Overview
- Israel’s Chief Rabbi, Rav Kalman Meir Ber, issued a letter on Thursday that reaffirms Yom Yerushalayim as a Chief Rabbinate-designated day of thanksgiving for the miracles of the Six-Day War.
- Yom Yerushalayim, known as Jerusalem Day, marks Israel’s 1967 reunification of the city and the return to the Western Wall.
- The Chief Rabbi describes the city’s ongoing rebuilding as the realization of biblical promises, citing scenes of seniors and children filling Jerusalem’s streets.
- He presents Jerusalem as the spiritual heart of the Jewish people that unites different communities and channels blessing to the nation.
- Other rabbinic voices urge a mitzvah to rejoice and give thanks and note that disputes over sovereignty, including on the Temple Mount, still persist.