JH,

“Why it took so long and still not reconstructed?”

Because it can’t, and that’s not only because of the Islamic supersessionist victory shrine sitting atop the Temple Mount. Suppose an earthquake were to reduce that building to rubble (it could easily happen–the Land of Israel is on the Syro-African Rift), still it wouldn’t be possible to rebuild the Temple. Why? Because the Holiest of Holies needs to be built on an exact spot for the Temple to be kosher, and we won’t know where that spot is until HaShem sends a prophet to tell us (speedily in our days, amen).

liamalpha,

“Hannukah is a holiday to celebrate the re-dedication of the Temple by the Maccabees,…”

More accurately, Hanukkah celebrates the miraculous victory of a handful of Torah scholars over the Greek Seleucid armies of thousands. The Maccabees were not soldiers by training; they were the highest religious authorities of their day and the most erudite in Torah study. They should not have naturally won, but HaShem gave them victory as He had done for Abraham vs. the five kings, and as He would later do to the Jewish fighters against the five Arab armies in 1948—9.

“True worship could only by done in that one Temple by sacrifice of animals,…”

The sacrifice of animals was, and still is, required for completion of true worship, but working on one’s self was always a requirement prior to the sacrifice. In the Temple services, an animal is sacrificed, wine is libated and wheat is offered with salt, bringing an offering from the animal, plant and mineral world respectively; but an offering of contrition needs to be brought from the human world before all the others. Those who deny the priority of the first offering and those who deny the necessity of all the other offerings for completion of worship are equally in error according to Jewish Orthodoxy.

“…a new Judaism was formed.”

No, only a temporary form. The fact that “temporary” means two millennia is beside the point.

“Sacrifice was replaced with prayers,…”

Prayers, already offered together with the sacrifices when the Temple stood, now became also the placeholders for the Temple sacrifices until the restoration of the Temple (speedily in our day, amen).

“…and morals were emphasized over technical religious aspects.”

No, there was no change in this. Morals and the details of performing the mitzvot received the same equal treatment then as now. Judaism did not “progress” when the Temple was destroyed–quite the opposite, it regressed, because so many of the mitzvot could then no longer be performed at all. The aftermath of the destruction of the Temple was not an evolution of Judaism but a temporary setback, a mode of making do until the former glory is restored.

“Today, only very fringe groups think about restoring the Temple in practice.”

They’re not so fringe, but even those who believe we can already take most of the steps in the way of restoring the Temple recognize that both the mosque and, as I said, the need for a prophet to tell us the location of the Holiest of Holies are obstacles until HaShem clears them.

More detailed historical info here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_the_Land_of_Israel

If you excuse me asking this question, I read long time ago something still back in my memory about The Temple and its distraction, all Jews keep donating for that day till today for reconstructing a new Temple….Why it took so long and still not reconstructed?

http://townhall.com/columnists/paulgreenberg/2011/12/16/what_is_chanukah/page/full/

What is Chanukah?
By Paul Greenberg
Townhall.com
December 16, 2011