Friday, August 14, 2009
The Wailing Wall/Bar mitzvas
The Western "Wailing" Wall (the remaining portion of Herod's temple at the time of Jesus). Friday night marks the beginning of shabbat, so there is an especially large crowd of Jews come to pray at the wall. The groups of soldiers and youth dancing/singing in circles was especially fun to see.
A bar mitzva procession (part 1)
Bar mitzva procession (part 2)
BYU Jerusalem Center
BYU Jerusalem Center organ
BYU Jerusalem Center view of the Old City (from Mt. Scopus/Mt. of Olives)
Thursday, August 13, 2009
Qumran Caves and Masada
Qumran caves (where the Dead Sea Scrolls were found)
Looking down on the cable cars we took up to Masada. Masada is a very tall plateau on which Herod built a fortress. When the Jewish rebels fled Jerusalem in the first century AD, they came here, but they were pursued... It's a good story. Look it up.
The remains of Herod's 3-tiered palace on Masada
Bethlehem
Inside the Church of the Nativity
The traditional site for the birth of Jesus. Here pilgrims bow down and reach their hand into the hole in the ground, so as to touch the rock on which Jesus was born.
Golgotha and the Garden Tomb
One of the two traditional sites where Jesus is thought to have been crucified. (On the skull-shaped hill, not in the bus parking lot.)
One potential site for the tomb of Joseph of Arimathea, where Jesus' body was taken.
Inside The Garden Tomb
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