tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73388973852926922762024-03-13T19:15:19.102-07:00Shalom Y'all!Shalom Y'allhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07042495568497605971noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7338897385292692276.post-7273808177310303882012-03-11T13:13:00.001-07:002012-03-11T13:13:11.215-07:00Snow!!! Hold it hold it….in J-ru?<style>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> <span style="color: magenta;">Yess you read
right—I woke up to SNOW in March! When packing for
this study abroad I thought by the time February rolled around, the sun would be
shining every day and we’d wear short sleeves. However I picked
the coldest winter in 10 years to come, and here is evidence of cold in a place only known for blazing hot weather. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> While learning about hermeneutics (what do I know and how do I know it?) in New Testament
on March 2 a snow storm was raging out the window. So during the break what
do 83 college age students do? Snowball fight of course!</span></div>
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<br /></div>Shalom Y'allhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07042495568497605971noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7338897385292692276.post-81473044427117520462012-02-25T11:32:00.001-08:002012-02-25T11:32:26.790-08:00The Holocaust Museum--Yad Veshem<div style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
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<span style="font-size: small;"> How can you come to Israel without remembering 6 million of
these people were slaughtered less than sixty years ago? As my Judaism teacher
explained today, the world is obsessed with the Holocaust. But why that
particular genocide? Stalin killed more people, yet the only time he was mentioned was in a European history class. I'm not sure why, but it is an interesting thought. What I learned today from visiting Yad Veshem, the Israeli
Holocaust site, is that I believe everyone, <i>everyone</i>, is created equal, and I am
more determined to love those around me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> From books, movies, and high school, I've
learned alot about this chilling time in history. But hearing stories, personal family stories from my Hebrew teacher Mrs. Goldman, a Jew, put a new light on it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> Mrs. Judy
grew up in California and after public school spent a few hours after that in
Hebrew school. She married an Israeli and has lived here over thirty years. She
shared her personal stories about Yishev, the holocaust, in class and gave me
permission to share them. (We were all wiping our eyes by the end)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> One of her earliest memories is of
going to the beach with her cousins at 5 years. She saw a long black number
inked on her arm, which frightened her. Later at home, when she asked, her Mom
wouldn’t tell her. How do you explain how some people find your people describe
your grandparents death?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> Most of her family died in
Auschwitz. Her husband is a child of 15 and 3 survived. In 1996, she went with
a group of 5,000 college kids and instructors to visit Auschwitz, the most well-known concentration camp. The walk from Auschwitz 1 to Auschwitz 2 was traumatic and called the "March of the Dead." This group of Jews went to do the "March of the Living." As
they were waiting for a bus to arrive, two boys stood on the steps to the buildng where
Josef Mengele experimented on nearly 1,500 sets of twins.They wrapped an
Israeli flag around them, and began singing the Israeli national anthem in
Hebrew. Mrs. Judy describes this as the height of a moving, poignant moment. Sadly though, as these Jewish people wearing blue jackets with the Star of David walked in silence to commemorate their people, a local Polish village on the side came to the road and began
yelling obscenities---anti-Semitism is still alive today.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> Here are two stories from my two Jewish teachers illustrating that.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Mrs Judy--</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> At work a few years ago she heard the number of a bus that was going to be bombed—the one her son
rode home from school on. She raced home, feeling as scared as she ever had, and
thankfully the Lord spared him. Many students however, were not. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> Coming home from the Passover Seder dinner at the Center, he was stuck at a red light at a main intersection. A small group were rioting around the car, and somehow they could tell his family was Jewish. They began throwing rocks at the car, and a cinderblock was thrown at the car. His little girl and boy were in the backseat, and it hit the trunk. Right then the light turned green and they were able to drive away, but he said if they'd been stuck, he's not sure what would have happened. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> Picture your family in the same situation. Paralyzed yet? </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> Ten children, 7 dwarfs, studied music in Transylvania and started their own orchestra. Joseph Mengele "subjected them to painful and degrading experiments." After the war they dug up their buried instruments and began playing again! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 16pt;"> For our Sunday free day (will I ever get used to that?) eleven of us "Mormon University" kiddos grabbed a bus to the
ZOO!! For 37 shekels (right under $10) we got 4 ½ hours of pure fun. The
prized at the Israeli zoo is a red panda (the little guy down below). He’s a cutie and when saw him he was in mid-morning workout, taking some laps thru the bushes, around his cage, and meandering up to his tree
house. What a life. So the difference between a normal zoo and a Biblical zoo is each animal comes complete with biblical reference. Also I saw the kind of</span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 16pt;"> tree Judas Iscariot hung himself on
and a St. Peter's fish, what Peter lugged in with his nets. What’s neat about the Israeli zoo
is how close we got to the animals. Kangaroos were hoppin' around in their habitat, with only a meager rope separating us from them! I looked over a watering hole with rhinos, giraffes,
and hippos.</span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 16pt;"> One creature not there was any spider. One day I'll forgive my brothers for chasing me around the house with that beanie baby spider. You're picturing it now huh....black and tan, named Web? Mmmmhhm. Why Noah invited those nasty creatures
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Ne’ot Ketuvim is a beautiful park dedicated to the botany of
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to grow here; quite a task being that water is VERY scarce in Israel.
