Day 3 - Thursday, May 10th
Shalom
The second
morning began with a familiar 7:30 wake up call. Leon (my Israeli
roommate) woke me up by telling me, "you have quite a talent, you’re
snoring was so loud my ear plugs didn't even work!" After another egg
breakfast we were off to the mountain town of Zefat. We began by visiting two
ancient synagogues. They were far different than any other synagogue I've ever
seen, one having three arks. After the synagogues we had some free time to do a
little, as the ladies like to say, SHOPPPINGGG!! I bought an Omri Casspi
Maccabi Tel-Aviv jersey (which I just found out is two sizes too small). After
free time we walked up a staircase comparable to the stairs from the Rocky
movies. After Zefat we visited Kebutz Yifat. Half of us split up and
visited Kebutz Ramat David. There we learned about the history of Israeli
pioneers and saw how a functioning Kebutz works. After Yifat we were off to
Kebutz Hanaton. There we did some team building exercises and talked about our
goals as Jewish people. We ended our day celebrating today’s Jewish holiday,
Lag B'Omer, with a falafel dinner and a bonfire. Around the bonfire we banged
drums and sang and danced. It was a great day and tomorrow we are off to
Jerusalem, it's going to be great!
Make it a
great day,
Matt Marks
and the Bus 990 Crew
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| Touring the synagogues of Zefat |
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| A little break during our synagogue tour |
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| Enjoying a Drum Circle at Kebutz Hanaton |
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| More Drum Circle FUN around the fire |
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