Follow the Rabbi

 Every morning we started with saying She'ma

She'ma Israel

Adonai elohenu-Adonai echad

Ve'ahavta et Adonai eloeikah,

b'khol levavkah

uve'khol naphshekah

uve'khol m'odekah

Ve'ahavta le'reacha Kamocha,

Amen

Then we sang the She'ma song

Hear oh Isra-el

the Lord our God is one Lord

You shall love the Lord your God with all of your heart 2x

You shall love the Lord your God with all of your soul 2x

you shall love the Lord your God with all of your might 2x

you shall love the Lord your God with all of your mind 2x

hear oh Isra-el

Garace & Coleen would lead the song

Marc would use the jumbee that our church got from Rwanda 

Morning devos were about

giving it "your all"

 This morning we started our with a little hike

Not all groups gets to go here 

because it is in a protected nature area

 we followed a park ranger 

 to a mysterious building, I'll tell you more in Ceasarea

Todd loves these kind of signs

no idea what is says

 Hydrex

and lots of Ibex

also high on the ridge

 we are still in the desert

 but it's greener 

 there is water

enough to pool together

This picture shows the desert above the lush green in the wadi

 We were in wadi David

Just as a deer longs for running streams,
God, I long for you. I am thirsty for God, for the living God!
When can I come and appear before God?

 at EnGedi

 a beautiful waterfall in the desert

Mayim Chayim = Living Water

water that is not carried but comes straight from God

The sound of God's voice

 ^{God not only provides water, but is living water} 

 ^{a Succot teaching with Marc playing the priest with a pitcher of living water}

We chanted Hosa-nah

Lord save us!

 Now on the last day of the festival, Hoshana Rabbah, Yeshua stood and cried out, “If anyone is thirsty, let him keep coming to me and drinking!  Whoever puts his trust in me, as the Scripture says, rivers of living water will flow from his inmost being!”

Todd taught passionately

 ^{we were all spread out}

 sometimes reading memory verses

 writing in our journals

 Margaret had taken along her own seat

wonder how much Marc wrote in his journal

 we hiked along an edge

 not a favourite kind of hike for Marjorie

 Last time I went to En Gedi we only made it to the parking lot

down by the trees

We couldn't believe we were so close without hiking to the water

 The dead sea looks fresh

Marjorie is making it. Annie is a great encourager

 Marc came to tell me, if you go left your feet stay dry,

but the Rabbi went right

 It was a test in following

 would we follow the rabbi and get our feet wet?

These did

But most didn't

On the way back we again were supposed to choose
to go through the water again
more went this time