Above, written here in Hebrew is “King David”. The walls of the Old City of Jerusalem were lit up in honor of the occasion, welcoming the special Torah for the Messiah commissioned by Rabbi Yosef Berger.
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, pictured above, the son of a widely revered Hasidic leader in charge of King
David’s Tomb on Mount Zion, said 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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