The Zion Gate is one of eight gates built into the walls of the Old City of Jerusalem. It was built for Suleiman the Magnificent in 1540. Located in the south of the Old City, facing Mount Zion and Hebron, the Zion Gate leads into the Armenian and Jewish Quarters. Zion Gate is also known as Davids Gate (Arabic: Bab el-Daoud; Hebrew: Shaar David), because the tomb of King David is believed to be on Mt. Zion. (Photo: Nati Shohat/Flash90)
Last Wednesday, Israel365s Rabbi Tuly Weisz met with a group of American college students visiting Israel with the Christian organization Eagles Wings on Mt. Zion in Jerusalem.
Eagles Wings is a pro-Israel Christian ministry which runs an educational program called the Israel Experience for Christian students interested in learning more about Israel advocacy. The program brings groups of students on trips to Israel every year, where they travel the land and learn more about Israels Biblical origins as well as its present realities.
The students toured all over Israel to various significant sites including the Sea of Galilee, Mt. Bental, the Dead Sea and Ein Gedi. They came to Jerusalem to explore the wonders of the ancient holy city, visiting Jewish as well as Christian religious sites.
Rabbi Weisz spoke to the group at the historical building of the Diaspora Yeshiva, established on Mt. Zion in 1966 by Rabbi Mordechai Goldstein, who came to Jerusalem from America with 200 of his students. His son, Rabbi Yitzchak Goldstein, who is deeply involved in running the yeshiva, also addressed the group.
Mt. Zion is the only place in the world that accepts all three religions Jews, Muslims and Christians, said Rabbi Goldstein. On this one hill, theres a synagogue, a church and a mosque. Everyone is welcome.
Rabbi Goldstein told a parable about the founding of Jerusalem involving two brothers, one rich and one poor. The unmarried and childless rich brother, concerned about his brothers large family and poverty, decided to give his brother a gift. At the same time, the poor brother, feeling enriched by his loving family, decided to give his wealthy but lonely brother a gift as well. The place where the paths of the two brothers crossed, Rabbi Goldstein taught, was the place where God decided to build his holy city of Jerusalem.
He wants to build his house in a place where people share, which is built on a foundation of people giving, he said.
Joining the group was prominent Christian Zionist Donna Jollay, who shared a teaching from Isaiah Chapter 2:
The mountain of the Lords house shall be established and the top of the mountain shall be exalted above the hills. And all nations shall flow to it.
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