December 23, 2007
A Full Day In Jerusalem
Our day began with a challenge from holocaust scholar, Rachel Korazim. To help us prepare for our visit to Yad V’shem she urged us to approach the opportunity from three perspective: To learn the story of one person (besides Anne Frank); To imagine back into the photographs we would see the beauty of people’s lives and in doing so to restore to them to them their dignity; to accept with humility the reality that we will never fully understand the Holocaust and work to understand as much as we can.
After lunch in varied settings,
The afternoon found us on three different adventures.
We read the poetry of Yehudah Amichai and the prose of S.Y. Agnon on the terraces and street corners that they wrote about in their work.
We dug at an archeological site and uncovered historical artifacts.
We explored the Jewish Quarter of the Old City and saw the moon rise over the Kotel.
And as the sun set over Jerusalem, we returned to norish our bodies just as we norished our souls this day.
