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   purposes. The most common rabbinic view is that the temple in Shiloh was   
   indeed destroyed. These sources refer to the destruction of Shiloh in the   
   same vein that they refer to the destruction of the temples in Jerusalem.   
   Some go so far as to claim explicitly the temple was burned to the ground, as   
   were the temples in Jerusalem. And recently, archaeologists found evidence of   
   a terrible fire in Shiloh around the time the temple stood, which fits the   
   narrative that it was attacked. From the words of the prophet Jeremiah scorn   
   to Eli, the high priest, the religious leader who presided over the sanctuary   
   in Shiloh for 40 years, it seems clear something rather bad was involved in   
   Shiloh’s demise. And warning about the looming fate of Jerusalem, he has   
   these stern words of for go now to my place, that is, in Shiloh, where I   
   caused my name to rest at first and see what I did to it because of the   
   wickedness of my people Israel. Likewise, the Book of Psalms hints at dark   
   times when God abandoned his dwelling in Shiloh. The psalmist portrays an   
   occasional replete with swords, fire and loss. It certainly gives the   
   impression that something terrible happened. The Talmudic literature likewise   
   makes several references to the destruction of Shiloh. The Rebbe, the great   
   Chabad rabbi, offers a key insight that helps greatly in unraveling this   
   mystery. It draws an important distinction between the houses of God in   
   Shiloh. In Jerusalem, the structures in Jerusalem were temples where Shiloh   
   and the portable sanctuary the Israelites had during their sojourn in the   
   desert were tabernacles. While the temples in Jerusalem are repeatedly   
   referred to as house, a house, the place of worship erected in Shiloh is   
   described as a tent. A tent. Similarly, the Bible calls the portable   
   sanctuary in the desert a tent no less than 106 times. What’s the difference?   
   Turns out the distinction is significant. Temple, like a house, is designed   
   to be permanent. A tabernacle, like a tent, is inherently intended to be   
   temporary. House would only be destroyed if something went terribly wrong. A   
   tent, on the other hand, would be taken down when it’s no longer used. When a   
   house is taken down, it’s a big deal. When a tent gets taken down, it’s   
   nothing significant because it was never meant to be permanent. That, says   
   the Rebbe, is why the reason given for the destruction of the temples in   
   Jerusalem was because of our sins and due to the sins of Israel. Without a,   
   uh, clear reason, a permanent structure would be expected to remain standing   
   if instead it was destroyed. This calls for an explanation. On the other   
   hand, the tabernacle and Shiloh came down does not demand an explanation, as   
   it was only ever intended to stand on a temporary basis. And it goes on.   
   Tremendous. The history goes on.  Now, uh, why am I reading this to you?   
   What?  Why is Mark reading this to you tonight? Because we have had   
   declarations made by our president, our secretary of state, and our vice   
   president involving this part of the world, Judea and Samaria. Judea and   
   Samaria are crucially important to the people of the Jewish faith. And   
   they’re also crucially important to the people of the Christian faith,   
   because out of the Jewish faith grew the Christian faith. If there had been   
   no Shiloh, there would have been no Judaism. There had been no Jerusalem,   
   there would have been no Judaism. And so who does this area belong to? Why do   
   we keep calling it the West Bank? The west bank of what? In 1948, after that   
   area, the world was divided by the British. Israel was attacked by the   
   surrounding Arab nations that would not accept the existence of the Jewish   
   state. And yet the Jewish people are, uh mentioned in the Bible thousands of   
   years ago that this is their home.  Who declared it their home?  Mr.   
   Producer? God Himself. God himself.  Who’s buried in Israel?  Abraham, Isaac   
   and Jacob. The matriarchs, too.  You go to Israel today, you will see these   
   holy sites.  You will see this, this holy land.  You will see Shiloh. The   
   Palestinians say that Shiloh belongs to them. In 1948, the Jordanians, among   
   the countries, the Arab countries that attacked Israel, took Judea and   
   Samaria from the Jewish people, took it militarily, called it the west bank   
   of Jordan, transjordan. And since 1948, it’s been called the West Bank.   
   American politicians called the West Bank. Republicans and Democrats called   
   the west bank the west bank of Jordan, like it all began in 1948. Really. The   
   most ancient area, one of them certainly on the face of the earth, where we   
   can actually track back who was where and when. Now timing is everything.   
   There is no question about that. Things cannot be changed with a snap of a   
   finger, just a vote of a legislature and so forth and so on. I understand   
   that it is a dicey situation now. President is trying to enforce his peace   
   deal. It won’t work, I think, unless they destroy Hamas. But that’s just one   
   man’s opinion. And they argue, they’re working towards that. That’s a good   
   thing. And so I encourage it, I support it, I celebrate it. But whether it’s   
   the president, the vice president, the Secretary of State, whether it’s the   
   leader of any Western country, or the monarch or the military dictator of any   
   Arab country, Muslim country, you declare that Israel will not annex Judea   
   and Samaria.  Read the Bible. How do you annex, uh, land that’s always belong   
   to you? What does that mean, to annex it? It’s a weird word in my view.  Just   
   one man’s opinion. Very weird.  When we can trace back that this is the   
   ancestral homeland of the Jews, not just in the Bible, but in man’s history.   
   The physical evidence there, the written evidence.  Is there, it’s all there.   
   So, uh, while this is a bad time to push that issue, I agree with that.  Bad   
   time.  The fact is that one day it will happen in the Jewish faith and the   
   Christian faith and these other countries have no claim to it whatsoever.   
   0mhm. I’ll be right back.   
      
   Segment 4   
   So, a reporter asked Caroline, uh, Levitt today, the president’s affinity for   
   building things and uh, his support of Israel, will he be building the Third   
   Temple?  That’s funny.  I just wanted to give you folks some historical   
   perspective. We’re not just talking about a piece of land, commercial land to   
   develop land, and that’s that sort of thing. Gaza belonged, um, to the Jews.   
   They gave it to the Palestinians. Recent history. And you see what’s happened   
   to that. Um, and so if you haven’t been to Israel, I would encourage you to   
   do it one day. Uh, it’s very spiritual. You don’t have to be a   
   fundamentalist, you don’t have to even be a believer. But I think you’re   
   going to find it both incredible from a religious perspective and a   
   historical perspective. And it brings to life what you’ve heard or what   
   you’ve read. It brings it to life because it’s real. It’s the real deal. Um,   
   and that’s why those people aren’t going anywhere. They’ve been chased out.   
   Many times we talked about the, um temple Mount.  That one location right   
   there in Jerusalem, the holiest site for the Jews. That’s where the first   
   temple was built and the second temple was built. The second temple, as you   
   know, was destroyed by the Romans. They estimate over a million Jews were   
   murdered. Um, many of them, thousands of them were killed as Jesus was killed   
   on a cross with their hands and feet nailed to the wood. And the stories are   
      
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