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The three Abrahamic religions – Judaism, Christianity and Islam – are all connected to Jerusalem. They either evolved in Jerusalem or had much of their history associated with the city.

In this 4-5 hour walking tour, we will walk the four quarters, visit churches, synagogues and mosques (provided we’re allowed in), use all of our senses to see the buildings, hear the bells, smell the spices, taste the humus and touch the stones.

We will visit the Western Wall, the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, look at the Mosques on the Temple Mount, visit the Armenian, Jewish, Christian and Moslem quarters, and after about 5 hours come out of Jerusalem with an entirely different perspective of events than those we held coming in.

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The highlight of our tour in Ein Kerem includes two very unique churches, but walking the alleys of the village we can trully understand John at the village of his birth and childhood.

We start our tour at the Church of the Visitation which honors the visit paid by the Virgin Mary shortly after the annunciation, to Elizabeth who is carrying John in her womb. We are told about this visit in the gospel of Luke 1: 39-56 which according to tradition is where Mary recited her song of praise of the Lord, the Magnificat, known as the Canticle or Song of Mary.

On our walk to John Ba Harim Church we will stop at the house of Marie Alphonsine and the tree planted by Major General Charles Gordon both associated in some way with John.

On our way to John Ba Harim Church, the birthplace of John, we will stop at Mary’s Spring, which is the source of life of this village that has been there for more than 3500 years.

John Ba Harim Church (John in the mountains) was built at the site where John the Baptist is believed to have been born and raised. Like the event at the Church of the VIsitation that gave rise to the Magnificat, here too an important event took place. As told in the Godpel of Luke 1: 68-79 Zachriah, John’s father, regains his ability to talk once he writes the name of John at his Brith (when he was 8 days old and to be circumsised). Zachariah praises the Lord in what has become to be known as the Song of Zachriah or Benedictus.

The Dead Sea – one of the lowest point on the Globe – is very much alive. It boasts unique geological and natural phenomena and sites of outstanding historical events.

Among the many sites to visit are the Ein Gedi natural reserve, a subtropical biologic island in the harsh desert environment with some of the purest natural waters in the Middle East, Mount Massada and its story of the Jewish revolt against the Roman Empire, the site of Baptism in the Jordan river where John baptized Jesus, monasteries and more.
We will also float in the waters of the Dead Sea, the saltiest body of the water in the World, and see the sinkholes – a testament to the Dead Sea’s revenge, striking back at humanity for what people have done to the Sea, making the entire region unfit for any physical economic development.
This is a day tour that requires a car for transportation.

We always hear the HIS-story of Jerusalem, and in this tour I want to focus on the HER-story of Jerusalem, as there seem to be quite a few exceptional women that ruled, built and developed Jerusalem as we know it today.

The picture above (courtesy of Tamar Hardeny) shows Melisanda, with her three sisters and their mother. Melisanda was for two decades an exceptional queen of Jerusalem in the 12th century was one of several women who ruled, built and developed Jerusalem as we see and walk it today. With her on this tour are Helen the mother of Constantin the Great who converted the Roman empire to Christianity. Helen commissioned the building of several churches in the 4th century, among them the most sacred to Christianity – the Church of the Holy Sepulcher. Less known but not less important is Eudocia and there are many more of which we will only meet some of.

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Jerusalem - home of the 3 Abrahamic religions

In the Footsteps of the forerunner - Ein Kerem, home of John the Baptist

The Dead Sea lives

The HERSTORY of Jerusalem. The women of Jerusalem.