Caption transcript for “Temple Plans”

• 00:15 BRETHREN, MY HEART'S DESIRE AND PRAYER TO GOD FOR ISRAEL IS THAT THEY MIGHT BE SAVED,
• 00:23 FOR THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE JEW AND THE GREEK
• 00:26 FOR THE SAME LORD OVER ALL IS RICH UNTO ALL THAT CALL UPON HIM.
• 00:38 WITH DR. JEFFREY SEIF
• 00:42 HEARTY SHALOM TO ALL OF YOU.
• 00:45 JEFFREY SEIF HERE PLEASED TO WELCOME YOU TO ANOTHER EDITION OF ZOLA LEVITT PRESENTS.
• 00:53 I AM THRILLED THAT YOU'RE WATCHING.
• 00:57 IN FACT WHEN I WAS AT MITZPE, YERICHO
• 01:01 WHERE THERE'S A COMMUNITY THAT'S REBUILDING AN ASPECT OF THE TEMPLE
• 01:07 IN ORDER TO PREPARE PRIESTS FOR OFFERING SACRIFICES THEREIN
• 01:12 I WAS AMAZED.
• 01:15 YOU'RE GONNA BE AMAZED TOO AS YOU VISIT WITH A RABBI AND OTHERS
• 01:20 THAT WILL GIVE US A WINDOW INTO CUTTING EDGE PROPHETIC EVENTS IN ISRAEL TODAY.
• 01:28 OH THERE'S AN INTEREST IN THE REMANUFACTURE OF THE TEMPLE ON TOP OF JERUSALEM SO MUCH SO
• 01:35 THERE'S AN ORGANIZATION THAT'S BENT ON HAVING A MODEL OF THE TEMPLE IN EVERY JEWISH HOME.
• 01:41 WE'RE GOING TO MEET THOSE PEOPLE AND MORE.
• 01:44 OFF WE GO FOR 30 MINUTES OF TELEVISION THAT YOU'RE GOING TO SAY IS INDEED WORTH WATCHING.
• 01:53 (Interpreter) WE'RE BUILDING OVER HERE
• 01:57 A REPLICA OF THE TEMPLE
• 01:59 OF THE ALTAR IN THE TEMPLE
• 02:02 WHICH WILL SERVE AS A SCHOOL FOR KOHANIM AND LEVITES,
• 02:06 THE PRIESTS AND LEVITES WHO WORKED IN THE TEMPLE IN ORDER TO PREPARE THEM
• 02:09 FOR WORK IN THE TEMPLE SERVICE IN JERUSALEM.
• 02:13 (speaking hebrew)
• 02:21 (Interpreter) OF COURSE IT STATES THAT THE RABBI IS A BLESSED MEMORY
• 02:24 TO TEACH US THAT THERE WAS ALWAYS A CONNECTION
• 02:26 BETWEEN JERICHO AND THE TEMPLE IN JERUSALEM.
• 02:29 MANY ASPECTS OF THE TEMPLE SERVICE COULD ACTUALLY BE HEARD IN JERICHO ITSELF.
• 02:34 SO IT SEEMS THAT THE ATMOSPHERE HERE IN MITZVE, YERICHO
• 02:38 IS AN ATMOSPHERE WHICH GIVES THE INSPIRATION
• 02:41 IN ORDER TO TAKE UPON A PROJECT SUCH AS THIS.
• 02:47 (speaking hebrew)
• 02:53 (Interpreter) AND RABBI POINTS OUT THAT ISAIAH THE PROPHET TEACHES US
• 02:55 THAT THE TEMPLE IS NOT
• 02:56 JUST A TEMPLE
• 02:58 JUST FOR THE JEWISH PEOPLE
• 02:59 BUT FOR THE ENTIRE WORLD...
• 03:01 IT'S FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE ENTIRE WORLD.
• 03:02 AND THE MESSAGE THAT HAS TO GO OUT IS THAT THIS PROJECT OVER HERE HAS IMPORTANCE
• 03:06 NOT ONLY TO THE JEWS LIVING IN THE LAND OF ISRAEL
• 03:09 BUT TO THE ENTIRE WORLD.
• 03:14 A LOOK AT BIBLE TEACHING AS AN EFFECT BRINGING AN OLD STORY TO LIFE
• 03:19 PUTTING JEWISH EYES ON THE BIBLICAL DRAMA
• 03:22 AND TELLING THE STORY AFRESH.
• 03:25 IT'S COMING OUT OF THE EARTH IN ISRAEL TODAY
• 03:27 AS PEOPLE ARE DIGGING UP THE PAST.
• 03:29 I'M THRILLED TO GO THERE
• 03:30 AND YOU'RE GOING TO GO WITH ME THERE AND NOT WITH ME ALONE.
• 03:34 DAVID DOLAN IS GOING TO INTERVIEW AN ARCHAEOLOGIST
• 03:39 RIGHT ON THE SITE WHERE THEY'RE PULLING TREASURES OUT OF THE EARTH.
• 03:43 WHETHER IT'S THE TEMPLE IN ONE PART OF JERUSALEM
• 03:47 OR OTHER ANTIQUITIES IN OTHERS
• 03:48 IT'S ALL ABOUT A NATION BEING REBORN
• 03:51 AND THE REBIRTH OF A STORY...
• 03:53 A BIBLE STORY THAT WE ARE PLEASED TO BRING TO YOU AFRESH.
