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Oh, my dear, why are you so sad?
Oh, Israel, Israel!
The author of this film was lucky enough to live in this country for a few weeks.
Now, after some time, I would like to tell others about what we saw and understood here.
For many centuries, the Jewish people lived far from this land. Many conquerors passed through it, giving it their names and leaving fragments of their civilizations.
But for the Jews, it always remained the desired land of Israel, the land of Israel, the spiritual connection with which it has never been violated.
Perhaps this is the explanation of the mystery of the Jews that Mark Twain wrote about.
Egypt, Babylon, and Persia rose, flourished, and filled the planet with their glory.
And then they disappeared into the abyss of history.
The Greek Romans did not follow them. Many other nations rose, holding high the torch of their greatness. But the torch burned out.
The Jews saw all of them. And today it is the same as it was always.
The same unyielding energy, the same indestructible movement.
What is the mystery of the Jews? What is the secret of their immortality?
People from all over the world gathered here. And all of them brought a piece of the culture of that country with them to Djerdilis.
Do you hear them singing ancient Jewish texts? A Latin American motif. The father of the family is a foreigner from Mexico. His wife is from India.
They met in Paris, and now they live in Israel.
Probably no other country has such a diverse repertoire.
The favorite songs of the new repatriates are translated into Hebrew, and now the whole of Israel is singing a Russian kachusha or a Broadway song in the biblical language.
The street of Ben Yehuda. It is the name of a man whom hundreds of years ago many considered crazy.
He fought for the impossible, deciding to revive Hebrew, a language that people had not spoken for 17 centuries.
The work of this man was a miracle. The dead tongue has risen.
They say that the language of the soul of the people, Hebrew, is still the language of the Bible.
Instead of saying, I like it, I have to say, it finds mercy in my eyes.
This style of the ancient language has managed to clog up both the Arabic interweaving, the English slang, and the Russian swearing.
Modern Israel is similar to its own language. Where else can you find such a mixture of bustling and eternal, dreamy or great, such speed of culture, or culture?
This is the work of a man whom hundreds of years ago many considered crazy.
The street of Ben Yehuda. It is the name of a man whom hundreds of years ago many considered crazy.
This is the work of a man whom hundreds of years ago many considered crazy.
These tomatoes grew on a small farm in the middle of the Negev desert, and in a few hours they will be sold in Paris.
In Israel, there are two types of rural settlements, Moshav, a union of private farms, and Kibbutz, a collective farm, an island of embodied communism.
In Israel, there are two types of rural settlements, Moshav, a collective farm, an island of embodied communism.
The Kibbutz people are now in charge of the medical resources and the recently discovered Roman baths.
The crocodiles bathed not far from the place where Jesus, expelling the demons, drowned 2,000 pigs.
Fortunately, the refugees were caught in time, the beaches were emptied, the military grabbed the lake and the crocodiles were brought home.
Fortunately, the refugees were caught in time, the refugees were brought home.
The Kibbutz people are now in charge of the medical resources and the recently discovered Roman baths.
The Dead Sea. The famous salt sea of the Bible.
The famous salt sea of the Bible.
10,000 years of Yerechon. The most ancient city of the world.
Tens of times it was destroyed and was reborn again.
As if it grew out of this land, the most fertile in Israel.
In Yerechon there were luxurious winter palaces and Jewish kings.
Every day, Torah reminded the Jews who they were and where their home was.
Every year, in memory of life in the desert, Sukkot is celebrated.
In every country people put tents, symbolizing the tents of their ancestors,
which they took out of the Egyptian slavery of Moses.
Mea Shearim, the famous Jerusalem quarter of religious ultra-Orthodox.
It is very romantic here to observe the regulations of Judaism.
The image of life of these people is not different from the image of life of the Jewish community of the 18th century.
The ultra-Orthodox do not watch TV, do not go to theaters, do not read secular newspapers,
and for them, Hebrew is only the language of prayer.
They live by the regulations of their ancestors.
And at the same time, they carefully guard their world from the eyes of others.
Today, on the eve of the holiday, you can shoot. Not before us. There are more important things.
