Faith by faith and money in cash - part 3

Israel - from the sublime to the Earth's (continued, part 3) When a Ukrainian hetman Ivan Mazepa sent to the Jewish people a gold plate as a gift, and she is still the Holy Sepulcher. At the entrance to the temple you can see the crowds of tourists of all nationalities, and to get inside, it is necessary to defend for about three hours in the queue. Before the entrance are "trained" "Monks thugs" and keep order. Once we have witnessed is not very pleasant incident, when a few of the Armenians tried to sneak out of turn, and between them and the monks even fight broke. For me was the biggest surprise of the fact of Israel - a multiethnic country. There are a lot of Armenian Jews, Circassians and Chechen Jews, Muslim Arabs, Christian Arabs, Bedouin, the Samaritans, Ethiopians, Jews, etc. Israel - a relatively young country, 80% of the local population - immigrants. Moreover, immigrants from all over the world, who mostly consciously returned to the land of their ancestors. Jerusalem - it is really the cradle of the world's religions. Have no problem finding a common language Jews, Catholics, Muslims and Orthodox Christians. Now live in Israel so many Ethiopian Jews. They are especially memorable to me because of its dull, slate-colored skin and beautiful facial features. The people walking a story about how on board one of the first planes sent by the Government of Israel to Ethiopia, luckless immigrants trying to make a fire, right in the aisle passenger cabin! But then they showed his best side, quick learning new things, and now it deserves its place in Israeli society. Also, for me it was a great discovery to find out about the existence of Chernobyl Jews. Garden, olive trees which have witnessed the betrayal of Judas in Jerusalem, we visited the Garden of Gethsemane, where there is still olive trees, under which, according to legend, sat Jesus Christ when he was visited by Judas to commit their treachery. Then we visited the Wailing Wall. Near it is always possible to meet the faithful Jews who invest in the cracks between the stones notes with references to God. During prayer, believers begin a prayer song and swing. From the outside it looks like crying, but in fact they do not cry, but the wall got its name just because of this feature. Near the wall a lot of chairs, many of them you can see the Tanakh (the so-called Jewish scripture). I've seen quite wealthy parents bring their children here to get them to think about what that actually everything in this world is entirely in the hands of the Lord. Women and men are separated by a partition, and pray separately. It's amazing that here the Jews pray as close to the walls of the complex is a mosque where the muezzin calls Muslims to prayer. Jerusalem Home of the material: Read more: See also: coin with a face of Jesus is released ... BC