Thursday, January 17, 2013

Giant washbasin sighted in Jerusalem

TEMPLE INSTITUTE:Temple Laver Moved to New Home: Temple Institute moves to new headquarters, and takes giant laver with it. (Arutz Sheva).
The Temple Institute moved a giant copper laver, or wash basin, to the new home of its exhibit of Temple articles on Monday.

A statement by the Temple Institute said the basin, which is 2.5 meters (8.2 feet) tall and 2.8 meters (9.1 foot) in diameter is kosher for use in the Third Temple and can be used to purify 12 priests at once.

The statement also said the new basin has advanced systems that make it possible to overcome certain problems in Jewish law, as was done at the time of the Second Temple

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The resemblance to a UFO is entirely coincidental, but to be on the safe side, let's not show the photo to Erich von Däniken.

More on the Temple Institute here.

Cross-post as tangentially relevant to Temple Mount Watch.