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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE

LOA Prize Winners

Jerusalem—the Eternal
Has Survived the Ages

By TRUDE WEISS-ROSMARIN

CCORDING TO THE sages of the Talmud, Jerusalem is referred to by 70 names in the
Bible. Scriptures are replete with soul ful and poetic tributes to the beatity of Jer-
usalem and with stirring visions of her role and mission as the City of God. From
Jerusalem, the Prophets hoped, the word of God would spread to all nations.

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In the same vein the rabbis
of the Talmudic era held that In the index to Abraham Tudcla, the widely traveled
in the future-to-come Jerusalem Yaari's ! Hebrew anthology of ' chronicler; Nahmanides, the bril-
would be the world capital" "Letters from Eretz Israel" the ! liant exegete and Talmudist;
while serving, as a beacon for entry "Jerusalem" is described Moses Maimonides, like whom
the nations of the world who as "occurring on practically every there had been none since Moses.
will be guided by its light,
page." Jerusalem is referred to Then there were 300 rabbis
The Psalmists sang of Jeru- not only "on practically every from France and England, Rabbi
salem's glory and the prophets page" of this book but also "on ; Judah the Pious, who saw Jeru-
meditated on het# fate as the practically every page" of all salem and died; the devoted
Presentation of checks totalling $1,000 in plar•writing contest s ponsored by
chosen one of God. They pledged significant and eternity-fraught Cabbalists, among them Joseph the Zionist Organization of America. Benjamin C. Browily, •OA President,
to her eternal fealty and vowed I Jewish volumes of the past years. Caro (he who compiled the right, presents cheek for $500 to first.prize winner Elihu Winer of New York.
ewitz' one of the sponsors, and Rabbi
not to rest, even as God does It is the axis of Jewish thought Shulehan Aruch, the compen- I Looking on are, left, William
tnc the s e cond
not rest, until her exalted des- ' and feeling, the symbol of Jew- dium of Jewish Law that is like ! Louis I. Newman, New York winner
of
for prize
publication
r being made
Third
went to
tiny would be consummated. ' ish life and existence.
a "Set Table"), Moses Car- I Or. Harry T. Zankel of CleNcland. flans areprize.
"For Zion's sake will I not
"inning
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5.
Because Jerusalem is so vitally dovero, Isaac Luria, Isaiah Hur- i the
hold My peace, and for Jeru- important in Judaism, the early witz, Moses Hayim Luzzatto, and I,
salem's sake I will not rest, Jewish mystics held that the many more.
until her triumph go forth as heavenly hosts, too, have their
They were followed by the '
,
the year 1500, when many of I .
brightness, and her salvation Jerusalem. This is how the mys- Hasidim of the school of Rabbi 1 the
victims
of
the
expulsion
from
.
! tical doctrine of the Jerusalem Israel, known as Besht, and of
as a torch that burneth."
i n (1492) settled in Pales-
The sages of the Talmud en- on-high came into being which.' his disciples, Rabbi Nahman of Spa
trenched their people's love of together with the veneration of Horodanka, Rabbi Nahman of tine, Jerusalem boasted an, at
that time, of rather
Jerusalem by attributing to God's i the earthly Jerusalem, power- Bratzlav, Rabbi Menahem Men-' population
more impressive'
than 1,500.!
city every conceivable Perfee - i fully stirred also the emotions del of 'Vile and many more.
:
Jerusalem's
growth
as a popu-
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tiont4of beauty and goodness. 1 and the imagination of Christian
ewish
community
began
J
"Then measures of beauty were believers.
BUT DIADEMS OF articulated j ust
a century ago. In
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given to the world," they said,
, love and devotion were but the Just
1850 about
the city numbered about
.
.
"of which Jerusalem has nine, ALTHOUGH THE TEMPLE least im
portant portion
ton o t
ial offerings the pilgrims brought. 5,700 Jews out of a total popula- I,
while all the rest of the world lay in ruins and the sacrificial
services were no more, Jews , They were suffused with the tion of 18,000. In 1900 the Jew- ,
has but one."
They submitted that God continued to make pilgrimages ! spirit of Jewish tradition and ish community of the Holy City
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"measured all the cities" and to Jerusalem and to settle there. thus committed to the Talmudic had grown to 28,000 out ofa
found only Jerusalem a fitting They journeyed to the Holy City principle that actions speak loud- total of 45,000. Today, Jerusalem ',
