Israeli Institute Prepares Priests for Jerusalem's Third Temple

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Ten students, who got to the priests school by word of mouth, paid 1,000 shekels (some $290), a relatively small sum, for twice-weekly lessons, three hours each, that teach “how to be priests.” The director of the school, Rabbi Yehoshua Friedman, hopes that the school will be more properly publicized next year and that more students will arrive. “The rabbis say that the minimum necessary is 13 priests in the temple to carry out the mandatory sacrifices. If you’re talking about a fully operating temple, where people bring their own sacrifices, it’s a place where hundreds of priests work daily,” he says. “In the days of old, a father and grandfather would teach the grandson and son how to be a priest, the commandments and laws. Today, they have to take a course. The prayer to establish the temple has no meaning if we don’t actually prepare for it. Think what would happen if tomorrow you got a functioning temple and don’t have priests.”

http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2014/04/10/israeli-institute-prepares-priests-for-jerusalems-third-temple

From last year.

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Jewish Group Crowdfunds $90K for ‘Third Temple’ on Jerusalem's Temple Mount

A Jerusalem-based group wants to build a Jewish temple on one of the Old City's most contested sites - and has already crowd funded $90,000 to draw up plans to do it.

The Temple Institute, which describes itself as a "research organization dedicated to the preparing for the construction of the Third Temple" took to Indiegogo - better known for its use by independent artists and musicians than Jewish eschatologists - to help finance the design of a building to replace the Second Temple destroyed nearly 2,000 years ago.

https://news.vice.com/article/jewish-group-crowd-funds-90k-for-third-temple-on-jerusalems-temple-mount