The Temple Institute has announced a bold new initiative to identify, select and register kohanim who would be eligible to participate in the process of preparing the Para Adumah. This unprecedented move signifies the second stage of the Institute’s project to restore the concept of Biblical purity into the world, something that will have immense repercussions on Jewish observance as we know it. Even before the Temple is rebuilt, the reinstatement of halachically approved kohanim is a pre-requisite for preparation of the Para Adumah which will enable Am Yisrael to perform numerous Torah-based mitzvos, such as challah and terumah, according to the Torah’s true intentions.
The requirements for potential kohanim are extremely complex and this project signifies the completion of decades of study on the subject by the Rabbinic leadership and scholars of the Temple Institute. Potential candidates must have been born in the Land of Israel, born to a father of kohanic lineage. They must have exercised caution with regard to exposure to the Biblical impurity rendered by death. This includes those who were not born in hospital and who have not visited hospitals or cemeteries.
Those kohanim whose status can be verified will be eligible to be among the first to participate in the renewal of numerous Torah commandments, including the preparation of the Para Adumah, once a suitable candidate is found.
Rabbi Chaim Richman, international director of the Temple Institute commented on this historic move: “This is a huge jump for the Temple Institute and a huge leap for the Jewish people. For the first time in 2,000 years after miraculously returning to the Land of Israel we are beginning the process of reinstating the Biblical purity of the Jewish priesthood. This is another bold move for our Institute, having already painstakingly prepared over 60 sacred vessels in preparation for the Third Beis HaMikdash. We proudly call upon all those who may fit the bill to contact the Temple Institute immediately”
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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I think Moshiach will tell us how and who should prepare the para aduma. JUST SAYING !!!!!!!
They missed Purim by 3 days…this spiel is really not worth taking seriously, except of course by those who run up and down Eastern Parkway waving yellow flags. Reminds me of those 2AM infomercials where they say “call immediately or it will be too late”…..the version here is “call now or there may not be enough room in the kodesh hakdashim for you to duchin”
Isn’t this is the guy who goes on the har habayis against the psak of Gedolim? And we are quoting him why?
which Gedolim endorse the Temple Institute?
Its a nice idea, in theory. Wonder what the Poskim of the generation will say…
This is real silly.
In order to prepare a new Para Aduma, one needs the Para Aduma ashes of all previous preparations done in history. And those ashes will be used to purify any Kohen involved in its preparation. And in order to prepare new Para Aduma ashes one also needs a built Beis HaMikdash.
The Temple Institute thinks they are the only ones who have researched the halachos pertaining to Temple commandments, and thus have the final say on anything relating to the topic. They forget, or ignore, the many Torah scholars who also learn Mishnayos, Talmud, Rishonim, and halachic books and codes.
All religious Kohanim who have documented lineage as such still require greater authenticity for being involved with the Para Aduma preparation and such authenticity is not available presently. Eliyahu HaNavi has the authority to certify Kohanim and we’ll have to wait for him to do that.
However, once we have such Kohanim, it makes no difference which country they were born, if they were born in hospital, or if they’d been in a cemetery or had contact with the dead. They will anyway have to undergo purification, just like a Kohen who is, as far as he knows, ritually pure.
If the Temple Institute really wanted to prepare for the Para Aduma preparation, they should build a building that rests on bedrock, under which should be a hollow area, because of the Ch’shash of Kever T’hom, and bring pregnant mothers to live there and give birth there to children who need to remain ritually pure, not necessarily Kohanim, so that pure Para Aduma ashes-water can be prepared, as described in the Mishna Maseches Para. Without these children, nothing can be done anyway.
Want the first red cow prepared by Moshe Rabenu? And you can still argue he acted as a Kohen during inauguration of Mishkan. Isn’t the last parah aduma supposed to be prepared by Moshiach who is from Yehuda and obviously not a Kohen?
People can become impure from death even by other means not only entering a hospital or going to cemetery.
We dont know where someone people are buried it can be on certain roads or other areas underground.
these people advocate entering the har habayis btumaas haguf! acc. to most poskim this is a chiyuv kares! how can they possibly champion the cause of Tahaara ? Moderator! if you looked at their website you wouldnt have validated these crazy people by acknowledging them. They obviously still have “decades & decades” of more learning to do….
I understand why many people here think this stuff is crazy. Of course these people are considering ideas that very few of the rishonim and achronim could have even thought to consider, so it’s very weird. However, bear in mind two points.
1) for all of your mockery, the rabbonim that are involved have spent years of their lives working on this. Perhaps they are or perhaps they are not as big beki’im in nashim and yored de’ah as the commentators here, but I would guess that their understanding of taharose and kodshim would make their thoughts on this matter worth listening to, or at least not ignorantly mocking as many here are doing.
2) I clicked on their website for the first time, and see a page (https://www.templeinstitute.org/rabbanim.htm) in which they show pictures of gedolei hador including R’ Ovadya and others visiting the place. Of course visiting a place does not mean you agree with everything, or even anything, they do, but I also don’t think that these gedolim had nothing better to do than visit crazy people in crazy places. So at the very least I would conclude that people like R’ Avrohom Shapira, the Admor of Sedigora, the mekubal R’ David Batsri, and others felt that this was something at least worth looking into.