Jerusalem Scenes

A poignant picture taken today from the American Consulate in Jerusalem, #BringBackOurBoys!  Say Tehillim and sign this petition  http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/bringbackourboys Rachael Alice - Traveling Hair Salon  http://travelinghairsalon.weebly.com/ I am in Talpiot next week on Wednesday! Call or e-mail to reserve your appointment!

Rachael demonstrating in the year 2000.  This picture was taken when I was with the Zionist Book Club headed by David Perkins. We were out demonstrating in the year 2000against Ehud Barak's government.  We made a lot of noise during his weekly cabinet meeting. Every week we were in the Rose Garden, saying Psalms, listening to speeches and making noise.  People say that demonstrations don't have an effect, but I think that we annoyed Barak.  His government didn't last long and we made our voice heard. In today's situation, if you don't make your voice heard, then you are one of the ones who agree with the kidnapping of children who were coming home from school to become political pawns.  Is that right?  Is it ethical? Would an Arab woman want her son to be abducted?  I would venture to say no. As Abbas says " We are human too." Start to act like it, residents of Ramallah.   Enter the human race and protest! Show the world that you don'...

I was walking in the neighborhood and this mailbox caught my eye. I then transformed it using PaperArtist. Nice.

I pronounce that summer is officially started in Jerusalem, Yesterday on Shavout, the temperature didn't even go down at midnight, it was 81 F degrees! Today the temperature will go up to 29 C, that is 84 F, so take your water bottles, and sunhats!  Rachael Orbach http://lifecoachjerusalem.weebly.com/

Jerusalem Day Song My prayer is a song A Psalm with an ever-changing Melody Levels of meaning dance around familiar and foreign words I stand in Song and Silence Neither a more prominent communication with G-d Drink the essence, the sweet savor in the unity that is Jerusalem Rachael Alice Orbach Here is how we want to see the Har Habayit, back in Jewish hands, with the Holy Temple built may it be done speedily in our days!  This is like the view if you were sitting on Mt. of Olives, with a super zoom camera.  We need the Cohenim, the Levi'im and all of Am Yisrael to really pray for this to happen!

When do we light the bonfires for the memory of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai, the writer of the Zohar?  According to the Chief Rabbanate, since there is not a Torah law, nor even a Rabbanic law to light bonfires in his memory, if the 33rd day of the Omer falls on Shabbat, like it did this year, then the bonfires should be pushed off until the next day to avoid any and all violations of Shabbat.  The same applies to Rosh Hashana, Succot and the reading of the Megilla.  These are Torah and Rabbanic customs, and there is no blowing of the Shofar on Shabbat, no waving of the Four Species on Shabbat and no reading of the Megialla on Shabbat.  Also, the contemporary holidays of Israeli Memorial day of the Soldiers and Israeli Independence Day are pushed off a day for the Honor of Shabbat.  This same logic should apply to bonfires.  In the rest of the world, the memorial of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai is not marked with a bonfire, it is against the law to light...

I woke up to see this out my window, How wondrous the works of Nature! Rachael Alice