Day 2 we have arrived…
after a 10 and a half hour flight from Newark to Tel Aviv we hit the ground running. No time to waste, things to do, stuff to learn. Sounds like Pastor Randy doesn’t it!
The first site of the trip was Hav’uot Quetomeam, where we were fed a light lunch of the biblical period which included flat bread, humus, olives, cucumbers, yogurt and delicious sage tea…
It was here that Randy wanted to introduce us to some of the things the biblical writer thought we already knew before we journeyed into the pages of Scripture.
One of the coolest things about this stop was Zecharie, an actual modern scribe who was actually translating the Torah (first 5 books of the Hebrew Scriptures) from an old set of parchment papers to new ones right before our eyes. We were able to see what the process looks like and we were also blessed with being able to see a 200-year-old Torah still intact. Before we left Zecharie blessed us by singing for us in his native tongue a specific psalm from the Torah.
It was a great opening day but Pastor Randy could tell that our entire group was spent, so we headed for the hotel to attempt to sleep off some of our new found jet lag.
As Machar (Until Tomorrow)
