What would you need most?

We were still new at the art of "following the Rabbi"

Tod told us they had found something here and would we want to see it

we actually had to convince some to come down

Agreed it seemed like a black hole in the ground

We came into a well plastered cistern

ancient plaster is of very good quality

We learned about ancient leprosy, poison Ivy would give a person  leprosy

molds would give people leprosy and to prevent this from happening, everything in the ancient world was plastered.

The Lord said to Moses and Aaron,  “When you enter the land of Canaan, which I am giving you as your possession, and I put a spreading mold in a house in that land,  the owner of the house must go and tell the priest, ‘I have seen something that looks like a defiling mold in my house.’  The priest is to order the house to be emptied before he goes in to examine the mold, so that nothing in the house will be pronounced unclean. After this the priest is to go in and inspect the house.  He is to examine the mold on the walls, and if it has greenish or reddish depressions that appear to be deeper than the surface of the wall,  the priest shall go out the doorway of the house and close it up for seven days

We were in the first of many Cisterns we would see

The size would tell you about it's population

Many human remains were found in this cistern

When a siege took place, at the end people would try to hide anywhere

some ended up hiding in the cistern

the entrance was blocked and the people perished

These steps were almost faded by the use of many feet before ours

^{We are catching on} to this following without knowing where we go

I actually came to like it a lot
over the next few day this question was often asked:
what would people need to live here?
and we became good at answering:

WATER