, uri . . . Yerushalayim Ir Ha-kodesh, Awake, awake, O Zion! Clothe yourself in splendor. Put on your robes of majesty, Jerusalem, holy city!” These are the words of Isaiah 52. Awakening implies slumber. And 49 years ago, Jerusalem had a reawakening. For too long, she was asleep. There, but out of reach. Then, miraculously, unexpectedly, after generations, she was in Jewish hands once again. “Yerushalayim be-Yadeinu.” These emotionally charged words have been seared into history, into our hearts. Yerushalayim, that city of contrasts, of timeliness, and of gold. The Jerusalem of Yehuda Amichai, of the “I want to live in Jerusalem of inbetween.” There is that collage of split off Biblical and poetic phrases that have woven themselves into an evocative and visceral […]
Jerusalem inbetween
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