Touring the Holy Land during Difficult Times

Touring the Holy Land during Difficult Times

I had heard that a trip to the Holy Land changes your life, and it truly is an inner and outer experience that leaves no one indifferent. This summer, I participated in a pilgrimage, which someone describes as a journey “for the brave” due to the...
Ein Gedi: The Spring of the Goat

Ein Gedi: The Spring of the Goat

Before becoming king, David had entered the service of King Saul. In the palace, David would play the lyre to calm the king’s anxiety attacks. There, he became friends with Jonathan, Saul’s son. But David, due to his victories against the Philistines—particularly...
Solomon

Solomon

When David died, his son Solomon succeeded him on the throne. At the beginning of his reign, Solomon went to Gibeon to offer sacrifices to God, and there he asked for wisdom. The Lord granted it him to such an extraordinary degree that Solomon became the biblical...
Tabor: the “Holy Mountain”

Tabor: the “Holy Mountain”

A public bus rides from the Damascus Gate in Jerusalem to a neighborhood called al-Tur located at the summit of the Mount of Olives, also known as Jabal al-Tur. It is with this term that the Samaritans of Mount Gerizim, the Arabs of the villages at the foot of Mount...
The City of David

The City of David

After Saul’s death, the elders of Judah proclaimed David king in Hebron, and subsequently, the northern tribes also recognized him as king of Israel. The second book of Samuel describes the capture of the city of Jerusalem by David’s troops: “Then the king...
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