#Gerizim

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SUNDAY MATINEE MUSIC VIDEO “2 Gospel Songs by Sam Cooke” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0azkZ751hSg Two of my favorite gospel songs made popular in the early 1950s by Sam Cooke & The Soul Stirrers. "Touch the Hem of His Garment" re-tells the amazing story of the chronically ill and socially outcast woman who touches the hem of Jesus's garment (His prayer shawl) to be healed (Matthew 9:20-21)--the more you learn about this story the more fascinating it becomes.

"Jesus Gave Me Water" is the story about the Samaritan woman who meets Jesus at Jacob’s Well, a public watering place near Mount Gerizim (a place of spiritual significance). Jesus was en route to Galilee, having just finished a lot of work in “respectable Judaea” and taking a break in “unrespectable Samaria,” home of racial half-breeds looked down upon by Pharisees and Romans. Jesus sat down by the well while the disciples went to buy bread. When a solitary gentile woman came to draw water, he broke at least two social and religious rules when he asked her to give him a drink. A strange conversation followed, untwisting the barriers between natural and spiritual, literal, and eternal, condemnation, and redemption. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0azkZ751hSg

#gospel #gospelsong #samcooke #soulstirrers #samaritan #jacobswell #gerizim #galilee #judeea #jesus #johnnyjblair #singeratlarge

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Deuteronomy: The Second Giving Of The Law (XXVIII)

Commandments And Curses (27:1-26) Neal Pollard This chapter constitutes the start of the third discourse of Moses, a short sermon covered only in chapters 27-28. Moses’ third sermon, to the delight of homiletics’ teachers, has three points: (1) Covenant Renewal (27:1-26), (2) Blessing And Curses (28:1-48), and (3) The Threat Of Captivity (28:49-68) (Smith, 526). Here, Moses tells God’s people…

[carltonblaylock]

Mount Gerizim

Deuteronomy 11:26-32 26 “Behold, I set before you today a blessing and a curse: 27 the blessing, if you obey the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you today; 28 and the curse, if you do not obey the commandments of the Lord your God, but turn aside from the way which I command you today, to go after other gods which you have not known.29 Now it shall be, when the Lord your God has…

[wisdomfish]

What became of Pilate?

Unfortunately, his encounter with Christ left him an unchanged man. According to Josephus, Pilate’s contempt for his subjects and his readiness to resort to force that threatened the precarious stability of Judea led him to disperse violently a Samaritan mob that had gathered to hear a prophetic demagogue preach on Mount Gerizim. It was one mistake too far. The outcry from the Samaritans was so great that the legate of Syria, Vitellius, intervened and deposed Pilate in AD 36.

For the next stage of Pilate’s life, one only finds unsubstantiated legends and no objective accounts. The procurator who presided over the most famous trial of history and who has been a byword for moral compromise ever since now passes into obscurity. However, the historical basis for the Gospels’ claims that he existed and their presentation of how he behaved at Christ’s trial can be asserted confidently

~ Peter Harris

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OK, we’re getting off topic here, but… isn’t Mt. Gerizim sacred to Jews as well, for the same reason (or rather one of the reasons) Samaritans consider it so, namely Deut. 11:26–30?

Jew here with a friendly reminder that:

Criticizing Isreal ≠ antisemetic

Supporting Palestine ≠ antisemitic

Believing in the Free Palestine cause ≠ antisemitic

BUT ALSO

A random ass Jew just living their life oceans away has nothing to do with the Isreal-Palestine conflict

Palestinian Jews exist

Jews that support Palestine exist (I am one of them)

Calling out ACTUAL antisemitism ≠ supporting Isreal

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Shechem & Revelation 5, the Book of Life

written by Will Schumacher

The Father holds a book in Revelation 5.

Revelation 5:1 And I saw in the right hand of him that sat on the throne a book written within and on the backside, sealed with seven seals.

Jesus as the Lion of the tribe of Judah has prevailed to open the book.

Revelation 5:5 And one of the elders saith unto me, Weep not: behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, hath prevailed to open the book, and to loose the seven seals thereof.

