Rabbi assumes everyone will be supportive. "The Temple is not a message [just for] the Jewish people. It reunites the world all around one central prayer house."

(Jerusalem)—The Jerusalem Post reports that this week the Temple Institute started preparing to build a Third Temple on Jerusalem's Mount Moriah by inaugurating a workshop that manufactures priestly garments. Priestly garments have not been worn since the destruction of the Second Temple by Rome in 70 CE and cannot be functional until a Third Temple is constructed, says the report. (Photo: Jpost.com)

Reporter Danielle Kubes notes that Kohanim, priests directly descended from Moses's brother Aaron, are recognized by the Institute as such if their paternal grandfather observed the tradition.

The director of the Temple Institute, Rabbi Yehuda Glick, was quoted as saying he assumes Muslims will be supportive when the Temple is ready to be built. "We already have some Muslims who are secretly in touch with us," he said.

The required priestly garments—turban, tunic pants and belt—took years of research to create and will cost, in Israeli currency, about NIS 2,500. Roughly, $765.

"Special flaxen thread was imported from India and overseas travel was necessary to obtain the correct colors for the clothes, including to Istanbul, to purchase mountain worms from which the correct shade of crimson is derived," said Kubes.

"The Temple is not a message [just for] the Jewish people. It reunites the world all around one central prayer house. All the prophets say that at the End Times all the nations will be coming to Jerusalem and take part of building [the Temple]," Glick says.

Source: Danielle Kubes - The Jerusalem Post