Jewish Day of Mourning Greeted by Palestinian Riots on Jerusalem’s Temple Mount

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Jewish Day of Mourning Greeted by Palestinian Riots on Jerusalem’s Temple Mount

 

Posted by Miriam Elman July 27, 2015 at 8:30am

 

Jews prohibited from prayer at Judaism’s holiest site, and subject to harassment and attack.

 

Yesterday July 26, 2015, Jews worldwide marked Tisha B’Av, an annual fast and day of mourningthat commemorates the destruction of the first and second Temples.

The 37-acre Temple Mount compound (roughly about the size of 15 football stadiums) in Jerusalem’s walled Old City, where the Temples once stood, is Judaism’s most holiest site.

 

The Temple Mount (Har HaBayit) has been the focus of Jewish longing for millennia.

According to Jewish tradition, it’s the location in which God’s “shekhina” (presence) is thought to reside.

 

The area is also considered sacred to Muslims who call it the Haram al-Sharif or Noble Sanctuary, and see it as the third holiest site in Islam. It is commonly considered the “furthermost sanctuary”—the site from which the Prophet Muhammad made his Night Journey to the Throne of God. Today it houses the Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock.