Reply To: Har HaBayis Revisited

Putting aside the halachic prohibition, do you think that it is a good idea for Jews to ascend HHB? Should these actions be encouraged or discouraged?

Let me rephrase that:

If all of the Gedolim thought that it was GREAT idea to ascend HHB, would they all then oppose it on purely halachic grounds?

It is interesting to me that no sooner do these Rabbis declare that it is an issur that skirts kares, they discuss how not to do it because it ticks off the Arabs.

Can you see a responsible Rav saying something like that in other areas:

“This action is probably chilul Shabbos Deuraisah, so, you shouldn’t do it because it might upset the kana’im”?