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prayer calls, which occur five times each day. The leader of
the group, Louis Rabinowitz, wrote to the Post with search-
ing questions:
Is it really hot-headed fanaticism to hope that permission
may be granted to Jews to pray at a time when Moslem
prayer is not taking place, and at a spot far removed both
from the site of their devotions and from the area pro-
hibited by those who maintain that such a prohibition
exists? And do those who oppose the plea really believe
that a ban on prayer by Jews at the site most sacred to them
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will bring Arab agitation to an end?
Rabinowitz is still in conflict with the letter of the Supreme
Court's ruling, of course, but his action to find a way despite
all opposition is representative of the strength of the Jewish
desire to pray on the mount. With all of the troubles with the
Arabs, and with all of the peacemaking attempts of the Su-
preme Court, the Jews still want to go to God "upon one of
the mountains which I will tell thee of" (Gen 22:2). Since
Genesis 22, the chosen people have sought God at the place
He directed Abraham, and by all spiritual reckoning, this
is their right.
And the contention? The troubles with the Arabs—and
with the whole world, for that matter?
Well, when has God's plan been easily fulfilled? When
has prophecy happened by the agreed-upon will of men?
Shall we expect this nearly final preparation of the Tribula-
tion, the rebuilding of the Temple of God, to be easy?
When God's plans progress the world trembles, and it has
ever been so. Armies have marched, empires fallen, kings
have been deposed, and legions of human beings have con-
tested in bloody battles the progress of God's plan for men.