Aaron Goel Angot: The Mount of Olives, situated east of Jerusalem, symbolizes resurrection as the rising sun illuminates the city with its first rays. It signifies the future glorious return of Christ, analogous to the sun reappearing in its place each morning. Jews believe that the Shekinah, God's divine presence from the temple's holy of holies, moved to the Mount of Olives after 70 A.D. and the destruction of the Jerusalem temple. Some sources suggest that Jewish liturgy temporarily shifted to the Mount of Olives after the temple's last destruction, accessible in the absence of the temple.
