{"id":7412,"date":"2018-12-19T13:30:45","date_gmt":"2018-12-19T11:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/2018\/12\/19\/quotes-from-the-sages-about-jerusalem"},"modified":"2018-12-24T12:34:34","modified_gmt":"2018-12-24T10:34:34","slug":"quotes-from-the-sages-about-jerusalem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/2018\/12\/19\/quotes-from-the-sages-about-jerusalem\/","title":{"rendered":"Quotes from the Sages About Jerusalem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>This post presents a collection of quotes from rabbinic liturgy describing the significance of Jerusalem in Jewish tradition.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>Quotes from the Sages About Jerusalem<\/h3>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;Whoever did not see Jerusalem in her glory has never seen a beautiful city&#8221; <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u2014 Sukkah 51b<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Ten measures of beauty descended to the world, Jerusalem took nine&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u2014 Kidushin 49b<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00a0&#8220;Jerusalem is the light of the world&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u2014 Bereshit Rabbah 59<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00a0&#8220;The Land of Israel sits at the center of the world and Jerusalem sits at the center of the Land of Israel&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u2014 Tanchuma Kedoshim 10<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00a0&#8220;There is no beauty like that of Jerusalem&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u2014 Avot of Rabbi Natan 28<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00a0&#8220;All who pray in Jerusalem &#8211; it is as if he prayed before the throne of glory, because the gate of heaven is situated there&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u2014 Pirkei de-Rabbi Eliezer 35<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post presents a collection of quotes from rabbinic liturgy describing the significance of Jerusalem in Jewish tradition.\u00a0 Quotes from the Sages About Jerusalem &#8220;Whoever did not see Jerusalem in her glory has never seen a beautiful city&#8221; \u2014 Sukkah 51b &#8220;Ten measures of beauty descended to the world, Jerusalem took nine&#8221; \u2014 Kidushin 49b [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":6070,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1778,1643],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7412\/"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post\/"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/80\/"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments\/?post=7412"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7412\/revisions\/"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7425,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7412\/revisions\/7425\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6070\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=7412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=7412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=7412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}