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Zev discusses the splendor of biblical Jerusalem, shares how they discover the treasures beneath the surface, and explains the work he does in Ird David.

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we're coming to you live this Wednesday night or Ereve sort of Ereve Yom Yerushalayim

Friday's Yom Yerushalayim we're grateful to Aterikonan in the incredible

organization and Yeshiva and very excited about our guest tonight from Iir Davy the

city of David Zev Ornstein.

Really amazing, really exciting to have him on.

We love Yerushalayim. What a miracle. Yushalayim? Like, who would object to the celebration of Yom Yer Shaliyaham? After 2,000 years, an undivided eternal capital of the Jewish people, Yushaliam, access to our holiest place on earth. The world was created from and the Torah in Yuselan Kimitse on Taita Soda, the amount of Torah being learned and taught and studied in Yushalayam and the light and the love of Yushaliam. It's amazing. Such gratitude, we have to have to have Hashem. Yeah, you wonder why it's not even a bigger celebration around the world and even in Israel. You would think, I mean, it's, is it a commemoration? We'd you say also have the Six Day War. I mean, everyone felt so strong after the Six Day War. We got her back. Yeah, so many other things. Yeah, what's interesting is that it's not, it's not, it's not like just the Haredim religiously don't celebrate.

In fact, the Haredim are much more open celebrating Yom Yer Shalim than they are Yom Atsmud. I saw a flyer for a Haredi event for Yom Yer Shalai this year online with major Rabanem Gidoulai Yisra, connecting to the theme and the gratitude and the miracle of Yom Yur Shalim. It's interesting that the majority of secular Israelis don't connect to it because for many,

that's when we became occupiers.

That's when we, you know.

Yeah, but it looked funny because back then, you and I weren't born yet,

but they say in 67, everyone, religious Jews, secular Jews,

you could be living in Israel, you could be living in New York, and you walked around with such a sense of pride that you can. No, but that was the perfect hand of,

yeah, of a quarter of a miracle. But I think the political consequence or, you know, what do we now

do with the land and what I do with these people and how does this work? Where do we go from here?

That was first beginning to unfold. So you remember, they dug hundreds of thousands of graves in Israel. They thought this was the end of Israel. People were sending your children to America to keep them alive. So there'll be a continuity. Right. Last one out shut the lights. Right. Right. Say that in Tel Aviv or something. So it was just an incredible miracle that we didn't just survive, but we absolutely, you know, were thriving.

But I don't think as it unfolded, there was the understanding of the political ramifications and consequence.

And as that began to unfold, that's when it became much more of a political hot button.

And you have a majority probably of Israelis who look back at Yomersishalayem and don't necessarily see it as a day of celebration. First of all, it doesn't have the religious significance, united Yerushalim, or access to the Kotel and Harabayas and so on. And aside from that politically, it doesn't necessarily have. So not everybody is on board. I was just listening to an interview. Brett Stevens was in our community recently. And I was listening to an interview he did. And someone asked him, you know, how come it's not, you know, we haven't moved things along quicker. He says, let me tell you, when America was found, the United States of America, 75 years in, we were still owning slaves.

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