The Foundation Stone

The Foundation Stone (Hebrew: אבן השתייה‎ Even ha-Shtiyya or Hebrew: סֶּלַע‏‎ Selā‛, Arabic: الصخرة المشرفة‎ al-Sakhrah al-Musharrafah "The Noble Rock") is the name of the rock at the centre of the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem. It is also known as the Pierced Stone because it has a small hole on the southeastern corner that enters a cavern beneath the rock, known as the Well of Souls. There is a difference of opinion in classical Jewish sources as to whether this was the location of the Holy of Holies or of the Outer Altar. According to those that hold it was the site of the Holy of Holies, that would make this the holiest site in Judaism (Tanhuma, chapter 10).[citation needed]

Sakhrah - Seker... a Rock (Ptah) - the Noble Rock - at the Center of the Dome of the Rock (named after it): The dome was built to enclose the Rock. The Pierced Stone (the thigh wound), from which the Well of Souls is accessed. These are all elements of the fifth hour of the Duat. The Great Pyramid was created to enclose the coronation stone Sheta Yet. The Ark of Zeker (the Henu Barque) was housed there. The Well of Souls = Virgo and the Lake of Fire.

Jewish tradition views the Holy of Holies as the spiritual junction of Heaven and Earth, the axis mundi, and is therefore the direction that Jews face when praying the Amidah.[citation needed] The other view, that this was the site of the Outer Altar, would explain the holes in the stone which served various sacrificial purposes in the Outer Altar.[citation needed] From a classical Jewish textual standpoint, there is no conclusive opinion on the matter. The axis mundi is the Great Pyramid. A conclusive opinion?

Rabbis have discussed the precise location of the rock. David ben Solomon ibn Abi Zimra was convinced that "under the dome on the Temple Mount, which the Arabs call El-Sakhrah, without a doubt is the location of the Foundation Stone."[2] The Travels of Petachia of Ratisbon,[3] c.1180, The Travels of Benjamin of Tudela[4] and The Travels of the Student of the Ramban all equally state that "on the Temple Mount stands a beautiful sanctuary which an Arab king built long ago, over the place of the Temple sanctuary and courtyard." Obadiah ben Abraham Bartenura, who wrote a letter from Jerusalem in 1488, says that "I sought the place of the Foundation Stone where the Ark of the Covenant was placed, and many people told me it is under a tall and beautiful dome which the Arabs built in the Temple precinct."[5] Yeah - as of 1488. How about the dome built in Egypt which contained the coronation stone and the Henu Barque?

This is the holiest site in Judaism. Jews all over the world pray toward the Foundation Stone. Semitic Jews need antisemitism in order to keep the truth from its rightful heirs.

The Roman-Era midrash Tanhuma[20] sums up the centrality of and holiness of this site in Judaism:

As the navel is set in the centre of the human body,so is the land of Israel the navel of the world...situated in the centre of the world,and Jerusalem in the centre of the land of Israel,and the sanctuary in the centre of Jerusalem,and the holy place in the centre of the sanctuary,and the ark in the centre of the holy place,and the Foundation Stone before the holy place,because from it the world was founded. This was a concept put forth by many pre-Semitic Judaic cultures and traditions. The navel of the world would be at the equator.

According to the sages of the Talmud,[21] it was from this rock that the world was created, itself being the first part of the Earth to come into existence. In the words of the Zohar, "The world was not created until God took a stone called Even haShetiya and threw it into the depths where it was fixed from above till below, and from it the world expanded. It is the centre point of the world and on this spot stood the Holy of Holies."[22] Shetiya the seed of life... Seker was guardian of Rostau, ancient Giza, where once was to be found a shrine to Sokar known as the Shetayet. Seker was the Lord of the Shetayet - the Holy of Holies. Zechariah was the Kohen Gadol (High Priest) of the Second Temple. Shetayet is considered in Egyptian the Tomb-Womb of God.

