tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7411668548766683003.post4779678882137533902..comments2023-12-06T07:09:27.892+02:00Comments on Let us tour Eretz Yisroel.: Shaar Ha’arayot — Lions Gate©Eretz Yisroel in the Lenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04743030640977483595noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7411668548766683003.post-6859996335085099202011-10-31T07:23:22.466+02:002011-10-31T07:23:22.466+02:00I got it off "Atlas tour Net".
Is it po...I got it off "Atlas tour Net". <br />Is it possible to get your email so I can send you some of the other gates before I publish them, as you have the most wonderful information.<br />I will now add your information to this piece.Eretz Yisroel in the Lenshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04743030640977483595noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7411668548766683003.post-53948520755629489252011-10-31T01:47:36.597+02:002011-10-31T01:47:36.597+02:00As far as I know, the wall around the Old City is ...As far as I know, the wall around the Old City is a bit under 4 km or a bit under 2.5 miles in length. Where did you get your data from? <br /><br />As you note, there are other names for the gate and some of them are noteworthy for our tradition. My departed friend and mentor Aharon Bier z"l notes it was called Shaar Binyamin since it was the gate leading out to the territory of Binyamin; Shaar Yericho because the road to Jericho ended at that gate, Shaar Yehoshafat because it opens out into Yehoshafat Valley. It was also know as Shaar HaShevatim, the Gate of the Tribes because all the tribes of Israel arrived here on their way to the Temple Mount. Inside from there, on the northern wall of the Temple Mount, is a gate that the Arabs still call Bab al-Ishbit, or Gate of the Tribes.<br /><br />Aharon Bier also noted that when the Old City fell in the War of Independence in '48, the captives taken by the Jordanians were led out via Lions Gate. Fittingly, when the paratroopers entered the Old City 19 years later in the Six Day War, it was through the same gate. Those soldiers included the recently departed Hanan Porat, and (may he live long and well) Rav Yisrael Ariel.Mordechai Y. Scherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06774262478551329181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7411668548766683003.post-89757367712726553462011-10-30T18:44:19.347+02:002011-10-30T18:44:19.347+02:00No I am only writing about the gates.
Can you, ple...No I am only writing about the gates.<br />Can you, please help me fix the measurements?Eretz Yisroel in the Lenshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04743030640977483595noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7411668548766683003.post-24826645175200284262011-10-30T18:34:14.640+02:002011-10-30T18:34:14.640+02:00I think your information, or at least units of mea...I think your information, or at least units of measure, is confused in your next-to-last paragraph. A length, such as the length of the walls, will always be greater in kilometers than it is in miles. A kilometer is only approximately .6 mile.<br /><br />Are you going to write more about the walls themselves? The spot on the west where the ground falls away to reveal stone from Hasmonean times? Or the 'tefer' on the southeast side?Mordechai Y. Scherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06774262478551329181noreply@blogger.com