# Modern Jewish Faith Questions

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/modern-jewish-faith-questions/119463>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [July 17, 2002, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/modern-jewish-faith-questions/119463 "2002-07-17T19:26:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![zev\_steinhardt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/97f17d/32.png) [@zev\_steinhardt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zev_steinhardt)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2002, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/modern-jewish-faith-questions/119463/21 "2002-07-19T14:37:46Z")

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> \*Originally posted by maybesomeone \*  
> \*\*At the extreme risk of setting off a really controversial post, which is not my intent, allowed by the different faiths that inhabit the city of Jerusalem, society, etc… If the present day mosque were destroyed, say by an act of nature, not even by terrorist, accident, etc., don’t you think that there would be a HUGE controversy as to what gets built/rebuilt in it’s place? That’s all that I was alluding to…  
> Scott \*\*

Yes, you’re right. There would be.

In any event, most Jews are of the opinion that the messiah must come BEFORE the rebuilding of the Temple, so if this destruction happens without the messiah coming, then there probably won’t be a new Jewish Temple right away.

Zev Steinhardt

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**Author:** ![Knighted\_Vorpal\_Sword](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ac91a4/32.png) [@Knighted\_Vorpal\_Sword](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knighted_Vorpal_Sword)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2002, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/modern-jewish-faith-questions/119463/22 "2002-07-19T15:27:20Z")

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> \*Originally posted by zev\_steinhardt \*  
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> There is, however, a Scriptural precept to keep Passover in the spring. As a result, the calendar is set up in such a way that in 7 out of every 19 years, an extra month is added to the calendar right before Passover, thus keeping the Jewish calendar pretty much in sync with the solar calendar. \*\*

It also pushes Succos into October, so we can spend nights in the Succah when the temperature falls into the 30’s. ;j

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**Author:** ![Captain\_Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2002, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/modern-jewish-faith-questions/119463/23 "2002-07-19T16:09:39Z")

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> \*Originally posted by cmkeller \*  
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> Pretty much, but possibly not entirely. On another message board called “the Pizza Parlor”, someone mentioned meeting a modern Saducee, and, while I can’t vouch for that person’s acquaintance having had Saducee ancestors going back two thousand years, I will say that what this person claimed to believe is in line with what I know about the Saducees.  
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I know that, while they’re not Saducees, there’s a group called the Karaitim, who still exist, who believe a lot of the things the Saducees used to believe, reject mainstream Judaism, which they call “rabbanism”, and reject the Talmud.

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