Old City
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Sep 11, 2026
Gary ArndtHOST
This became an important practical reference for administering the Church of the Holy Sepulcher and other disputed sites.
Gary ArndtHOST
After the creation of Israel in 1948, the old city of Jerusalem itself was under Jordanian rather than Israeli control.
Gary ArndtHOST
That changed in June of 1967 when Israel captured East Jerusalem and the Old City during the Six Days War.
Gary ArndtHOST
Both Israel and Jordan continued to enforce the status quo policy that had begun under the Ottomans and was continued by the British.
Gary ArndtHOST
I should conclude by noting that the immovable ladder is really more of a metaphor.
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"Al-Taher"
Deborah PardesHOST
"More to come," those are the words Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu concluded with in his holiday statement while standing at the Western Wall complex in Jerusalem's Old City.
Deborah PardesHOST
He said the IDF is striking the Iranian axis, quote, "Delivering heavy blows, not only in the Gaza Strip, but also in Lebanon." According to Reuters last week, Iran warned the United States it would respond on a large scale to an Israeli attack on the Al-Taher Ridge.
Deborah PardesHOST
One of their sources said Israel had postponed the attack because of US pressure.
Andrew M. HenryHOST
As Goodacre says, these tombs were generally cut out of the limestone and included multiple niches called loculi to hold the bodies.
Andrew M. HenryHOST
This on screen is the so-called Tomb of Annas, located west of the Old City of Jerusalem.
Andrew M. HenryHOST
Shout out to Zahi Shaked for this footage, you can check out his channel in the description below.
Andrew M. HenryHOST
It's thought to be the tomb of the high priest Annas, the father-in-law of Caiaphas.
Jeff ChadwickGUEST
That will be established in the tops of the mountains.
Jeff ChadwickGUEST
In other words, in the latter days, that place, which itself sits among mountains, as anybody who's visited Jerusalem will know, the temple mount there sits between the Mount of Olives and between the high mount that is in the western part of the Old City and sits in the tops of the Judean mountains surrounding.
Jeff ChadwickGUEST
This is a great hymn that says Zion stands with hills surrounded.
Jeff ChadwickGUEST
Remember that one? That's true.
Yitzchak BreitowitzHOST
There is then a Machloket within the Shitas HaRambam.
Yitzchak BreitowitzHOST
Is Yerushalayim Nichlal in Mikdash only when there is a Mikdash, or is it Nichlal even Bizman Hazeh? So there are Acharonim who will taco learn in the Rambam, in the Rambam, not in Rashi, that it's Shayeach to blow the Shofar- On, uh, y- in the old city, in the old city, even Bizman Hazeh.
Yitzchak BreitowitzHOST
Now, around 150 years ago, there was a gain, Rabbi Akiva Yosef Schlesinger, uh, was a Talmid of the Chasam Sofer, a Talmid of a Talmid who came to Yerushalayim, and he was, he was Machria that you should blow the Shofar in the Old City, Rosh Hashanah, Shabbat.
Yitzchak BreitowitzHOST
And he went to Rav Shmuel Salant who was the longtime Rav of Yerushalayim, more than seventy years, uh, to get a heter to do it, that we should do it.
Yitzchak BreitowitzHOST
Not just a heter, a, a chiyuv.
Yitzchak BreitowitzHOST
Elama, the Chachamim forbade you to do it, and then you have the smarah, I should go and, and go and listen.
Yitzchak BreitowitzHOST
So there are a few, I'm not sure how, how, how many.
Yitzchak BreitowitzHOST
There are a few places in the Old City, or at least one place-- Well, obviously, at least one place in the Old City that, um, does blow Shofar, Rosh Hashanah, Shabbat.
DanielHOST
They hear refugee camp, and they picture something distant, somewhere out in the West Bank.
DanielHOST
Shwafat is three and a half kilometers from the old city.
DanielHOST
The sewage problem is the whole story in miniature, honestly.
DanielHOST
But start with the camp itself.
CornHOST
People assume the camp is a post-1967 problem.
CornHOST
It isn't.
CornHOST
It was a Jordanian-era solution to overcrowding in the old city.
CornHOST
Then 1967 happens.
Herman PoppleberryHOST
The area was expanded significantly.
Herman PoppleberryHOST
It included the Old City, the Arab neighborhoods to the north and east, and a bunch of villages that had never been part of the Jerusalem municipality under Jordan.
Herman PoppleberryHOST
The boundary was drawn to include as much land as possible with as few Arab residents as possible, which is why it snakes around in that strange way.
Herman PoppleberryHOST
And the legal effect was
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Herman PoppleberryHOST
The Jordanian occupation is another one of those periods that gets glossed over.
Herman PoppleberryHOST
Jordan controlled East Jerusalem for 19 years and did almost nothing to develop it.
Herman PoppleberryHOST
The old city was neglected.
Herman PoppleberryHOST
The Jewish quarter was destroyed and its residents expelled.
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Andrew M. HenryHOST
sites, and opinions started to converge on a limestone hill 250 meters north of the Old City and a tomb hewn into its western slope.
Andrew M. HenryHOST
European and American explorers had floated this hill as a possibility as early as the 1840s, mostly based on the notion that it looked something like a human skull.
Andrew M. HenryHOST
This connection was inspired by the Gospels, which called the crucifixion location the Place of the Skull, so they interpreted this name as a literal reference to a geographic feature.
Shay SchachterHOST
No, no, no, that's not what we mean.
Shay SchachterHOST
We mean the old city of Yerushalayim.
Shay SchachterHOST
What is the old city of Yerushalayim? Not the old city as we know it today.
Shay SchachterHOST
It means the old, old city of Yerushalayim, which literally surrounded the Har Abayis.
Shay SchachterHOST
The smaller old city, says the Ramam and the Pir Shem Eshnai, is that it's all included in the definition of Migdash.
Shay SchachterHOST
So, therefore, according to the Rambam, when you have Rosh Hashanah that falls out on Shabbos, not only would you blow shofar in the Beis Hamikdash proper, you would blow shofar in all the surrounding environment of the Beis Hamikdash as well.
Shay SchachterHOST
Simply put, says the Rambam, because not only did you have the Kohanim there who were very scrupulous, but in Yerushalayim you also had the Bezdin HaGadol.
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Shay SchachterHOST
Reb Shmuel Salant was the chief rabbi of Yerushalayim.
Baruch SimonHOST
Byron, how far away do you live from B'chon Yerushalayim?
AaronPANELIST
B'chon Yerushalayim is in the Old City, no? Yeah.
AaronPANELIST
I think so.
Baruch SimonHOST
Yeah, I once went to try to look for them.
Baruch SimonHOST
I
AaronPANELIST
didn't
Baruch SimonHOST
believe in the Old City.
AaronPANELIST
By Buxbaum, no?
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