Looking for Talmidim

 We started to hike off the beaten path

before we left I had decided to imitate our Rabbi in everything

to be a disciple a talmidim, you walk where the Rabbi walks

you pick up a rock if he picks up a rock

you throw down your hat, when he throws down his hat

But that is easier said then done

 I found that I am a very independent person who doesn't follow that good

Those that didn't follow where called "goats"

sheep follow, goats always know a faster / easier / better way

 

We had come up making our own path 

through a "field" with prickly plants

 This was experiential learning

 The prickly plant was supposed to help us remember the faith lesson

 We got to a dig in the tell, 

iron age 1000BC (Abraham)

a sewer was running out into the valley 

we had just walked through.

The sewage runs out into "hell"

The biblical picture of hell is a sewage dump

gives a different picture to the worm (maggot)

 And if your eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out. It is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into hell, where

“‘the worms that eat them do not die,
    and the fire is not quenched.’

  

^up and  down the sewer giving us our first

 faith lesson Todd taught told us that in Israel the students

get experiential learning 80% of the time

(We assume they don't have to fill in waivers)

  

Looking out over the field

Only the wealthy people lived in the protection of the city