Jerusalem – The Original D.C. Published: Monday, May 12, 2014 01:09:06 PM Number of views: 1747 |
Where does the name Yerushalayim come from? The answer is given by Tosfot in Tractate Taanit, 16 who state that the name Yerushalayim is a combination of two words, one uttered by Avraham at the Akeda (Bereshis 22), "Har Hashem Yeiraeh", which means "The mountain where G-d will be seen", and the city was already called Shalem, (peace), by Malkitzedek (Bereshis 14). Thus, the city of Yerushalayin combines the two names, given by these great people, Avraham and Malkitzedek – "Yeiraeh" and "Shalem". Tosfot also explain that the reason we don't put a YUD between the LAMED and the MEM in the word Yerushalayim, is that we focus on the name, Shalem, which means peace and has no YUD. The former Chief Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau stated that the name Yerushalayim appears 667 times in Nach, and only three times in Nach do we find the word Yerushalayim spelled with a YUD MEM at the end of the word. Isn't it an amazing coincidence that the IDF reunited Yerushalayim on the exact non-Jewish month and year 6/67? We know that there are no coincidences. Thus, the word for coincidence in Hebrew is MIKREH, spelled MEM KUF REISH HEH, which rearranged spells |