On Tour with Ashleigh and Morgan July 28

Monday, July 28th:Group 8 spent the day learning about the Second Temple period in Jerusalem. They began at the Israel Museum where they saw a large and intricate model of Jerusalem from the period before 70 C.E. They also saw the Dead Sea Scrolls. From there they drove to the Old City, went to the Cardo in the Jewish Quarter and then toured a Herodian Mansion that has been dug up and made into a sort of museum. After lunch they went to the walls surrounding the Temple Mount itself, starting at Robinson's Arch, named for the person who discovered it. It was beneath this arch that the marketplace next to the Temple stood where people would be able to buy food and animals during their stay on Pilgrimage Festivals. From there they walked across to the Davidson Center and the Southern Wall excavations. It is at the Southern Wall that you can see the gates to the inner part of the Temple. From there they went to the Kotel, the Western Wall, for mincha, concluding their day of touring. This evening they took their group photo and learned a bit of Talmud with Rabbi Paul Freedman, former director of USY.