According to the Talmud, it was close to here, on the site of the altar, that God gathered the earth that was formed into Adam. It was on this rock that Adam—and later Cain and Abel and Noah—offered sacrifices to God. Jewish sources identify this rock as the place of the Binding of Isaac mentioned in the Bible, where Abraham fulfilled God's test to see if he would be willing to sacrifice his son. The mountain is identified as Moriah in Genesis 22. It is also identified as the rock upon which Jacob dreamt about angels ascending and descending on a ladder and consequently consecrating and offering a sacrifice upon.[citation needed].

When, according to the Bible, King David purchased a threshing floor (Virgo) owned by Araunah the Jebusite, Aaron (Orion)[23] it is believed that it was upon this rock that he offered the sacrifice mentioned in the verse. He wanted to construct a permanent temple there, but as his hands were "bloodied", he was forbidden to do so himself. The task was left to his son Solomon, who completed the Temple in c. 950 BCE. There was already a temple there long before the Semites came to the region.

The Mishnah in tractate Yoma[24] mentions a stone situated in the Holy of Holies that was called Shetiya and had been revealed by the early prophets (i.e. David and Samuel.[25]).

An early Christian source noting Jewish attachment to the rock may be found in the Itinerarium Burdigalense, written between 333–334 CE when Jerusalem was under Roman rule, which describes a "perforated stone to which the Jews come every year and anoint it, bewail themselves with groans, rend their garments, and so depart."[26] The act of rending garments is called in Hebrew Keriyah. Here-in the author does what so many Semitic Judaists do: they speak of the act yet totally overlook the context of the act. The rending garments was in order to expose the heart. It was an act 0f mourning.

Situated inside the Holy of Holies, this was the rock upon which the Ark of the Covenant was placed in Solomon's Temple.[27] During the Second Temple period when the Ark of the Covenant was not present, the stone was used by the High Priest who offered up the incense and sprinkled the blood of the sacrifices on it during the Yom Kippur service. Zechariah the Fire Priest

The Foundation Stone (Hebrew: אבן השתייה‎ Even ha-Shtiyya or Hebrew: סֶּלַע‏‎ Selā‛, Arabic: الصخرة المشرفة‎ al-Sakhrah al-Musharrafah "The Noble Rock") is the name of the rock at the centre of the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem. It is also known as the Pierced Stone because it has a small hole on the southeastern corner that enters a cavern beneath the rock, known as the Well of Souls. There is a difference of opinion in classical Jewish sources as to whether this was the location of the Holy of Holies or of the Outer Altar. According to those that hold it was the site of the Holy of Holies, that would make this the holiest site in Judaism (Tanhuma, chapter 10).[citation needed]

Sakhrah - Seker... a Rock (Ptah) - the Noble Rock - at the Center of the Dome of the Rock (named after it): The dome was built to enclose the Rock. The Pierced Stone (the thigh wound), from which the Well of Souls is accessed. These are all elements of the fifth hour of the Duat. The Great Pyramid was created to enclose the coronation stone Sheta Yet. The Ark of Zeker (the Henu Barque) was housed there. The Well of Souls = Virgo and the Lake of Fire.

Jewish tradition views the Holy of Holies as the spiritual junction of Heaven and Earth, the axis mundi, and is therefore the direction that Jews face when praying the Amidah.[citation needed] The other view, that this was the site of the Outer Altar, would explain the holes in the stone which served various sacrificial purposes in the Outer Altar.[citation needed] From a classical Jewish textual standpoint, there is no conclusive opinion on the matter. The axis mundi is the Great Pyramid. A conclusive opinion?

