First week of December, I had a work trip to Israel. There is quite a bit of high tech over there surprisingly. I worked up north in Haifa for the week. Intel campus is on the beach. Google and Microsoft are also near by.
View from my hotel room
View of Jerusalem
Hillside of Jeruslaem
This is pretty interesting. The Church of the Holy Sepulchre is where the "Catholic" religions believe the cross and the tomb was located. (Read about it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Sepulchre). Most protestants think it was the Garden Tomb. But below the women kiss the stone that they believe was where Joseph of Arimathea prepared Christ's body for burial.
Inside the old city almost getting run over by a tractor. Funny being in such an ancient city and then having a tractor drive past you.
Inside the Old City as shops started to open.
Read more about this here, but on their forehead are phylacteries or tefillin (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tefillin). Based on scriptures like this, Jews wear these on their forehead and arm (next picture) during prayer:
And it shall be for a sign for you upon your hand, and for a memorial between your eyes, that the law of the Lord may be in your mouth; for with a strong hand did the Lord bring you out of Egypt.
Which also gives meaning to the scriptures which talk about making them large to be seen of men:
But all their works they do for to be seen of men: they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of their garments, (Matt 23:5)
This is the room of the last supper. Quite the buzz of people coming and going all the time. Whereas the site of the tomb is somewhat up in the air, this site is a lot more definite.
You can see the Wailing Wall below. We weren't allowed to go to the Dome of the Rock because it was the Muslim's Holy Day and only Muslims are allowed in.
More to come soon...
View from my hotel room
View of Jerusalem
Hillside of Jeruslaem
This is pretty interesting. The Church of the Holy Sepulchre is where the "Catholic" religions believe the cross and the tomb was located. (Read about it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Sepulchre). Most protestants think it was the Garden Tomb. But below the women kiss the stone that they believe was where Joseph of Arimathea prepared Christ's body for burial.
Inside the old city almost getting run over by a tractor. Funny being in such an ancient city and then having a tractor drive past you.
Inside the Old City as shops started to open.
Read more about this here, but on their forehead are phylacteries or tefillin (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tefillin). Based on scriptures like this, Jews wear these on their forehead and arm (next picture) during prayer:
Which also gives meaning to the scriptures which talk about making them large to be seen of men:
This is the room of the last supper. Quite the buzz of people coming and going all the time. Whereas the site of the tomb is somewhat up in the air, this site is a lot more definite.
You can see the Wailing Wall below. We weren't allowed to go to the Dome of the Rock because it was the Muslim's Holy Day and only Muslims are allowed in.
More to come soon...
1 comments:
We need to get together with you guys to hang out, but also so I can look at your pictures and talk Israel with somebody!
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