Masadaaaaa

So we climbed Masada today. It was chill. 

We learned a lot about the history of this place. In short, we fought the Romans, we lost, and we committed suicide. 

Herod built these palaces on top of a mountain in the middle of nowhere. We usually see Herod as a great builder but he was really such a horrible man. He built these palaces because he knew people would want to kill him. They say you had a better chance of surviving if you were his pig rather than his child. Why, you may ask? Because the man killed 13/15 of his kids. 

Most tour guides show their group all of Herods stupid bath houses where he sat and filed his nails thinking about which Jews to kill tomorrow. Thankfully my tour guide had a good head on his shoulders and he taught us about what really went on. The tour was long and rough (really sad stories) but here's a thought that really stuck with me. 

So 70 years after Herod built this whole thing on top of Masada, Jews went up there to hide. 

They needed Mikvehs which is what you see in the picture above. You see the pretty mosaic floor in the middle? That was built by Herod. The Jews broke right into it in order to build the Mik. They broke into the physical to get in touch with the spiritual. Today in this day and age we get so distracted with the physical that we don't even stop for a second and think about what we really want for ourselves. We have to take a break off of the physical and have that spiritual time to think. (Sorry if I sound like a hippie- it sounded better in my head)

This was a powerful message for me and I hope you can all take away from it. 

There's a lot more to be said but I don't want to bore you guys.

After hiking down we stopped for a while to wait for it to get dark out for the next part of our Tiyul. 

These are sooo edited but I just wanted you to see where I was in the dark. We hiked (or walked) (or scaled a mountain) in the pitch black night. We sat down at one point and sang while our tour guide played guitar. We got glow sticks which was cute. A good time to reflect. So up my alley. Really great way to end our trip

Peace out everyone

Have a great week! 

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P.S. Happy birthday to Norman and Adele Greenberg and Jeanne Franco!  Wish I was there to celebrate with all of you. Ad 120 😘