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Ep. 44: Jerusalem: A History of the Holy City from the Bible to Bibi

The Jewish History Podcast - With Rabbi Yaakov Wolbe

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The Mount of God, El-Hara Shem

Abraham called it a mountain. Isaac went out to pray in the field. When Jacob renamed it, he named it Bet-el, a house of God. In fact, there's a famous verse in Micah, Lehain-be-gla-khem-xion-sad-deh-tich-haresh. Zion is referring to the second temple being destroyed, will be plowed like a field. We talk about the third temple. It's going to resemble a house. And we hope that our current settlements in Israel and Jerusalem will indeed be meritorious to be worthy of being the third commonwealth of Jacob with the reestablishment of the temple

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