Last night was the first night I got to actually talk to people on Skype! I was very excited! I got to see Aaron, Alison, Gracie, Wyatt and Dad. Woo Hoo! I finally got the mic on the camera working.
Yesterday we went to see the Dead Sea Scrolls and a HUGE model of Jerusalem. It really help me put together the pieces in my head of what the old city looked like from the City of David up until the 2nd Temple Period. The Dead Sea Scrolls were amazing. It's crazy to me how we are able to find something so important to our faith that was written SO long ago! 2000 years old and still in great condition!!! They found a whole manuscript of Isaiah in there, but it was a copy in the Museum.
After that we went to the Jewish Market, which was quite fun and then a Synagogue. We were able to speak to a Jewish Rabbi and pick his brain a little bit about how the Jewish religion works. It was so interesting. One thing I found COMPLETELY amazing was that in the Synagogue there has to be at least 2 Torah's for them to read out of (which is the first 5 books of the Christian Bible). These Torah's are all hand written by a scribe. In hebrew, vowels are not words, but marks (kind of like dots) but above or below a letter. In the Torah, all vowels are left out because the Rabbi should know it so well that he should know how it is said. These Torah's cost between $20,000 and $60,000 depending on the neatness of the handwriting!!!
Today we go to Tel Aviv, which should be fun. I'm not sure what we're doing there but hey, it's always an adventure right??
Ecc. 3:1-12
Jessica
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