by RabbiOlivier | Nov 23, 2011 | Israel
Our Israel trip is winding down. We have one more day in Jerusalem and, after dinner tonight, we will all drive back to Ben Gurion airport to catch our Seattle-bound flights. We spent the last two days in Jerusalem already, beginning with Yad Vashem—the Holocaust...
by RabbiOlivier | Nov 20, 2011 | Israel
There is an oasis in the middle of the Judean desert called Ein Gedi. Israelis built a kibbutz there many decades ago and transformed it into an internationally recognized botanical garden where the most astonishing species of flowers, coexist alongside the richest...
by RabbiOlivier | Nov 18, 2011 | Israel
The day started in meditation. Our practice was about holding in awareness all of our sensations, emotions and thoughts with love and compassion; to open our heart to what is, to fully receive the moment without resisting it or wanting it to be any different than it...
by RabbiOlivier | Nov 15, 2011 | Israel
Tel Aviv is the contrast between the old and the new. In 1909, a group of Jews left the millennia old town of Jaffa where they had resettled decades earlier after leaving their native Europe, in order to build a new city on what, at the time, were only sand dunes by...
by RabbiOlivier | Nov 14, 2011 | Israel
Greetings from Tel Aviv!! The whole group is here, safe and sound, and finally got together tonight for the first time. All of us went out for dinner at this restaurant on the Tel Aviv promenade by the beach. Just picture if you can, nine of us trying to order from...
