Shabbat Shalom from Jerusalem! Shabbat (Sabbath) begins at sundown on Friday evening and lasts through sundown on Saturday. As I write, Shabbat has ended here in Israel, but as I learned today, it is proper to continue saying "Shabbat Shalom" through the weekend. Shabbat is a time of rest (as Jesus did on the seventh …
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Welcome back virtual tour friends! Thanks for joining us, and I hope you are blessed. After we left En Gedi, we headed for Qumran. Lunch was there, so we took a timeout to fill our bellies, then headed to Kalia Beach. There, the vast majority of the group donned water clothing and went for a …
All good things come to an end, and we have reached that day in the Galilee. It is difficult to drive away from such a beautiful area where 85 percent of Jesus' ministry took place. So many miracles and so much ministry occurred there. But now, we make our way south through the Jordan River …
Following Misgav Am and Tel Dan, we stopped for lunch at a Druze restaurant where many of us tried Lebenah, a very thin pita (more like a Middle Eastern tortilla!) filled with goat cheese and other goodies. Druze are actually of Arab descent, but are very favorable to Israel. Their sons serve in the IDF, …
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