すごい!静なのに賑やかです。たくさんパソコンやDVDやCDや雑誌や漫画や本があります。少しだけ英語の本もありますから、村上春樹の小説を借りました。
月曜日, 12月 05, 2005
イスラエル六番目
The Wailing Wall. Imposing, wall-like, worshipped in a way that seems to jar quite badly with my pre-conceived notions of God-worship. No idols, right? Anyway, it's impressive enough, and it amused me that I could enter where Tamar couldn't (women get a small screened-off section of wall to the far right).
These pious-looking types will just spontaneously gather and when they reach a quorum all sorts of murmuring and head-nodding will kick off, in orders of magnitude greater than they can achieve alone.
So the idea is that whatever you write on a scrap of paper and stuff into the wall will be read by God. I figured I might as well do so, and wedged my slip of paper in amongst all the others. Much later an Israeli said to me "So what did you ask for?" to which I replied "Wait. What? I was supposed to ask for something?".
This is the closest I got to the amazing mosque in Jerusalem, as just a little futher down the road there were eight soldiers with big guns who informed me that only muslims were permitted to go any further. Note that all these folk are men, and all are headed away from the mosque.
These pious-looking types will just spontaneously gather and when they reach a quorum all sorts of murmuring and head-nodding will kick off, in orders of magnitude greater than they can achieve alone.
So the idea is that whatever you write on a scrap of paper and stuff into the wall will be read by God. I figured I might as well do so, and wedged my slip of paper in amongst all the others. Much later an Israeli said to me "So what did you ask for?" to which I replied "Wait. What? I was supposed to ask for something?".
This is the closest I got to the amazing mosque in Jerusalem, as just a little futher down the road there were eight soldiers with big guns who informed me that only muslims were permitted to go any further. Note that all these folk are men, and all are headed away from the mosque.
火曜日, 11月 29, 2005
イスラエル五番目:イエス・クリスト
A place of hushed murmuring, candles and cold stone; site of Christ's sepulchre.
A place as holy as this, in a city as contested as Jerusalem, is naturally a hotspot of religious one-upmanship. I heard it operated on a kind of time-share system, where each respective sect gets to do their necessary ablutions in rotation.
Ohad told a tale of one sect barricading itself in and changing all the locks overnight. The police were summoned, but were powerless as they couldn't damage a protected building! Drawn-out negotiations led to a resolution, but it's an apt illustration of the constant sectarian tensions at work.
Depicted: The slab where Jesus was laid out prior to burial; The sepulchre; The roof.
A place as holy as this, in a city as contested as Jerusalem, is naturally a hotspot of religious one-upmanship. I heard it operated on a kind of time-share system, where each respective sect gets to do their necessary ablutions in rotation.
Ohad told a tale of one sect barricading itself in and changing all the locks overnight. The police were summoned, but were powerless as they couldn't damage a protected building! Drawn-out negotiations led to a resolution, but it's an apt illustration of the constant sectarian tensions at work.
Depicted: The slab where Jesus was laid out prior to burial; The sepulchre; The roof.
日曜日, 11月 27, 2005
月曜日, 11月 21, 2005
日曜日, 11月 13, 2005
イスラエル3番目:宗教の戦争
イスラエル1番目:死海
火曜日, 11月 01, 2005
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最近イスラエルで旅行しました。
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