The Jews: Next Year in Which Jerusalem?

Monday, Apr. 10, 1972

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as propounded by Canadian Philosopher Emil Fackenheim: Jews are forbidden to grant posthumous victories to Hitler. That includes maintaining loyalty to two Jerusalems: the earthly city and the heavenly one, the realized and the unrealized. For many Jews, the earthly Jerusalem remains an irresistible symbol of hope and triumph. For others, aliyah to the existing Jerusalem is not necessary to reach the ideal one. To them, "Next Year in Jerusalem" means a spiritual journey: contributing their special vision to help build something nearer to that heavenly city—the kingdom of God—throughout the world.

*The Talmud is the great body of Jewish legal and ritual commentary recorded between 300 B.C. and A.D. 500 and continuously refined by Jewish scholars ever since. Based on the Torah (the five books of Moses that make up the beginning of the Bible), it is Judaism's most authoritative source, after the Torah, and its greatest literary achievement. *Regular kosher, for example, allows animals to be eaten whose lungs are scarred from old internal injuries: glutt kosher requires the lungs to be completely smooth.

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