Franciscaines De Marie
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Day 15 - Off to Israel
... our passports and told us to get back on the bus which was our original bus. Hmmmmmm. Which we did. About 20 minutes later an official got onto the bus and told us we needed to buy bus tickets. Everyone climbed off the bus, bought tickets for 4 Jordanian dinar (R48) per person and 1.5 JD per item of luggage. We then climbed back into the bus. The official then arrived about 15 minutes later with our passports and handed them out on the bus. We then left a few minutes later and ...
Family and the High Holidays
... timers or left on or off. I asked Elon what he did on Shabbat and he said that after synagogue it is a lot of relaxing, reading and eating. That all sounds good to me. It seems like a great mandatory break in the week. While the rules seem harsh, without strict discipline Saturday quickly becomes like a lot of other days. We had a great lunch and enjoyed getting to know Avigail and Elitsour even more. One of the things that became obvious to me was that ...
Birthdays, Classes, and Jews Oh My!
... Arabic 1, Rabbinical Thought and Literature, Physical Settings of the Bible, Joshua: the Man the Book The Promise, Christian Communities in the Middle East, and Archaeology. The top classes are by far the Rabbinical Thought and Christian Communities, though I get the feeling Joshua will be right up there too! Arabic is a pain and really hard to learn and I am thinking about dropping it because I do not need it and I can ...
O Jerusalem! Oy Jerusalem!
... and side streets into the Jewish Quarter and went to the Western Wall. Where else?
Going down the steps to the Wall we came upon even more schnorers. One guy came up to David and started praying in his ear, all ...
Following the footsteps of Yeshua
... of people trying to sell stuff.
We then walked down past the tombs of jews, 'from dust you came, to dust you will return.' They don't place flowers on their grave stones (pagan) they place rocks.
We walked to the garden of Gethsemane (oil/olivepress). Rami gave us some bible teaching. Yeshua had sweat of blood in that place. The olives that grow there draw a red substance when ...
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