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Ten measures of beauty descended from the heavens, nine were taken by Jerusalem and one by the rest of the world. Of the ten measures of grief, Jerusalem also received nine.

(The Talmud)

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We did not want the Old City and its immediate environs to be converted into a frozen historical monument, nor to turn it into a museum piece, rather to preserve it is at is - a lively urban organism - while restoring its former character as a city of pedestrians moving freely and unimpeded from house to house, shop to shop, from home to school, to mosque, church or synagogue, and from the gates and piazzas to the bazaars, as was the pattern in earlier generations.

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