Soaking up the Land - Getting ready for Yom Kippur II

The beautiful grave of Rabbeinu Bechaye in the Galil


The great mystics: The Ari"zl and the Alkabets buried in Tzfat



This Jew, Yeshua Ledee, was a fan of Israel National Radio living in Florida, and we became friends. One day he sent me a little sample jar in the mail and I was puzzled until I read the letter. Yeshua was asking me to fill the jar with a bit of Eretz Yisrael, so that he can be inspired by it, until one day, he would return it to the Land itself, after making Aliyah. That day came. Yeshua emptied out the jar here in Beit El. Soon he will refill it with earth from his area in Israel, and send the jar to America again, to inspire someone else.



Our good friends Leah, Shmuel, and their kids, Aliyah fanatics like ourselves, live in Eshchar in the Galil. It has become a tradition for us to spend Rosh Hashanna with them.