Shlomo Carlebach - Yerushalayim Ir Hakodesh - ירושלים עיר הקודש

Reb Shlomo Carlebach ztl - Jerusalem the Holy City #shlomocarlebach #jerusalem #yerusalem Hebrew Bible and Jewish sources The form #Yerushalem or #Yerushalayim first appears in the Bible, in the Book of Joshua. According to a #Midrash, the name is a combination of two names united by God, Yireh ("the abiding place", the name given by Abraham to the place where he planned to sacrifice his son) and Shalem ("Place of Peace", the name given by high priest Shem).[60] Oldest written mention of Jerusalem One of the earliest extra-biblical #Hebrew writing of the word Jerusalem is dated to the sixth or seventh century BCE[61][62] and was discovered in Khirbet Beit Lei near Beit Guvrin in 1961. The inscription states: "I am Yahweh thy God, I will accept the cities of Judah and I will redeem Jerusalem",[63][64][65] or as other scholars suggest: "Yahweh is the God of the whole earth. The mountains of Judah belong to him, to the God of Jerusalem".[66][67] An earlier example of the name appears in a papyrus from the 7th century BCE.[68][69]