Reflections from Morning 3

This morning we woke up at the crack of dawn to climb the towering mountain of Masada. We scarfed  down a small breakfast and made our way to the base of the mountain. With the cliffs looming over us, we began the difficult hike. The sun was beating down on everyone!  Once everyone made it to the top, we learned more about the story of Masada. We discovered that the outcome of the siege by the romans on the zealots was mass suicide, so that they could die by their own hands instead of the hands of the romans. We looked around more at the ancient fortress and learned about how the zealots lived. Finally, we sang the Shema in the oldest synagogue in the world, and imagined what it was like to be Jewish in the time of Masada. We took the cable car back down the mountain.

Dani