The reenactment will take place next Monday, just four days before the prescribed time of the Paschal Offering. Event organizers say they want to offer a taste of an exciting, authentic Jewish experience, "with its smells, sounds, and colors that have been lost to us these 2000 years, and to thus arouse a longing to renew this Temple ritual in our day." ...Some people have said that the Palestinians are wrong to worry about a Third Temple. I very much agree that it is at present a most unlikely eventuality. But unfortunately there are some Israeli Jews who wish for and openly call for such a thing. And as long as these hardliner Third Temple Jews insist on keeping this dream of theirs alive disregarding everybody else this issue will be a constant thorn in relations between Israelis and Palestinians.
Finally, there will be a procession with the sheep simulating the Passover pilgrimage to the Temple Mount as in the time of the Holy Temple, culminating in an exact reenactment of the Paschal Sacrifice, including the slaughtering of a lamb and the ritual offering of its blood and fats on a model altar by actual Cohanim [priests] dressed in authentic priestly garments.
I dearly hope nothing bad happens, unlike what happened in 1990.
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