I am not understanding fully the reponse to fear that the Am Haaretzs may go off and make their own Temple. Does anyone speak more on this ? elsewhere? relevance to more recent events? only with this inyan is this fear?
Howard Schild, ny, usa
The Gemara says that if we do not accept the consecrated wine and oil of an Am ha'Aretz, he might go off and build his own Bamah, altar (but not his own "temple"). This is a logical concern, since the wine and oil that we are not accepting from him are intended to be used as Nesachim for Korbanos on the Mizbe'ach. Since the Am ha'Aretz does not feel that there is anything wrong with his wine and oil, he will go and build his own altar and offer his own wine and oil on it as Nesachim. This is also what the Tosfos Yom Tov says in Parah 5:1, as the Gilyon ha'Shas here refers you to.
Y. Shaw