“Zechor, Hashem, livnei Edom, es Yom Yerushalaim — Hashem, remind the children of Edom of the Day of Jerusalem…” - Tehillim 137:7It is from this verse that the Chief Rabbinate of Israel took the name of the holiday. But what is Yom Yerushalayim?The name of the city is a portmanteau of two words: Yeru, and Shaleim.
“Yeru” derives from the Aqeidah, when Avraham finally offers the ram, and declares the future Temple Mount to be “Har Hashem Yir’ah — Mount ‘Hashem Will See’”, which, the chumash continues, is then called “Har Hashem Yeira’eh — Mount ‘Hashem will be Seen’” (Bereishis 22:14). Yeru is a place where Avraham encountered G-d, where He experienced hashgachah peraris, Divine Supervision, and from which flows yir’as Shamayim (awe of [the One in] Heaven).
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