Sha'ar Daltei Ha'Levanon - Permitting the Entry to the Place of the Temple at This Time - Many Important Glosses in ...

Sha'ar Daltei Ha'Levanon - Permitting the Entry to the Place of the Temple at This Time - Many Important Glosses in the Author's Handwriting - Polemic
Sha'ar Daltei Ha'Levanon regarding the question of whether it is allowed to enter the place of the Temple at this time. By Rabbi Yehuda Noah Brawer, "The Rabbi of Baranow". Jerusalem, 1928. Single, rare edition.
Before us is the personal copy of the author, on which he wrote, at the margins, in his pearly handwriting dozens of important glosses, some of them several lines long. The author also corrected errors and added words that had been omitted, which change the meaning of his printed words! An important item for those occupied with the issue of entering the Temple Mount today, an issue preoccupying the most prominent rabbis and the wide public as well. In one of his glosses, the author claims that the ruins into which Rabbi Yossy (Berachot 3) had entered were the ruins of the Temple.

In this composition, the writer calls to permit the entry of Jews to the place of the Temple, despite the halachic problems that arise.
By permitting the entry of Jews, explains the writer, "we will have the right to demand that the place be returned to us and build a synagogue on it".
The author includes words of Hassidism and kabbala. Among others, he cites from the books of his rabbi and teacher, Rabbi Tzadok Ha'Cohen of Lublin, that "the building of the Temple will be done by people before the Messiah comes".
The rabbis of the Land of Israel saw great danger in Rabbi Brawer's approach and when he published the book, it caused fierce objection, around the world in general and in Jerusalem in particular.
Rabbi Yechiel Michel Tukachinsky published a response in the Haredi journal "Ha'Hed". He wrote: "I was surprised that the old rabbi, Reb Yehuda Noah Brawer, dared proposing a Heter regarding such a grave issue before consulting with the prominent rabbis of Jerusalem and that he built a building with no foundations at all and re-established a Halacha with no source at all".
The other rabbis of Jerusalem also attacked the book. Rabbi Tukachinsky recalled (in his above article) that "later, when I saw Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak Ha'Cohen Kook and we discussed Rabbi Brawer's idea, Rabbi Kook told me that he too had ordered him not to dare print his book!"
Added is material about the polemic the book had caused and about its author.

Rabbi Yehuda Noah Brawer (1860-1940) was born in Belzitz near Lublin. He was a disciple of the Rebbe Rabbi Leib Eger of Lublin and of Rabbi Tzadok Ha'Cohen of Lublin. He studied with rabbi David of Kock and Rabbi Schneur Zalman Av Beit Din of Lunlin, author of "Torat Chessed". In 1897 he was appointed the rabbi of Janovtza and a year later, the rabbi of Baranow.
After he immigrated to the Land of Israel, in 1925, he settled in Jerusalem and became one of its most prominent rabbis. He was a permanent guest of Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak Ha'Cohen Kook. He died in Jerusalem on the first of Kislev 1940.
Rabbi Brawer published several books and booklets on the settling of the Land of Israel, the Temple and current halachic matters. His compositions: "Shlom Yerushalayim" (Hilchot Shemita), "Yalkut Pri Etz Hadar" (on preferring the Etrogim of the Land of Israel), "Avnei Ha'Levanon" (the Mitzvah of building the Temple and settling the country), "Melechet Mefarek" on milking on the Sabbath (with an enthusiastic approbation by Rabbi Kook) and "Sha'ar Ha'Mizrach which has not been printed yet.
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