JERUSALEM is both heavenly and earthly, holy and sinful. "Ten measures of beauty God gave to the world, nine to Jerusalem and one to the rest," says the Talmud. Sometimes, however, it seems as if ten measures of suffering God gave to the world, nine to Jerusalem and one to the rest. The medieval Arab geographer, al-Muqaddasi, called the holy city "a golden bowl full of scorpions".
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