שלמה לוי: That isn't to say the land wasn't important, but the Tanakh portrays us as a people before we had it, and the Tannaim ensured that we would survive as a people even after losing it. To then turn around and associate "home," and thus Jewish identity, with Jerusalem by default? It feels dismissive.

That isn't to say the land wasn't important, but the Tanakh portrays us as a people before we had it, and the Tannaim ensured that we would survive as a people even after losing it. To then turn around and associate "home," and thus Jewish identity, with Jerusalem by default? It feels dismissive.