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What Happened in
Tour
and Lecture by Dr Haggi Ben Artzi organised by “Women in Green”
“Once more we’ll go
down to the Dead Sea, towards
We returned to
We stopped by
Erna, sunburnt from
her twenty-year-struggle to guard
We arrived the day
after Shavuot, on one of the monthly tours of Women for
About 100 people,
guided by Dr. Haggi Ben-Artzi, participated in our tour.
Haggi drew a
connection between the earth we walked on and Biblical verses. At the
For several hours we
returned to the pinnacles of Jewish history, to our parting with Moses, who was
not privileged to enter Eretz Yisrael; to Israel’s entry into the Land led by
Joshua, son of Nun, who was devoted to Eretz Yisrael; to our crossing the
Jordan; to the miracle of Erna’s farm extending over the hills right next to
Jericho.
Erna’s fervor is
hotter than the sun beating down on the Plains. Mostly, in her words, Erna is
alone with G-d. Following many struggles full of stubbornness and persistence,
she succeeded in establishing a green oasis one stop before the entrance to
Jericho, like the Matriarch Rachel, waiting for the Jewish People to return to
Jericho, the front door to the Land of Israel.
At day’s end, Erna
remained alone, yet many of her enthused visitors promised to attend the
bi-weekly Torah lecture held there, and to come for Shabbatot. Erna, through her
simplicity and naturalness, has succeeded in planting the hope, will and
optimism to make people attach themselves still more to our land. After all,
that is what our monthly trips are meant to do.
During the tour,
which lasted an entire day, Jewish history of the distant past intermingled with
history of the recent past. As we stood by the mass grave of Beit HaArava, Haggi
Ben Artzi passionately told of Kibbutz Beit HaArava’s establishment, of the
desert flowering, of the potash factory’s establishment, of the Jews’ banishment
from the area in 1948, of the heroism of
Yet in exchange for a
piece of paper and a false accord, we relinquished
Erna Kovos’
determination and stubbornness provide us all with the strength to carry on the
struggle over Eretz Yisrael.
Attached are pictures
taken by ”Women for
http://www.yeshabulletin.com/FIGHT%20BACK/FightBack.htm
Also see the movie in
Jewish
Prayer and Lesson at Shalom Al Israel on the 29th Sivan
We
prayed Shaharit, then had a fascinating discussion in the Beit Midrash of the
Shalom Al Israel synagogue in
And
Part 2-
http://www.youtube.com/user/JewishJericho#p/a/u/0/bPfVh8-CaqU
On
Parasha Nasso (Fri 8th Sivan /Sat 9th Sivan – 21st-22nd
May) a great Shabbat was held at Beit Hogla, near
The website of Jewish Jericho: http://www.jewishjericho.org.il/english/, see the website of the Jericho Settlement Group: http://www.g-jericho.co.cc/ News - April 2010
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Jewish life in
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