The ancient Temple sacrifices could be offered today on Jerusalem’s Temple Mount if the Israeli government would allow them, and doing so would bring people one step closer to receiving the Messiah and possibly usher in a better era of peace, according to one American-Israeli rabbi who has spent decades trying to reestablish such rituals.

Joshua Wander told ALL ISRAEL NEWS that it is only because of Israel’s “apartheid system,” which does not allow Jews and Christians free access to the Temple Mount – and is today under the control of the Jordanian Muslim Waqf – that such practices have not begun.

He made the statement a week after police arrested youths who tried to bring a sacrificial offering to the mount during the Jewish holiday of Shavuot, which this year took place on May 21-22, 2026.

There are many people who mistakenly believe that we need to have either the mashiach [messiah] or the Beit HaMikdash [Third Temple] to start bringing sacrifices,” Wander said. “That is faulty thinking.”
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Jews have not performed sacrifices for nearly 2,000 years, and only a handful of groups and individuals have attempted to revive the practice. Many Israelis consider Wander and his supporters to be part of a fringe movement.

​On Shavuot, police said they arrested more than a dozen youths who attempted to break into the Temple Mount compound to perform a sacrificial ritual. In this case, they were not bringing an animal but rather loaves of bread. According to Leviticus 23:17, Shavuot required worshippers to bring “two loaves of bread” as an offering.
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However, ascending the Temple Mount remains controversial within Judaism. Many rabbis continue to believe that Jews should not enter the site because they are ritually impure or because they may inadvertently walk through areas that once constituted the Holy of Holies, whose precise location remains uncertain