• 04:01 IN THE GOSPELS
• 04:02 JESUS IS ON RECORD SAYING
• 04:03 THAT THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS LIKE
• 04:05 SOMEONE WHO STUMBLED UPON TREASURE IN A FIELD
• 04:08 WHO WENT AND COVIED UP THE TREASURE,
• 04:10 PURCHASED THE FIELD
• 04:12 AND THEN LAID CLAIM TO IT.
• 04:15 AND SPEAKING OF TREASURE IN A FIELD
• 04:17 IT'S SO MUCH THE CASE IN ISRAEL TODAY
• 04:19 WHERE YOU CAN JUST PUT A SHOVEL IN THE GROUND
• 04:21 AND PRESTO YOU'RE DIGGING UP HISTORY
• 04:23 AND THIS IS VERY MUCH THE CASE HERE RIGHT OUTSIDE OF THE CROWN PLAZA HOTEL
• 04:28 WHERE THEY WERE WORKING AT EXPANSION
• 04:30 AND BINGO ALL OF A SUDDEN THEY HAVE QUITE THE PAYLOAD.
• 04:33 BEHIND ME...SEVENTY OR SO INDIVIDUALS THAT ARE WORKING INDEFATIGABLY
• 04:37 TO UNCOVER A SITE THAT GOES BACK GENERATIONS BEFORE JESUS' ERA AND THEN DURING.
• 04:43 IT'S REALLY QUITE FASCINATING.
• 04:46 IT'S A PLEASURE FOR ME TO BE ABLE TO TAKE YOU HERE
• 04:49 AND ALL KINDS OF PLACES IN ISRAEL THAT WE THINK REALLY ARE ON THE CUTTING EDGE.
• 04:56 AND WHAT DO I MEAN BY THAT?
• 04:58 LIFE IS DYNAMIC IF IT'S BEING LIVED...IT'S NOT STATIC.
• 05:03 PEOPLE KIND OF INSTITUTIONALIZE AND CRYSTALLIZE
• 05:06 BUT WE'VE GOT TO KEEP PUSHING BACK THE BOUNDARIES OF KNOWLEDGE AND LIVING
• 05:10 AND GROWING AND LEARNING AND BEING
• 05:12 AND IT'S ALL PART OF THE GAME OF AUTHENTIC LIVING.
• 05:15 AT ZOLA LEVITT MINISTRIES WE'RE ALL ABOUT TRYING TO BE AT THAT CUTTING EDGE
• 05:20 AND LITERALLY THE CUTTING EDGE HERE IS ON EVERY SPADE
• 05:23 THAT'S GOING INTO THE GROUND AS I SPEAK
• 05:26 AS PEOPLE ARE LABORING TO BRING TO LIFE THE STORY OF BYGONE ERAS...
• 05:32 STORIES THAT DOVETAIL WITH BIBLICAL STORY
• 05:35 AND PROVE UP THE FACT THAT THE SCRIPTURE IS A BELIEVABLE SOURCE.
• 05:39 AND HERE WE ARE LABORING TO TELL THAT STORY IN DIFFERENT WAYS
• 05:43 AND ON THIS DAY HERE IN JERUSALEM
• 05:46 WE'RE DIGGING UP COINS AND POTS
• 05:48 ALL OF WHICH ARE PUZZLE PIECES THAT FILL IN THE STORY OF THE BIBLICAL DRAMA.
• 05:54 LET ME SAY BEFORE I BREAK AWAY...
• 05:56 THANK YOU FOR SENDING ME TO DO THAT WORK.
• 06:00 YOU'RE IN YOUR HOME RIGHT NOW WATCHING CHRISTIAN TELEVISION
• 06:02 CAUSE YOU'RE INTERESTED IN A BIBLICAL VIEW OF ISRAEL
• 06:06 THAT TAKES YOU THERE RIGHT ON THE GROUND
• 06:09 AND YOUR DONATIONS HELP US TO DO THIS...
• 06:11 THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU...
• 06:12 WE APPRECIATE THE GIFTS.
• 06:14 SPEAKING OF GIFTS...
• 06:16 PLENTY GIFTS HERE THAT ARE BEING UNCOVERED ON AN HOURLY BASIS IN JERUSALEM.
• 06:25 YOU'RE AN ARCHAEOLOGIST
• 06:26 WORKING HERE IN JERUSALEM
• 06:27 CONNECTED TO THE GOVERNMENT.
• 06:28 TELL US A BIT MORE
• 06:29 ABOUT YOUR POSITION.
• 06:31 THE ISRAEL ANTIQUITIES AUTHORITIES,
• 06:32 THE STATUTORY GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION
• 06:35 INVOLVED IN THE PROTECTION OF ANTIQUITIES
• 06:37 IN THE STATE OF ISRAEL.
• 06:38 MY WORK IS INVOLVED WITH THE PROTECTION
• 06:40 OF ANTIQUITIES IN JERUSALEM ITSELF
• 06:42 WORKING WITH THE PLANNERS
• 06:44 TO MAKE SURE THAT AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE
• 06:46 BUILDINGS ARE BUILT IN SUCH A WAY
• 06:48 TO REDUCE THE AMOUNT OF DAMAGE TO ANTIQUITIES
• 06:51 AND ALSO TO DISPLAY THE ANTIQUITY SITES
• 06:53 FOR OURSELVES AS SCIENTISTS,
• 06:55 AS ARCHAEOLOGISTS
• 06:56 AND ALSO FOR THE PUBLIC.
• 06:57 SO THOSE ARE THE CENTRAL ASPECTS OF MY WORK.
• 07:00 WE'RE SITTING HERE IN A DIG OBVIOUSLY...
• 07:02 IT'S AT THE BASE OF ONE OF JERUSALEM'S LARGEST HOTELS,
• 07:05 THE CROWN PLAZA.
• 07:07 IS IT MANDATORY FOR SUCH A DIG TO TAKE PLACE?
• 07:10 THEY'RE BUILDING A PARKING LOT I UNDERSTAND.
• 07:13 YES EVERY PERSON WHO WANTS TO BUILD A NEW BUILDING
• 07:15 HAS TO GET PERMISSION OF THE ANTIQUITIES AUTHORITY WITHIN THE CITY OF JERUSALEM.
• 07:18 JERUSALEM OBVIOUSLY IS AN ANCIENT CITY THOUSANDS OF YEARS OLD
• 07:22 AND SO ALMOST EVERY PLACE YOU EXCAVATE TO WORK OVER HERE
• 07:26 YOU CAN EXPECT THAT YOU WILL FIND ANTIQUITIES.
• 07:28 SO EVERY PLANNER WHO WANTS TO BUILD OVER HERE
• 07:30 FIRST OF ALL COMES TO THE ANTIQUITIES AUTHORITY,
• 07:32 GETS OUR COMMENTS
• 07:33 AND THEN INCLUDES THE ASPECTS OF THE ANTIQUITIES
• 07:37 WITHIN HIS PLANNING OF THE BUILDING.
• 07:39 IN THIS CASE THE PLAN IS TO BUILD A HUGE CAR PARK OVER HERE
• 07:43 AND AS THEY WERE WORKING THEY CAME ACROSS THESE FINDS
• 07:46 FINDS WE HAD A GOOD IDEA THEY WERE HERE IN THE FIRST PLACE.
• 07:49 WE'RE NOW SITTING INSIDE A KILN,
• 07:52 A POTTERY KILN FROM THE HELLENISTIC PERIOD
• 07:57 FROM THE SECOND CENTURY B.C.
• 07:59 ACTUALLY IN THIS AREA OF JERUSALEM WAS USED
• 08:02 IN THE PAST FOR THE PRODUCTION OF CERAMIC VESSELS.
• 08:06 OVER HERE WE HAVE CERAMIC VESSELS FROM THE HERODIAN PERIOD,
• 08:10 FROM THE FIRST AND SECOND TEMPLES.
• 08:13 AND ALSO WE HAVE FINDS OVER HERE
• 08:15 WHICH ARE DATED TO THE TIMES OF THE ROMAN LEGION IN JERUSALEM.
• 08:18 THIS IS THE PLACE WHERE THE LOGISTICAL CAMP OF THE ROMAN LEGION WAS LOCATED
• 08:21 AND HERE THEY MADE THE CERAMICS FOR THE ARMY
• 08:24 DURING THEIR TIME IN JERUSALEM
• 08:26 FROM THE FIRST CENTURY RIGHT UP UNTIL THE FOURTH CENTURY.
• 08:30 THE PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY GOES SO FAR AS TO SAY
• 08:34 THAT THERE IS NO EVIDENCE THAT THERE WAS A JEWISH TEMPLE EVER
• 08:38 ON WHAT WE CALL THE TEMPLE MOUNT
• 08:40 IN THE CENTER OF THE OLD CITY OF JERUSALEM.
• 08:43 THERE IS PROOF ISN'T THERE?
• 08:45 YOU FOUND A LOT OF THAT.
• 08:48 WELL OF COURSE THE TEMPLE MOUNT ITSELF
• 08:49 HAS NEVER BEEN EXCAVATED
• 08:51 AND SO DIRECT ARCHAEOLOGICAL PROOF FROM WITHIN THE TEMPLE
• 08:53 IS SOMETHING WE ONLY WOULD ACCOUNT
• 08:56 IF ARCHAEOLOGY WERE ACTUALLY AVAILABLE TO US.
• 08:59 BUT ON THE OTHER HAND
• 09:01 IN THE AREAS AROUND THE TEMPLE MOUNT
• 09:02 THERE IS VERY, VERY CLEAR EVIDENCE OF THE TEMPLE MOUNT ITSELF
• 09:05 AND OF THE TEMPLE
• 09:07 FROM THE SIGNS THAT WERE PLACED DURING THE TIME OF HEROD
• 09:09 TO PREVENT THE ENTRY OF THE GENTILES INTO THE TEMPLE MOUNT ITSELF,
• 09:13 SIGNS WHICH WE FOUND DURING ARCHAEOLOGICALLY EXCAVATIONS IN THE PAST
• 09:17 WHICH THE FINDS THAT WERE EXCAVATED
• 09:19 BY THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY TO THE SOUTH AND TO THE WEST OF THE TEMPLE SITES FOR EXAMPLE
• 09:25 INCLUDING THE ANCIENT RITUAL BATHS THAT PEOPLE USED FOR GOING OUT TO THE TEMPLE MOUNT,
• 09:30 INSCRIPTIONS ANNOUNCING THAT THIS IS THE PLACE OF TRUMPETING
• 09:34 WHICH IS AN IMPORTANT INSCRIPTION
• 09:37 AND ALTOGETHER THE WHOLE FRAMEWORK OF THE TEMPLE MOUNT ITSELF,
• 09:39 THE OUTER WALLS WHICH FALL DIRECTLY INTO THE LITERARY SOURCES YOU HAVE FROM THE PERIOD.
• 09:43 THERE IS NO QUESTION THAT THIS WAS THE TEMPLE MOUNT
• 09:46 AND THERE IS NO QUESTION THAT THE TEMPLE WAS THERE
• 09:49 AND OF COURSE THE CLAIMS TO THE OPPOSITE ARE JUST POLITICALLY BASED CLAIMS,
• 09:53 NOT BASED ON AN ACADEMICALLY OR SCIENTIFICALLY BASED THEORY
• 09:57 BUT BECAUSE OF THE PHYSICAL IMPACT THAT THEY HAVE.
• 10:04 (Jeff speaking) DESPITE THE DIFFICULTIES AT THE TEMPLE MOUNT
• 10:07 ARCHAEOLOGY THRIVES AT THE NEARBY CITY OF DAVID
• 10:12 WHERE THE POOL OF SILOAM HAS RECENTLY BEEN UNEARTHED
• 10:16 WHICH WILL BE THE SUBJECT OF ONE OF OUR UPCOMING PROGRAMS.
• 10:20 THE PURPOSE OF ARCHAEOLOGY OF COURSE IS TO PIECE TOGETHER THE PUZZLING PAST.
• 10:26 NOT FAR FROM THE CONTENTIOUS TEMPLE MOUNT
• 10:29 THE PIECES OF ANOTHER KIND OF PUZZLE HAVE COME TOGETHER
• 10:33 AT THE MAMILLA SHOPPING CENTER.
• 10:38 WE'RE JUST OUT SIDE OF THE OLD CITY OF JERUSALEM
• 10:40 IN WHAT USED TO BE A VERY, VERY, VERY DANGEROUS PART OF TOWN.
• 10:46 IN FACT AS ISRAELIS MADE THEIR WAY AROUND HERE IN WHAT WAS CALLED MILA,
• 10:51 A JORDANIAN SNIPER FIRED AWAY.
• 10:55 AND SO ONCE UPON A TIME THIS WAS NOT THE PLACE TO BE.
• 10:59 THAT WAS THEN BUT THIS IS NOW.
• 11:02 WHEN THIS AREA WAS REBUILT
• 11:05 INDIVIDUALS TOOK SUCH PAINS TO TRY AND COMBINE THE OLD WITH THE NEW,
• 11:09 IN FACT THAT'S WHY WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE STONES THEY'RE NUMBERED AROUND HERE...AND WHY IS THAT?
• 11:14 BECAUSE WHEN THEY BUILT UP THIS PALATIAL, SPACIOUS MALL
• 11:18 THEY WANTED TO MAKE SURE AND RECONSTRUCT THE STONES FROM THE PREVIOUS ERA
• 11:24 GOING BACK WELL OVER A HUNDRED YEARS.
• 11:26 AND SO WE SEE IN THIS SHOP AND OTHERS LIKE IT,
• 11:29 STILL IT'S SO VERY NEW IT'S JUST COME BACK UP...
• 11:32 YOU CAN STILL THE NUMBERING OF THE STONES.
• 11:35 IT'S KIND OF LIKE A PUZZLE THE WAY THEY PUT IT ALL TOGETHER AGAIN.
• 11:38 ONE OF THE THINGS THAT'S BEAUTIFUL ABOUT ISRAEL,
• 11:41 AND THERE ARE A NUMBER OF THINGS THAT ARE BEAUTIFUL ABOUT ISRAEL,
• 11:43 IT'S A VIBRANT CULTURE
• 11:45 AND THERE'S THIS PENSION FOR COMBINING THE OLD WITH THE NEW.
• 11:50 AND NEW IT IS.
• 11:52 YOU CAN SEE THAT WE'RE NOW AT A PLACE THAT'S REALLY QUITE UPSCALE
• 11:55 AS ISRAELIS, AS VISITORS TO THE COUNTRY ROUND ABOUT COME HERE AND SHOP.
• 12:01 AND OH WE'RE THRILLED THAT THE CROWDS ARE COMING.
• 12:06 YOU MIGHT WANT TO CONSIDER JOINING PILGRIMS AS WELL
• 12:08 AND COME HERE AND EXPERIENCE ISRAEL, THE OLD AND THE NEW.
• 12:14 THERE REALLY IS SOMETHING HERE FOR YOU.
• 12:17 ISRAEL IS SO VERY MYSTERIOUS.
• 12:19 IT HAS BEEN BECKONING PEOPLE FOR MILLENNIA.
• 12:24 I KNOW THAT AS I'VE BEEN COMING HERE
• 12:27 IT'S SUCH A THRILL TO SEE AREAS RESURRECT
• 12:31 AND THIS IS ONE OF THEM NOW
• 12:33 WHERE WE HAVE THE OLD AND THE NEW,
• 12:35 THE MODERN AND THE ANCIENT
• 12:37 ALL COMING TOGETHER IN THE MIRACLE THAT IS ISRAEL.
• 12:50 FOR INSIGHTFUL PERSPECTIVES OF ISRAEL AND BIBLE PROPHECY
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• 13:02 OUR CORRESPONDENCE COURSE, "THE INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH CHRISTIAN STUDIES" INCLUDES
• 13:07 READING PACKETS, TEACHINGS CDs, AND MAIL-IN TESTS.
• 13:10 YOU MAY WANT TO JOIN US ON AN UPCOMING TOUR OF ISRAEL OR PETRA
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• 13:17 PLEASE CONTACT US FOR MORE INFORMATION.
• 13:20 WOULD YOU SAY THAT EVERYBODY AND ANYBODY
• 13:23 THAT WANTS TO MAKE THE TRIP TO ISRAEL SHOULD DO SO?
• 13:25 YES, IT IS WORTH THE TRIP.
• 13:27 IT IS WORTH THE TIME.
• 13:29 IT IS WORTH THE MONEY.
• 13:31 YOU SAY THIS WITH PASSION.
• 13:32 OH I TELL YOU
• 13:34 I'M SO HAPPY THAT I CAME.
• 13:36 IT'S JUST SUCH A PRIVILEGE
• 13:38 TO BE ABLE TO COME
• 13:41 WHERE OUR LORD WAS BORN AND CRUCIFIED
• 13:44 AND WAS RISEN.
• 13:50 I DON'T KNOW WHETHER IT'S BECAUSE I'M JEWISH BY BIRTH,
• 13:54 A FOLLOWER OF YESHUA, JESUS, BY REBIRTH...
• 13:58 I KNOW NOT THE REASON.
• 13:59 ALL I KNOW IS THAT THERE'S PART OF ME THAT ORIENTS TO JERUSALEM
• 14:05 AND THE TEMPLE MOUNT.
• 14:06 WHEN I GO...I GO THERE TO THE WESTERN WALL AND PRAY.
• 14:11 THERE'S SO MANY PRAYERS THAT ARE DIRECTED TOWARDS JERUSALEM.
• 14:14 THERE'S SPECIAL THINGS THAT ARE EMERGING TODAY.
• 14:18 IF YOU'D LIKE TO PARTICIPATE IN THE MIRACLE THAT IS ISRAEL TODAY
• 14:22 BY ALL MEANS COME WITH US.
• 14:24 CALL 1-800-WONDERS
• 14:28 GET THE BALL ROLLING
• 14:30 DON'T JUST SEE JERUSALEM WITH ME
• 14:32 BREATHE THE AIR THERE.
• 14:36 INTERESTING THINGS ARE HAPPENING THERE.
• 14:39 THE OFFER IN OUR PROGRAM TODAY WILL BE A SERIES THAT THE LATE ZOLA LEVITT DID
• 14:44 CALLED "THE TEMPLE".
• 14:47 OH YOU NEED TO BE ABREAST OF WHAT'S HAPPENING
• 14:50 AND WE WANT TO TAKE YOU THERE.
• 14:53 IF YOU CAN'T TRAVEL...SEE.
• 14:55 YOU CAN CALL 1-800-WONDERS
• 14:58 AND YOU CAN ORDER "THE TEMPLE" WITH THE LATE ZOLA LEVITT.
• 15:02 SIMILARLY WE HAVE BOOKS THAT I'VE WRITTEN, ZOLA AND OTHERS
• 15:07 THAT WE COMMEND TO YOU WHEN YOU CALL 1-800-WONDERS
• 15:10 YOU CAN ASK FOR OUR CATALOG.
• 15:12 NOT ONLY THAT
• 15:13 WE HAVE A MAGAZINE THAT WE SEND OUT TO YOU MONTHLY.
• 15:17 IT'S YOURS FOR THE ASKING.
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• 15:30 AND WE LIKE TO BRING YOU GREAT INTERVIEWS THAT WILL IMPRINT INTO YOUR CEREBRAL CORTEX.
• 15:37 IMAGES THAT YOU WON'T LONG FORGET...
• 15:41 THEY'LL ABIDE WITH YOU FOR THE LONGEST.
• 15:44 THIS NEXT ONE COMING UP IS A FOLLOW UP TO OUR INITIAL INTERVIEW ON THIS PROGRAM.
• 15:49 YOU'RE GOING TO BE AMAZED WHAT'S HAPPENING IN AND AROUND JERUSALEM
• 15:55 AS PRIESTS ARE GEARING UP TO TRAIN UP GENERATIONS OF PRIESTS
• 16:00 THAT THEY MIGHT LEARN HOW TO OFFICIATE SACRIFICES IN A REBUILT TEMPLE.
• 16:10 THIS IS ONE OF THE MORE FASCINATING INTERVIEWS I'VE HAD OPPORTUNITY TO BE ENGAGED IN YEARS.
• 16:16 I'M HERE WITH LEVI CHAZAN AT A FAMOUS PLACE.
• 16:20 HOW ARE YOU DOING MR. CHAZAN?
• 16:22 VERY WELL THANK YOU.
• 16:23 CAN YOU TELL US WHERE WE ARE
• 16:25 AND WHAT YOU'RE DOING HERE?
• 16:27 OKAY,
• 16:28 WE'RE LOCATED ABOUT 20 MINUTES
• 16:29 OUT OF JERUSALEM
• 16:30 IN A SETTLEMENT CALLED "MIZPAH JERICHO"
• 16:33 WHICH IS RIGHT OUTSIDE OF JERICHO, OVERLOOKS JERICHO.
• 16:37 AND WHAT WE HAVE ESTABLISHED OVER HERE
• 16:41 AND WHAT WILL BE ON ITS PREMISES
• 16:42 IS A FIELD SCHOOL
• 16:44 THAT IS GOING TO BE THE PREPARATIONS
• 16:47 FOR THE BEGINNING OF THE THIRD TEMPLE.
• 16:49 IN THIS FIELD SCHOOL IT IS VERY UNIQUE.
• 16:51 WE WILL TRAIN PRIESTS AND KOHANIM, LEVITES,
• 16:55 IN ORDER TO PARTICIPATE IN THEIR WORK IN THE TEMPLE SERVICE IN JERUSALEM.
• 17:00 NOW I THINK THIS IS A FASCINATING STORY.
• 17:02 YOU LIVE IT AND BREATHE IT
• 17:04 AND PARTICIPATE IN IT DAY AFTER DAY.
• 17:07 SO IT'S JUST...
• 17:09 I'M NOT SAYING IT'S PEDESTRIAN OR MUNDANE,
• 17:11 IT CERTAINLY ISN'T,
• 17:12 BUT TO THINK FOR A MOMENT...
• 17:14 THERE'S A VISION TO RE-GATHER THE PRIESTHOOD,
• 17:17 TO BUILD A SCHOOL, TO TRAIN, TO PREPARE FOR SACRIFICES...
• 17:21 THAT'S INCREDIBLE.
• 17:23 YOU HAVE TO REALIZE
• 17:24 THAT THE JEWISH PEOPLE HAVE BEEN OUT OF TOUCH FOR THE LAST 2,000 YEARS,
• 17:28 NOT ONLY SEPARATED FROM THEIR LAND,
• 17:30 BUT SEPARATED FROM THEIR SERVICE.
• 17:32 AND A GREAT ASPECT OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE'S SERVICE,
• 17:36 WHICH IS LISTED IN THE BIBLE,
• 17:37 IS THE SERVICE WHICH TOOK PLACE IN THE TEMPLE IN JERUSALEM.
• 17:41 IT WAS A MAIN, MAIN PART OF THE JEWISH PEOPLES LIVES,
• 17:44 THEIR CYCLE, THEIR HOLIDAYS WHENEVER IT WAS,
• 17:47 EVERYTHING CENTERED AROUND THE TEMPLE IN JERUSALEM.
• 17:50 JEWISH PEOPLE HAVE BEEN OUT OF TOUCH WITH THAT.
• 17:53 THEY'VE BEEN AWAY FROM THAT...
• 17:55 THEY'VE BEEN REMOVED FROM ANYTHING REMOTELY RESEMBLING ANY TYPE OF SERVICE IN THE TEMPLE
• 18:01 AND WHAT WE'RE DOING OVER HERE
• 18:02 IS TO GET THEM RENEWED WITH THIS WORK,
• 18:06 TO PREPARE THEM IN ORDER TO TEACH THEM
• 18:08 ALL THE ASPECTS OF THE TEMPLE SERVICE ITSELF,
• 18:12 WHAT THEY HAVE TO DO,
• 18:12 WHERE THEY HAVE TO GO
• 18:14 AND WE ARE PLANNING HERE TO RAISE A GENERATION OF PRIESTS AND LEVITES
• 18:19 THAT WILL BE ABLE WHEN THE TIME COMES
• 18:21 TO WORK IN THE TEMPLE SERVICE IN JERUSALEM.
• 18:24 MR. CHAZAN, WHAT ARE THE LINES HERE ALL ABOUT
• 18:26 AND WHAT'S UP WITH THE STONES?
• 18:28 WELL THIS IS ACTUALLY WHERE THE GROUND BREAKING WAS DONE A FEW DAYS AGO.
• 18:34 AND THIS IS BASICALLY THE BASE OF THE ALTAR ITSELF.
• 18:37 THE FIRST STAGE OF THE FIELD SCHOOL IS TO BUILD THE ALTAR.
• 18:41 THAT'S THE MOST IMPORTANT ASPECT OF THE FIELD SCHOOL.
• 18:43 AND WHAT YOU SEE OVER HERE IS THE LINE MARKINGS,
• 18:46 IS EXACTLY WHERE THE SITE OF THE ALTAR WILL BE.
• 18:49 AND SO WHAT WE'VE DONE OVER HERE
• 18:50 IS STARTED CONSTRUCTION ON THE ALTAR
• 18:53 AND THAT'S THE PILE THAT YOU CAN SEE OVER THERE WITH THE HOLE AND IS ACTUALLY...
• 18:57 IT'S ACTUALLY VERY HISTORICAL
• 18:59 BECAUSE WHEN KING DAVID FIRST CAME TO JERUSALEM
• 19:02 THE FIRST THING THAT HE DID,
• 19:03 OUR RABBIS OF BLESSED MEMORY TEACH US,
• 19:06 IS THAT HE DUG UNDER THE TEMPLE MOUNT ITSELF
• 19:09 IN ORDER TO ESTABLISH THE OUTLET FOR THE WINE AND WATER LIBATIONS
• 19:15 WHICH WERE POURED ON THE ALTAR.
• 19:17 ON TOP OF THE ALTAR THERE WAS TUNNELS WHICH LED UNDERGROUND
• 19:22 THAT KING DAVID HIMSELF ACTUALLY DUG THOSE TUNNELS OUT IN ORDER TO PREPARE IT.
• 19:24 SO THE FIRST STAGE THAT WE'VE DONE
• 19:26 IS ALSO MADE A HOLE IN THE GROUND
• 19:29 IN ORDER TO PREPARE OUR MODEL OVER HERE FOR THE WINE AND WATER LIBATIONS.
• 19:35 I AM ASTOUNDED.
• 19:37 A COUPLE OF DAYS AGO
• 19:38 THE NEWS CREWS WERE HERE ADVERTISING A STORY...
• 19:40 THERE WAS SOME GROUND BREAKING...
