Swimming scares and melting clouds

Bridges 2 Israel If you have not seen that here is your chance - Flash mob in Jerusalem In This Issue Swimming scares and melting clouds Light unto the nations part 2 Lake kineret corner Quick Links    Previous Israel Rambles letters  The biblical Zoo in Jerusalem Visit Our Sponsor Quick Links  previous Israel Rambles Hand in Hand, a bilingual Jewish-Arab school in Jerusalem The protest compound on Rothschild Boulevard in Tel Aviv, July 21, 2011 Our Sponsors Our Synagogue You are invited to join services at our Synagogue any time  see details Cantor - Boaz Pnini Our Sponsors Tree of knowledge All that exists in the universe originated well, living things, vegetation and still life, all for good. Judgment hides the light. When a person is in his destiny way and he deviates from it, he feels bad. This bad is good, because the bad awakens him and guides him back to his way. In consciousness we will build life  Tal Rinkov Visit Our Sponsor Israel Ramble letters   Swimming scares and melting clouds Dear reader,     Wishing you a peaceful weekend and Shabbat shalom. The photos are featuring different aspects of Jerusalem. I lived in Jerusalem for few years. When I was 16 I was at a yeshiva for few months at the old city right behind the wall on the panorama above. Maybe I will ramble about it sometime. Until then you may be able to imagine what it is like to live in such a compact place, physically and historically, where all the houses are made of stones, we call Jerusalemite stone.  Boaz Pnini  Bridges 2 Israel   Swimming scares and melting clouds  Please don't tell anyone, but whenever I go to Israel visiting the Kibbutz I snick into the swimming pool area. Sometimes it is locked and I have to go though a hole in the fence, but I must go there because it is intrinsically connected to my need for peace, and since it is always winter when I visit, no one is there. Then I say hello to the bugenvilias, the lantanas, the aromas of the flowers, the grass, the pools we swam in.    30 years ago I had an experience I cannot explain, maybe you can, or maybe I was just hallucinating .As often happened, I laid on my back on the green coarse grass, basking in the sun, looking leisurely at the passing clouds that where evenly scattered above like a bunch of white sheep over the blue sky. Then the most bizarre thing happened, whatever cloud I was looking at, in a minute or 2 disappeared, but not the clouds right next to it. So I will choose another cloud to look at and it will all happen again, just melt away, go figure.. if it ever happened to you let me know.   We had 2 pools, but the big one was really a reservoir for irrigation, full with algae and fish, we swam with the fish, we tried to make the 33 meter dive from side to side underwater without breathing, all kind of scummy things will be suspended in that murky green water, an underwater adventure, finding a lost ring on the bottom, it was very easy to drown there since the water was almost completely an opaque green.   My mom taught me how to dive head first, it was mighty scary and she had to do it many times over before I took the risk and jump from the high bridge and into the 2 meter of void before hitting the water, I think I was 9 by then.  Boaz Pnini  Bridges 2 Israel Light unto the nations part 2 Daphni Leef speaking at a protest rally in Tel Aviv, 23 July 2011 New templates are being born in Israel. One I closely watched was the social protest this last summer when hundred thousands of Israelis took to the streets in peaceful protest of the deepening parity between the have and the have nots.  It was peaceful. I mean no violent, they cleaned after themselves and brought flowers to the neighbors for their support of the tent city they lived in for weeks, and it was led by the young generation. The tent city  looked like that.  It was a new template that later was copied by people all around the world, calling it occupied this and occupied that, but the spark came from Zion.   This may be a modern interpretation of the biblical "Light unto the Nation", but watch and see, I don't think that's the end of it but maybe just a beginning.     Watch an interview with Daphni Leef , the face of this new wave for social justice.  Boaz Pnini Bridges 2 Israel Lake kineret corner    Lake kineret keeps crawling upwards which is always good news. It is 112 centimeters above the red line and still about 3 meter under the maximum level where water needs to be released into the Jordan. This did not happen for quite a while and that is the main reason the Dead Sea is getting lower. Today Friday supposed to be rainy everywhere expect in Eilat, so that will add more water to the lake. Please feel free to forward  Israel Ramble letters to your friends and family and anyone who may be interested. You may use the FORWARD link below. Thanks, Boaz Pnini, Bridges 2 Israel LLC

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