King Solomon was the son of King David and Bathsheba. He became ruler in approximately 967 B.C.E.. His kingdom extended from the Euphrates River in the north, to Egypt in the south. His crowning achievement was, the building of the Holy Temple in Jerusalem.
People from surrounding nations came to hear Solomon’s wisdom.
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The first and most famous incident of his cleverness as a judge, was when two women came to his court with a baby, whom both women claimed as their own.
Solomon threatened to split the baby in half. One woman was prepared to accept the decision, but the other begged the King to give the live baby, to the other woman. Solomon then knew, the second woman was the real mother.
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So too, Jerusalem can be compared to the baby in this story. Any person who condones the cutting in half of Jerusalem, is not the real mother.
Jerusalem belongs in the hands of those who will treat her the way she is meant to be treated - Whole, in the hands of her owners, the Torah Jewish people.
