[Avodah] Leshono Habo beYerushalayim

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From: Micha Berger _micha at aishdas.org_ (mailto:micha at aishdas.org) 

On Mon, Sep 27,  2010 at 09:53:39PM -0500, Ira Tick wrote:
: Why isn't it obvious that,  regardless of the Messianic value of a 
Jerusalem
: which flies a Jewish flag,  [as the song goes] "Yerushalayim HaB'nuyah"
: refers to a Jerusalem with the  Beit HaMikdash?

At RET already noted besheim haGri"z miBrisk, "habenuyah"  is a later
addition. But one could easily argue it stood implied  anyway.

"Od yishamah" is actually more anachronistic. I remember once  ascending
the stairs in the rova, running from the sefarim store alongside  Aish
toward the serious staircase down to the plaza. It was Friday  afternoon,
and little children were running down past me, tinoqos in the  preschool
and young grades. And I choked up, wondering what Yirmiyahu was  looking
down and saying... Did he turn to our mother Rachel and say, "See,  see --
yeish sakhar lefe'ulaseikh"? How do we teitch still asking HQBH in  shevah
berakhos that we should hear "bechutzos Y-m qol sason veqol  simchah..."?
Y-m even boasts a hachnasas seifer Torah party  van!


Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

-- 
Micha  Berger              
micha at aishdas.org         



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You are translating "Od yishama...." as a prayer, "May it be Your will that 
 the joyous sounds will be heard again in Yerushalayim...."
 
I've never understood it that way.  I believe it was intended as a  
prophecy, a nevuah of hope and consolation in a time of profound  loss:  "It will 
happen again some day, that the joyous sounds of weddings  and of children 
playing will be heard in the streets of Yerushalayim."
 
This nevuah has come true in our own day, after thousands of years of  
desolation -- a fact that I find awesomely inspiring and amazing.
 
What we now await is the fulfillment of the rest of the nevuos of  nechama. 
 Having seen so much come true in the past few decades, we are  like R' 
Akiva who laughed when he saw the shualim on the Har Habayis. But  we have even 
more reason to have emunah -- he saw the fulfillment of nevuos of  
destruction, and knew that the nevuos of rebuilding would follow some day.   We have 
been zocheh to see the beginning of the rebuilding.
 
Right now there is a resurgence of anti-Semitism throughout the civilized  
world, on the cover of Time magazine and in the learned halls of academe.   
We have reason enough to look to the future with fear and trepidation.  But  
children are playing in the streets of Yerushalayim and chasanim and 
kallahs are  going to their weddings in the city that lay in ruins for so many  
centuries!  So we know that we will see our enemies defeated, and  that we are 
an eternal people.  We don't "believe" it -- we know  it!
 

--Toby Katz
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