Extremist temple groups will attempt to carry out ritual slaughter of animal sacrifices in Al-Aqsa Mosque this year (Al Jazeera)
A lot of talk and analysis is now being made about the holy month of Ramadan, the Israeli horror of its events and effects has become clear in the recent decisions of the Netanyahu government, to withdraw the powers to manage Al-Aqsa Mosque from the hands of the Minister of National Security responsible for the police, the extremist Itamar Ben Gvir, and to announce a restriction on the entry of Palestinians - By whom Israel means residents of the West Bank - to Al-Aqsa Mosque during Ramadan, then announcing that it would not impose restrictions on residents of Jerusalem, and the Green Line areas exclusively, so that extremist Israeli Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu finally came and demanded that Ramadan be “erased” and get rid of the “annual terror” it causes. To Israel, this statement confirms the real Israeli fear of the month of Ramadan.
This fear of the month of Ramadan is based on a real basis. In the circumstances of crushing war, famine, and massacres that Israel has been committing in Gaza for five months, popular unrest is escalating in the West Bank and Jerusalem, represented by a number of painful armed operations by the occupation and its settlers. Amidst these circumstances comes the start of the month of Ramadan, which coincides with The middle of this year is the first Jewish religious season since Sukkot, in the last days of which the Battle of the Al-Aqsa Flood began, and thus it constitutes the first challenge for all parties:
The Palestinian who wants to confirm the deterrence equation that he established over the past years, especially in 2021, up to the Battle of (Al-Aqsa Flood) launched by the Palestinian factions in the name of Al-Aqsa Mosque on October 7.
The Israeli believes that his failure in this challenge means his recognition of the victory of deterrence that the Palestinian factions have wanted to impose since the beginning of the current battle.
It seems that the time to slaughter the red cow has come starting this year, and the rituals can take place at any time starting from the end of last January.
This religious season, which will be in the middle of the holy month of Ramadan, which is the Hebrew holiday of Purim, will necessarily be reflected in the next Jewish religious season, which is Passover, which will begin two weeks after the end of Ramadan, and it is the most important season in this period, given that extremist temple groups will try to With all its might, the ritual slaughter of animal sacrifices is being carried out in Al-Aqsa Mosque this year, more than in previous years.
But there is a new variable that has appeared on the scene over the past few days, and it may lead to increased tension or perhaps completely explode the situation in the Holy City and the Palestinian arena as a whole, as the story of the red cows has reappeared on the scene again, after it became clear that there are movements carried out by temple groups. extreme;
To carry out the purification rituals of slaughtering red cows, these preparations take place in the shadows, quietly, and without media fanfare, in the same way that these groups continued to do in the period following the Battle of Saif al-Quds in 2021.
I had spoken in a previous article about the idea of the red cow and the fever of divine signs among far-right groups in Israel, the day after Israel’s Channel 12 announced, two and a half months before the start of the current war, that five red cows had been produced by genetic engineering in the American state of Texas to a private secret farm on the lands. occupied;
In preparation for carrying out the ritual slaughter and burning of it, and using its ashes to purify the Jews, thus allowing them to freely enter the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, and canceling the fatwa prohibiting the entry of Jews into the mosque adopted by the Chief Rabbinate of the occupying state;
Due to the presence of the impurity of the dead that prevents Jews from entering the place according to the Jewish faith.
The five cows reached the age of two last January of this year, and although the Talmud states that the cow must be three years old;
To be suitable for slaughter and rituals, the rabbis of the temple communities interpreted this phrase on the basis that she must have entered the third year of her life and not completed it, meaning that she is supposed to have completed the second year and entered the third year, and there is no problem with it. Her age after that, no matter how old she is, if the operation is delayed.
Accordingly, the time to slaughter the red cow has come starting this year, and the rituals can take place at any time starting from the end of last January.
But what is new to be aware of this time is that the cow, according to what is stated in Jewish law, should be slaughtered on a specific day of the year, and not at any time of the year.
Upon examining the abnormal movements taking place at the level of extremist temple groups in this regard, it became clear that the date recorded in the Talmud, on which these groups seek to implement the process of slaughter, burning, and cleansing, is the second day of the Hebrew month of April.
This year, this date will correspond to the tenth of next April, which - surprisingly - will most likely fall on the day of Eid al-Fitr, blessed for Muslims.
This takes the confrontation in this matter to a whole new level.
The reason for specifying the second of Hebrew April as the date for carrying out the purification process by slaughtering red cows according to the law of the Talmud, is that Moses, peace and blessings be upon him - according to what was stated in the Talmud - slaughtered the first red cow in Jewish history on that day, and the slaughtering of cows took place. After that, the Alhambra was visited only eight times at the same time, for a total of nine times, the last of which was during the era of the so-called “Second Temple” two thousand years ago, making this the tenth time throughout all of Jewish history.
Among the evidence that confirms the intention of these groups to carry out this process on the next Eid al-Fitr is that the so-called “Temple Institute” published an advertisement searching for volunteer priests to train them in the rituals of slaughtering and burning the red cow and carrying out the intended purification process, setting a number of conditions, including that the volunteer priest be He was born in a home or in a hospital in Jerusalem, so that it was confirmed that he was not exposed to what is called “the impurity of the dead” in hospitals
A good number of rabbis link the appearance of the tenth red cow, on the one hand, with the appearance of Christ the Savior and the building of the temple for the third time, on the other hand.
This process is greatly relied upon by the religious Zionist movement to be able to attract a huge number of religious Jews who do not storm Al-Aqsa Mosque in accordance with the fatwa of the Chief Rabbinate of the occupying state.
Because of impurity, including the extremist Bezalel Smotrich, the Israeli Minister of Finance.
The followers of this movement hope that the largest number of these religious people will see the process of slaughtering the red cows that has been produced currently as a divine sign of the possibility of ascending to the “Temple Mount” and preparing to control it in large numbers to implement the process they are waiting for, which is the construction of the third temple on the land of Al-Aqsa Mosque.
In preparation for the descent of Christ the Savior, according to the vision of these groups.
When following the movements of these groups - as we mentioned above - it became clear that there are actual movements taking place on the ground among followers of the Salvationist movement and extremist temple groups.
To actually carry out the slaughter operation, which suggests the urgency of these groups to exploit the current war conditions and go to the greatest extent in it, and with the full support of the extremist faction in the Netanyahu government, as an area above the Mount of Olives has been prepared that is supposed to be the scene of this operation, and this area overlooks the Dome of Olives. The rock overlooking the east, according to the Talmudic vision of this event, will therefore be either in the courtyard of the dome of the Dominus Flevit Church, or in a garden adjacent to it.
Among the evidence that confirms the intention of these groups to carry out this process on the next Eid al-Fitr is that the so-called “Temple Institute” published an advertisement searching for volunteer priests to train them in the rituals of slaughtering and burning the red cow and carrying out the intended purification process, setting a number of conditions, including that the volunteer priest be He was born in a home or in a hospital in Jerusalem, so that it was confirmed that he was not exposed to what is called “the impurity of the dead” in hospitals.
Also, the video published by Rabbi Elisha Wolfensohn a few days ago in which he talked about “miracles occurring,” linking the war on Gaza to the imminent construction of the Third Temple once “Gaza is eliminated,” indicates a clear intention among the followers of this movement to carry out this process with Eid al-Fitr.
This comes as senior figures in the religious Zionist movement urged the Israeli government to launch a ground operation in Rafah to eliminate the Palestinian resistance and declare its “victory” in the battle during the month of Ramadan, which is what Minister Benny Gantz said by the way, when he gave a deadline until the beginning of the month of Ramadan to release the Israeli prisoners. Before a ground operation begins in Rafah during the month.
All of this evidence clearly shows that we are going to the scenario of trying to carry out this operation and opening the door wide as soon as the month of Ramadan ends for tens of thousands of religious Jews to invalidate the fatwa forbidding entry to Al-Aqsa and storm it with tens of thousands, which will mean that they will finally be able to carry out the animal sacrifice rituals on Easter in the middle of Easter. Next month of Shawwal!
The issue is extremely dangerous, and matters in Al-Aqsa Mosque are actually heading towards resolution, whether towards imposing the scenario that the Temple and religious Zionist groups want, or completely deterring and stopping them on their own.
It should be known here that the strong popular reaction to these disastrous trends in an early period, before attempting to impose them practically on the ground, necessarily means that these groups are forced to postpone their approaches and actions for at least a full year under pressure from the Israeli security services.
The Palestinian people, first and foremost, and the entire Islamic world must know that they now have a historic opportunity to deter these groups and completely thwart their plans, and even transform their vision of salvation and religious obsession into a real obstacle to the existence of the entire Zionist project, deepening the rift and division in the occupation society and making it preoccupy itself.
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