Erna Naharia Nahariya

... Sie haben sich wahnsinnig gefreut und wollten genau wissen, wie das dann auf dem Standesamt geht und so weit**...
dann begann plötzlich das Theat**: Ich wurde ganz nett gefragt, ob ich mir denn üb**legt habe, zu konv**ti**en. Ich habe dann ganz deutlich und klar **klärt, warum ich das im Moment nicht tun w**de. Nämlich, weil ich nicht so tun kann (und will), als ob ich religiös wäre und auss**dem so **zogen bin worden, dass es keine Rolle spielt, welch** Religion ...

... A version of the Beatitudes I like comes from The Message:

“You’re blessed when you’re at the end of your rope. With less of you there is more of God and his rule.

You’re blessed when you feel you’ve lost what is most dear to you. Only then can you be embraced by the one most dear to you.

You’re blessed when you’re content with just who you are- no ...

... non-Bahai can only come in one gate, and can only come in if escorted. They can only walk down the steps from top to bottom. Then, as you pass it, something called the Universal House of Justice is pointed out to you, before you are told that you cannot, actually, enter this building. Unless you are Baha'i. Same with the archives and administrative centers. And the temple itself, for that matter. And the lower parts of the gardens, though that is ...

... Schubkarren oder einfacher Muskelkraft zur Hilfe und halfen uns dabei, die Riesenladung innerhalb von nur drei Stunden (statt eher an die zwei Tage) zum Anhaenger zu tragen. Am Ende hatten wir acht oder neun freiwillige Helfer, die es darueber hinaus auch noch ziemlich erheiternd fanden, dass es Auslaender gibt, die nach Nazaret kommen, um unentgeltlich Steine herumzuschleifen. Ich kann euch sagen... Thomas, Chris und ich haetten vor Freude fast geheult.

Ob es Eingebung oder einfach ...

... as we were sitting down. We parted at the gas station at around 430AM and migrated to Eli's pub where Eli took me our first night out. There we saw Kosta and others who I didnt know. Shimon and I had an average heart to heart, then Benny and I said our good byes and Shimon drove him home. I hung out with Eli, Linda and Kosta and when Shimon returned we left soon after. AFter hanging with Eli that evening I felt like I'veknown hiim for years! We had this wicked ...

... Byzantine church were discovered here in 1935. The modern church was built on a hilltop, not over the ancient church. Our group gathered in a shaded area on a hill overlooking the Church of the Beatitudes to listen to Robert read the 8 Beatitudes from Matthew 5:3-10 in English. Yuval then read them to us in Hebrew. After leaving the Mount of Beatitudes we went to another ...

... of Chicago, using funds donated by John D Rockefeller bought the entire tel, the first time an archeological expedition has the extensive funds to do such a thing. The 1920s were ambitious years and the goal of the Chicago expedition was certainly ambitious: excavate the entire massive tel down to bedrock, pealing back each stratum like the layers of an onion. They built permanent administrative buildings on the lower tel, buildings ...

... Dave and I explained what we were seeing as best we could from memory and our guidebook. Hassan was very friendly, but was obviously a very new tour guide. He didn't know anything at all about the tel or the excavations. Even so it is always exciting to actually walk through a site mentioned in the Bible, and this was no exception. We next took the aerial cable car up the mountain to the east of Jericho. We had a brief but interesting view of the dig site from ...

... rhinoceros and wild cattle which roamed the Coastal Plain) and for digging out plant roots. The tools improved slowly over a period of tens of thousands of years. The handaxes became smaller and better shaped and scrapers, made of thick flakes chipped off flint cores, were probably used for scraping meat off bones and for processing animal skins.
The upper levels in the Tabun Cave consist mainly of clay and silt, indicating that a colder, more humid climate ...

... Caesarea is most commonly associated with Herod. King Herod the Great (37-4 BCE) acquired the site as a present for his loyalty to the Roman Emperor August. Herod set out to build the city of Caesarea (called after Caesar) on a central strategic location. Herod set out to construct a harbour to rival the ones of Jaffa (Yafo) and Acre (Akko), in which he succeeded. Catering for the trade from the Far East to Rome and Greece, Caesarea became the largest harbour in the ...