could boast as long as men were disposed to listen. But nothing others could talk or sing of compared to what lay before them. This was Jerusalem, and there was no place to equal it on the face of the earth. Jerusalem was the cultural, religious, and emotional center of Jewry; and without question, she held their collective heart fast in her grasp. Quietly, almost as though they were entering a sanctuary, the people quit the roads and moved to residences, hospices, or campsites in or around the