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On the Way to Tiberias
Today we travel through the Judean Desert to the Dead Sea, the lowest place on Earth not under water at 1200 feet below sea level. We went to Masada on our way to the Dead Sea.
Masada was a fortress built by King Herod and later used by the Jewish Zealots as their last stronghold against the Romans. A siege of the fortress by troops …
Jewish Mysticism, Kibbutz and the Golan Heights
Jacqui and I had signed up an optional tour to the Golan Heights. We first stopped at the holy city of Safed, the centre of the mystical Kabbala. We wandered through the streets and into a thriving artists' colony, along the way we visited an ancient synagogue and then off to a second synagogue where we witnessed a bar mitzvah. The bar mitzvah was …
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... kunnes tuli pohja vastaan. Pettymykseksi allas jäi niin matalaksi, ettei kyseessä voinut olla mikve, vaan ehkä keruuallas synagoogan tiilipäällysteiseltä katolta kerättävää vettä varten. Laastipäällyste viittaa siihen, että vesi on ollut puhdasta vettä. Allas oli täytetty myöhempien aikojen romulla, mutta pohjalta löytyi myös mielenkiintoisia roomalais-bysanttilaisia löytöjä, esimerkiksi soittokello ja lyijyn pala.
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Mirage
... can become slowly more and more comfortable and open. But physically, it will always be hard because here I am like a baby. I have no defenses for whatever little things are in water, the food, the air. I've always been healthy; I now find it funny how little tolerance I have for things here. I can't eat a single vegetable at the moment. The pollen made my nose bleed. The grass makes me itch. Whatever combination of things that were making me ...
Ouch
Apologies for the stream of conscious babbling toward the end. My mind and body have ceased to function. I will go back and edit later (in 5 months).
Monday, second day of the week in Israel, first full day of classes. Ouch! I knew it was coming but oh my goodness, we are all hurting, even those of us who are in shape. I had ballet, then KCDC repertoire, a break, KCDC rep again, a break and two hours of improv. It was a wonderful ...


