The fact that we do not have any written teshuvos from R’ Elyashiv or R’ Chaim that forbid ascending Har HaBayis should come as no surprise; neither one of these Gedolim published shailos vi’teshuvos. But there has never been any doubt as to their positions on this issue.
Are there any teshuvos that explicitly allow ascending HHB?
What did the Chazon Ish, R’ Kook, R’ Shlomo Zalman, R’ Ovadya Yosef, etc. have to say on this matter?
chareidimolim:
would advise an ill person to follow the instructions found in a medical book written 50 years ago?
I hope I do not need to point out the obvious differences between the way we regard yesterdays scientists opinions and the way we regard yesterdays halachic opinions. The scientific opinions of Aristotle and his like are are laughably obsolete (flat world, any one?) while the opinions of the Tannaim and Amoraim of thousands of years ago continue to form the basis of Halacha today. One would have to be an idiot to agree to Aristotle, and an idiot to argue with Rav Ashi.
Do we agree on this?
The situation has changed. The Rabbanim today know that it is permitted to ascend. The matter is all political.
How, precisely, has the situation changed in the few years since we lost R’ Elyashiv?
And why are you so convinced that only the actors on one side of this debate are politically motivated?