Rabbis have discussed the precise location of the rock. David ben Solomon ibn Abi Zimra was convinced that "under the dome on the Temple Mount, which the Arabs call El-Sakhrah, without a doubt is the location of the Foundation Stone."[2] The Travels of Petachia of Ratisbon,[3] c.1180, The Travels of Benjamin of Tudela[4] and The Travels of the Student of the Ramban all equally state that "on the Temple Mount stands a beautiful sanctuary which an Arab king built long ago, over the place of the Temple sanctuary and courtyard." Obadiah ben Abraham Bartenura, who wrote a letter from Jerusalem in 1488, says that "I sought the place of the Foundation Stone where the Ark of the Covenant was placed, and many people told me it is under a tall and beautiful dome which the Arabs built in the Temple precinct."[5] Yeah - as of 1488. How about the dome built in Egypt which contained the coronation stone and the Henu Barque?

This is the holiest site in Judaism. Jews all over the world pray toward the Foundation Stone. Semitic Jews need antisemitism in order to keep the truth from its rightful heirs.

The Roman-Era midrash Tanhuma[20] sums up the centrality of and holiness of this site in Judaism:

As the navel is set in the centre of the human body,so is the land of Israel the navel of the world...situated in the centre of the world,and Jerusalem in the centre of the land of Israel,and the sanctuary in the centre of Jerusalem,and the holy place in the centre of the sanctuary,and the ark in the centre of the holy place,and the Foundation Stone before the holy place,because from it the world was founded. This was a concept put forth by many pre-Semitic Judaic cultures and traditions. The navel of the world would be at the equator.

According to the sages of the Talmud,[21] it was from this rock that the world was created, itself being the first part of the Earth to come into existence. In the words of the Zohar, "The world was not created until God took a stone called Even haShetiya and threw it into the depths where it was fixed from above till below, and from it the world expanded. It is the centre point of the world and on this spot stood the Holy of Holies."[22] Shetiya the seed of life... Seker was guardian of Rostau, ancient Giza, where once was to be found a shrine to Sokar known as the Shetayet. Seker was the Lord of the Shetayet - the Holy of Holies. Zechariah was the Kohen Gadol (High Priest) of the Second Temple. Shetayet is considered in Egyptian the Tomb-Womb of God.

According to the Talmud, it was close to here, on the site of the altar, that God gathered the earth that was formed into Adam. It was on this rock that Adam—and later Cain and Abel and Noah—offered sacrifices to God. Jewish sources identify this rock as the place of the Binding of Isaac mentioned in the Bible, where Abraham fulfilled God's test to see if he would be willing to sacrifice his son. The mountain is identified as Moriah in Genesis 22. It is also identified as the rock upon which Jacob dreamt about angels ascending and descending on a ladder and consequently consecrating and offering a sacrifice upon.[citation needed].

When, according to the Bible, King David purchased a threshing floor (Virgo) owned by Araunah the Jebusite, Aaron (Orion)[23] it is believed that it was upon this rock that he offered the sacrifice mentioned in the verse. He wanted to construct a permanent temple there, but as his hands were "bloodied", he was forbidden to do so himself. The task was left to his son Solomon, who completed the Temple in c. 950 BCE. There was already a temple there long before the Semites came to the region.

The Mishnah in tractate Yoma[24] mentions a stone situated in the Holy of Holies that was called Shetiya and had been revealed by the early prophets (i.e. David and Samuel.[25]).

An early Christian source noting Jewish attachment to the rock may be found in the Itinerarium Burdigalense, written between 333–334 CE when Jerusalem was under Roman rule, which describes a "perforated stone to which the Jews come every year and anoint it, bewail themselves with groans, rend their garments, and so depart."[26] The act of rending garments is called in Hebrew Keriyah. Here-in the author does what so many Semitic Judaists do: they speak of the act yet totally overlook the context of the act. The rending garments was in order to expose the heart. It was an act 0f mourning.

Situated inside the Holy of Holies, this was the rock upon which the Ark of the Covenant was placed in Solomon's Temple.[27] During the Second Temple period when the Ark of the Covenant was not present, the stone was used by the High Priest who offered up the incense and sprinkled the blood of the sacrifices on it during the Yom Kippur service. Zechariah the Fire Priest