Today (the ninth of Av) is the anniversary of when the Second Temple was destroyed - 1,945 years ago. It is also 2,601 years after the destruction of the First Temple. During the last two weeks, in the wake of the signing of the "nuclear treaty" between Iran and the superpowers, the phrase "the Destruction of the Third Temple" has bubbled up into the national topics of discussion, in view of the Iranian threat to destroy Israel. And our Prime Minister is indeed doing the best he can (which is quite good) to fight against the whole world, and to tear away the mask from the face of this agreement, which is so reminiscent of the agreement signed by Neville Chamberlain, the British Prime Minister before The Second world War.

The declaration/faith that "No destruction of the Third Temple will take place" is not a clear statement by our sages, although there are hints in the Midrash that point to it and Midrashic interpretations which have a similar theme. This wording of the slogan has been attributed to Rabbi Yitzchak Isaac Herzog, the Chief Rabbi of Israel during the Holocaust and the establishment of the State of Israel.