By: Jerry Lepre Herod the Great and Solomon the Wise and Antonio Barluzzi. Some of the Churches that Antonio Barluzzi designed that can be toured. Who is the greatest architect in Israel? Most would answer Herod the Great, who rebuilt the second temple. This was the very same temple that Jesus says to destroy,...
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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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By Jerry Lepre Church of Transfiguration: Sun-Fri 8am-noon, 2-5pm, closed Saturday and during services. Cost is fee During the Byzantine age (300 C.E. to around 600 C.E.) tradition began to associate Mount Tabor with the miracle of the Transfiguration of Jesus; the church theologian Origen (184 C.E. 253/4 C.E.) makes mention and supported...
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