In Israel, you will meet all the levels of religiosity, from fanaticism to complete hostility to religion.
The visible embodiment of the law of Moses can be seen in the most unexpected place, for example, at the bazaar.
Jerusalem bazaar, Friday.
According to the Jewish religion, the new day begins with the sunset.
After all, it is said in the Bible, and it was evening, and it was morning, day one.
After a few minutes, the Shabbat will come, Saturday.
In the Shabbat, God commanded to rest and work, and it became a great sin to bargain on this day.
And now, on the bazaar, there is such a fuss.
Religious Jews are honking in the shofar.
This means Shabbat. Shabbat is the end of the trade.
And if someone did not hear or pay attention, it is not a sin to remind him one more time.
And this is a general bazaar shofar. Five minutes left. Prices are falling, the hype is unsatisfactory.
I do not bargain, and he does not lag behind. I told you that I will not sell anything anymore.
Well, Saturday began. Saturday morning.
On this day, in religious towns and neighborhoods, all the noise of civilization dies.
Fortunately, there are Arabs. They work and bargain on Saturday.
Israelis perform Shabbat in different ways. The religious part of the population does not go on this day.
They pray in the synagogue, go to each other for a Saturday dinner.
Non-religious people, resting in Shabbat, take advantage of all the benefits of modern civilization.
Public transport does not work on Saturdays, and food should be stocked in advance.
But there is a city in Israel where there is no Shabbat, or rather there is a Saturday, but there is no Shabbat.
The city of free trade, the city of foreigners.
Eilat, a famous resort on the Red Sea.
Before the formation of the state, there was nothing here except a border house. Today Eilat is an international resort.
The concept of the dead season does not exist. There are only five or seven cloudy days a year.
Eilat, a famous resort on the Red Sea.
The amazing underwater world of the Red Sea has already attracted many fanatical sailors.
The ships with a transparent bottom, submarines, and of course, the Eilat Submarine Museum.
Today, the shortest way of export of Japanese cars to Europe passes through the Eilat port.
And three thousand years ago, King Solomon led trade from here with the whole ancient world.
He traded spices, natural spices, and copper.
In the area of Eilat, copper was mined from the unremarkable times.
The National Park of Timna. The land is saturated with copper, magnesium, and iron.
That is why it has such fantastic shades.
According to legend, there were copies of King Solomon here. Hundreds of miners went to the depths of the earth.
Thousands of slaves worked, mining ore and continuously smelting copper in stoves.
Even earlier, the Egyptians mined copper here, and before them the Medianites.
At the foot of the famous Solomon's pillars, today you can see the remains of the temple of the Egyptian goddess Hathor.
For a long time there have been no goddesses Hathor or pharaohs.
On the memory of them, there is barely a distinguishable rock image left here.
In Timna Park, there are also geological wonders and historical secrets.
Maybe in the shadow of this stone mushroom, Solomon himself once rested, and in sorrow for his countless wives, he composed exalted songs.
King Solomon. Not in any other character of the Bible are the features of the mythological hero and historical figure so combined.
In Solomon, the Israeli kingdom reached the peak of its greatness. The borders of the state were stretched from the Egyptian river to the Mesopotamian river, and from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea.
At that time, the port city of Yaffa was the main sea gates of the country. Like King Solomon, it is associated with many myths and real stories.
Old Yaffa. You can not doubt that your Israeli friends will definitely bring you here for the first free evening.
On the memory of them, there is barely a distinguishable rock image left here.
In Timna Park, there are also geological wonders and historical secrets.
Old Yaffa.
Small cafes, workshop artists, cute crooked streets, rather an imitation of the old, than the old itself.
But it was here, 3000 years ago, that the trunks of the Lebanese cedars came for the construction of the Jerusalem temple.
From here, a biblical prophet of the Ion, the one who spent three days in the chalets of the whale, tried to resist the will of God.
Here Perseus saved the beautiful Andromene, stuck in a rock and given to the monster. They say that these stones are nothing more than the remains of that very monster.
It is believed that in this house there was a vision of the Apostle Peter described in the deeds of the apostles.
