The cross is over the grave of Father Abraham Shmuelof, who began life as a nice Jewish boy in Jerusalem in 1913. He sought peace in his new religious life, but in vain. The website of the "Kehilla" sums it up: "He is remembered simply as 'Abouna,' a dynamic presence not without contradictions, within the Hebrew-speaking Catholic community in Israel."Apparently he is best remembered for his recordings of the Bible. If you ever need to hear Psalms or any other part of the Bible in the original Hebrew, you can listen here.
Hello Dina !
ReplyDeleteNice scarecrow...
Thank You fore the link
Have a good day Dina !
I haven't seen a scarecrow in quite a while. It seems like I saw them a lot when I was a kid. I guess they are out of fashion
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talk about resourceful - graves and vegetables and plants and trees and scarecrows all residing in perfect harmony
ReplyDeletethe scarecrow was removed? i wonder why - how sad
ReplyDeleteWebradio, did you listen to the Hebrew?
ReplyDeleteRichie, this is the ONLY scarecrow I've seen in Israel. You are losing them in America too? Shame.
Good point, M.Kiwi. Yeah, I was disappointed today when I walked down to the monastery and found the scarecrow had left. At least we have the photo from a month ago to remember him by.
I hope y'all went to Paris to see Catherine's neighbors' Barbie doll windowbox scarecrows. So funny.
ReplyDeleteDina, this is a great answer to Catherine's Paris scarecrow! How modest your scarecrow looks! And what a great place it has chosen to protect! Just read it has already left Israel. Maybe it was feeling lonesome and went to Paris for visiting its relatives :)
ReplyDeleteHave a nice weekend!
Maria, very funny! LOL
ReplyDeleteI will not tell the superior of the monastery that his Brother Scarecrow might be in Paris and for dubious reasons. :)
Oh yes, going to sin city Paris might upset him :)
ReplyDeleteLOL, i'm still giggling!
If only Wigger world were still going. Tom would love this.
ReplyDeleteHello beautiful Dina.
ReplyDeleteEven the scarecrows seem religious in the holy land.
Wow hebrew speaking catholics-well we don't have any catholics around here that can speak hebrew the most we speak is latin.Thanks for this beautiful message from Jerusalem.
the scarecrow in Paris oh non non as opposed to oh la la. I don't know about the birds but all that plastic scares me, you can't hug a barbie doll.
shalom
Dina, the Father Abraham Shmuelof remind me Soeur Emmanuelle (who died a few days ago). She made part of Notre Dame de Sion, teaching Catholic faith insisting on its links with jew people and institution in the Bible. You cetainly know that particularity of Notre dame de Sion better than I know to express it.
ReplyDeleteOh! and I forgot, evryone has the scarecrow which one deserves.
ReplyDeleteReligious garden need something, ... humble, Parisian window-boxes, something less spiritual, because : "ca, c'est Paris!"