However Jesus is pictured as a Lamb slain, not as the Kingly Lion when He is described.

Revelation 5:6 And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth.

Jesus then takes possession of the book.

Revelation 5:7 And he came and took the book out of the right hand of him that sat upon the throne.

When Jesus takes possession of the book the 4 beasts and 24 elders fall down and worship Him for their redemption and the realized promise of becoming kings and priests who shall reign with Christ on the earth.

Revelation 5:9-10 And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation; 10 And hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth.

The focus seems to be on what Christ accomplished through His death and resurrection and what that in turn accomplished for His bride. The book must be the Book of Life.

Revelation 5:7 above where Jesus takes possession of the Book of Life has a gematria of 4966.

The most famous verse in all the Bible and a perfect match to Jesus as the Lamb of God dying on the cross to save sinners and be written in the Book of Life is verse 4966 from the end of the Bible.

John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

Interesting that Revelation 5:7 is verse 316 from the end of the Bible and a match to John 316.

Strong’s G4966 = Shechem.

Shechem is important to the covenant God made with His people.

The only use of Shechem in the New Testament is about Joesph’s bones.

Acts 7:16 And were carried over into Sychem, and laid in the sepulchre that Abraham bought for a sum of money of the sons of Emmor the father of Sychem.

I have written about Joseph’s bones in prior posts. He believed in the promises of God, therefore he commanded them to take his bones when they left Egypt.

Shechem is the place of the first promise of God to Abram that he and his seed would inherit the land.

Genesis 12:6-7 And Abram passed through the land unto the place of Sichem, unto the plain of Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in the land. 7 And the Lord appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land: and there builded he an altar unto the Lord, who appeared unto him.

Shechem is where the covenant was renewed after Joshua led the Israelites into the promised land and gave them their inheritance.

Josh 24:1 And Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem, and called for the elders of Israel, and for their heads, and for their judges, and for their officers; and they presented themselves before God.

Joshua, at this same time, buries Joseph’s bones in Shechem. Joseph trusted God to keep His promise to Abraham and it was fulfilled as he was buried in Shechem after Israel received their inheritance.

Joshua 24:32 And the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel brought up out of Egypt, buried they in Shechem, in a parcel of ground which Jacob bought of the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for an hundred pieces of silver: and it became the inheritance of the children of Joseph.

Joseph is a strong type of Christ at His first coming. He was sold into a pit by his brothers just as Christ was sold into death/pit by His brothers. Joseph then rises out of the pit and becomes the second in command over all Egypt just as Christ rose from the dead and became second in command under the Father. The story of Joseph being sold begins at Shechem. It ends at Shechem when his bones are buried in the Promised Land at Shechem.

Genesis 37:13-14 And Israel said unto Joseph, Do not thy brethren feed the flock in Shechem? come, and I will send thee unto them. And he said to him, Here am I. 14 And he said to him, Go, I pray thee, see whether it be well with thy brethren, and well with the flocks; and bring me word again. So he sent him out of the vale of Hebron, and he came to Shechem.

Shechem is not only important in that it is about the covenant of God with His people, but it is also about His faithfulness despite our unfaithfulness.

Shechem is the valley between Mt Ebal and Mt Gerizim. God commanded Israel to speak the blessings on Mt Gerizim and the curses on Mt Ebal when they came into the land. They were thus spoken over Shechem where God first promised the land to Abram.

Deuteronomy 11:29 And it shall come to pass, when the Lord thy God hath brought thee in unto the land whither thou goest to possess it, that thou shalt put the blessing upon mount Gerizim, and the curse upon mount Ebal

Later Jacob comes to Shechem and buys a plot of land. Shechem the son of Hamor defiles Dinah here. The phrase “Shechem son of Hamor” has a gematria of 666.

Genesis 34:2 And when Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, prince of the country, saw her, he took her, and lay with her, and defiled her

The gematria of this verse is 3390 matching the strong’s number H3390 = Jerusalem. Dinah is a picture of Israel/Church. Just as Shechem defiled Dinah, the beast system wants to defile us.

