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The right kind of music is also an important piece of temple worship. An orthodox Jewess, by the name
of Susanne Hakevantura, who lived in Paris, France, was a professional musician. For decades she
researched ancient Jewish literature re-discovering the music that was played in both Solomon’s temple
and the second temple to which they would sing the Hebrew text of the Psalms and other poetic
portions of the OT. She has published a large book. The English version is entitled “The Music of the
Bible revealed”. Professional musicians around the world have studied her work and are absolutely
convinced that she has rediscovered the true temple music of ancient Israel. She has already set to this
music the complete text of the Song of Solomon, Ecclesiastes, and large sections of the text of the
prophet Isaiah.

In 2019 a major U.S. news outlet showed a video of trained Israeli priests forming a choir and singing
these songs in preparation for singing them in the new temple.

Israel now has the music, the harps, the silver trumpets for the priests, most of the priestly garments,
and the instruments of worship ready to go.

Gil and Jenna Lewinsky have succeeded in bringing Jacob’s sheep back to Israel. They see the return of
the sheep as an integral part of the return of the Jewish People to the Holy Land. The sheep’s name
comes from their striking speckled appearance, conforming to the description of the flocks that Jacob
took with him when he left the house of his father-in-law, Laban. Gil emphasized the importance of
sheep to the people of Israel, explaining that after the plague of darkness, Moses refused Pharaoh’s
offer to leave Egypt since it did not include the sheep. “The Jews need the sheep to serve God in the
Third Temple,” Gil explained. “Their wool is used in making the clothes for the kohanim (men of the
priestly caste), and they are the breed that was offered up as a sacrifice in the First and Second
Temples.”

In order to begin temple worship a rare “red Heifer” is needed.

Numbers 19:2 (NIV84)2 “This is a requirement of the law that the LORD has commanded: Tell the
Israelites to bring you a red heifer without defect or blemish and that has never been under a
yoke.

In 2015 the Temple Institute inaugurated its “Raise a Red Heifer in Israel” program. One week after its
birth, in 2018, the newborn red heifer was certified by a board of rabbis as fulfilling all the Biblical
requirements. The red heifer was the main component in the Biblically mandated process of ritual
purification for impurity that results from proximity or contact with a dead body. Because the elements
needed for this ceremony have been lacking since the destruction of the Second Temple, every Jew
today is considered ritually impure, thereby preventing the return of the Temple service. The heifer,
born from a natural birth, must be entirely red, with no more than two non-red hairs on its body. It must
also never have been used for any labor or have been impregnated. The existence of such a heifer is
considered a biological anomaly and is extremely rare. Fortunately, the ritual requires an infinitesimally
small quantity of ashes. From the time of Moses, who personally prepared the first heifer, until the
destruction of the Temple, only nine red heifers were prepared. Nonetheless, this was sufficient to
maintain the ritual purity of the entire nation for almost 2,000 years. “If there has been no red heifer for
the past 2,000 years, perhaps it is because the time was not right; Israel was far from being ready. But
now… what could it mean for the times we live in, to have the means for purification so close at hand?
(from “Temple Institute Announces Birth of Red Heifer”, September 5, 2018)

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