Why is there so little interest in the holiest site for Yidden? 

Yosef Meir Winstock (interviewer):
Why do you think our bias is so overlooked? 
Why is there so little interest in the holiest site for Yidden? 

Rabbi Daniel (Danny) Myers (Interviewee):
Jews are very, very resilient, and in whatever position we're put into, we make the best of it. We've had 2,000 years of a certain status quo. Sometimes it's hard to see new possibilities.

Wherever we are, we're very good at building beautiful communities, which is an amazing strength. We'll have Mikvahs and Eruvs and Kashrus and learning and yeshivas, and we're so good at it that we feel we've made it and we're satisfied. 

Whether we're in Persia just 70 or 20 or 40 years after we're kicked out of the Mikdash, we settle in and we have a beautiful community.

Who needs to go back?!

And our success is our failure. 

So therefore, if for a few thousand years we don't have the Mikdash...

Even after a few decades we're already used to not having it!!!

2,000 thousand years..

It's just we have a beautiful community.

Whether we're in Israel, and we already have what we need, which is not true, but that's the psyche.

The distorted psyche.

But it comes from our greatness, but it's a failure as well.

🎙️ This interview features: Yosef Meir Winstock (interviewer), who made aliyah about three years ago and lives in Ramat Beit Shemesh Daled. He learns full-time in Kolel Har Habayis, focusing on Mikdash topics, and shares divrei Torah on BeisHashem.org and his Substack, @divreitorah. A former talmid of South Fallsburg, Brisk, and Mir.

Rabbi Daniel (Danny) Myers (Interviewee), Mara d’Asra of Kehillas Menoras HaMaor and principal of Magen Avot boys’ school. A talmid of Yeshivas Har Etzion and Rav Yisrael Chait (from whom he received semicha in 1989). Originally from Belle Harbor, NY, he made aliyah in 2001 and is known for his warm leadership, focus on achdus, middos, and Torah growth.