Prepping for the 3rd Temple

The Jews continue making plans for the 3rd Temple.  As followers of Christ this is significant since we know the 70th Week of Daniel is on the horizon.  The Jews are using DNA to figure out who is eligible to serve in the Temple since anyone serving needs to be descended from the tribe of Levi.  Of course our blessed hope is that the rapture precedes the 70th Week of Daniel.

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He points to a growing, if often discreet, roster of rabbis who halachically permit ascent under strict guidelines, citing figures such as the late chief rabbis Mordechai Eliyahu and Shlomo Goren and promising to publish a detailed list of supportive authorities.

“Most of the people going up are not very homogenous,” he said. “It’s shared among many different demographics, which is very interesting.”

The communities’ development coincides with cutting-edge research into the Y chromosome of Kohens that, in Huberman’s view, could transform how priestly families organize themselves for renewed Temple service.

A recent high-resolution sequencing study, currently available as a preprint, found that roughly 80 percent of tested Kohens cluster into nine major paternal lineages, with about 20% remaining unassigned—an echo, he notes, of Second Temple-era records describing a group called Hakot that was sidelined from service due to unclear lineage.

While stressing that halachic Kohen status cannot rest on DNA alone, Huberman sees enormous potential in using genetics to reconstruct detailed family trees and revive the 24 “mishmarot,” or family shifts, into which King David and the prophet Samuel divided the priestly workforce.

He hopes to work with researchers to map well-documented Kohen dynasties—from families in Israel and Tunisia to Middle Eastern clans that preserve scrolls tracing their ancestry back to biblical figures such as Ezra and Eli the High Priest—onto these genetic lines for practical division of future Temple labor.

“You can use the genetic code to recreate family trees,” Huberman emphasized. “You can prove that a Kohen from Algeria and a Kohen from Eastern Europe actually descend from the same person, and that has huge implications for how the Temple service could be organized.”

Huberman situates his initiative within a larger theological and national conversation in Israel about what Jewish sovereignty is ultimately for beyond physical protection from antisemitism.

Drawing inspiration from Bar-Ilan University’s professor Hillel Weiss, whose writings on practical steps toward Temple restoration deeply influenced him, he argues that the Temple and its priestly institutions are meant to expand Judaism’s contribution to the world, socially and spiritually.​

To that end, the communities collaborate with groups such as the Temple Institute, whose altars and ritual equipment could, in Huberman’s telling, be deployed rapidly if circumstances allowed, making a pool of trained Kohens and Levites a strategic religious asset.

He emphasizes readiness and professionalism over messianic rhetoric, inviting skeptics and supporters alike to visit courses in person and watch Levites sing on the Temple Mount, in the hope that transparency will build trust and normalize what he sees as a grassroots return to Temple-centered Jewish identity.

“The Israeli population in general, Jewish people in general, are grappling with the question,” said Huberman. “We get it, we have a country that’s supposed to protect us from antisemitism, but beyond just protection and creating a country, what are we supposed to do with this country?”

Although still in their earliest stages, the communities already mimic aspects of Chabad-style outreach, with Huberman fielding daily calls from Kohens in Israel and abroad who want to join, including those who are not observant.

He portrays the project as a way to “fix historical fractures,” including his own complicated Levitical family story in the shadow of the Holocaust, by rebuilding broken chains of memory and practice.​

Next steps include expanding course offerings, formalizing workshops with academic and ritual partners, and building an international network of identity-based priestly and Levitical communities.

Huberman encourages any self-identified Kohen or Levi interested in reconnecting with this heritage to reach out directly through his existing contact details, promising that the door is open to all who wish to turn an inherited status into lived responsibility.

“I want it to be the most inviting that it can be to every Kohen,”

Huberman said. “It’s sort of like an outreach movement, like a Chabad for priestly families, bringing this part of Judaism back to Jews all over.”

 https://worldisraelnews.com/priestly-and-levite-guilds-prepare-for-temple-revival/