Today, Wednesday, May 16th, the 28th day of Iyar, marks the fortieth anniversary of the liberation of the old city of Jerusalem and the Temple Mount. It also marks the yartzheit - the anniversary of the death of Shmuel hanavi - the prophet Samuel. This is only fitting as Samuel along with King David, (whose yartzheit is marked next week on Shavuot), worked together (with the help of G-d) to turn Jerusalem into the eternal capital of the Jewish nation. Samuel and David determined through prophetic vision that the threshing floor purchased by David from Ornan the Jebusite was none other than the very location referred to by G-d in Torah as "the place where I will choose" to dwell. David spared no effort in bringing the ark of the covenant to Jerusalem and acquiring the materials necessary for the construction of the Holy Temple. It would be his son, Shlomo HaMelech - King Solomon, who would commence and complete the building of the First Temple, otherwise known as Solomon's Temple. Today, three thousand years later, the Holy Temple is not presently standing, but its destined location, the Temple Mount, and the city of Jerusalem that embraces it, is no less compelling. It is accepted as a given by most of the modern world that, as goes the Temple Mount, so goes humanity.
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