Later in Judges 8, Gideon had a son by a concubine in Shechem and his name was Abimelech.

Judges 8:31 And his concubine that was in Shechem, she also bare him a son, whose name he called Abimelech.

Abimelech kills the 70 sons of Gideon and the Shechemites follow Abimelech.

Judges 9:5-6 And he went unto his father's house at Ophrah, and slew his brethren the sons of Jerubbaal, being threescore and ten persons, upon one stone: notwithstanding yet Jotham the youngest son of Jerubbaal was left; for he hid himself. 6 And all the men of Shechem gathered together, and all the house of Millo, and went, and made Abimelech king, by the plain of the pillar that was in Shechem.

Jotham then pronounces a curse over Abimelech and the Shechemites for allowing bramble to reign over them.

Judges 9:14 Then said all the trees unto the bramble, Come thou, and reign over us.

Judges 9:20 But if not, let fire come out from Abimelech, and devour the men of Shechem, and the house of Millo; and let fire come out from the men of Shechem, and from the house of Millo, and devour Abimelech.

This prophecy is fulfilled. Abimelech’s head is crushed by a woman.

Judges 9:53 And a certain woman cast a piece of a millstone upon Abimelech's head, and all to brake his skull.

This “skull” is Strong’s H1538 = “gulgoleth”. Just as Jesus as the seed of the woman was to bruise the head of the serpent, Jesus bruised the head at Gulgotha.

Genesis 3:15 And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.

Matthew 27:33 And when they were come unto a place called Golgotha, that is to say, a place of a skull,

The story of Abimelech is the story of the cross defeating satan.

The message of the cross and the message of Shechem is that God is faithful to His covenant even though we have been unfaithful. We have chosen the bramble to reign over us. We deserve the curses. By God’s grace alone through Jesus, we have been redeemed and written in the Book of Life.

[kbjones]

The Wonder At The Well

This is the first of two panels on page 9. It shows some Samaritans climbing the mountain to pray. #artsample #illustration #religious #christian #samaritans #mountgerizim #biblestory https://wp.me/pLP9Y-5TB

Illustrations for Redemption Press 5 of 18 Pages 9 and 10 are drawn with panels instead of the two-page spread I’ve used so far. This is the first of two panels on page 9. It shows some Samaritans climbing Mount Gerizim to pray. In the story, Jesus and the woman are discussing how their people pray, and this panel shows how Samaritans pray three times a year on Mount Gerizim.

[starlightomatic]

you may have seen that post going around that's like "if jesus were alive today he would be palestinian and would not be allowed into jerusalem for pesach."

and i get their point but also feel the need to point out:

defining jesus in terms of the current power dynamic in israel/palestine isn't straightforward, because the split between jews and palestinians occurred after his death. it's not that jesus was a palestinian in the modern sense and also happened to be jewish in a modern sense; it's that these weren't distinct groups yet.

if jesus were a random baby born in idk the 90s in bethlehem, he would not be jewish. there are no jews in bethlehem to my knowledge.

if jesus were alive today and jewish, he would be allowed access wherever because the apartheid system privileges jews. he would not be classed as a palestinian. that is sort of, uh, the whole thing. trying to make a point about israeli apartheid without knowing that basic fact is nonsensical.

if jesus were alive today and jewish, he would not need to go to jerusalem for passover, because we no longer have pilgrimages to and sacrifices at the Temple there, because it was destroyed 1,954 years ago. again, a basic fact.

there are palestinians who celebrate pesach: samaritans. they do still maintain the custom of sacrifices at a central location, but not in jerusalem. rather they do it at mount gerizim in the west bank near nablus. if you want to make your palestinian jewish jesus modern au, make him samaritan instead (though you'll need to talk about nablus, not jerusalem)

[singeratlarge]

SUNDAY MATINEE MUSIC VIDEO: “Jesus Gave Me Water”—https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfITWfXhFeA Live in a San Francisco Temple UMC service in 2014. The song was written by Sam Cooke (first recorded in 1951 w/The Soul Stirrers). Sam re-tells the famous Bible story about the Samaritan woman who meets Jesus at Jacob’s Well, a public watering place near Mount Gerizim (a place of spiritual significance). Jesus was en route to Galilee, having just finished a lot of work in “respectable Judaea” and taking a break in “unrespectable Samaria,” home of racial half-breeds looked down upon by Pharisees and Romans. Jesus sat down by the well while the disciples went to buy bread. When a solitary gentile woman came to draw water, he broke at least two social and religious rules when he asked her to give him a drink. A strange conversation followed, untwisting the barriers between natural and spiritual, literal and eternal, condemnation and redemption. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfITWfXhFeA

#TempleUnitedMethodist #California #JohnnyJBlair #SingeratLarge #SanFrancisco #SamCooke #SoulStirrers #Jesus #Samaria #water #choir #jesuschrist #sanfrancisco #samaritan #jacobswell #gerizim #galilee #judaea #samaria #gospel #bread #well

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🟦 Friday updates, events from Israel  ( 1 of 2 )

ISRAEL REALTIME - Connecting to Israel in Realtime

✡️Erev Shabbat - Parshat Re’eh - Deuteronomy 11:26 - “See,” says Moses to the people of Israel, “I place before you today a blessing and a curse”—the blessing that will come when they fulfill G‑d’s commandments, and the curse if they abandon them. These should be proclaimed on Mount Gerizim and Mount Ebal when the people cross over into the Holy Land.

▪️LEAKS FROM SHIN BET PRE-WAR ANALYSIS.. 

Oct. 1 - The Shin Bet recommends eliminating senior members of Hamas. 

Oct. 3 - The Shin Bet claims that Hamas wants settlement and not war and that the way to maintain it on this track is economic benefits.

Oct. 7 - Hamas launches an invasion, massacre and hostage taking.

.. Minister of National Security Ben Gavir: "The documents revealed tonight prove black and white: Shin Bet chief Bar chose a few days before the massacre to act to preserve the "peace" with Hamas.”

.. The intelligence officer of the Gaza Division, the one who calmed the opposition with the words "imaginary scenario" - retires from the IDF.

▪️THE FUTURE IN GAZA (Amit Segal).. The Prime Minister is not telling the truth about the Gaza Strip. More precisely: he says it, but in a muffled way.  After the terrible failure of the 19-year experiment of relying on sensors and walls instead of holding the ground, we are now returning to another old experiment conducted between 1967 and 2005: military bases between Gaza City and Rafah. 

.. Those around Netanyahu claim that the decision to stay on the Philadelphi Egyptian border corridor will bring a hostage deal closer, as it will make it clear to Hamas that it has no choice but to be flexible. At the same time, there are factors that believe otherwise (including the loudest hostage family forum) - that remaining in the Strip will sentence the hostages to death and endanger the lives of many soldiers. (( Though the option they present is “the Americans and Egyptians will give guarantees” - which hasn’t worked in the past.  For example, Israel has such guarantees for the northern border for having pulled back, compromised on the UN drawn border line, and on the international waters line to give Lebanon access to a gas field - none of which stopped Hezbollah. ))

🟦🟦 Friday updates, events from Israel  ( 2 of 2 )

ISRAEL REALTIME - Connecting to Israel in Realtime

▪️SIDE ISSUES.. significant news cycles absorbed by where, how and who to have an Oct. 7 massacre memorial ceremony.  A state ceremony involving the towns?  Impacted families.  Big national production?  Commemoration at the presidents residence?  Argued, disagreed with, impacted towns refusing to participate, families demanding their lost loved ones names not be used, budget complaints.  Sometimes we are ridiculous.

▪️AID HIJACK.. a convoy of aid trucks from the American Near East Refugee Aid (Anera) organization entered the southern Rafah area with IDF coordination.  During the drive, armed men took over a vehicle at the front of the convoy (a jeep) and began to lead it.  The IDF struck the lead hijacked vehicle.  The remainder of the convey unharmed.

▪️INFLAMMATORY SOCIETY DIVIDING NEWS.. (Ynet) (( Every year for Rosh Hashana tens of thousands Breslev chassidim and many other spiritually oriented Israelis travel to Uman, Ukraine, to the tomb of Rabbi Nachman of Breslev.  The more dedicated have continued even though there is the Russia-Ukraine war. ))

The Ministry of Finance plans to transfer NIS 700,000 to Moldova for opening of the border between it and Ukraine, to allow the Uman pilgrimage. Last year thousands of Israelis needed government help to make the journey - through Ukraine's neighboring countries.

(( First the amount of money is relatively tiny, and I’m sure if the pilgrims were required to pay NIS 25 per person to cover the expense they would.  Second, the dedicated pilgrims are going to go - credit to the government that they are taking steps to provide the pilgrims with safer paths to travel.  “BUT BUT spending govt money on ultra-religious Israeli citizens is BAD!”  

What is bad is Ynet trying to cause societal division in the midst of a war! [or so it appears, I can’t read their mind to actually know their motivation - but for example I don’t see them complaining about the policing cost of the Kaplan protests, or the cost of Oct. 7 commemorations.] ))

🔸DEAL NEWS.. The cabinet confirmed against Defense Minister Gallant's position the decision to stay on the Philadelphi Egypt border corridor.

♦️SAMARIA - TARGETED ELIMINATION.. targeted elimination in Zavabada south of Jenin, drone-on-car strike.  According to reports 3 terrorists are eliminated.

♦️ROCKET LAUNCHER STRUCK - LAUNCHES!  Overnight, Israeli fighter jets struck several Hezbollah rocket launchers in southern Lebanon. As a result, several rockets flew out of a targeted launcher toward Israel. One rocket crossed the border and impacted an open area near the Migdal Tefen industrial zone, close to the town of Kisra-Sumei.  No injuries.

⭕ ROCKETS from HEZBOLLAH at Kisra-Sumei, Migdal Tefen overnight.

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fun fact: there’s several cases where the vulgate aligns more with the Samaritan Pentateuch rather than the Jewish version

Some six thousand differences exist between the Samaritan and the Jewish Masoretic Text. Most are minor variations in the spelling of words or grammatical constructions, but others involve significant semantic changes, such as the uniquely Samaritan commandment to construct an altar on Mount Gerizim. Nearly two thousand of these textual variations agree with the Koine Greek Septuagint and some are shared with the Latin Vulgate.

the septuagint too! also:

Samaritans include only the Pentateuch in their biblical canon.[8] They do not recognize divine authorship or inspiration in any other book in the Jewish Tanakh.[9] A Samaritan Book of Joshua partly based upon the Tanakh's Book of Joshua exists, but Samaritans regard it as a non-canonical secular historical chronicle.[10]

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the samaritans are so cool

[todaysjewishholiday]

27 Menachem Av 5784 (30-31 August 2024)

Shabbat shalom! Sabado bueno! Gutt shabbos! It is once again Judaism’s holiest and most significant holiday. We welcome shabbat with candles and song and then end our time in this holy temporal sanctuary with a feast for the senses at havdalah: the taste of wine, smell of spices, sight and feel of the multiwicked candle’s flame, and sound of the blessings. May the day of rest help steady you. This particular shabbat is a Shabbat Mevarchim, which is the Shabbat on which we offer a blessing upon the coming month. This blessing is recited in many communities following the Shabbat mourning Torah reading and is as follows:

May the One who performed miracles for our ancestors and delivered them from slavery to freedom, speedily redeem us and gather our dispersed people from the four corners of the earth, uniting all of Israel, and let us say, Amen. (Amen). Rosh Chodesh Elul will be on the third and fourth day of week, which come to us for good. May the Holy One, blessed be HaShem, renew it [the month] for us and for all G-d’s people, the house of Israel, for life and peace (Amen), for gladness and for joy (Amen), for deliverance and for consolation, and let us say, Amen. (Amen)

The practice of blessing the coming month helps situate us in time and in the cycle of the seasons created by the turning of the earth and the interlocking orbital dance of sun, earth, and moon. It offers us an opportunity to look forward to and prepare our kavanah for the upcoming lunar cycle and its special observances and commemorations. And blessing gives us an opportunity for profound gratitude for the moment we find ourselves present in now and lets us collectively express our wish for future healing and joy. May the coming month of Elul be to you for good!

The parashat hashavua is Re’eh in Devarim, which offers an overview of some of the most foundational mitzvot of the Torah in preparation for the ritual of blessings and curses on Mount Gerizim and Mount Ebal. The prohibition on idolatry, the principles of kashrus, the cycle of the shmita and yovel years, and the core pilgrimage festivals are all reviewed for the whole community. Moshe offers special attention to the duty of tzedekah — for those with surplus to share with those who don’t have enough. Moshe emphasizes that the halakhically enumerated tithes and debt cancellation aren’t enough:

For there will never cease to be those in need in your land, which is why I command you: open your hand to the poor and needy kindred in your land.

The haftarah is another passage of comfort to the exiled Israelites from Yeshayahu haNavi, assuring them of HaShem’s love and abundant generosity. Like the Torah portion, it emphasizes that G-d provides for all of our needs without expecting payment. The least we can do is take care of each other.

Just a few days remain in the month of Av. Then we will enter Elul, the preparatory month for the high holy days, during which it is said that our divine sovereign comes down from the heavenly throne and joins us in the field of our daily lives. With HaShem coming close to us it is easier in this season for us to draw close to HaShem, if we wish to do so. Elul is a time to consider what we’ve learned in the past year— what we’ve done right and where we’ve gone wrong— and to seek guidance as we move forward into a new Hebrew year and offer our accounting on Rosh HaShana and Yom Kippur.

[athena5898]

Axis of Resistance Summary: September 7, 2024 Al-Aqsa Flood's Harvest of Good Tidings

📍YEMEN Yemeni Armed Forces 🔻Shot down US MQ9 aircraft as it carried out hostile acts in Marib governorate airspace

📍”NETZARIM” AXIS, GAZA CITY Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades 🔻Targeted soldiers & vehicles with 107mm rockets + heavy caliber mortars

📍NABLUS, WEST BANK Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades 🔻Targeted military post on “Mount Gerizim” south of Nablus with machine guns

📍NORTHERN OCCUPIED INTERIOR Hezbollah 🔻Bombarded Golan Brigade HQ at "Mount Neria" base with Katyusha rocket barrages 🔻Targeted soldiers stationed around the "Manot" settlement with rockets 🔻Bombed "Mishar" base main intelligence HQ with Katyusha rocket volleys

📍BORDERLANDS Hezbollah 🔻Targeted "Hadab Yaroun" site with artillery 🔻Directly hit Rahib site with artillery 🔻Directly hit surveillance equipment at "Misgav Am" site with appropriate weapons: destroyed 🔻Directly hit Al-Marj site with artillery

📍OCCUPIED LEBANESE KFAR SHUBA HILLS Hezbollah 🔻Directly hit Samaqa site with appropriate weapons

Hezbollah: Lebanese Brigades for Resisting the "Israeli" Occupation 🔻Directly hit Ruwaisat al-Alam site with appropriate weapons

The Lebanese Brigades pledge to our people to continue the resistance until victory and liberation.

📍SOUTH LEBANON Hezbollah 🔻Air Defense Unit fighters targeted zionist "Heron" drone with surface-to-air missile in the skies of Bekaa area, preventing it from completing its goals & forcing it to leave Lebanese airspace

[beardedmrbean]

Weird question what is the importance of Jerusalem for Christians and Jews? Was Jerusalem the capital of ancient Israel and why Christians like the Templars wanted to retake it?

I got long, I'm gonna TL:DR; at the end ____________________

Jerusalem was the capital of the united kingdom of Israel, well after Saul at least David moved it there and Solomon built the temple there on the piece of land that is called "the temple mount" in English at least which is the single holiest site in Judaism, which if you speak to the remaining Samaritans you will hear different since they claim to be the ones following the true way and their capital was Samaria and their temple was on Mount Gerizim that was after the split of united Israel after the death of Solomon got Judea and Samaria.

Babylonians came in and destroyed and looted the first temple Solomon's Temple in in 587 BC, Assyrians had gotten Samaria and scattered it's people to the wing the best they could getting us The Ten Lost Tribes.

Eventually the Persian empire, (guys from the battle of Thermopylae aka 300 Spartan thing) KO'd the Babylonian empire and they were a lot nicer and also understood the politics of not getting in the way of local faiths because that's one of those things people will die for.

So Cyrus the Great gave his cup-bearer Nehemiah permission to go home and rebuild his city and its temple, so construction on the Second Temple started in 516 BC. (there's lots of extrabiblical stuff to back this up btw, in case you wondered it's not all just stuff from the Torah, names may be different that's fine tho) Ezekiel came in and rededicated it and began teaching "The Law ™" and over time it was expanded and eventually Herod the Great (same one from the Christmas story that killed all the babies looking for Jesus) got it all done and if we look at the timeline and that little bit of info about Herod we can see why Christians are so attached to the place too.

The Temple held the Holy of Holies, which is where the Ark of the Covenant (from Indiana Jones, lol) was kept had the original 10 commandment tablets a jar of mana and Aaron's staff in it and the actual location was considered the conduit between this world and the other, inelegant way to put it but still. It's where the high priest could go once a year and offer a sacrifice for the people, on Yom Kippur the holiest day in both Judaism and Samaratinsim (they agree mazel tov) I remember something about a rope being tied to their leg and they had to wear bells just in case they were "smited" and needed to be "removed" not sure how real that is.

With all of that it should be fairly simple to figure out why Jewish people are so attached to it, and the Jesus connection what with the whole bit about the money changers and flipping tables taking place in the courtyard of that temple, the whole last bit of each of the gospels starting well before the triumphal entrance on what Christians call Palm Sunday all the way through the crucifixion, resurrection, and ascension that was all in and around Jerusalem.

Jews were ending their Passover Seder with L'Shana Haba'ah B'Yerushalayim (Next year in Jerusalem) starting somewhere in the 1400's from what I can see as a wish to be able to go home and worship and fellowship in their own homeland among other reasons.

So here we have the previously mentioned Temple Mount

That bit where it says "Western Wall" is a remnant from the 2nd temple, Jesus touched that and may have taught while using it to shade himself it's all happened there.

The city is in the DNA of every Jewish person and by extension Christians though not as deeply ingrained.

Then we get to Islam, as you see in the image up there they built a mosque on top of the location for the Jewish Temple, it's how history works may have been some middle finger flipping when it happened but as history goes that's how a invading conquering force does thing, always have.

Dome of the rock there on the inside looks like this

The exposed bit there is goes by several names, "Foundation Stone" is one, it's believed by (some) Jews that this is the location where the Holy of Holies was/is and for Muslims it's where Muhammad ascended went on his "night journey" spoke directly to both Moses and Allah to get the law for Muslims some of it at least.

Spot under that rock is the "well of souls" bet you can guess what significance that has.

So bringing it all together and hitting the TL:DR at the same time. _____________________________-

TL:DR; all 3 Abrahamic faiths are very attached to the city of Jerusalem and its surrounding area because it plays a central part in the stories of them.

Jews were there first so they get the strongest claim imho but as it sits it is a holy and revered site for all 3 faiths because it's deeply connected to them all both physically and spiritually.

Slightly less holy to Muslims since their temple mount buildings are just the third most sacred place in Islam, but still dreadfully sacred. ______________

Sorry this was really long, hope it was slightly interesting at least if you read it, it's as accurate as I could make it without spending a lot more time fact checking myself too.

[frisrael]

“Again you will plant vineyards on the hills of Samaria”

Many of the hills of Samaria are barren and empty – except for those touched by Jews who came back and are renewing the love story with our ancestral homeland. When Vered and Erez Ben Saadon got married in 1997, they chose to live in the village of Bracha, located on Mount Gerizim in Samaria, where the biblical blessing was given to the tribes of Israel. Vered and Erez had a dream to farm the…