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<DIV><FONT lang=0 color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial PTSIZE="10" FAMILY="SANSSERIF"><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial>From: Micha Berger <A href="mailto:micha@aishdas.org">micha@aishdas.org</A><BR><BR>On Mon, Sep 27,
2010 at 09:53:39PM -0500, Ira Tick wrote:<BR>: Why isn't it obvious that,
regardless of the Messianic value of a Jerusalem<BR>: which flies a Jewish flag,
[as the song goes] "Yerushalayim HaB'nuyah"<BR>: refers to a Jerusalem with the
Beit HaMikdash?<BR><BR>At RET already noted besheim haGri"z miBrisk, "habenuyah"
is a later<BR>addition. But one could easily argue it stood implied
anyway.<BR><BR>"Od yishamah" is actually more anachronistic. I remember once
ascending<BR>the stairs in the rova, running from the sefarim store alongside
Aish<BR>toward the serious staircase down to the plaza. It was Friday
afternoon,<BR>and little children were running down past me, tinoqos in the
preschool<BR>and young grades. And I choked up, wondering what Yirmiyahu was
looking<BR>down and saying... Did he turn to our mother Rachel and say, "See,
see --<BR>yeish sakhar lefe'ulaseikh"? How do we teitch still asking HQBH in
shevah<BR>berakhos that we should hear "bechutzos Y-m qol sason veqol
simchah..."?<BR>Y-m even boasts a hachnasas seifer Torah party
van!<BR><BR><BR>Tir'u baTov!<BR>-Micha<BR><BR>-- <BR>Micha
Berger
<BR>micha@aishdas.org
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<DIV>You are translating "Od yishama...." as a prayer, "May it be Your will that
the joyous sounds will be heard again in Yerushalayim...."</DIV>
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<DIV>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."</DIV>
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<DIV>This nevuah has come true in our own day, after thousands of years of
desolation -- a fact that I find awesomely inspiring and amazing.</DIV>
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<DIV>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.</DIV>
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<DIV>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!</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT lang=0 color=#0000ff size=2 face=Arial PTSIZE="10" FAMILY="SANSSERIF"><B>--Toby Katz<BR>==========<BR><BR></FONT><FONT lang=0 color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial PTSIZE="10" FAMILY="SANSSERIF"></B>--------------------
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