Yom Yerushalayim or Jerusalem Day is celebrated by the Jewish communities all over the world on 28th May 2014. It is a public holiday in Israel. The day is observed by travelling or hiking to Jerusalem. Recitations of the Hallel prayer for praise and thanksgiving, street parades, parties, singing, special meals and lectures on the history and future of Jerusalem also takes place.
Here we present Jerusalem Day 2014 SMS, Wishes, Messages, Greetings In English:
“The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum.” — Thomas Paine, American revolutionary leader
“Jerusalem will only be redeemed through [the merit of giving] charity.”
— Talmud: Shabbat 139a
“There are three gates to Gehinam (purgatory) – one of them is in Jerusalem.”
— Talmud: Eruvin 19a
“Here (Jerusalem), tears do not weaken the eyes, they only polish and shine the hardness of faces like stone.”
— Yehuda Amichai, Israeli poet.
“Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee. Peace be within your walls, and prosperity within your palaces.”
— Psalms122:6-7
“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.”
— David K. Shipler, author and journalist
“Ten measures of beauty descended to the world, nine were taken by Jerusalem.”
—Talmud: Kiddushin 49b
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