An Unnatural Fault Line: Jerusalem

In this shiur, we explore some of the issues surrounding the choice of Jerusalem as the capital of the Jewish people and as the place of the Mikdash.  We also look at the split between the northern and southern kingdoms.The kingdom was split on an unnatural fault-line - why? We go back to the roots of the split and explore what the division was, what was it that changed, and why. And did God choose Jerusalem, or did David?

Jerusalem was chosen as a way to unite two groups that were already divided to some degree, and annexing Binyamin to Yehuda saved Jerusalem and the Beit haMikdash from becoming a  border city of warring nations.