for example, in the prophecy of Isaiah:

 And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be at the top of the mountains, and shall be lifted up from the hills; and all the nations shall flow unto it. And many people went and said, Go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; And he judged among the heathen, and proved to many peoples;

 These prophecies, said in the days of the First Temple and the period of the Babylonian exile, until the beginning of the Second Temple period, did not come true in the days of the Second Temple. In the words of Chazal, there is a debate as to whether the Second Temple from the beginning was not worthy of the fulfillment of these prophecies, or had a potential that did not materialize, in the absence of sufficient cooperation of the people of Israel. New to be built.

 A detailed description of a large-scale future temple appears in the book of Ezekiel. 

 Extended Value - The Mitzvah of the Temple Building

 Another angle in the relation of the Torah of Israel to the Third Temple is the halakhic aspect. The establishment of a temple is a mitzvah made, which is one of the thirteen mitzvot in the Torah, according to what is written in the Torah: "And they made me a temple." As such, the charge on it applies whenever it can be observed. The construction of the Temple and the renewal of its work are related to a series of mitzvot, such as the sacrifice of the victims, pilgrimage, etc.In any case, the mitzvah written in the Torah to make a temple requires its construction if the conditions allow it. 

 Already in the days of the Babylonian exile, Daniel offered a personal prayer that he composed for the building of the Second Temple: Permanent in the Great Sanhedrin in Yavneh on the building of the Third Temple. Thus, for example, in the standing prayer which is said three times a day: The individual's spell prayer ends with the sentence: "Let there be a desire ... that the Temple be built soon in our day". Also in the blessing of food: "Have mercy ... on the great and holy house called by your name." On the days when an additional sacrifice was offered in the temple, a special wording was set for prayer for the renewal of the sacrifices: Especially on Yom Kippur, it is customary in the various Jewish testimonies to say in the Mussaf prayer the detailed "work order" of the High Priest on this day. This is what the Midrash Bereishit Rabba said: "All the prayers of Israel are but for the Temple. Mary! Build a Temple! Mary! When will a Temple be built?". 

 The motif of the building of the Temple is very common in the piyyut, and many of the piyyutim set for singing at the Shabbat meal in all testimonies include references to the Temple. Thus, for example, Donesh ben Lebert wrote in his piyyut "Dror Yikra": And in Rabbi Yisrael Najara's poem "Ye Ribon Elem": "To your sanctuary Tov and to sanctify Kodeshin, Atar Di Biya will unite spiritual and soul". As well as the piyyut "We ate our own flint": "The temple will be built, the city of Zion will be filled, and there we will sing a new song, and we will exalt Brennan." Rabbi Yehuda Halevi was especially famous for his songs of longing for Zion, including the renewal of the Temple. In his poem "Your Words in Moore" he criticized the preference of the tombs in the land over the place of the Temple: "Is it good that there are dead remembrances, and the ark and tablets are forgotten?

 Commandments and customs as a memorial to the Temple of Editing

 After the destruction of the Second Temple, special regulations were established as a memorial to the Temple: Taking a lulav on the Feast of Sukkot, the Torah practices seven days only in and outside the Temple one day, In addition, the taking of the Arava in Hoshana Rabba is intended to mention the taking of the Arava in the Temple, and from the Torah there is no mitzvah to take the Arava at all outside it. On the night of Seder, the matzah and the bitterness are eaten together ("wraps") in memory of the temple, as was the custom of the old Hillel who wrapped the Passover sacrifice with matzah and maror