Today as we were guest at a Shabbat service, it included many people of different languages. The prominent ones being Hebrew and Russian. There are many people though who pass through visiting Israel or other countries with families making Aliyah (the return to the land). The history can be quite overwhelming of all these different cultures coming together as Jews return.
Today was many songs in languages including: Chinese (from Hong Kong), Catalan (Spain), Finnish, Deutch, Spanish, English, and of course Hebrew. The people were all different, and of course all the same. The fact that they can all be together is not just interesting, but a blessing.
Oh yes, a cat casually wandered through the service, he smelled the food planned for the pot luck. I find cats most interesting here as they do just that. They wander in and out and about and it is as though no one sees them except me. He may have tasted what I sampled or sampled what I tasted. I will be bringing home some new recipes from the meal here.
Later that evening, we attended a performance in Jerusalem of Handel's Messiah. We stopped off for bagels on Ben Yehuda street beforehand, and by the time the evening had finished and the hour or so home, it was almost 2 when we arrived, tricking my system finally (since this is the time I usually awake).
