Yom Shabbat
Saturday
7 Sivan 5783
May 27 2023
As regular readers of OneIsrael know, we do not publish a blog on Shabbat unless circumstances warrant. Instead we offer a few photos for your consideration:
Photo 1. Inscriptions on Mt. Sinai?
Attention always turns to Mt. Sinai on Shavuot. The St. Thomas Research Foundation has once again posted inscriptions in ancient Hebrew dated to the time of the exodus, it says it found carved on rocks on the top of Mt. Sinai–the Mt. Sinai that they think they have found is on Jabal al-Lawz Mountain in northern Saudi Arabia near the Jordanian border.
Photo 2. The oldest depiction of a menorah?
Is this the oldest depiction of a menorah? Again, it evidently comes from the same site in Saudi Arabia.
Photo 3. And how about the golden calf?
Apparently the site in Saudi Arabia is covered with pictographs of cows and bulls.
Photo 4. Before the harvest.
Shavuot is harvest season. This is a lovely photo of a wheat field in Israel at sunset. This photo and all of the following ones come from the Israel Nature Photographers’ Association.
Photo 5. After the harvest.
The field after the wheat was cut.
Photo 6. Lunch time following the harvest.
Harvesting the wheat brings an easy dinner to this Israeli hunter.
Photo 7. More food as this raptor snags a snake.
A hunter’s paradise (photographer’s name on photo).
Photo 8. This potash is balanced on the grain.
Quite a balancing act.
On this note, we wish you a hearty Shabbat Shalom!
A student from Malawi, who had worked with an Israeli health volunteer in his country battling AIDS, came up to us as we walked down the street in the UC-Davis Picnic Day Parade and wanted to carry the Israeli flag.