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As an epigraph to my book, I chose verses from Psalm 122, because they send a message that is close to my heart—peace within the City of Peace, Jerusalem. Whenever I visit my homeland, Israel, I make sure to be in Jerusalem. One cannot comprehend what this holy city is all about without being there spiritually, experiencing the intense presence of the Divine, and having the inner understanding of the mystical Ladder Dream of the Patriarch Jacob, when he said, “How full of awe is this place! This is none other than the house of God and this is the Gate of Heaven.” 1
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Notes
Albert Hourani, A History of the Arab Peoples ( Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1991 ), 28.
See, for example, Jacob Neusner, Jews and Christians: The Myth of Common Tradition ( Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 2003 ).
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Har-El, S. (2014). Introduction: Jerusalem’s Gate of Mercy as a Context. In: Where Islam and Judaism Join Together. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137388124_1
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