Today I went to the tomb of Rabbi Yehuda HaNasi. He was a Rabbi. He was a Rabbi who lived during the 2nd century CE. He was a Rabbi who lived during the 2nd century CE and compiled the mishnah. Over all I did not like this trip. I really hate it when I go [...]
Today I went spelunking. What is spelunking you ask, well it is when you go exploring in caves. Which caves you ask, well obviously it was caves in Israel… to be more specific the caves that we went to were in Bet Guvrin. These were the caves that the great Rabbis hid in during Roman [...]
This Sunday I went paint-balling here. At first I was kind of scared and I was not sure if I wanted to even play the first game. But I got over my fear and I went out to play, and it wasn’t so bad. I shot 2 people in the first game and got shot [...]
I just got back from Masada it was a very moving experience. I got up at 4 in the morning to hike up the snake trail. The hike up took about an hour and the view from the top was very rewarding. Because of the snow and rain from the day before there was still [...]
Two days ago (Tuesday) I was in Jerusalem, while I was there something really cool was happening, it was SNOWING! Now because of the snow it would have been stupid to take out my camera and risk it getting wet, but thankfully I had a water proof case for it! So here are a few [...]
This weekend started off kind of sad, it was our first open weekend and as everyone left the dorms it was really hard saying goodbye even though we would all be back together in only a few days. But things got better after I left. I spent the past weekend (friday night+shabbat) at my Aunt [...]
I just got back from my first core test… The test was pure evil, it has like 40 fill in the blank questions with answers that we never learned and it had an essay portion with a prompt that said something like “talk about the kings of Israel”. How is that an essay prompt?!?!?! Any [...]
Hi all, sorry if u tried looking at my blog in the past few hours and it did not work, I tried updating the software powering it and the Internet shutoff in the middle of my FTP upload.
Here is a video tour that me and Eric made of the Muss Dorms.
Hi all, I have safely landed in Israel and will be there for the next FOUR months. More updates to come. (I have had almost no breaks since I landed). Here is a picture of my computer in Israel to hold you over until I get time to put more up.