Quotation zu Tehillim 122:10

R. Joshua b. Levi said: "What is the meaning of the passage (Ps. 122, 2) Our feet are standing within thy gates, O Jerusalem. Who caused that our feet shall conquer the enemy and stand within the gates of Jerusalem? Only the gates of Jerusalem in which the Torah was studied." R. Joshua b. Levi said further: "What is the meaning of the passage (Ib. ib. 1) I rejoiced when they said unto me: 'Let us go unto the house of the Lord.' David said before the Holy One, praised be He! 'Sovereign of the Universe, I have heard people say, when will this man die, so that Solomon, his son, shall build the Holy Temple and we will rejoice?' The Holy One, praised be He! answered: (Ib. 84, 11) For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand; i.e., 'I like one day in which thou art occupied with the study of the Law more than the thousand burnt-offerings which Solomon, thy son, will sacrifice before Me in the future'."