Friends, I'd like to invite you to join
me in a mission that I think will be one
of the great moments of your life and mine.
To come together in Jerusalem for
Yom Yerushalayim as part of
Mizrachi World Movement's mission to bring as many
Jews from across the world to celebrate
the 50th anniversary of the reuniting
and rebuilding of Jerusalem;
one of the great events not only in our time but in
all of Jewish history.
Friends, you know
there is that lovely line in Psalms
ירושלים הבנויה כעיר שחוברה לה יחדיו
Jerusalem is rebuilt like
a city that is compact together
and of course that's what we see each time we
visit Jerusalem today, what all that
hundred generations of our ancestors
prayed for but never really thought they
would live to see and we have lived to see it.
That line in Psalms has a special meaning.
On those words
"כעיר שחוברה לה יחדיו"
"a city that is
bound closely together"
The Third Century Amora
Rabbi Yehoshua ben Levi said
it means Yerushalayim is
עיר שעושה כל ישראל חברים
It is the city that
turns all Jews into friends.
So, let us do that,
let us do an aliya leregel,
let us come together from every Jewish
community in the world, and join together,
as friends, celebrating the most glorious
city in all of religious history,
the city that we wept for and now we rejoice for.
Let's come together and celebrate
with World Mizrachi.
Please be there - I'll be there
and I think we will have a
celebration that we will
never forget.
