varian
02-11-2006, 02:53 AM
For those on this forum that don't support the claims made by others that Jews have no business now, nor any prior history in Jerusalem:
"For some, the issue is incredulity that Islam's third holiest site should outweigh the right to retain Judaism's holiest site. For others, it is the challenge to Judaism's profoundest historical memory. For still others, the issue is the violation of an archaeological site that possibly contains the most vivid authentication of Jewish history. And for most everyone else, it is just an intuitive feeling that there is something extremely special about this place. ..."
"...At the time of the encounter with God at Mount Sinai, the Jewish people were commanded to make a mikdash, "sanctuary," so that God could dwell among them (Exodus 25:8). This portable structure (containing the Ark of the Covenant) traveled with the Jewish people throughout 40 years in the wilderness, and while they were settling the Land of Israel. Then, some 3,000 years ago, King David built an altar on Mount Moriah in Jerusalem (the site of Isaac's binding and Jacob's dream). And on this spot, David's son Solomon built the first Temple -- making the portable mikdash permanent.
The Temple was called Beit HaMikdash, "the Holy House."
www.aish.com/jewishissues/jerusalem/A_Home_for_the_Soul.asp
"...But the debunkers of Jewish biblical history got some bad news recently, when a spunky, dedicated archaeologist began her latest dig. Dr. Eilat Mazar, world authority on Jerusalem's past, has taken King David out of the pages of the Bible and put him back into living history. Mazar's latest excavation in the City of David, in the southern shadow of the Temple Mount, has shaken up the archaeological world. For lying undisturbed for over 3,000 years is a massive building which Mazar believes is King David's palace. ..."
www.aish.com/jewishissues/jerusalem/Reclaiming_Biblical_Jerusalem.asp
"...Thirty five years ago, on the 28th day of the month of Iyar, in the year 5727 (June 5, 1967), on the third day of the Six Day War, the ancient city of Jerusalem -- the walled Old City, the Temple Mount and the Western Wall -- returned to Jewish hands. For the first time since the Destruction of the Second Temple, Jerusalem was under Jewish sovereignty. ..."
www.aish.com/jewishissues/jerusalem/The_Story_of_Jerusalem.asp
"...The Talmud says Jerusalem was named by God. The name has two parts: Yira, which means "to see," and shalem, which means "peace."
Jerusalem was the place of Abraham's sacrifice of Isaac, and Abraham said of Jerusalem, "This is the place where God is seen. ..."
www.aish.com/jewishissues/jerusalem/Jerusalem_After_3000_Years3_Why_Does_it_Matter$.as p
"...Jerusalem, for me, is above politics. Mentioned more than 600 times in the Bible, Jerusalem is the national landmark of Jewish tradition. It represents our collective soul. It is Jerusalem that binds one Jew to another. There is not a prayer more beautiful or nostalgic than the one which evokes the splendor of its past and the shattering and enduring memory of its destruction. ..."
www.aish.com/jewishissues/jerusalem/Jerusalem_In_My_Heart.asp
If I forget you Jerusalem
May I forget my right hand
May my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth
If I ever don't think of you
If I don't raise up Jerusalem above my highest joy
- Psalms 137:5,6
www.aish.com/jewishissues/jerusalem/Tears_on_Tisha_BAv.asp
"Next year in Jerusalem" may have a meaning yet to be realized for the State of Israel.
"For some, the issue is incredulity that Islam's third holiest site should outweigh the right to retain Judaism's holiest site. For others, it is the challenge to Judaism's profoundest historical memory. For still others, the issue is the violation of an archaeological site that possibly contains the most vivid authentication of Jewish history. And for most everyone else, it is just an intuitive feeling that there is something extremely special about this place. ..."
"...At the time of the encounter with God at Mount Sinai, the Jewish people were commanded to make a mikdash, "sanctuary," so that God could dwell among them (Exodus 25:8). This portable structure (containing the Ark of the Covenant) traveled with the Jewish people throughout 40 years in the wilderness, and while they were settling the Land of Israel. Then, some 3,000 years ago, King David built an altar on Mount Moriah in Jerusalem (the site of Isaac's binding and Jacob's dream). And on this spot, David's son Solomon built the first Temple -- making the portable mikdash permanent.
The Temple was called Beit HaMikdash, "the Holy House."
www.aish.com/jewishissues/jerusalem/A_Home_for_the_Soul.asp
"...But the debunkers of Jewish biblical history got some bad news recently, when a spunky, dedicated archaeologist began her latest dig. Dr. Eilat Mazar, world authority on Jerusalem's past, has taken King David out of the pages of the Bible and put him back into living history. Mazar's latest excavation in the City of David, in the southern shadow of the Temple Mount, has shaken up the archaeological world. For lying undisturbed for over 3,000 years is a massive building which Mazar believes is King David's palace. ..."
www.aish.com/jewishissues/jerusalem/Reclaiming_Biblical_Jerusalem.asp
"...Thirty five years ago, on the 28th day of the month of Iyar, in the year 5727 (June 5, 1967), on the third day of the Six Day War, the ancient city of Jerusalem -- the walled Old City, the Temple Mount and the Western Wall -- returned to Jewish hands. For the first time since the Destruction of the Second Temple, Jerusalem was under Jewish sovereignty. ..."
www.aish.com/jewishissues/jerusalem/The_Story_of_Jerusalem.asp
"...The Talmud says Jerusalem was named by God. The name has two parts: Yira, which means "to see," and shalem, which means "peace."
Jerusalem was the place of Abraham's sacrifice of Isaac, and Abraham said of Jerusalem, "This is the place where God is seen. ..."
www.aish.com/jewishissues/jerusalem/Jerusalem_After_3000_Years3_Why_Does_it_Matter$.as p
"...Jerusalem, for me, is above politics. Mentioned more than 600 times in the Bible, Jerusalem is the national landmark of Jewish tradition. It represents our collective soul. It is Jerusalem that binds one Jew to another. There is not a prayer more beautiful or nostalgic than the one which evokes the splendor of its past and the shattering and enduring memory of its destruction. ..."
www.aish.com/jewishissues/jerusalem/Jerusalem_In_My_Heart.asp
If I forget you Jerusalem
May I forget my right hand
May my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth
If I ever don't think of you
If I don't raise up Jerusalem above my highest joy
- Psalms 137:5,6
www.aish.com/jewishissues/jerusalem/Tears_on_Tisha_BAv.asp
"Next year in Jerusalem" may have a meaning yet to be realized for the State of Israel.