By Larry Shulman
Wedneday morning fter breakfast at the hotel, we drove into the old city of Jerusalem. We started with a lecture from Rabbi David Aaron about spirituality and kabbalah. He spoke about the key to our happiness is ourselves and explained this by looking at ourselves in 3 levels: Me, Self & I. After the talk, we walked over to the Western Wall. We had a few minutes free at the wall and then we had a tour. The hour-long tour took us into underground tunnels that exist near the wall. We saw different layers from 1,300 and 2,000 years ago.
After the tour, we had more time with the Western Wall when we were able to pray, put notes in, take pictures, and the boys we able to put on Tefillin. We also got a souvenir from the wall boys got a booklet with the Shema and the girls got Shabbat Candles. We then had free time to walk around the old city to both grab lunch and shop around at lots of different stores. Then, we walked to a rooftop where we had a view of the Jewish, Christian and Muslim quarters. Afterwards, we returned to the hotel, had some free time and then had dinner at the hotel.
After dinner we had a presentation from people from Massa, an organization which helps people come back to Israel for anywhere from 5 12 months. Then there was a presentation from the Gift of Life, which talked about the importance of donating bone marrow and provided us with the opportunity to sign up and enter the registry. Lastly, there was a presentation from 2 guys who started a shirt company that makes shirts for causes. They had shirts for Gilad Shalit, the Haiti earthquake, fires in northern Israel and many more causes. Between 20 40% of the revenue from each shirt goes to the causes. After the presentations we had free time to hang out at the hotel.
Wedneday morning fter breakfast at the hotel, we drove into the old city of Jerusalem. We started with a lecture from Rabbi David Aaron about spirituality and kabbalah. He spoke about the key to our happiness is ourselves and explained this by looking at ourselves in 3 levels: Me, Self & I. After the talk, we walked over to the Western Wall. We had a few minutes free at the wall and then we had a tour. The hour-long tour took us into underground tunnels that exist near the wall. We saw different layers from 1,300 and 2,000 years ago.
After the tour, we had more time with the Western Wall when we were able to pray, put notes in, take pictures, and the boys we able to put on Tefillin. We also got a souvenir from the wall boys got a booklet with the Shema and the girls got Shabbat Candles. We then had free time to walk around the old city to both grab lunch and shop around at lots of different stores. Then, we walked to a rooftop where we had a view of the Jewish, Christian and Muslim quarters. Afterwards, we returned to the hotel, had some free time and then had dinner at the hotel.
After dinner we had a presentation from people from Massa, an organization which helps people come back to Israel for anywhere from 5 12 months. Then there was a presentation from the Gift of Life, which talked about the importance of donating bone marrow and provided us with the opportunity to sign up and enter the registry. Lastly, there was a presentation from 2 guys who started a shirt company that makes shirts for causes. They had shirts for Gilad Shalit, the Haiti earthquake, fires in northern Israel and many more causes. Between 20 40% of the revenue from each shirt goes to the causes. After the presentations we had free time to hang out at the hotel.
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