#23.4.2016

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23.4.2016

[mpi-lou]

im a professional stalker. like,i might be right in front of you, looking you right in the eye, thinking about asking you how was the trip to Italy you went 2 years ago, and you wont even have the slight-less idea that i know you. 

[gfsports]

¡Vamos!

[nataliesnews]

the Seder with Rev. david 23.4.2016

I also had an invitation to go to a seder in the desert but that was a bit much. The thought of  getting into a sleeping bag on the stony ground and then having to get up in the night for a  necessary moment did not appeal to me.  Also having to walk in the dark for that moment on stones.

  But I must tell you a strange story about that. My friend, Michelle, invited me to their seder but I was worried about taxis getting home afterwards. There too the story got convoluted as I was invited by a friend from Beersheva with whom I had been in Machsom to her family in Jerusalem. They in  their turn had met me a few times at demonstrations and also had contributed to our bottle collection for Mercaz Rachel and asked her  to invite me. They were also from Michelle’s area  but told me that their friend, Father David, an ex-south African would pick me up and also   bring me home. It then turned out that he was actually a Jew who had converted to Catholicism and had been at school with Michelle.  So I will be going to a very kosher seder in the company of a Catholic priest. And as my friend Yehudiet said a very Christian  act on his part to give me a lift!!

  23.4.2016   David is a lovely fellow. He picked me up and as we were a bit early we went and sat on the promenade and he showed me the Russian church down below which is where he said  he began his conversion. I am writing this by the way with his permission. He was 15 and had come with a group from South Africa of  schoolchildren. When he went back home  and told his family whom he said were atheists they nearly hit the roof. He promised them that he would wait until he was  25 before making a decision. When the time came he approached the church who told him he would have to wait 2 years before they would accept him and then when he was baptized he had to wait another 3 years before entering the priesthood. He is now the head of the diocese which includes Israel,  Jordan,  Cyprus  and  Egypt. Also told me that they run a centre for the children of refugees and for foreign workers. The Filipinos in their thousands form the largest congregation and he invited me to come and have a look as maybe I can help with kids who have problems reading. He said he had  been going  to the Cohens for about 20 years for seder. When he brought me home I asked if as an old lady I could kiss him….first time come to think ofit  that I have kissed a priest.

  It was a fun seder as they act out Moses in the bulrushes and all that jazz and everyone gets notes asking them to think of how they would have reacted to Pharoah and to other incidents. My reaction to the parting  of the Red Sea was that I hope Moses would not let down his wand. Yehudiet’s grandson pointed out that Moses is never mentioned in the Hagaddah and also for  the fact that innocents in Egypt had also suffered from the plagues…it  made me think that in all wars the innocents suffer…. When I have seen documentaries about for example the German population in 1939, those who did not actively support Hitler.  And I also   then I think of these times here in Israel where Palestinians suffer from the repercussions of the terrorist attacks of their own people when they would rather go on with their own lives however difficult it is and even in the face of the injustice they face…….the cancelling of the work permits of thousands for no reason whatsoever.The repercussions  which we will probably all suffer from our own  deeds and from the silence of many who are too apathetic or scared to stand up and be counted. And here in Israel those same people do have the excuse that they themselves are in danger if they should speak out as was the state in Germany. And as here many of those same people only woke up too late to what they themselves were being  dragged into.

  Oh well here I get into politics again.

  Natalie

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