TEL AVIV — The Temple Institute is scheduled to
hold a conference on Wednesday to discuss the religious preparations for
performing the ritual of sacrificing the red heifer.
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This ritual aims to purify from the 'impurity
of the dead' to surpass the prohibition imposed by the Great Rabbinate of
Israel from entering the Al-Aqsa Mosque due to the lack of purity condition,
Quds Press reported.
The conference will be held in the Shiloh
settlement north of Ramallah, where the five cows, imported from Texas, are
under special care and round-the-clock monitoring.
Several rabbis advocating for conducting the rituals
will speak at the conference after the cows have reached the minimum legal age
required for the purification process, which is two years and two months. This
condition specifies that the cows must not be younger than this, but they can
be older.
Additionally, a report issued by the Jerusalem
Foundation International in Lebanon on Tuesday explained that the extremist
Temple groups rely on establishing the purification ritual with the red heifer
to enable hundreds of thousands of religious Jews to enter the Al-Aqsa Mosque,
who currently refrain from doing so out of adherence to the official rabbinic
prohibition.
The foundation stated, "This - if it
happens - would effectively open the way to multiplying the dangers surrounding
Al-Aqsa and increasing the number of intruders and participants in imposing
rituals therein."
The Temple Institute had published an
announcement last February calling for volunteer priests to be trained in the
rituals of purification with the red heifer. It set special conditions for the
volunteers, and this process is supposed to take place on a piece of land
seized by these groups for this purpose on the Mount of Olives opposite the
Al-Aqsa Mosque.
It is worth mentioning that the date recorded
in the sacred religious texts of these groups for the slaughter of the red
heifer and the purification falls on April 10, the day of Eid al-Fitr.
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