Photo Adventures with Curiosity and Learning


Nov 23, 2008: Passover and behind the wall

    Itinerary
  • Temple Mount (30mins)
  • Israel Musuem (Dead Sea Scroll) (9:31)
  • Jerusalem model
  • Biblical Gardens (Passover Meal Lunch)
  • Yad Vashem
  • Rabbinical Tunnel (behind the west wall)

Today was our visit to the west wall, behind the west wall and to see the Dome of the Rock

At theh Temple Mount, we passed through security then along a temporary bridge to the large open area. Security was always present

Here are bullet impacts (I believe)

nov 23 3338 dome combat

The lesser of the two domes

nov 23 3339 little dome

The gate

nov 23 3345 east columns

The greater and lesser domes

nov 23 3349 dual domes

Another set of arches with Stephen waiting for me (again - sigh)

nov 23 3356 4 arches

Then along narrow streets

nov 23 3363 alley

Another narrow street

nov 23 3366 alley

Then off to the model of the old city - the plan

nov 23 3378 model plan

Different aspects of the model

nov 23 3379 model

nov 23 3381 model

nov 23 3389 model

From above

nov 23 3402 model above

From above

nov 23 3407 model above

Ellen and the model

nov 23 3410 ellen model

Eitan explaining all things and Seah absorbing all things

nov 23 3416 eitan explaining model

Interesting water feather, a plumber's friend, without a handle

nov 23 3424 plumbers friend without handle

Then off to the Holocaust Museum - this fountain reminds me of a Then off to the Biblical Gardens and the passover meal. For me this was one of the more interesting and instructive episodes of our journey through the past. The context and cultural insights into how one sits, how one eats, how one prays was refreshing

nov 23 3430 passover lunch

Then off to the Holocaust Museum - this interesting triangular structure provided light for the exhibits below

nov 23 3484 holocaust museum peak

A large vase outside the museum

nov 23 3451 holocaust vase

A strange sculpture

nov 23 3455 holocaust sculpture

A sculpture of a people tree - quite interesting

nov 23 3462 people tree

A freight car used by the Nazis

nov 23 3468 nazi freight car

A monument to the survivors

nov 23 3488 holocoust monument

Then back to the west wall for an adventure along the tunnel behind the wall

nov 23 3507 west wall tunnel

plumber's friend, without a handle

nov 23 3424 plumbers friend without handle

Large stones placed by King Herod's workers - some must have been 20 - 30 m long. Quaried at the end of the tunnel, one wonders how they were moved to their final resting place

nov 23 3515 west wall tunnel herod

and a surprise - a young bride came for praying before her wedding

nov 23 3516 tunnel bride

The praying place

nov 23 3520 tunnel bride

I was not the only one taking photos

nov 23 3534 tunnel bride

Our team

nov 23 3540 group tunnel

The west wall at the time of evening prayers. The hand washing place

nov 23 3549 west wall prep

Praying

nov 23 3553 west wall prayers

And a reminder of the outside world just outside the gate

nov 23 3578 shops

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C. Frank Starmer

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