LEAVING EGYPT OVERNIGHT HIKE – JUDEAN DESERT
14.04.2022
The night before Passover, fifty of our participants, including many new Ukrainian and Russian Olim from the war zone, hiked from Tekoa Dalet with our dear guide Yair, walked three hours in the Judean Desert, finishing 3 a.m. in Maaleh Rehavam.
We met them there with firewood, guitars, flour, and wate, made matzot on the Saj, sang, talked about Pesach and freedom. There wasn’t enough time to get to know one another, but sitting by this fire together and watching the sky lighten over the wide, magnificent desert, I felt that freedom is finding community, seeking meaning with others. Freedom is a value that the world learned through Am Yisrael on this very day 3000 years ago. Freedom is also Eretz Yisrael, which is gathering us to her and God-willing will continue to bless our personal and national paths.
Linda F.
The night before Passover, fifty of our participants, including many new Ukrainian and Russian Olim from the war zone, hiked from Tekoa Dalet with our dear guide Yair, walked three hours in the Judean Desert, finishing 3 a.m. in Maaleh Rehavam.
We met them there with firewood, guitars, flour, and wate, made matzot on the Saj, sang, talked about Pesach and freedom. There wasn’t enough time to get to know one another, but sitting by this fire together and watching the sky lighten over the wide, magnificent desert, I felt that freedom is finding community, seeking meaning with others. Freedom is a value that the world learned through Am Yisrael on this very day 3000 years ago. Freedom is also Eretz Yisrael, which is gathering us to her and God-willing will continue to bless our personal and national paths.
Linda F.