• 19:43 I CAN STILL SEE THE CHALK LINES HERE
• 19:45 WHERE THE MITZBE'ACH,
• 19:46 WHERE THE ALTAR IS GOING TO BE.
• 19:48 FASCINATING!
• 19:50 WHAT DO YOU HAVE HERE?
• 19:51 WE HAVE OVER HERE A MODEL
• 19:53 WHICH IS ONE OF THE PROJECTS OF OUR NON PROFIT ORGANIZATION.
• 19:57 AND OUR GOAL OVER HERE WITH THIS MODEL,
• 19:59 THIS WOODEN MODEL
• 20:01 IS ACTUALLY TO PRODUCE A MODEL WHICH PEOPLE COULD AFFORD.
• 20:05 AND OUR GOAL IS TO HAVE EVERY JEWISH HOME
• 20:07 IS TO HAVE A TEMPLE MODEL IN THERE HOUSE
• 20:09 IN ORDER TO AWAKEN THEIR DESIRE FOR REBUILDING THE TEMPLE
• 20:12 IN ITS PROPER PLACE IN JERUSALEM.
• 20:14 SO THE VISION HERE IS "EVERY HOME"
• 20:16 JUST LIKE THERE'S A SEDAKA BOX AT EVERY SHABBOS TABLE,
• 20:18 TO HAVE RIGHT NEXT TO IT A MODEL OF THE BEIT HAMIKDASH.
• 20:22 THAT'S CORRECT... THAT'S CORRECT.
• 20:23 EVERY HOME TO HAVE A TEMPLE MODEL
• 20:25 AND IN THIS WAY WE HOPE THAT THE JEWS WILL HAVE A DESIRE TO REBUILD THE TEMPLE IN JERUSALEM
• 20:29 WHERE IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE.
• 20:30 WHAT DO YOU HAVE UNDERNEATH IT
• 20:32 IF I CAN HOLD?
• 20:33 SURE...THESE ARE THE BLUEPRINTS OF THE FIELD SCHOOL.
• 20:36 YOU SEE OVER HERE
• 20:38 THIS IS THE HILL THAT'S RIGHT BEHIND US
• 20:41 WITH THE ONE TO ONE SCALE OF THE TEMPLE AND THE ALTAR INSIDE OF IT.
• 20:46 AND WHAT WE'RE BUILDING OVER HERE THE MODEL,
• 20:48 YOU HAVE TO REALIZE,
• 20:49 THIS IS NOT JUST A SMALL VERSION OF IT,
• 20:51 THIS IS ACTUALLY ONE TO ONE SCALE OF THE SAME TEMPLE
• 20:54 WHICH WAS IN JERUSALEM 2,000 YEARS WHICH STOOD THERE.
• 20:59 WE'RE TALKING ABOUT A BUILDING WHICH IS ABOUT 20 STORIES HIGH.
• 21:03 JUST THE ALTAR ITSELF IS 5 METERS AND IT'S A HUMONGOUS TASK,
• 21:08 IT'S AN UNBELIEVABLE TASK TO UNDERTAKE.
• 21:11 AND WE PLAN TO BUILD IT OVER HERE IN THIS MOUNTAIN.
• 21:13 YOU CAN SEE OVER HERE THE BLUEPRINTS FOR THE ALTAR ITSELF.
• 21:16 THIS IS OBVIOUSLY THE MAIN PART OF THE WORK OF THE FIELD SCHOOL
• 21:20 BECAUSE THIS IS WHERE MOST OF THE WORK OF THE PRIESTS TOOK PLACE,
• 21:23 WAS ON THE ALTAR ITSELF.
• 21:26 AND WE ALSO HAVE THE BLUEPRINTS OF THE TEMPLE ITSELF
• 21:30 OF THE FIELD SCHOOL EXACTLY THE WAY IT WAS SITUATED
• 21:34 IN YERUSHALEM IN ITS PROPER PLACE.
• 21:36 THIS IS SURREAL AT ONE LEVEL.
• 21:38 I JUST CAN'T BELIEVE I'M HAVING THIS CONVERSATION WITH YOU
• 21:42 AND I'M LOOKING AT PRELIMINARY SKETCHED DOCUMENTS,
• 21:45 I'M HERE POST GROUND BREAKING FOR A FIELD SCHOOL TO TRAIN KOHANIM FOR SACRIFICES.
• 21:52 IT BLOWS THE MIND!
• 21:55 IT'S INTERESTING THAT YOU SAY THAT
• 21:56 BUT IF YOU WOULD LOOK BACK...
• 21:58 IF WE WOULD HAVE THIS CONVERSATION 100 YEARS AGO
• 22:00 AND WE WOULD BE TALKING THAT JEWS WOULD LIVE JERUSALEM;
• 22:04 JEWS WOULD LIVE IN THE LAND OF ISRAEL,
• 22:05 PEOPLE WOULD ALSO SAY "WELL THAT BLOWS THE MIND"...
• 22:09 THAT'S SOMETHING THAT CAN'T BE BELIEVED.
• 22:11 BUT THE JEWS HAVE RETURNED RIGHT?
• 22:13 WE HAVE A STATE OF OUR OWN NOW...
• 22:15 60 YEARS ALREADY PAST.
• 22:17 THE NEXT NATURAL STEP WITH THE JEWS RETURNING TO ITS LAND AND REBUILDING JERUSALEM
• 22:22 IS ONCE AGAIN GOING TO THE TEMPLE MOUNT AND REBUILDING THE TEMPLE.
