TEMPLE INSTITUTE RELEASE NEW VIDEO TO REFRAME MOURNING PERIOD

MOVING WEDDING VIDEO ABRUPTLY ENDS WITH CALL TO ACTION

RABBI CHAIM RICHMAN: “PREPARATION FOR THE TEMPLE IS NO LONGER A DREAM”

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JERUSALEM (8/8/16)- The Temple Institute has released a new viral video to reframe the current period of national mourning for the Holy Temples. This is the fourth in a series of annual videos that have received millions of views and generated international headlines. The theme of the video is the breaking of a glass at the conclusion of every Jewish wedding. This widespread custom has become synonymous with Jewish weddings, symbolizing a brief interruption from the joyous occasion to remember the destruction of the first and second Holy Temples. Viewers are taken on a journey through the ages with a moving montage of Jewish weddings that abruptly ends with a call to action. The short film entitled “A Time to Build” was released to coincide with both the traditional three-week period of national mourning for the Temple and the recently announced campaign to raise $75,000 for a new school to train Kohanim for the Third Temple.

WATCH: A Time to Build https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZzwQZBea9E&feature=youtu.be

Campaign to fund School for Kohanim: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-world-s-first-institute-for-training-kohanim–3/x/8234483#/

For the last thirty years, the Rabbis and scholars of the Temple Institute have studied all of the ancient texts needed to prepare for the Third Temple, becoming the world authorities on the subject. They have published tens of volumes and recreated over 70 sacred vessels for use in the Third Holy Temple. Establishing a school to train Kohanim signifies a huge step towards the realization of the reestablishment of the Temple service that has been dormant for 2,000 years since the Romans destroyed the Second Holy Temple in 70 CE.

Rabbi Chaim Richman, International Director of the Temple Institute, commented: “Everyone that has ever attended a Jewish wedding knows that we break a glass, but how many internalize the message. The broken glass isn’t supposed to let guests know when to shout Mazaltov, on the contrary it is a catalyst to move people into a new level of consciousness that fuses mourning with celebration – giving hope for a time in which we will finally rebuild the Holy Temple in Jerusalem. Every single bridegroom announces the proclamation that he and his future household will not forget Jerusalem, because it is incumbent on everyone of us, at all times to prepare for the rebuilding of the Holy Temple. With the work of the Temple Institute over the last three decades, preparation for the Temple is no longer a dream, it’s a reality, in which everyone can play a part”.

Photo credit: Temple Institute

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