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Mount. There has been such an outcry from the Moslem Arabs
against this apparent "superceding" of the site of the Dome of the
Rock and the A1 Aksa Mosque that the Israeli Supreme Court has
banned the remarkable stone from coming near the Temple Mount.
Instead, the Faithful are allowed only to keep the stone on a small
circular parkway, ironically in front of the American Consulate in
east Jerusalem. Neither the Jews nor the Arabs know what to do
with this dedicated group or their sacred stone.

The third group is the most secretive and difficult to get infor­
mation about. They are rumored to have a commune in Jerusalem
where they are endeavoring to be grooming a generation of sancti­
fied and trained Levitical priests. They have constructed special
buildings with a type of arched foundation that is said to keep the
rooms ceremonially free from contamination with remains of dead
bodies that may be in the ground beneath (the priests are to have
no contact with death). The young Cohens or priests are kept and
developed in special nurseries and developmental rooms, where
they can grow and be educated without contamination. It must be
a very elaborate arrangement for the youths and their families.
The idea is that these ceremonially clean and educated priests
will be able to step in at a moment's notice if Temple worship is
re-instituted.

The final group is of the Rabbis who are industriously looking
for the elusive Red Heifer. Why is a red cow so important? It has
to do with the purification of the priests and people for service, and
the Lord made the physical means of doing this the ashes of the
burnt red heifer:

This is the ordinance of the law which the LORD hath com­
manded, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, that they
bring thee a red heifer without spot, wherein is no blemish,
and upon which never came yoke: (17) And for an unclean
person they shall take of the ashes of the burnt heifer of purifi­
cation for sin, and running water shall be put thereto in a
vessel: (Numbers 19:2,17)

Many see the necessity of having the ashes of a red heifer in
order to be prepared to purify and cleanse the priests, their imple­
ments and the worshipers in a revived Temple worship. Some
believe that the ancient ashes that were last used in the Second