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From The Jerusalem Post:

According to the biblical prophecy, now that the barren Temple has become a walking ground for foxes, so it will be rebuilt. As the Jewish world is counting the days to the ninth of Av (Tisha Be’Av), the date on which Jews mourn the destruction of the two Temples in Jerusalem following its destruction by the Romans, foxes have been spotted walking near the Western Wall, a press release reported on Thursday. It is written in the Book of Lamentations (5:18), which is read on Tisha Be’Av, that Mount Zion – where the Temples stood – will be so forgotten that “foxes will walk in it.” The understanding according to the Talmud in the tractate Makkot (24b) is that if Uriah’s prophecies of destruction are have thus been fulfilled, so will be the ones by Zechariah about the Temple being rebuilt. Rabbi Shmuel Rabinowitz, the Rabbi of the Western Wall and Holy Sites, referred to photos of the foxes and commented, “One cannot refrain from crying at the site of the fulfillment of the prophecy of ‘foxes will walk on it.’”

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