When General Motta Gur cried out to the world, “הר הבית בידינו!” (The Temple mount is in our hands!), the world was changed forever. Nothing and no one would be the same. And the world was in a state of complete shock.
How is it possible that this could have happened?
For almost two thousand years, at every Passover, the Jews have said to each other “לשנה הבאה בירושלים,” Next year in Jerusalem. It was their heart’s desire, and now it was possible. And our theologians didn’t know what to say.