Yom Ha-Atzma'ut

Yom Yerushalayim

Journal

Yom Ha-Atzma'ut Journal

HaRav Yehuda Amital		"This Day God Has Made - Let Us Rejoice and Be Glad in It"
HaRav Ahraon Lichtenstein		Why Did Moshe Desire to Enter the Land?
HaRav Aharon Lichtenstein		Mutual Responsibility in the Jewish State

From the archives

HaRav Yehuda Amital		"This is the Lord's Doing – It is Wondrous in Our Eyes!"
HaRav Yehuda Amital		Israel's Independence Day in the Face of Adversity
HaRav Yehuda Amital		"Reishit Tzemichat Ge'ulatenu": What Kind of Redemption Does Israel Represent?
HaRav Yehuda Amital		Guardian of Israel - Watch Over the State of Israel
HaRav Yehuda Amital		Rejoicing Amidst Sorrow
HaRav Yehuda Amital		The Splitting of the Sea and the War with Amalek
HaRav Yehuda Amital		The Kingdom of Justice and Truth
HaRav Yehuda Amital		The Religious Significance of the State of Israel
HaRav Yehuda Amital		"This Is the Day that God Has Made - Let Us Rejoice and Be Glad in It"
HaRav Yehuda Amital		"Sing to Him, Praise Him, Speak of All His Wonders"
HaRav Aharon Lichtenstein		"As If He Had Gone Out Himself" - Integrating Past, Present and Future in Observing Yom Ha-atzmaut
HaRav Aharon Lichtenstein		On Aliya: The Uniqueness of Living in EretzYisrael
HaRav Aharon Lichtenstein		"Tell His Righteousness to a Born Nation"
HaRav Aharon Lichtenstein		"And You Shall Sanctify the Fiftieth Year"
HaRav Mosheh Lichtenstein		The Religious Significance of Yom Ha-Atzmaut
HaRav Yaakov Medan		"Ha-Tikva" Then and Now

Yom Yerushalayim Journal

HaRav Barukh Gigi		Jerusalem - A City that Turns All of Israel into Friends
HaRav Yaakov Medan		Praying Towards Jerusalem

From the archives

HaRav Yehuda Amital		The Western Wall and "Western" Civilization
HaRav Yehuda Amital		"Again There Shall Be Heard ... in the Streets of Jerusalem"
HaRav Yehuda Amital		"If I Forget You, O Jerusalem, Let My Right Hand Forget Its Cunning"
HaRav Yehuda Amital		Burst Forth and Sing Together Ruins of Jerusalem
HaRav Aharon Lichtenstein		"For the Sake of My Brothers... For the Sake of the House of the Lord"
HaRav Aharon Lichtenstein		Jerusalem's Two Types of Sanctity, and Their Implications
HaRav Aharon Lichtenstein		Yerushalayim - Seat of Sanctity and Royalty
HaRav Aharon Lichtenstein		"The Perfection of Beauty" The Symbolism of Jerusalem and Eretz Yisrael
HaRav Aharon Lichtenstein		Jerusalem of Gold, of Brass, of Light
HaRav Aharon Lichtenstein		Yerushalayim, the Joy of the World
HaRav Aharon Lichtenstein		Jerusalem: Between Holiness and Purity
HaRav Aharon Lichtenstein		The Message of Jerusalem
HaRav Aharon Lichtenstein		Seeking the Welfare of Zion and Jerusalem
HaRav Barukh Gigi		The Heavenly Jerusalem and the Earthly Jerusalem
Rav Yitzchak Levi		Jerusalem - City of Justice
Rav Moshe Taragin		Kedushat Yerushalayim
Rav Moshe Taragin		Tzedaka Benefits for Jerusalemites
Rav Moshe Taragin		Kedushat Arei Choma

Yom Yerushalayim Picture Gallery

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Yeshivat Har Etzion, Yom Yerushalayim 5758, at the kotel for shacharit

Jerusalem


Shiloach Graves	Kotel Excavations	Kotel Vaults	Mt. Olives


At the Kotel	1967 - The Kotel	Solomon's Stables	Kotel - 19th cen.


Lion's Gate	Tiferet Yisrael Synagogue	Even HaShtiya	Old City Map


The Temple (Holyland model)	From Mt. Olives

Gush Etzion

Gush Etzion, the home of Yeshivat Har Etzion, fell to the Jordanian Legion on the 5th of Iyar, 5708 (1948), the day the State of Israel was established. On 28 Iyar 5728, Yom Yerushalayim, the Gush was liberated. Today, 10,000 people live in the Gush, home to three kibbutzim, four communal settlements, and one town.

	Yeshivat Har Etzion, Alon Shvut
	Alon Shvut On the left is Yeshivat Har Etzion In the background, Efrat