I find it just a little creepy. Calling on a foreign leader to make Jerusalem great again?
Being appreciative for the relationship we have with Israel is one thing but looking to our president to change their own country,.....no.
Build the Temple.............
Jewish Mystics Hope Trump’s Israel Visit Might ‘Raise The Temple’
By Sam KestenbaumMay 22, 2017Getty Images
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https://forward.com/news/372256/for-jewish-mystics-trumps-israel-visit-part-of-messianic-process/Donald Trump’s transformation from real estate mogul and reality TV star to president reads like a strange American fairytale. Dogged by controversy, with no political experience, Trump is now the most powerful person in the world.
To some, his triumph was so unlikely that there was only one way to explain in — God played a part.
Some mystically-inclined Jews see Trump as a sort of divine instrument. Within Israel’s controversial Temple Mount movement, which seeks to build the Third Temple in the center of Jerusalem’s Old City, Trump has found vocal advocates who see him not simply as a political ally, but as something more.
“President Trump can choose to be a part of a process to bring the Messiah,†Rabbi Hillel Weiss told Breaking Israel News, a religious website in Israel.
Now, with Trump’s visit to Israel Monday, members of the Temple Mount movement are hoping that Trump will endorse their project.
“We hope that you will decide to go up to the Temple Mount,†read a public letter from a group of rabbis known as the Sanhedrin. The group is a self-styled duplicate of the tribunal that convened during the time of the Second Temple.
If you seek world peace, the rabbis’ letter goes on, there is only one way to do this: “declare the raising up of the Temple.â€
Of course, this is unlikely to happen, but during the campaign, Trump enjoyed popularity in white evangelical and some Orthodox Jewish circles — where his rise was cast in religious terms. Some even compared Trump to the biblical King Cyrus, referred to in Isaiah as God’s “anointed one,†who — though not Jewish — served the Hebrew God and aided the Jewish people. Trump was a decidedly non-religious candidate, the thinking goes, but one who was seen as still serving the interests of Americans on the religious right.
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