Yom Yerushalayim | Psalm 122 - "I rejoiced when they said to me"

Yom Yerushalayim | Psalm 122 - "I rejoiced when they said to me" by Rav Yitzchak Etshalom What is the message of Psalm 122, strongly associated with the upcoming celebration of יום ירושלים? 59 years ago, on the momentous and miraculous occasion of the raising of the Israeli flag over Har haBayit, the first thing that the announcer on Kol Yisrael did was to read this beautiful paean to our city, our heart. We analyze the chapter, identify its likely provenance and its powerful message about the dialectic nature of the city, between the eternal and the ever-changing, between the static and the dynamic. Source sheet >>