The knights Richard of the Lion's Heart and the soldiers of Napoleon went to the land of Yaffa.
80 years after Napoleon, the streets of Yaffa saw new, unusual guests, who came to become masters. After long years of exile, the Jewish people returned to their land.
The docks that had become stables, the docks that had turned into vineyards, these were the people obsessed with the idea of the revival of the era of Israel.
At the beginning of the 20th century, on the abandoned lands near Yaffa, a new suburb, Tel Aviv, appeared.
Thus, the ancient port became the gates to the new history of Israel. The writer Asher Bukhar left the description of Tel Aviv of that time.
Bama is exactly directly transferred from Kiev and Samara. On the streets they speak more often in Russian.
The fathers of the city gathered for a meeting. They speak, of course, in Russian. They drink tea from the samovar. The samovar is blown away by the shoe of the watchman of the city administration of Tel Aviv, a peasant of the Smolensk province, who accepted the Jewish faith and the Jewish name Avraham.
Since then, the city has been unrecognizable.
This is the conceptual art of Tel Aviv.
The city has no concept, because we are in Yaffa.
I have sympathy for the people who live in Tel Aviv.
The city has no concept, because we are in Yaffa.
I have sympathy for the people who live in Tel Aviv.
Cities grow on the sand. Cities go to the sand and return from the dead.
Kisaria, 2,000 years ago, the capital of the Roman emperors in Judea.
Prosecutors came and left, and hurried to attach the marble head of the new ruler to the statue of the previous leader.
Well, modern, although in the absence of criminals, it is rather possible to blame the disobedient Jews.
Fanatically following the strict law of Judaism, they never created images of God, and especially of people.
They also did not bow to their leaders, kings, emperors.
Therefore, they often inflicted many troubles on their heads.
Once there was such a case, which was described by Joseph Flavius in his book.
At night in Jerusalem, the statues of the emperor appear.
When the Jews wake up in the morning, they discover these statues, and several thousand Jews go on foot to Kisaria to show their attitude to the current governor Pontius Pilate.
Pilate announced to those who came, gathered here in Judea, that he ordered to cut into pieces everyone who did not accept the image of the emperor.
Roman warriors waved their swords, surrounded from all sides by the Jews, as if on command they fell to the ground and called out,
We will never break the law.
Shocked by this feat in the name of faith, Pontius Pilate ordered to remove the statue of the emperor from Jerusalem.
Yes, it is calm here today, and even festive.
The guys from the local kibbutz give a performance about the life of the king Herod.
And in those distant times, this place was cursed by the Jews.
After the suppression of the anti-Roman uprising, thousands of captive Jews were killed in the arena of the local theater, scattered wild animals on the path of the pagan.
The magnificent Kisaria was sick of the same disease that the entire Roman Empire.
A huge empire, tormented by the madness and luxury of the bloody contemporaries of the emperors, thirsted for salvation.
And salvation, or at least hope for it, came from here, from the Jews.
Qumran. Here, in the Jewish desert, in difficult times, idealists and truth-seekers left.
Here lived the Yeseans. The members of this Jewish sect were extremely peaceful.
They called themselves communities of truth, despised wealth.
All the good in them was common, and the work was collective.
They worked from morning to dusk, and of course not like these archaeologists.
For a long time before the appearance of early Christians, residents of the Qumran community professed ideas and customs that are surprisingly reminiscent of those that Jesus then preached.
The mysterious personality of Jesus can be perceived today in two ways. Either as a messiah, or as a Jewish non-reader who wanted to point out the lost path to God.
The scientific literature about Jesus is indisputable.
Nevertheless, our information about his miserable life, although no one can answer where he was and what Jesus did before he declared to the people,
I am not a beast. Whoever enters me, he will be saved. Maybe here, in Qumran, we will someday find an answer to this question.
The places that had a relationship with Jesus are marked with memorial signs and temples.
The wonderful Church of Blessedness was erected in the supposed place where Jesus preached to the people his famous hymn.
You heard what was said, Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.
And I tell you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, bless those who hate you, and pray for those who offend you and drive you away.
