{"id":1825,"date":"2009-06-13T05:29:18","date_gmt":"2009-06-13T13:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/?p=1825"},"modified":"2009-06-13T05:29:55","modified_gmt":"2009-06-13T13:29:55","slug":"1825","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/prophecy\/1825\/","title":{"rendered":"Temple Institute Update"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Temple Institute, an Israeli-based group hoping \u201cto build the Holy Temple of G-d on Mount Moriah in Jerusalem<\/strong>\u201d and also to resume sacrifices, recently reported (<\/a>http:\/\/www.templeinstitute.org\/bezichin.htm<\/a>) that it has completed another instrument that it feels its priest(s) will need:<\/p>\n

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” …and you shall make for it a golden crown all around. And you shall make for it a frame a handbreadth [wide] all around, and you shall make a golden crown for its frame all around. And you shall make for it four golden rings, and you shall place the rings on the four corners that are on its four legs. The rings shall be opposite the frame as holders for the poles [with which] to carry the table. And you shall make the poles of acacia wood, and you shall overlay them with gold, and the table shall be carried with them. And you shall make its forms, its spoons, its half pipes, and its supports with which it will be covered; of pure gold you shall make them. And you shall place on the table showbread before Me at all times.”<\/em> Exodus 25:23-30<\/p>\n

The two golden bezichin<\/em> – frankincense vessels, referred to in the above passage from Exodus, as “spoons,” are an essential element of the golden show bread table and the service of the showbread. These two bezichin<\/em> were used to contain the two handfuls of frankincense that the priests were instructed to place upon the showbread table beneath the twelves loaves of lechem hapanim<\/em> – showbread. The twelve loaves were replaced every Shabbat and the loaves that were removed were eaten by the outgoing shift of priests in the Chamber of the Hearth, located along the Temple Courtyard. New loaves were set in their place simultaneously, and with them the two bezichin of fresh frankincense. Our sages tell us that the showbread never grew stale, that it remained hot and fresh, and that even a morsel of the bread was filling and satisfying the priests that ate it…<\/p>\n

The Temple Institute has just completed the creation of two new golden bezichin<\/em> – frankincense vessels. Each vessel, made of 150 grams of 14 carat gold is the result of intensive research, planning and painstaking craftsmanship. The bezichin<\/em>, like all the vessels created by the Temple Institute, are made in strict accordance to the word of Torah, as it has been handed down from generation to generation since its revelation on Mount Sinai. The bezichin, like all the vessels created by the Temple Institute, are intended for use in the Divine service of the Holy Temple, may we merit to rebuild it soon.<\/p>\n