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Encyclopedia > Warren's Gate

Temple Mount cistern No. 30, actually an ancient entrance into the Temple platform known as "Warren's gate", lies about 150 feet into the tunnel. This sealed off entrance has been turned into a small synagogue by Rabbi Yehuda Getz since it is the closest point a Jew can get to the temple assuming the temples were located at the traditional site, under the Dome of the Rock. The Temple Mount (Hebrew: הַר הַבַּיִת (without niqqud: הר הבית), translit. ... Lesko synagogue, Poland A synagogue (Hebrew: בית כנסת ; beit knesset, house of assembly; Yiddish: שול, shul) is a Jewish place of religious worship. ... Rabbi (Classical Hebrew רִבִּי ribbÄ«;; modern Ashkenazi and Israeli רַבִּי rabbÄ«) in Judaism, means teacher, or more literally great one. The word Rabbi is derived from the Hebrew root-word RaV, which in biblical Hebrew means great or distinguished, (in knowledge). In the ancient Judean schools (and among Sefaradim today) the sages...


Warren's gate, with its vaulted 18 foot tunnel behind, has been walled on at the Rabbinical tunnel face by a Jewish wall behind which is an Arab wall - both of recent construction. It seems an underground dispute broke out a few years ago between Jewish explorers inside Warren's gate, and Arab guards who came down to meet them through surface cistern entries. A small underground riot ensued which was only stopped when the Jerusalem police came in to restore the fragile peace of the temple mount. Jerusalem (; Hebrew: Yerushalayim; Arabic: al-Quds, Greek Ιεροσόλυμα), the capital of Israel, is an ancient Middle Eastern city on the watershed between the Mediterranean Sea and the Dead Sea at an elevation of 650-840 meters. ...



 

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