Wednesday, February 23, 2005

Israel: Brokenness and Beauty

Updated March 14

I love loveliness and Israel offered very much loveliness as well as so much brokenness. This is my favourite picture. And so are the rest that follow.


Light on Curtains, Ari's Shul, Tzfat (Safed)



* Click on picture, to enlarge.


Brokenness and Beauty Mines and Thorns

Life In Tzfat Life in Jerusalem
From the Heights

Where the Ark Stood, Qasrin

On the Road Ravaged

Cold Comfort Young Ezra on the Heights

Dancing Trees


Serenity View From Tzfat

Illumination, Caro Shul




More to come...




8 Comments:

Blogger Eliyahu said...

nice mechitza?

Wed Feb 23, 08:55:00 pm  
Blogger Barefoot Jewess said...

Heh. The thought occurred. Nice try :).

Sometimes a curtain is just a curtain.

Wed Feb 23, 08:59:00 pm  
Blogger haKiruv said...

Nice use of the lighting.

Thu Feb 24, 04:04:00 pm  
Blogger Barefoot Jewess said...

well, thank you, said!

Thu Feb 24, 07:01:00 pm  
Blogger Sechel said...

Which shul is "Serenity" from?
Great photos.

Tue Mar 01, 03:09:00 pm  
Blogger Barefoot Jewess said...

Mirty and Sechel,

Thank you so much!!!!

Sechel, it is Ari's Shul (Synagogue) again-aka, the Ari-Ashkenazi synagogue, according to my research (I did not listen to the tour guide). As I understand it, it was built quite a while after the death of the Ari (Isaac Luria, mystic and Kabbalist), on the spot where the Ari gave birth to Kabbalat Shabbat.

Tue Mar 01, 04:40:00 pm  
Blogger Elianah-Sharon said...

You're a very astute and gifted photographer. I absolutely LOVE the marketplace photo. It's outstanding. I have so enjoyed vicariously visiting Eretz Yisroel through your eyes :)

Wed Mar 02, 04:43:00 am  
Blogger Anshel's Wife said...

My husband just came back from EY and the only pictures I've seen were a few ceiling shots from the Caro shul. Thank you for your pictures. They are beautiful and wonderful and telling.

Mon Mar 07, 08:27:00 am  

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