D’var Torah Yom Yerushalayim

One of my grandchildren has an enlightening definition of "cardiology" – the study of Jerusalem – the heart of the world!
The prophet Ezekiel conveyed God's words:
Thus says the Lord God: "This is Jerusalem, I have set her in the center of the nations, with countries all around her." (Ezekiel 5:5)
Based upon this verse, Maharal of Prague writes that Jerusalem is similar to the heart which is centrally located within the body. In a tighter circle, Jerusalem is clearly the heart of the Land of Israel.
David ben Gurion understood that as a body cannot remain alive without a heart, so the Land cannot be alive without its heart. During the siege of Jerusalem, when it was not clear that we would be able to hold any part of Jerusalem, Ben Gurion commented that the fall of Jerusalem would be the death blow for the nascent state.
Somehow, somehow, the State survived its first nineteen years and twenty-three days with a divided and incomplete heart.
Rebbe Nahman of Breslov said, "Everything in this world has a heart; the heart itself has its own heart." Jerusalem is the heart of our heart, the soul of our soul.
It is incumbent upon all who understand the centrality of Jerusalem to the Land of Israel and the Nation of Israel to express appreciation to God for the great miracles of the Six-Day War, and perhaps foremost, for the unification of Jerusalem and repairing the world's and our torn heart. (David Magence)

Shabbat Shalom!
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