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Real Deep: October 2009
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Exploring the land of Israel and understanding it. Sunday, October 18, 2009. Ataliah isn't the kind of name you expect for a hippie. In fact, regular Jews don't name their girls Ataliah. Cause the one in the Bible was a wicked queen who grabbed the throne by killing off her brothers in law after her husband the king got himself assassinated. Ataliah is a sweetie, but from where I'm coming from, I'm a bit skeptical about Flower Power. Among their first attempts as farmers was half an acre of gladiolas....
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Real Deep: Flower Power
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Exploring the land of Israel and understanding it. Sunday, October 18, 2009. Ataliah isn't the kind of name you expect for a hippie. In fact, regular Jews don't name their girls Ataliah. Cause the one in the Bible was a wicked queen who grabbed the throne by killing off her brothers in law after her husband the king got himself assassinated. Ataliah is a sweetie, but from where I'm coming from, I'm a bit skeptical about Flower Power. Among their first attempts as farmers was half an acre of gladiolas....
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Real Deep: One Big Mediterranean Village
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Exploring the land of Israel and understanding it. Wednesday, June 9, 2010. One Big Mediterranean Village. Many Christians overlook Caesarea. When they visit Israel. Caesarea. Is very interesting, but lets face it; when you have a limited amount of time and you came all that way for a religious experience, you can't afford to waste time. The bottom line is that Caesarea. Is about Rome, not about Jesus. On a Roman built forum. So how did Rome come into ownership of the land of Israel? To answer that, one ...
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Real Deep: The Bean
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Exploring the land of Israel and understanding it. Tuesday, October 6, 2009. Jack and the beanstalk. A boy and a bean and dream. The story is ancient, and everyone knows it thanks to Joseph Jacobs who published it about 200 years ago. Jack outwits an evil giant who in addition to being stingy, is a bad poet:. I smell the blood of an Englishman. Be he 'live, or be he dead,. I'll grind his bones to make my bread.". The Russian language edition translates the giant's ranting thus:. With Rothschild's help, t...
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Real Deep: September 2009
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Exploring the land of Israel and understanding it. Monday, September 21, 2009. A Journey Through Society. I posted "A Journey Through Society" last year. It seems to me that now in the "Days of Awe" between Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur that its message fits the season, fits what we have been studying and fits "Real Deep". My tenth graders below started 11th grade 2 weeks ago.). A few streets over is a slum that doesn't appear on the map, but has a name – 'Crate Town' (my translation). Our next stop was th...
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Real Deep: July 2009
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Exploring the land of Israel and understanding it. Wednesday, July 22, 2009. Been There, Done That. They say that those who know, do it; those who don't, teach. A half year into this course, in which the accent is supposed to be practice before theory, I think I can agree with that. I did the academic thing first and only now am (supposedly) working for a license to kill, so I can tell the difference. Monday, July 20, 2009. First let me say that the first part of this entry is incredibly boring geology s...
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Real Deep: It Ends Here
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Exploring the land of Israel and understanding it. Sunday, February 22, 2009. On one of the few rainy days we've had this year. Megiddo's claim to fame is Armageddon (Hebrew: 'Har Megiddo') - the battle between the forces of good and evil that is prophesied to take place in the valley below. All the kings' horses and all the kings' men will gather in the North and come down the Via Maris, that ancient highway of armies, to make war on the good guys (Revelations 16:16). We visited Megiddo only a week afte...
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Real Deep: January 2010
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Exploring the land of Israel and understanding it. Saturday, January 16, 2010. Her name was Melody. Between snacks, a few self appointed defenders of the Jewish faith were poking fun, although not successfully, as their ignorance of her faith, not to mention their own, was painfully obvious. Nonplussed by her tormentors, Melody was radiant, even cheerful. Maybe that's why I remember her 25 years later. Her warmth. Heat. No, she laughed, but it’s a good living. Just think of the tourist income! Peter: "If...
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Real Deep: Sunday School
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Exploring the land of Israel and understanding it. Tuesday, August 4, 2009. When I was a kid, we used to compete at Sunday School to see who could memorize the most scripture by heart. Besides John 3:16, the all time favorite was John 11:35, "Jesus wept." The shortest verse in the Bible; only two words. A freebie. All this happened a few years before the rebellion against Rome. It didn't go well for the Jews, and Jerusalem didn't fare any better than. The Romans built fortifications for their new city.
