The Re-creation of Temple Showbread is the Latest Step Toward Building Jerusalem's Third Temple

Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz : Dec 21, 2016
Breaking Israel News

The [showbread] lechem panim made a comeback on Saturday when today's generations of Kohanim reenacted the feast as their ancestors used to do in the Temple, partaking of the lechem panim while dressed in the special clothes prepared to be used in the Temple.

(Israel)—[Breaking Israel News] Last Saturday, a Shabbat reenactment of a Temple ritual took place in the holy city of Hebron, giving participants a taste of the Temple service as it was in Biblical times while taking a practical step towards preparing for the Third Temple. (Photo: Showbread on their golden racks/Courtesy Women of the Mikdash/via BIN)

More than 80 participants were greeted in Hebron Friday afternoon by the lighting of the Temple Menorah, lit by Shimshon Album and Rabbi Yaakov Hayman, the newly elected chairman of the Temple Movement.

The lechem panim is unleavened bread, similar to the matzah eaten on Passover, and the 12 loaves are required by Biblical commandment to be on display inside the Temple sanctuary at all times. Cups of frankincense mixed with salt were placed on the bread.

In the times of the Temple, Kohanim (men of the Jewish priestly caste) were separated into family groups that came to Jerusalem to serve in the Temple one week out of every year.

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