[Americas] , [Faith & Spirituality] , [Featured] , [Highlights] Topics: [Hajj] , [Interfaith] , [Jerusalem] , [Makkah (Mecca)] , [Prophet Ibrahim (Abraham)] 278 Very few Jews realize that for more than 1,000 years, while the Ka'ba in Makka rebuilt by Prophets Abraham and Ishmael was polluted by idols, Jerusalem's First and Second Temple--Bait ul Muqaddas/Beit HaMiqdash stood, and the Jewish festival of Hag Sukkot was celebrated as a Hajj, a pilgrimage festival. In Biblical times the Hebrew word Hag was pronounced Hajj. The word Hajj literally means 'to set out for a place’. The Islamic Hajj lasts for five days...