Jerusalem without a Temple

Hi,

"Yerushalayim is in the category of ‘degraded’ and ‘desolate’ as long as the Beit haMikdash is not built; the essence of Yerushalayim is the Beit haMikdash."

(Rav Tzvi Yehudah Kook, cited by Rav Shlomo Aviner, שלהבתיה pg. 5)

המצפה לישועה,
Mordechai