• 22:25 IT'S SO CUTTING EDGE...
• 22:29 HOW DO YOU FEEL PERSONALLY?
• 22:31 YOU'RE RIGHT HERE AT THE THRESHOLD OF BREAKING GROUND.
• 22:36 IS THERE SOME KIND OF CALLING FROM GOD TO BE ENGAGED IN THIS KIND OF ENTERPRISE?
• 22:42 YOU KNOW...WE READ THE BIBLE;
• 22:44 WE STUDY ABOUT KING DAVID AND HIS TIME PERIOD.
• 22:47 AND KING DAVID HIMSELF TALKED ABOUT HOW CAN I LIVE IN MY ESTABLISHED HOUSE
• 22:52 WITH THE TEMPLE OF THE LORD IS A TENT.
• 22:56 AND WE SAY TO OURSELVES HOW COULD IT BE THAT HERE WE ARE,
• 22:58 WE ARE IN OUR WELL ESTABLISHED HOUSES TODAY
• 23:00 60 YEARS AFTER THE FACT THE JEWS HAVE RETURNED TO THE LAND
• 23:03 AND WHERE IS THE HOUSE OF GOD TODAY?
• 23:05 WHAT IS BEING DONE TO THE HOUSE OF GOD?
• 23:07 AND WE HAVE NO ANSWER FOR THAT.
• 23:09 SO WE'RE TAKING CONCRETE STEPS
• 23:11 IN ORDER TO ACTUALLY START THE PROCESS OF THE THIRD TEMPLE RIGHT HERE.
• 23:15 THE FIRST JEWS CAME HERE TO ESTABLISH THE LAND
• 23:18 IT WAS ALSO THEY ROLLED UP THEIR SLEEVES AND THEY ROLLED IN THE DIRT,
• 23:21 THEN THEY HAD TO MAKE ROADS AND THEY HAD TO CONSTRUCT HOUSES.
• 23:24 EVERYTHING THAT HAD TO BE DONE WAS DONE
• 23:28 AND ONCE WE HAVE THIS BASE
• 23:30 THE NEXT NATURAL STEP IS REBUILDING OF THE TEMPLE FOR GOD.
• 23:33 I AM REALLY EXCITED.
• 23:36 THANK YOU SO MUCH MR. CHAZAN.
• 23:39 WE'RE GOING TO KEEP ON WITH THIS STORY.
• 23:41 THIS ISN'T JUST SHUTTING DOWN THE CAMERAS NOW AND MOVING.
• 23:44 WE'RE GOING TO REVISIT.
• 23:46 WE'RE HERE AT THE GROUND BREAKING RIGHT HERE;
• 23:48 THE VERY BEGINNING IS THE PIONEERING SPIRIT
• 23:51 THAT'S INVESTED IN BUILDING A FIELD TRAINING SCHOOL TO TRAIN PRIESTS...FASCINATING.
• 23:57 WE'LL BE HEARING MORE ABOUT THIS IN DAYS TO COME.
• 24:04 (Zola playing the piano)
• 25:21 I CAN'T TELL YOU WHAT A THRILL IT IS FOR ME
• 25:25 TO BE ABLE TO INTRODUCE YOU TO SOME REALLY INTERESTING PEOPLE.
• 25:30 IN THIS PROGRAM YOU'VE MET A FEW.
• 25:33 IN FACT I HOPE EVERY TIME YOU TURN ON TO ZOLA LEVITT PRESENTS
• 25:39 YOU'LL DO SO WITH AN EXPECTATION
• 25:41 THAT THIS SEIF GUY IS GOING TO TAKE YOU TO PLACES YOU WOULDN'T NORMALLY SEE,
• 25:46 TO HEAR FROM PEOPLE YOU NORMALLY WOULDN'T LISTEN TO.
• 25:49 IT'S ALL PART OF WHAT WE DO TO BRING THE BIBLE TO LIFE.
• 25:54 OF COURSE YOU'RE THERE IN YOUR LIVING ROOM AND I'M IN MY STUDIO
• 25:57 BUT I HOPE WE'RE CONNECTING A LITTLE BIT.
• 26:00 WE HAVE SO MUCH FOR YOU.
• 26:02 LET ME REMIND YOU...YOU CAN GO TO OUR WEBSITE AT WWW.LEVITT.COM AND GET MORE INFORMATION.
• 26:09 YOU CAN CALL 1-800-WONDERS,
• 26:12 GET MORE INFORMATION ABOUT GOING TO ISRAEL WITH US,
• 26:16 ABOUT SIGNING UP FOR OUR MAGAZINE.
• 26:19 WE WANT TO BUILD A COMMUNITY OF LOVERS OF ISRAEL.
• 26:24 SPEAKING OF COMMUNITY,
• 26:26 DIDN'T YOUR HEART THRILL WITH ME WHEN WE HEARD ABOUT A COMMUNITY BETWEEN JERICHO AND JERUSALEM
• 26:32 WHERE RELIGIOUS JEWISH PEOPLE ARE GEARING UP TO TRAIN UP PEOPLE TO SERVE IN THE TEMPLE.
• 26:40 THAT IS A CUTTING EDGE PROPHETIC STORY
• 26:44 AND WE'RE GOING TO FOLLOW IT.
• 26:45 SPEAKING OF FOLLOWING,
• 26:47 THANK YOU FOR FOLLOWING US.
• 26:49 AND AS YOU GO NOW,
• 26:50 SHA'ALU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM
• 26:54 PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM