Jerusalem is a festival and a lamentation. Its song is a sigh across the ages, a delicate, robust, mournful psalm at the great junction of spiritual cultures.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I cannot assume emotions I do not feel, and must describe Jerusalem as I found it. Since being here, I have read the accounts of several travellers, and in many cases the devotional rhapsodies - the ecstacies of awe and reverence - in which they indulge, strike me as forced and affected.
My family has been rooted and intertwined with Jerusalem for generations, and I am among those who say every day, 'May You return to Your city, Jerusalem, with compassion.'
Our Feast gatherings, which has spread all over the world, is attended by young people - and they love to sing worship songs.
I would never call Jerusalem beautiful or comfortable or consoling. But there's something about it that you can't turn away from.
It was a major dream come true at last. In many respects, Jerusalem is a very modern and important story about people in a period of transition, with all the unrest that permeates society on the eve of a new century. The big life issues are at stake.
I come from the performance world, but the idea of a worship song is different. It's useful music.
Jerusalem is the holiest place for the Jewish people.
The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.
In the Jewish tradition, there is at the same time Jerusalem in the heavens and Jerusalem on the ground. Jerusalem is a living city, but also the heart, the soul of the Jewish people and the state of Israel.
Where there is devotional music, God is always at hand with His gracious presence.
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