Chapter 10 - Friday, 3/24/89
On this Good
Friday we went to the Garden of Gethsemane for a time of worship. After that we visited the Holocaust Memorial,
reminding me of the persecution of the Jews.
Would things have been different had they not have persecuted
Jesus? It is gruesome what evil men are
capable of. I could not stay in this
museum very long without becoming nauseated at what had happened.
We then went
to the Model of Jerusalem, a small scale of the city as it was in the time of
Herod. Friday sundown until Saturday
sundown is the Jewish Sabbath. The
stores, businesses, schools, and public transportation all shut down as the
Sabbath is the most sacred day of all the Jewish days.
Several of
us attended a Jewish Synagogue service on Friday evening. Men must wear hats, and most wore the little
round flat caps. Men and women enter
through separate doors. The men go into
the main “sanctuary”, while the women sit along the sides behind partial walls
and iron grill work through which they can view the service. It was a service with a lot of ritual, yet a
very loose atmosphere. As it was in
Hebrew, we did not understand anything being said, prayed, or sung.
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