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IRAN ATTACKS JERUSALEM?! HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT IT?

8.1K views · Mar 22, 2026

Rabbi Daniel Glatstein

A Torah perspective on current events, including the situation in Jerusalem and Iran.

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Iran sent a missile toward Eretz Yisrael, toward Israel. It fragmented. Part of it hit an area in the Old City of Jerusalem, 300 to 400 m away from Kaisel Hamaravi, away from the Har Habayis. We need to take this very personally. We do take this very personally. Yerushalayim is a living entity. It's not just a location, not just a center of the universe for the Jewish people. It's a living spiritual entity. Yerushalayim has feelings. When Klal Yisrael is in Yerushalayim, Yerushalayim rejoices. Misameach Tzion bevoneha. Amazingly, in 1836, an earthquake struck the northern region of Eretz Yisrael, Tzfas, Teveria, Shchem. And it killed thousands, including talmidei chachamim. And the Chasam Sofer discussed this in a eulogy he gave in 1836. It's printed in Torahs Moshe at the end of parshas Emor.

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  1. 0:01Iran sent a missile toward Eretz Yisrael, toward Israel. It fragmented. Part of it hit an
  2. 0:31people. It's a living spiritual entity. Yerushalayim has feelings. When Klal Yisrael is in Yerushalayim, Yerushalayim
  3. 1:05And the Chasam Sofer says, "The reason for the earthquake," he gives a bone-chilling explanation. He
  4. 1:36wife. Yerushalayim is like our mother. The Gemara says in Megillah daf chof hey mem beis
  5. 2:07abominations of Yerushalayim? They told him, "Before you examine the abominations of Yerushalayim, examine your mother's
  6. 2:37about your mother? And therefore, if Yerushalayim is struck, you have to take it very personally.
  7. 3:13ul'chol Yisrael, amen.

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