place for the Temple. Here they from all the ends and corners , er than words. Accordingly has a Jewish population of well
in excess of 100,000.
believed, wad! the very gate of of their many dispersions, bray- , they turned settlers and estab- _
Heaven, fro where the prayers ing trying hardships and peril - lisped schools and synagogues in
rose straight to the divine pees- ous dangers.
Jerusalem while not neglecting
ence. And here also was the
Jewish history and Hebrew the practical affairs of daily life. i Rosh Hoshonah Greetings
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center of the world, as it were literature preserve only the
Notwithstanding the hardships
—the axis and the ultimate rea- memory of the famous pilgrims they had to endure at the hands r
son and justification of all things to Zion, the learned rabbis and' of the constantly changing tern- ,
Mr. and Mrs. Aaron B.
in existence.
scholars, the distinguished poets p oral rulers of Jerusalem—B
y-
' Everything about and in Jeru-
Margolis and Family
,the pious mystics zantines, Arabs, Turks, Chris- i
salern seemed to them blessed and the spectacular
and daring tians, Mamelukes and Turks
with perfection. Its air was Pseudo-Messiahs.
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But besides the hundreds of of the Wall' maintained Jewish '
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its gates. The maidens of Jeru- were the countless thousands of
The
Crusaders
took
a
frightful
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salem were famed for beauty
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nameless "lovers of Jerusalem." toll, so did the Tartar invasion
and wonderous tales about the They
were not articulate lovers, and the Turkish conquests. But
wisdom of the children of the like Judah Halevi, Judah Al-'1 after each and every massacre 1---
city enliven the pages of the Charisi, or Solomon Alkabetz, and destruction—there came new
but their passion for Zion was builders. In 1267, When ' Nah-
'almud.
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less ardent than that of the , manides arrived in Jerusalem,
Mr. and Mrs. Simon Liberman, Murray J. Liberman
THROUGHOUT THE long cen- no
men of letters who wove their the city had altogether two
turies of the exile "Jerusalem—
and Anita
the light of the world" illumin- romance with Jerusalem into I Jewish families—the rest had
abiding
works
of
prose
and
died
or
fled
during
the
Tartar
ated the darkness of Jewish suf-
' invasion of 1244. But around
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fering, while the "eternity—sig- poetry.
These inarticulate "lovers of
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nifying Jerusalem" gave perti- Zion" came to Jerusalem—be-
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nence to the insecurity of the cause they could not stay far
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from the city which ruled their
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The medieval Hebrew poets hearts. They were satisfied to
elaborated on the theme of Jeru- suffer in Jerusalem—and suffer
salem's beauty, while the Cab- they did there—just for the
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balists meditated on the purify- sake of breathing its air.
ing influence of its holiness. In
Among the pilgrims of name
the countries on the West they and fame who came to Jeru-
yearned for the East, to which salem and presented the Eternal
they turned in prayer to identify City with diadems of articulated
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themselves with the Eternal love and devotion, the most dis-
City. Indeed, Jerusalem's glory tinguished ones were Sahal ben Julius and Alfred Berkowitz
was no more, yet her lovers Matzliah, the 10th century Ka-
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of many countries and all cen- raite; Judah Halevi, the sweet
turies of the Jewish dispersion singer of Zion; Benjamin of
crossed oceans and continents to
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mourn her lost beauty amidst
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her ruins.
Like Jehudah Halevi, the
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sweetest singer of the golden
GREET!
age of Hebrew literature, they
were always on the way to
Jerusalem, their hearts' abode,
even if they could not embark
on the pilgrimage as the great
loved of Zion did, who is said to
have died upon reaching the
city of his longing and desire.
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