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.

Many of those Jews or their decendants were massacred by the goyim because they opted for not returning to the Land when they had the chance.

Another clear and pertinent example of this mindset is the commandment to rebuild the Holy Temple in Jerusalem. In this case, the belief was that not only will Ha-Shem rebuild the Temple, but He will throw it down from the heavens, fully built!

Obviously, this is a ridiculous concept that defies the very foundations of Judasim, yet it has become a widely accepted belief amongst Jews.

One must wonder why these same Jews who believe in Temples falling from heaven, expend energy in putting on Tefillin or a Tallit, for if Ha-Shem wanted them to do so He could just put them on for him.

It is apparent that because of beliefs like these, the Rambam felt the need to write the Yad HaChazaka and the Sefer Mitzvot. By defining the commandment to build the Temple as an obligation for all generations, he hoped that when the time comes, we will rebuild the Temple and not alleviate ourselves from the commandment.

The Rambam went one step further and declared in several different works that anyone who believes that a single commandment of the Torah no longer applies is a heretic.

Despite his effort, we see today from the lack of effort or plan to rebuild the Temple by the Rabbinate or the religious camp as a whole, that the Rambam was unable to eradicate the false and heretic beliefs that developed from the exile.

If anyone doubts what I have written, they can go to the Western Wall plaza and just start asking the people around them, why aren't we rebuilding the Temple. I can guarantee them that the answers will range from we're not allowed till a prophet tells us to the Temple will fall from heaven.

Unfortunately, if the expulsion of Jews from Sinai, Gaza and the Shomron wasn't enough to wake them up from their false beleifs, then probably only a catastrophy of a greater magnitude will do the job.

In the meantime, we continue to spread the word and hope that we'll wake up the right people.