Sunday, June 5, 2016

Har ha-bayit b'yadeinu: What does having Jerusalem mean to us?



Every I time I hear the recording or see the images, I feel something inside.  Jerusalem has a powerful hold on our souls and imaginations.

Sunday is Yom Yerushalayim, commemorating and celebrating 49 years since the reunification of Jerusalem during the Six-Day War.  I think that Yom Yerushalayim has a different feeling than Yom Ha'Atzmaut.  Yom Ha'Atzmaut is the grand moment of national return, the rebirth of Jewish sovereignty in our ancient land.  Yom Yerushalayim is more spiritual, a profound and intimate opportunity to joyously celebrate the reunification of the Jewish soul with the Holy City.

How does Yom Yerushalayim make you feel?

I never had to imagine an Israel without a unified Jerusalem.  On Sunday, each of us should take one action to show our support for Israel, Jerusalem, and the Jewish people. 

"Har ha-bayit b'yadeinu!" was not only the announcement of a military objective in 1967.  It remains a declaration of pride in the Jewish present and hope for the future.


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