Yerushalayim is for all Jews! - Rabbi Assaf Bednarsh

yerushalayim the holiest most special city in the world is described in the torah in that hashem homest out of the entire world to rest ishrina in the first place i make dash the second base i make dash and the mirror shimakura viamenu the third base of dash but interestingly the torah doesn't identify where this makamashi of khara hashem the shaken shemosham is the torah just says in the future where hashem will choose but historically how did that happen how did hashem choose yerushalayim as the place for hishrima so interestingly we read in seifer shmuel that david when he took over from shawwal reigned he had his capital in chevron for seven years because all the representatives of all the shvatim came to david and asked him to be their king and anointed him appointed him king in hebron seven years later david decided to begin planning abatement dash to bring the aron habrit the arunachal dish to a special place which would be the spiritual and political capital of amy israel and brought it to you shalom why did you choose your what made david pick what was then a non-jewish city inhabited by a nation called yavusim to be his capital and to be the mako hashem some of our shims suggest the rambam and others that he had some sort of mesola and the torah shabbat that was in his hands told him that yerushalayim was a special place that perhaps that was the loca location of akidation stock perhaps that was where adam harishan was created in part of carbon so perhaps he was merely working off his mesura however the marbling suggests a deeper explanation throughout jewish history there have been tension between the different shavatin the different tribes maybe now we call them sects or political parties the different types of jews from the very beginning of the jewish people yaakov's sons fought with each other the banay leia and the banayrachel throughout the period of safer shelf tim if we read the book of shoftim we see the difference in best case scenario not getting along and not helping one another worst case scenario actually warring against one another and in safer schmuel first shall is appointed king from the shaved of binyamin and then somehow there's some coup and hashem switches the leadership to shave it yehuda and anoints david miller you can only imagine the tension between binyamin and yehuda over who would be king who is the most important shavette who is the leader perhaps going all the way back in history to yaakov's family and yosef had been yemen against roofing shimon levy and yehuda you can imagine what politics must have been like in those days what did david hamelik decide by all logic if you asked any contemporary politician he should have kept the capital of the state of israel in chevron he should have kept it in his tribe of yehuda and consolidated power in the hands of the leaders of yehuda but david made a bold grave move he said if i'm really king of amyasv a king of amnesia can't be a king of one faction of omisro can't represent one sector one political party or one hashtag or one type of jew a king means someone who equally represents all kinds of jews and transcends his sectarian identity and therefore he picked the two shvatim that were most at odds with each other who didn't benjamin and found one city which is exactly on the border of yehuda and benjamin because that'll tell us a few places in shas that you shall even hire by us was exactly on the border line of yehuda yaman and this is very clear in the surcham in your safer yoshua where they list the borders and the cities of each shavet's inheritance where yushalayim is listed on the border of yehuda and on the border binyamin it was exactly the no man's land between them governor mello says you know what there are two shabbat in fighting there are a lot of jews who have trouble getting along let me put my capital exactly in between them to make the statement that i'm not the king representing one kind of jew or another kind of jew but i equally represent all kinds of jews that all jews are equal and that all parts of the jewish people are equally important