Today our JC crew spent a beautiful, sunny, 70 degree afternoon experiencing the life of the Bible. I say “experiencing” because on a typical field
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<span> <u>The </u></span><u>shepherd</u>. King David, Abraham, and Moses had
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best way is to walk behind while gently guiding them in the right direction.
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“…they filled a spunge with vinegar, and put it upon hyssop, and put it to his
mouth,” John 19:29. Jesus is on the cross at this point, and I always wondered
what on earth that was. Hyssop is a plant with a strong herby scent. After it
dries for a few weeks, you crush it up until it looks like Texas sand
(translation: an unattractive color and hard haha). It is used to treat skin
conditions, especially leprosy. Today bags of hyssop, or zatar in Arabic, are
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No, this isn’t nature filled, but rich in culture and tradition? Oh yeah. A Jewish
scribe sat writing beautiful Hebrew letters using a quill for us while a
translater spoke about the art of copying the Torah. Completing one Torah takes
about one year and so is VERY expensive. When synagogues do get one, a huge
celebration takes place. Only paper from kosher animals hides’ can be used, the
scribe must be clean when writing torah, and when you mess up, the word is cut
out but not thrown away. Any writing which uses the name of God or is
spiritually related can never be thrown away, even the “trash”! Instead it goes
into a book cemetery. At the Western Wall thousands of prayers are stuffed
in-between the rocks, and a special group comes in to put them all in bags and
bury them! Every detail about the Torah has significance. Each page has 42
lines, because Moses was on Mt. Sinai 40 days + 2 for travel time. The
beginning letter of the book opens toward the left (remember Hebrew is read
from l <span>à</span>
r) to signify the beginning of everything begins here. Tibia hit the nail on
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day the Muslim Call to Prayer is blasted all over Jerusalem. Loudspeakers are positioned over the city and boy is it loud. Really loud. Our professors said eventually we won't hear it just like I can't hear the train behind our house in Vidor, but that ain't happenin yet. It's kinda hard to appreciate it at four in the morning. One line in the prayer says, "Prayer is better than sleep" =). Have you ever heard the Call to Prayer? You tube it--it's quite interesting. The Muslims don't describe it as singing- it's a unique mix between singing/deep chanting. </div>
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<td dir="rtl" lang="ar"><span style="font-size: x-small;">الله اكبر</span></td>
<td><span style="font-size: x-small;">Allahu Akbar</span></td>
<td><span style="font-size: x-small;">God is the Greatest</span></td>
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<td dir="rtl" lang="ar"><span style="font-size: x-small;">اشهد ان لا اله الا الله</span></td>
<td><span style="font-size: x-small;">Ash-had al-la <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilah" title="Ilah">ilāha</a> illa llah</span></td>
<td><span style="font-size: x-small;">I testify that there is no God except God</span></td>
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<td dir="rtl" lang="ar"><span style="font-size: x-small;">اشهد ان محمدا رسول الله</span></td>
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<td><span style="font-size: x-small;">I testify that Muhammad is a Messenger of God</span></td>
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<td dir="rtl" lang="ar"><span style="font-size: x-small;">اشهد ان عليا ولي الله</span></td>
<td><span style="font-size: x-small;">Ash-hadu anna Aliya wali-ul-lah</span></td>
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<td><span style="font-size: x-small;">Hayya 'alas-salāh</span></td>
<td><span style="font-size: x-small;">Come to prayer</span></td>
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<td dir="rtl" lang="ar"><span style="font-size: x-small;">حي على الفلاح</span></td>
<td><span style="font-size: x-small;">Hayya 'alal-falāh</span></td>
<td><span style="font-size: x-small;">Come to success</span></td>
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<td><span style="font-size: x-small;">Hayya- al Khair al amal</span></td>
<td><span style="font-size: x-small;">The time for the best of deeds has come</span></td>
