Olive Tree Jerusalem

Dear Friends, We arrived in Tel Aviv and took a taxi to the Olive Tree hotel, were we are staying till Monday.  Our first meal in Jerusalem was great.  They have more ways of serving vegetables and salads than I have ever seen.  We spent ...

... right now so it definitely is over a  tour group's budget!  Kathy - I should have had Richard stand next to the Olive tree so you would have a perspective.  It was HUGE around.  Like six adults linking hands around big.  Height - ...

We return from Emmaus to have our last lunch in the lovely sunlit dining room around an ancient olive tree giving our beautiful Olive Tree Hotel its name. Patricio and Damian show up with official looking "pilgrim certificates" and roses for the ...

... down to the Old City we stopped in at the Church of all Nations with the tomb of Mary and the Gethsemane Gardens which has the oldest olive tree in the world at over 2000 (yes, two thousand) years old! We also glimpsed a view of the Russian Church of Mary ...

Jerusalem - A Cidade   "Se eu me esquecer de ti, ó Jerusalém, que se resseque a minha mão direita. Apegue-se-me a língua ao paladar, se não me lembrar de ti, se não preferir eu Jerusalém à minha maior alegria." (Salmos 137:5-6) Jerusalém ...

... on Mt. Scopis.  From there, we descended to the Dominus Flevitt (the traditional site where Jesus wept for the city of Jerusalem) and then to the Garden of Gethsemane.  We then continued our walk to the Golden Gate of the old city.  The ...

... next stop was Yad Veshem, the Holocaust Memorial, and then the Israel Museum where we saw a tremendous model of the old city of Jerusalem and the dead sea scrolls.  We then traveled back to the city and went inside of Zedekiah's cave, where much of ...

... way to get questions answered and to better understand their culture, religion, and traditions.  If you every find yourself in Jerusalem, get yourself to the Jewish quarter and then ask anyone where Shorashim is - you will  not regret it. ...

... . Tito also said something about a confusion about where Mary was from. We don't know whether she was from Nazareth or Jerusalem. I haven't looked it up yet, but apparently the confusion comes from what Matthew says about it verses what Luke says about ...

... Still, it is hard for me to focus and recollect, so I go outside to a corner of the garden and pray touching an old olive tree.  Next to the Garden is the Grotto of the Betrayal, a cave where the apostles are said to have fallen asleep "a ...

... . On Thursday we spent time packing and pinicing together at a local park. We pulled 3 suitcases and a backpack over to the Olive Tree Hotel to be stored until our return. And now, today, we are in Tiberias where it is very green and ...

... Garden of Gethsemane where Jesus was supposedly arrested.  This is a number three on the scale.  It probably was the exact olive tree field or at least very close.  Chris our tour guide read from the Bible and I pictured myself sleeping in ...

... of All Nations sits along side a grove of olive trees that may indeed be offspring of the trees there when Jesus prayed there. Olive tree roots rarely die. They continue to send out shoots so the olive trees we saw though very old may not have been there ...