Jo started with a moment of "Stika" (36 seconds of quietness), to hear God's spirit ("Ruach"). He told us that Jesus came to heal our upside-down world. He came to make it right again.
Ben told us that Beatitude means blessing ("brucha").
In the Jewish world there is a blessing for everything. For example, Jesus chose his disciples and they followed him. A blessing in that situation would be, "May you be covered by the dust of your Rabbi's feet"
Dvora told us about all all of the "other" cities in the area - the ones that we've never heard of. The reason we don't know about them is because Jesus didn't go there.
On holy sites we were to wear long sleeves (shoulders had to be covered).
Our guide told us about an experiment that she had done.
They had a group of school children spread out over the entire hillside. A boy was reading from a book near the water's edge. Even the kids who were farthest away could hear him clearly because of the way the hills are shaped. The hills here are like a natural amphitheatre.
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