Where Heaven Touches Earth: Jewish Life in Jerusalem from Medieval Times to the PresentFeldheim Publishers, 2001 - 624 עמודים Within these pages, the reader is treated to a carefully researched, engrossing history of the resurgence of Jerusalem. From Crusader times to the flourishing Jewish life of today, it presents a chronicle of Jewish courage and devotion to the honor of Jerusalem. With its biographies, charts, drawings, photographs, and index, this book makes an ideal gift and addition to every home. |
תוכן
Upholding Jerusalems Dignity | 1 |
Great Names in the Holy City | 16 |
Jerusalem as the Center of the World | 25 |
Notes | 36 |
David HaMelech May He Live Forever The Hidden | 46 |
Shelah versus a Despot 35 | 51 |
The Rise of the Yeshivah World the Fall of the Wicked | 65 |
88888 | 87 |
Part | 279 |
Nachlash | 288 |
Meah Shearim | 297 |
Greater Jerusalem | 339 |
Notes | 357 |
Birth Pangs of the Ancient City | 381 |
Signs of Danger | 396 |
Part | 420 |
Bygone Days Stories | 106 |
The Light of Kabbalah | 125 |
Forging Onward | 138 |
Notes | 145 |
From Napoleon to Beyond the Walls | 161 |
End of the Beginning | 188 |
Notes | 194 |
Archeological Finds | 244 |
The Silence before the Storm | 250 |
Notes | 262 |
Part | 271 |
19181948 | 431 |
For the Sake of Jerusalem | 439 |
A City in Flux | 453 |
19481998 | 473 |
Notes | 477 |
211 | 480 |
Note | 549 |
Tables | 585 |
Heroes of Jerusalem | 593 |
Bibliography | 608 |
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
Aharon Arab Ashkenazic Ashkenazim Auerbach Battei became beis din beis midrash Brisker Rav British building built Bygone Days called century Chacham Bashi Chassidic Chassidim cherem Chief Rabbi Churvah courtyard Eretz Yisrael Gate Halachah halachic Hebron Holy City Jaffa Road Jeru Jerusa Jerusalem Jerusalemites Jewish community Jews Kosel land later leaders Leib lived Meah Shearim Meir Auerbach Montefiore Mordechai Moslem Nachalas Shiva Nasan neighborhood Old City Perushim pray rabbanim Rav Avraham Rav Chaim Rav David Rav Diskin Rav Kook Rav Moshe Rav of Jerusalem Rav Salant Rav Shalom Rav Shlomo Zalman Rav Shmuel Salant Rav Yaakov Rav Yehudah Rav Yisrael Rav Yitzchak Rav Yosef Rav Yosef Chaim Rav Zonnenfeld Rebbe Rishon l'Tzyon Rivlin Rosh Yeshivah scholars Sephardic Sephardim Shaarei Shabbos Shimon Shmuel Salant shul Sir Moses suburb Sultan Synagogue tefillin Temple Mount tion tomb Torah Turkish tzaddik Tzvi Tzyon Vilna wrote Yerushalayim yeshivos yishuv Zionists