Trip to Israel 1st 3 days
I am back home and connected :) Almost every night in Israel I wrote about my adventures and now will share it one by one.
Israel trip with Jewish Women Renaissance Program (JWRP) is truly amazing. You can have high expectations and they would be met and exceeded. I had no expectations; I don’t like to have expectations when I travel. I just like to experience whatever I would experience. It is not a religious trip but more of a self-searching and growing program.
We started our journey with the beautiful city Tiberias on the lake Keneret. Our hotel rooms were facing the lake and we had breath-taking, energizing view! We had a really long late dinner at a restaurant on the lake where we ate, talked, danced and I was blown away by the energy of all of the women, considering that we were all so tired after our long flight and long drive from the airport.
The next day, we started with an amazing lecture by Rabbi, historian, and author of several books Ken Spiro about world values throughout time and how Jewish culture impacted today’s world. It was amazing to be guided from one civilization to another and see the cruelty, war and blood thirsty values, shocking sexual values, and everything that was wrong with the world. Today, we have moved very far into civil civilization, even with all of the terrorism, conflicts and values that we have today it is nothing in comparison what was going on during Egyptian, Greek, ChengisKhan or Roman civilizations. All those civilizations miraculously disappeared from the face of the earth. Rabbi Ken Spiro wrote a book called World Perfect that I can’t wait to buy and read.
After the lecture, we moved on to an amazing, ancient, Kabbalistic city Tsfat. We visited holy synagogues, one art gallery where we met a very interesting woman, Princeton graduate who told us her life story while demonstrating to us art of glass blowing.
We walked on the ancient streets of Tsfat and ate inside a building that was 800 years old. There were several observant Jewish women playing drums, guitar and singing. We all danced and were singing Jewish songs. Some of the songs I have heard before and some I did not. As I learn more Hebrew and more about Jewish culture I started understanding meaning of some songs that is amazing!
We had an amazing tour guide, her name is Esti. She is an amazing story teller and very knowledgeable about history and Jewish traditions. She makes me very emotional with her emotional stories about Israel and Jewish people.
After Tsfat we went to our stable destination, Jerusalem. The first evening, our small Minnesota group decided to walk down to the Western Wall or as it is called in Israel -- Kotel. It was around 8 or 9 pm. There were not many people by the wall. I prayed at the wall from my heart. I prepared my prayer in MN. I thanked God for everything Almighty does for me and asked for my friends and family. As I touched the wall, I had a very spiritual and emotional experience. I felt the warmth go through me. I was very close to the Holiest of the Holy places in the world.
As Esti explained to us, the mount Moria, on top of which many years ago was built the First and the Second Temples, is the first part of the world that G-d created and the place where in both Temples was G-d’s presence. That is the place where Abraham had to sacrifice his son Isaac, where Jacob had a prophetic dream, and where highest priest was serving G-d in the holiest of the holly place where many God’s miracles were seen by all people of that time. It was an amazing experience!
We walked through the old city and enjoyed watching beautiful Jewish observant families walking with their kids, Rabbis, women, men, children, teenagers hanging out. The life is boiling in Jerusalem, even after midnight.
Jewish observant women in Jerusalem are so beautiful!
Read about Day 4
Read about Day 5
Read about Day 6 and 7
Read about Day 8
Read about Day 9
Read about Day 10, last day.
Israel trip with Jewish Women Renaissance Program (JWRP) is truly amazing. You can have high expectations and they would be met and exceeded. I had no expectations; I don’t like to have expectations when I travel. I just like to experience whatever I would experience. It is not a religious trip but more of a self-searching and growing program.
We started our journey with the beautiful city Tiberias on the lake Keneret. Our hotel rooms were facing the lake and we had breath-taking, energizing view! We had a really long late dinner at a restaurant on the lake where we ate, talked, danced and I was blown away by the energy of all of the women, considering that we were all so tired after our long flight and long drive from the airport.
The next day, we started with an amazing lecture by Rabbi, historian, and author of several books Ken Spiro about world values throughout time and how Jewish culture impacted today’s world. It was amazing to be guided from one civilization to another and see the cruelty, war and blood thirsty values, shocking sexual values, and everything that was wrong with the world. Today, we have moved very far into civil civilization, even with all of the terrorism, conflicts and values that we have today it is nothing in comparison what was going on during Egyptian, Greek, ChengisKhan or Roman civilizations. All those civilizations miraculously disappeared from the face of the earth. Rabbi Ken Spiro wrote a book called World Perfect that I can’t wait to buy and read.
After the lecture, we moved on to an amazing, ancient, Kabbalistic city Tsfat. We visited holy synagogues, one art gallery where we met a very interesting woman, Princeton graduate who told us her life story while demonstrating to us art of glass blowing.
We walked on the ancient streets of Tsfat and ate inside a building that was 800 years old. There were several observant Jewish women playing drums, guitar and singing. We all danced and were singing Jewish songs. Some of the songs I have heard before and some I did not. As I learn more Hebrew and more about Jewish culture I started understanding meaning of some songs that is amazing!
We had an amazing tour guide, her name is Esti. She is an amazing story teller and very knowledgeable about history and Jewish traditions. She makes me very emotional with her emotional stories about Israel and Jewish people.
After Tsfat we went to our stable destination, Jerusalem. The first evening, our small Minnesota group decided to walk down to the Western Wall or as it is called in Israel -- Kotel. It was around 8 or 9 pm. There were not many people by the wall. I prayed at the wall from my heart. I prepared my prayer in MN. I thanked God for everything Almighty does for me and asked for my friends and family. As I touched the wall, I had a very spiritual and emotional experience. I felt the warmth go through me. I was very close to the Holiest of the Holy places in the world.
As Esti explained to us, the mount Moria, on top of which many years ago was built the First and the Second Temples, is the first part of the world that G-d created and the place where in both Temples was G-d’s presence. That is the place where Abraham had to sacrifice his son Isaac, where Jacob had a prophetic dream, and where highest priest was serving G-d in the holiest of the holly place where many God’s miracles were seen by all people of that time. It was an amazing experience!
We walked through the old city and enjoyed watching beautiful Jewish observant families walking with their kids, Rabbis, women, men, children, teenagers hanging out. The life is boiling in Jerusalem, even after midnight.
Jewish observant women in Jerusalem are so beautiful!
Read about Day 4
Read about Day 5
Read about Day 6 and 7
Read about Day 8
Read about Day 9
Read about Day 10, last day.