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Day 18 - Dead Sea & Masada
... palace. We took a cable car to the top. Much easier than the walk in the scorching sun. The area is vast and is more like a personal town. With 4 palaces and an incredible bath complex to impress his roman visitors. When Herod died, due to it high upkeep cost and strange position, it was abandoned. Jews moved into the town to make it their own. Famously when the Jewish uprising happened around 67AD. The Romans, initially ...
Family and the High Holidays
... we exited the old city. What strikes you is the beauty and confusion. You have all these different areas and chapels representing the different religions like Greek Orthodox and Catholicism. I also took note of the passion. People were here from all over the world waiting in long lines to see where Jesus was put to rest and resurrected and their passion and emotion was striking. You would say the same thing about the Western Wall and probably the Temple ...
Horses and lice
... peacefully. He did tell us, though, that if a person were to be dressed in religious garb and wandered into the 'wrong' part of town, it would cause a problem. We did not witness that, though. Yaakov was careful to try and keep us in the shade as much as possible, but since our kids were the only ones on the tour, he asked me if they had sunscreen on. Actually, they did not - somehow we left our hotel today without our sunscreen. I was relieved AND ...
O Jerusalem! Oy Jerusalem!
... not dressing modestly enough. Although my arms and legs were covered, I was a bit nervous about my modern dress and liberal approach to Judaism. It is a sad commentary on life in Israel that conflicts about religious ideology are common. These conflicts are both among and between followers of faiths.
A Not-So-Restful Shabbat
Yes I felt slightly guilty for admitting that today was far from a day of rest, but to be fair it was mostly Wheaton's fault, so.
Woke up this morning about 6:45, which is wonderfully later than usual but still early, because the body didn't want to stay in bed any longer. Also the body was achy and still a bit sun-shocked from yesterday, so I didn't do my morning workout-gotta honor the sabbath in some way right? I've ...
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