Habayit Beyadenu.” These three Hebrew words — “the Temple Mount is in our hands” — have defined one of modern Jewry’s most historic moments. Toward the end of the miraculous Six Day War, shockingly, in addition to the return of the Old City of Jerusalem, after thousands of years the Temple Mount was back in Jewish hands. It was a breathtaking moment in Jewish history. Many of us have heard the actual recording of these stirring words. Why did the cry resound around the world? Har Habayit Beyadenu — how did three simple words come to compress the miraculous victory of the Six Day War for the Jewish people? Because for millennia, this is what the Jewish people had been praying for. In fact, on […]
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