By Brian Levy-Hara
Shavua tov! Being in Yerushalim for Shabbat was a life changing experience. We arrived to the tomb of David and the girls lit the Shabbat candles. After Kiddush we went to the kotel for Shabbat. When we got to the western wall you could see a swarm of people praying and welcoming Shabbat with great enthusiasm. There were various groups of people praying at different tunes rhythms and starting at different times. When we started to pray I was overcome with joy and could picture ourselves inside the great temple. Just looking at the remains of the temple and think the man power that it took to build was incredible. After prayers it was Shabbat so we had to walk back to the hotel. We had a two hour walk; it was a painful walk to remember forever. To experience Israel to its fullest some of us wanted to keep Shabbat, and we had the experience of riding a Shabbat elevator.
Saturday was the first day that we had the chance to sleep in, we met at 11:45 for a activity that the soldiers prepared for us. After the activity we had lunch, and then time off to relax and experience Shabbat. Before havdalah we had two more activities; Jewish Identity where we had some flash-cards with different values of Judaism and we had to sort them by importance according to our thoughts. We also had “stump the rabbi” in this activity we had the chance to ask the rabbi any question, and he was going to answer to the best of his abilities.
It was finally time for havdalah we all gather around the candles, wine, and Besamim. We started singing and got in the spirit of Shabbat to say goodbye to Shabbat. It was finally time for our last night out, we had the chance to go to Ben Yehuda Street. We all went shopping for our families since there were a lot of Judaica and other t-shirt shops. Many people went to eat kosher food and experience an Israeli night.
Shavua tov! Being in Yerushalim for Shabbat was a life changing experience. We arrived to the tomb of David and the girls lit the Shabbat candles. After Kiddush we went to the kotel for Shabbat. When we got to the western wall you could see a swarm of people praying and welcoming Shabbat with great enthusiasm. There were various groups of people praying at different tunes rhythms and starting at different times. When we started to pray I was overcome with joy and could picture ourselves inside the great temple. Just looking at the remains of the temple and think the man power that it took to build was incredible. After prayers it was Shabbat so we had to walk back to the hotel. We had a two hour walk; it was a painful walk to remember forever. To experience Israel to its fullest some of us wanted to keep Shabbat, and we had the experience of riding a Shabbat elevator.
Saturday was the first day that we had the chance to sleep in, we met at 11:45 for a activity that the soldiers prepared for us. After the activity we had lunch, and then time off to relax and experience Shabbat. Before havdalah we had two more activities; Jewish Identity where we had some flash-cards with different values of Judaism and we had to sort them by importance according to our thoughts. We also had “stump the rabbi” in this activity we had the chance to ask the rabbi any question, and he was going to answer to the best of his abilities.
It was finally time for havdalah we all gather around the candles, wine, and Besamim. We started singing and got in the spirit of Shabbat to say goodbye to Shabbat. It was finally time for our last night out, we had the chance to go to Ben Yehuda Street. We all went shopping for our families since there were a lot of Judaica and other t-shirt shops. Many people went to eat kosher food and experience an Israeli night.
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