Of cisterns and israel
In honor of Yom Ha’atzmaut, Daled Amos started a meme
an Israel meme.
I thought it would be a good opportunity to share together experiences we have had in Israel or stories we have heard.
Three years ago, my parents took us to Israel to celebrate Pesach with my brother’s family in Israel. While we were there, I was able to see Israel in a way I never had before.
Perhaps it was by virtue of my age or maybe I was inspired by being there with my family, but I noticed things I hadn’t before.
One thing that struck was the cisterns (and, for that matter, the aqueduct in Caeseria).
Cisterns are holes in the ground. They were reinforced with a plaster. And they were built to store water during the rainy season - about 2000 years ago.
We saw cisterns at Massada, in Yerushalayim (Jerusalem) and Zippori (Sepphoris). And, of course, the aqueduct at Caesaria. All are reminders that there weren’t just people living in Judea 2000 years ago, but that there was a society.
No matter how one views the state of Israel now, what the cisterns reminded me of is that after 2000 years a Jewish state was reconstituted in the same place it had existed previously. No other country in the world can make that claim.
That makes Israel unique. Not just unique, but a miracle.
Technorati tag: Israel.
Though I’ve tagged others in my regular blog, maybe contributors to Israpundit would like to pick this up here.
Crossposted on Israpundit and Soccer Dad.
