Tomorrow night, we will be celebrating the thirty-ninth anniversary of the return of Jerusalem into Jewish hands. Many people around the world continue to deny the Jewish people the right to claim the city as our eternal capital. On the Temple Mount, the Arabs do what they can to destroy any evidence of our ancient presence, yet, despite their efforts, they cannot erase the basic fact that Jerusalem has, is and will always be - ours. This is not to say that the city is less important to persons of another faith. What I am stating and categorically so, is that Jerusalem is accessible to anyone who wants to worship therein, but never it let be forgotten that, at the end of the day, we, the Jewish Nation are the only people who, since time immemorial have chosen this very special place as a destination for all our prayers - she belongs to us. Every time we pray to G-d, we face towards Jerusalem. Every single Ark in every single Synagogue faces towards the city. It’s presence in our psyche...
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He said that 20 years ago he did a road test in the same car and said the suspension was so good that he could light a cigarette on a bumpy road at 40mph. However he was no longer able to repeat the experiment because its now illegal for him to smoke in the car whilst working. He laughed about it - but it makes a good point about how locked down our society has become (and I'm not a smoker)!
We used to be shocked at how locked down the communists were, but look at ourselves now (and I'm not a communist either!)