Today was another amazing day! We waited with great anticipation the arrival of David and Deborah Harding of Australia along with special guest, Bulkunu, of the Aboriginal people. They showed up here looking exhausted, even a bit shell-shocked, after a 30 hour trip that started on the other side of the world. Once we had them safely in-hand with food and a hot shower set up, the ten of us set out on trip to the Golan for an afternoon of feasting and sitting in the sukkah of online friend and writer, Eliyahu Berkowitz.
Over the last six or seven months, The Barking Fox and I have come to be good friends with Eliyahu, feature writer for Breaking Israel News. Well, with us coming to Israel for Sukkot, we had to try to get together and today was the appointed time. Eliyahu extended an invitation for us to come sit in his sukkah, shake lulav and share a meal with he and his precious family. For weeks we have been looking forward to this day and it was wonderful!
Our journey, that should have taken about two and a half hours, took nearly four hours! Traffic snarls were the major problem, though a wrong turn in Tiberias and a wild jaunt through several parts of town was interesting. But, and interesting thing happened in route… We stopped for lunch at a jamb packed roadside filling station/ restaurant. After we had our pizza, but before we could sit down, Tommy was invited by a very traditional looking Orthodox Jewish to come sit in his sukkah for lunch. So, we all paraded the length of this rest stop to Continue reading
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