I had a great time visiting with some tourists from my past trips yesterday. I always say after my trips we're family. And I really love seeing people again and exploring, even informally, talking, and just bring together. Here's to many more reunions!!
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Over the past month, I took part in a course teaching how guide Israeli school children on their annual field trips.
We hiked, we discussed, we learned, we explored, we challenged.
I'm so glad to have had this opportunity and I look forward to meeting all the new students out there!!
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Let's check out some Tel Aviv graffiti!!
Ashdod tours coming your way!
Your 1 and a half minute tour of Mount Zion!
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Yom HaZikaron (memorial day) is a solemn day marked with 2 sirens- 1 in the evening and 1 the next morning. In Judaism, and in Israel, holidays start in the evening. This comes from the story of creation when after each creation "there was night and there was day."
The siren in the morning lasts 2 minutes. For those 2 minutes everyone stops and remembers and honors.
The solemn feeling of the day is in stark contrast to the celebrations that begin tonight with the beginning of Independence Day.
Today is the first day of Hanukkah (meaning we lit the first candle last night). Hanukkah is the festival of lights. We remember the oil that lasted 8 days instead of 1. But we also focus in things that brighten our lives in the modern era. This year I will dedicate each day to a thing, idea, or person that brings light my life. It happens everyday but this week I'm showing gratitude for what brightens my life.
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Ashkelon National Park
How we miss the days of the calming tide of the Mediterranean Sea!! This is at the Ashkelon National Park in January! It was a beautiful day to explore antiquity bordering modernity and meditating at the Sea's shore.
Happy 8th night of Hanukkah!🕎
Tonight's miracle is each and every one of you! There is a Kabbalistic (Jewish mysticism✡) belief that before the world G-d's essense was held in vessels of light. Until one shattered open into a million little pieces.
Each of those little pieces are in each and every one of us, meaning that there is a little bit of G-d in all of us.
We all have something to offer this world, something unique, individual, something that no one else can. Our job is to figure out what that is, and how to give it to the world. In a sentence:
Tonight's miracle is all of us.
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Ashdod beach Volleyball sunset
It's been another incredible week! After running around all week, I went to relax at the beach in Ashdod. What I found was a beautiful sunset, great weather, and a front row seat to a volleyball game (Time-lapse).
Yes! 10 seconds of pleasure!
Shabbat Shalom from the best 10 seconds of our sunset in Israel! (It was worth the 35 minutes of filming!)