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An interesting report by Israel365 News suggests that one of the reasons Hamas invaded Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, was because of the arrival of five red heifers in Israel in the fall of 2022.
This claim was made by Abu Obeida, a Hamas military leader, in a televised appearance marking the 100th day of the terrorist group’s war with Israel.
In addition to listing Hamas’ accomplishments in the war, Obeida also discussed the reasons for Hamas’ brutal invasion of Israel and specifically cited the red heifers.
“We look back 100 days to remember the educated, the complicit, and the incapacitated among the world powers governed by the law of the jungle, reminding them of an aggression that reached its peak against our path (Al-Quds) and Al-Aqsa, with the start of its actual temporal and spatial division, and the ‘bringing of red cows’ as an application of a detestable religious myth designed for aggression against the feelings of an entire nation in the heart of its Arab identity, and the path of its prophet (the Night Journey) and Ascension to heaven,” Obeida said.
The red heifers are ultimately tied to the desire of Orthodox Jews to see the construction of a third temple in Jerusalem. The ashes of an unblemished red heifer are necessary for the purification of priests who would serve in the temple.
In September 2022, five young red heifers were transported to Israel from America as potential candidates for the ritual sacrifice.
They were previously inspected with a magnifying glass to ensure they had no off-colored hairs, as a single black or white hair would instantly disqualify the heifer for the ritual sacrifice.
The red heifers will be turning three years old in 2024, the age at which one can be sacrificed for priestly purification.
The Muslims consider the building of a Jewish temple as a direct threat against the Al Aqsa mosque, which, along with the Muslim Dome of the Rock, occupies the Temple Mount.
The two Islamic buildings were built on the site in the sixth and seventh centuries.
However, the Temple Mount was home to two Jewish temples much earlier than the Islamic buildings. The first Jewish was constructed in the tenth century BCE and destroyed by the Babylonians around 586 BCE. The second was constructed in 516 BCE and was destroyed by the Romans in 70 CE
Though some believe the Al-Aqsa mosque is built on the site of the original Jewish Temples, there is ample room on the Temple Mount for a Jewish Temple.
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