The likes of what we heard we have now witnessed in the city of God of hosts, in the city of our God— may Hashem preserve it forever!Psalms 48:9 (The Israel Bible™)אֲשֶׁר שָׁמַעְנוּ כֵּן רָאִינוּ בְּעִיר־יְהוָה צְבָאוֹת בְּעִיר אֱלֹהֵינוּ אֱלֹהִים יְכוֹנְנֶהָעַד־עוֹלָםHear the verse in Hebrewka-a-SHER sha-MA-nu KAYN ra-EE-nu b’-EER a-do-NAI tz’-va-OT b’-EER e-lo-HAY-nu e-lo-HEEM y’-kho-n’-NE-ha ad O-lam
Daily Praise
In the times of the Beit Hamikdash (Holy Temple), a special psalm was sung by the Leviim(Levites) on each of the seven days of the week. In the absence of the Beit Hamikdash, Jews continue to say these daily Tehillim (Psalms) at the end of the morning prayers, in memory of the times when the Temple stood and in hopes of its redemption and restoration. About this psalm, Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks writes, is “a hymn of praise to the beauty and endurance of Yerushalayim, the city that outlived all those who sought to conquer it.”
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