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<td><span style="font-size: x-small;">Allah-u Akbar</span></td>
<td><span style="font-size: x-small;">God is greater than any description</span></td>
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<td><span style="font-size: x-small;">Lā ilāha illallāh</span></td>
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Doing the Call to Prayer is a huge honor passed down thru family lines. Two of the six men working in the Old City came tonight to teach us about it. All Muslims pray 5x a day on a prayer rug, but only when they and the area are clean. So if you've been working in the field, you need to shower before praying. If you're on vacation, you can do 2 prayers at one time so it's not super inconvenient. And of course, no matter where you are, face Mecca. Mecca is where their main prophet Muhammad grew up and is their most holy city. There is an app for the I-phone which rings when it's time to pray and shows believers the direction to face! After that we feasted on a traditional Arab
dinner: lots of rice, hummus, pita, chicken, and a bright orange dessert described by Alyssa
as, "Macaroni and cheese with sugar". gross. I have a food tasting quota every day, and it was conveniently filled before that dessert appeared on the table. Then we learned a dance! Arabic dancing focuses on the feet and it was alot harder
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and behold, Danielle is blogging. Mostly for my family that I miss, but also because
this is one experience that I’ll want to refer to all my life. Jerusalem has officially been home for 28 days now, so this post is more of a summary of my new life. My goal is to blog about the best experience every week, so if you're
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<span style="font-size: small;"> After rolling out of bed at 7:15, I pull back our outdated green curtains and
look out on the Old City. Every room here has a patio, and once after completing a worksheet on the Dome of the Rock, I walked onto ours, and there it stood, this giant gold dome. Right there! There's a joke here that if the Muslims ever polished it we'd all go blind. :P. For the next 3 months I get to
share this experience with </span><span style="font-size: small;">82
other BYU students. My
favorite class is Judaism, taught by Ophir Yardin. He is Jewish so
wears a kippa, but is also bald..one day Ima ask him how it stays on. His lectures
are letting me understand the Jewish culture better, and I feel
more comfortable in the city the more I learn. Hebrew is my other favorite class. During our first lecture the Morah (teacher) promised us we’d know how to
read the language by the end....a falsehood? Nope! Hebrew is so simple its
impossible to make a mistake. I can sing a few Hebrew songs including Happy Birthday, and am trying to master the 26 letter alphabet. Mrs. Goldman is also a Jew and talks about her daily life. Here's a tidbit: a day in Jewish culture begins and ends at sundown, not midnight. Here's another: on your birthday you sit in a chair so that four macho men can then come and raise you up in the air til your new age---I'm fully expecting my brothers to lift me 20 times in April!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> What is amazing about being here is we go out into the city and on field trips and actually get to see these sites we study. The Western Wall is as close as the Jews can get to the Temple Mount (where the Dome of the Rock lies), because it belongs to the Muslims, so they worship at the Wall. Friday nights to welcome in Shabbat (Sabbath) I got to observe the women praying, dancing and singing--worshiping in their way. It was amazing to see such dedication and I even got to touch the wall! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Alright....was that a descriptive intro? Trying to condense a completely new life is actually quite difficult. It's like calculus except enjoyable. Neway, I love you all!</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"> Left: Boys love to play marbles or tops in the streets. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Right: Lys, Hannah, Amanda, and I with our olive wood rings. Omar, a local olive wood carver, loves BYU students and gave us these to "practice" for marriage :).</span></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;"></span></div>Shalom Y'allhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07042495568497605971noreply@blogger.com2