Next Year In Jerusalem

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when do we use this phrase '' Next Year In Jerusalem '' ?

Mister Micawber · Accepted Answer

"May we all celebrate the holiday next year in Jerusalem!" (Jewish blessing said at the end of the Haggadah reading during Passover and at the end of prayers)

Roach · Answer

In californication....hank moody says this phrase right after his best friend is done telling his worries

'' next year my Hebrew friend..next year in Jerusalem ''

does it make any sense dude ?

Mister Micawber · Answer

I am not a 'dude', so you must be speaking to someone else.

Roach · Answer

Mister Micawber...sorry about that...I was talking to you..can you answer my question ?

Mister Micawber · Answer

I haven't seen Californication—and I don'tlike the show title—but I presume that it makes sense.

Roach · Answer

Mister Micawber..you sound somewhat perfunctory..

..I'm really curious to know the actual reason

Rajesh1997 · Answer

"Traditionally, Jerusalem has been the focus of longing for Diaspora Jews who were forced from their land and the Temple of their ***. Psalm 137 is the well-known lament of the Babylonian Jews who wept "by the rivers of Babylon" and declared, "If I forget you, O Jerusalem, let my right hand wither."

The most straightforward answer is that "Jerusalem" refers to the future city-~~and its Temple~~-rebuilt when the Messiah comes. Most traditional Jews feel quite comfortable expressing this messianic longing at the end of the seder, just as at the end of each Shabbat Jews recite the hope that the Messiah should come "speedily in our day." And to clarify for Israelis, some traditional Haggadot indicate that those in the Jewish state should replace the phrase with "next year in Jerusalem, the rebuilt," implying a rebuilt Temple.

But many liberal Jews do not accept the idea of the Messiah and the return to a Temple-based Judaism focused on Jerusalem. The phrase "next year in Jerusalem," however, can be interpreted in many different ways. These words convey a web of meaning from concrete to abstract, and from earthly to holy.

Although the phrase itself entered the Haggadah only in the Middle Ages, it resonates thematically with ancient biblical themes of past and future redemption. On the seder night, each participant has personally experienced the physical redemption at that Red Sea. As the Haggadah says, "For it was not our forefathers alone whom the Holy One redeemed; He redeemed us, too, with them," and, "In every generation, every individual must feel as if he or she personally had come out of Egypt." Then, as we end the seder, we utter this phrase that reaches forward to the coming of the Messiah and to complete spiritual redemption, represented by Jerusalem."

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