Life in the First Century

We visited Nazareth Village once again while Paul, Lauren and Noah were in town. The recreation of first century life on an actual vineyard is always interesting, no matter how many times we've visited. Here you can see how they collected water and cooked. As someone who spends a lot of time in the kitchen it looks doable, but definitely hard.

The Study of the Word as Worship

"Judaism considers the study of Torah as the most sublime kind of worship, a way of meeting God, of breaking through the barrier separating the Absolute from the contingent and relative. Human intellectual engagement in the exploration of God's word, thought and law is a great religious experience, an activity bordering on the miraculous, a paradoxical bridge spanning the chasm that separates the world of vanity and infinity. The preoccupation of the intellect with the Torah is a sort of identification with divine thought, the realization of man's longing for companionship with God."
Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik