Reply To: Har HaBayis Revisited

Sam2:

I agree. I was citing the strict halachah.

The Azarah, including the Ezras Nashim and Chel, into which we are forbidden to enter these days because of corpse tumah, measures roughly 250 amos by 150 amos, including the area of the thickness of the old Azarah walls. That is aproximately 9500 square meters. The Har HaBayis area today measures around 150,000 square meters. That leaves 94 percent or so into which a man may enter after immersing in a mikvah. But even being concerned for all of the various chumros the large amah, a more expansive chel), we will be left easily with 80% of the Mount in which to walk. And, again, one cannot simply meander onto the Dome of the Rock platform, which contains the entire Azarah and some. It is ten meters high and can be reached only by going up a flight of stairs. And the police do not allow frum people to go there in any case.