Introduction Temple Mount view from Mount of Olives, and the Mount of Olives itself. The Mount of Olives is a name from an era when the mount was actually covered in olives and olive press i.e. olive industries. I am sure, though that the Mount would look very different throughout the different ages....
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By: Jerry Lepre Welcome to Israel, known to most as the Holy Land; also the land of “wheat, barley, grapevines, figs, and pomegranates; a land of oil olives and date honey, (Deuteronomy 8:8)”. This is a Land where the people are raised independent; where the people of the Plains will be more prone to...
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By: Jerry Lepre Who is the greatest architect in Israel? Most would answer Herod the Great, who rebuilt the second temple that Jesus says to destroy this temple, and He would rebuild it in three days (John 2:19); also, Herod the Great built the city Caesarea, a port city that like Masada, defies Nature...
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By: Jerry Lepre Tu B'Shvat is a Jewish new year of or for the trees; Hebrew is like Latin in the sense that the letters can also act like numbers, so the TU in Tu B’Shvat is the number 15 and the Shevat is the month Shevat, so Tu B’Shvat literally means the 15th...
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Here I would like to present an overview of the Old City of Jerusalem, and before I start, I need to state the most important thing about the Old City of Jerusalem, which is that the City of David, the City that King David (Ir David) built, is NOT in the Old City...
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Jerusalem is heart and soul of the country, some people today, as well as in the past, called it the heart of the world. In fact, you will find that Judaism and Christianity both mark the center of the world in Jerusalem. The Catholic center can be found in the Church of...
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By: Jerry Lepre The north and the south, you have created them. Tabor and Hermon rejoice in your name. (Ps. 89:12) Mount Tabor sitting alone in the Lower Galilee; she straddles the Plains of Jezreel; cast her shadow over what was the main trade route for thousands of years in the ancient world,...
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