Rebuilding the City of Gold

Music is a powerful medium. A few notes can swell your chest with pride and bring you to your feet. Other notes can make you cry. Recently a few notes carried me far, far away as I listened to the chorus of the beautiful Israeli song Yerushalayim Shel Zahav, “Jerusalem of Gold.” The lyrics come directly from the Hebrew Scriptures: “If I forget you, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget it