Through tours, lectures and other educational projects, LaMikdash is bringing the Temple Mount back into the national conciousness of the Jewish people. The organization seeks to educate and energize the Jewish masses to reconnect with their holiest site by bringing them up to the Temple Mount itself.
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Current Temple Mount Issues: Can We Build The Temple Today?
The exile of the Jewish People from the Land of Israel created a belief amongst many Jews that we are no longer obligated to perform many commandments and until Ha-Shem gives us a clear message to restore them, we are even forbidden from doing so. Thus, multitudes of Jews refused to return to the Land of Israel even when resettlement began, because of a belief that Ha-Shem will gather them up on wings of eagles and take them up without them having to take any physical steps to do so.