{"id":7709,"date":"2018-12-31T10:42:26","date_gmt":"2018-12-31T08:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/2018\/12\/31\/rabbi-yehuda-halevi-jerusalem"},"modified":"2018-12-31T10:42:26","modified_gmt":"2018-12-31T08:42:26","slug":"rabbi-yehuda-halevi-jerusalem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/2018\/12\/31\/rabbi-yehuda-halevi-jerusalem\/","title":{"rendered":"Rabbi Yehuda Halevi: Jerusalem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>This post presents medieval Spanish Jewish physician poet and philosopher Rabbi Yehuda Halevi&#8217;s poem &#8220;Jerusalem,&#8221; translated to English by Robert Mezey. The poem expresses his deep desire to return to the holy city of Jerusalem. He died shortly after arriving in the Land of Israel in 1141.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>Jerusalem<\/h2>\n<p>Beautiful heights, city of a great King,<br \/>\nFrom the western coast my desire burns towards thee.<br \/>\nPity and tenderness burst in me, remembering<br \/>\nThy former glories, thy temple now broken stones.<br \/>\nI wish I could fly to thee on the wings of an eagle<br \/>\nAnd mingle my tears with thy dust.<br \/>\nI have sought thee, love, though the King is not there<br \/>\nAnd instead of Gilead\u2019s balm, snakes and scorpions.<br \/>\nLet me fall on thy broken stones and tenderly kiss them\u2014<br \/>\nThe taste of thy dust will be sweeter than honey to me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post presents medieval Spanish Jewish physician poet and philosopher Rabbi Yehuda Halevi&#8217;s poem &#8220;Jerusalem,&#8221; translated to English by Robert Mezey. The poem expresses his deep desire to return to the holy city of Jerusalem. He died shortly after arriving in the Land of Israel in 1141.\u00a0 Jerusalem Beautiful heights, city of a great King, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":7710,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1643],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7709\/"}],"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=7709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7709\/revisions\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7710\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=7709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=7709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=7709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}