TRAILER: Tisha B’Av Video 5773: A Tale of Two Jerusalems by Rabbi YY Jacobson

yeah [Music] [Applause] [Music] CIN hallucis Ali lumisi riot Zion will you not inquire about the welfare of your people who are in captivity this is the opening phrase of one of the greatest poems written in Jewish history a poem composed by the great Jewish Spanish poet and philosopher thinker and author and leader Rabbi Yehuda Halevi who lived in the 12th century in Spain in that poet read by Jews the world over on this day of Tisha buff the ninth day of our rabbi yehuda halevi coins that priceless phrase when he talks about Jerusalem I need keen Arliss serious I am a heart for your melodies the Mishnah is talking about a following situation you own a home and above your condominium there is another condominium owned by somebody else so you share two condos you're on the ground floor and somebody else owns the condo on top of you fine but now there's a problem I values valuation of a hurricane comes or another situation comes whatever the reason is the home is completely destroyed both for is both condominiums both condos both stories are gone to school Monacan big wakes up lady icicle middle of the night he apologizes but explains to him the urgent situation Levi Eshkol calls a cabinet meeting three o'clock in the morning among the Israeli historians this cabinet meeting is known as the pajama meeting it wasn't a pajama party it was a pajama urgent serious meeting who is at the leading lady Eshcol Prime Minister Eshkol the defense minister defense minister Moshe Dayan and Minister Yigal Allon the agreement is given the endorsement is given let us retake through slim six o'clock in the morning Moshe Dayan comes in to the War Office and he commands it's a crab in the joint chief of staff go take Jerusalem rub incense the deputy chief of staff high in Barre lathe to oversee it losing our case and muskeg or get the message that morning that some ham in the paratroopers of Legion 55 from the mount of olives and certain to the Old City of Jerusalem breaking through the Lions gates one and a half years before this the Mubarak sure ever gave this talk about Jerusalem was there connection was this intuition was it prophecy you answer the question it was not in the plans it was not in the agenda and if Jordan would have just complied a little more it would have never happened of God in Jerusalem in the hands of the Jewish people and he wanted it rebuilt still before the redemption still before the coming of machine and it wasn't an easy flight 182 Israeli soldiers died in the liberation of Jerusalem around the quarter all of the Jewish casualties of the six-day a quarter fell in and around Jerusalem even though the territory was much smaller than the other places Israel coming to sources was it perhaps God's decision to give the physical Jerusalem to the Jewish people the yerushalayim shall motto shabby motto the physical Jerusalem in the Jerusalem below so that they can rebuild the spiritual Jerusalem in Jerusalem so that they can take the gift and recreate you Yura shall I reconnect with their history heritage faith and Father in heaven reconnect with their turnaround with its mitzvahs rebuild a spiritual Jerusalem on the physical terrain of Jerusalem so that mushiya's could come and complete the rebuilding of Jerusalem below and the rebuilding of Jerusalem above and the two would be United [Music]