Yom Ha-Atzma'ut & Yom Yerushalayim

HaRav Yehuda Amital	"You Shall Be Called 'My Delight'"
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
Rav David Brofsky	Celebrating Yom Ha-atzmaut and Yom Yerushalayim
HaRav Barukh Gigi	Jerusalem - A City that Turns All of Israel into Friends
HaRav Barukh Gigi	The Heavenly Jerusalem and the Earthly Jerusalem
Rav Yitzchak Levi	Jerusalem - City of Justice
HaRav Yaakov Medan	Praying Towards Jerusalem
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

HaRav Yehuda Amital zt"l	The Social Challenges Confronting the State of Israel
HaRav Aharon Lichtenstein	Seder Zera'im: The Laws Dependent upon the Land of Israel
Rav Chaim Navon	Eretz Yisrael in Tanakh and Jewish Thought

HaRav Yehuda Amital	"Rejoice in the Lord and Be Glad"
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 Ahraon Lichtenstein	Why Did Moshe Desire to Enter the Land?
HaRav Aharon Lichtenstein	Mutual Responsibility in the Jewish State
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
Rav Yoel Bin-Nun	A Psalm for Independence Day
HaRav Yaakov Medan	"Ha-Tikva" Then and Now

HaRav Yehuda Amital zt"l	"Again There Shall Be Heard … in the Streets of Jerusalem"
HaRav Aharon Lichtenstein	Visiting the Temple Mount in Our Time
Rav Yitzchak Levi	*Why Does the Chumash* Not Mention Jerusalem by Name?**