It is interesting how many true Christians are in the world today.
Those who live following the commandments of Jesus.
With the adoption of Christianity, European culture was filled with biblical images and stories related to the past of the Jewish people.
However, the European people did not accept the Jewish route to the Almighty.
They did not accept the Jewish route to the Almighty.
There were many people.
Ten measures of beauty were released from above. Nine of them reached Jerusalem and one to the whole world, the wise men said.
This city has always been a center of the universe for both Jews and non-Jews.
A place where the presence of God is the most open and clear, where dialogue with God is the most possible.
In the imagination of most people, Jerusalem is a fairy-tale, mythical city of legend.
Many of the non-Jews here thought that this is a real city, where real people live and work, there are houses, cars drive.
Perhaps this is what fascinates tourists first of all.
But even through the ancient life of the modern city, through asphalt and concrete, the eternal light of Jerusalem is penetrated.
A walk in the old city turns into a time travel.
In the era described by Mikhail Bulgakov, the master of Margarita, there are still restless sellers of water and the feeling of antiquity.
The feeling of life that has been rumbling here for 3,000 years is captured by the traveler.
It is possible to feel like the prophet Muhammad. He was a hunter of camels in his youth, only at an early age did he become a prophet.
Could he have assumed that 30 centuries later, his maybe direct descendant, having left his famous ancestor, will be a living bait for tourists to stand at the garbage gates at the entrance to the old city?
Through these gates, indeed, garbage was taken out once. It was a problem.
In the last century, the English artist, the founder of absurdist poetry, Edward Lear, wrote in this way, oh my nose, oh my eyes, oh my feet, how you all suffered in this disgusting place.
Or let me say, physically, Jerusalem is the dirtiest, ugliest place on earth. With all this, despite all this, in Jerusalem, it is enough that it makes a person think about life.
I am extremely glad that I have been there. I cannot compare any place on earth with Jerusalem by its amazing and inexhaustible stock of interesting things.
As for historical landmarks of the capital, thanks to the work of archaeologists, they are becoming more and more. And there is much less dirt and garbage, by the way.
Despite the fact that in the city you do not often see garbage. They were removed because terrorists were putting bombs there.
So the police girl has to check suspicious bags on the way to the crying wall. But there is no waste without good.
Riding in the city bus, we accidentally forgot the bag with the camera. We thought that everything was gone. And it would be gone if terrorists had not taught people not to touch other people's bags.
After discovering someone else's bag, the police girl's robot is brought here immediately. Then the street quickly clings, and the radio-controlled robot takes boldly to slow down the suspicious bag.
Thank God, the contents of the bag, as a rule, are completely harmless.
Jerusalem had a hard time becoming the center of three world religions. Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
Today, representatives of more than 175 religious sects live here.
Historians have calculated that in the struggle for the possession of Jerusalem, the city has moved from hand to hand 37 times.
The service of God has been going on here for 3,000 years. Probably even the city stones have learned many prayers and commandments from Jesus.
Try to get ahead of each other in good deeds, taught the Muslims by the Prophet Muhammad.
Love your neighbor as yourself. Soon there will be 20 centuries, as Christians say here. Do not do to others what you do not want to yourself.
Almost 35 centuries, the Jews say. For many centuries, religious ultra-orthodox wear black clothes as a sign of mourning for the destroyed temple of the Romans.
Today, only this western wall, the famous wall of the cry, stands as a memory of the great saint.
The walls pray to the Jews, and the small ones to the great ones leave notes between its warm stones with sacred requests to the Almighty.
However, it is time to go to work. Yes, it is a little hot today, although it is winter.
Here in Israel, you quickly begin to understand how relative everything is in this world and how weak a person is.
And this vision you feel when in the Gethsemane garden in Jerusalem you are shown the oil mills of the virgin of Jesus.
You were witnesses of the first act of two thousand years of drama, which we call our era.
In this garden, Judas kissed the teacher and gave him to the Romans.
In the street, Jesus carried out his cross in circles.
Fourteen pillars of that terrible procession are marked today with memorial signs.
Today, on this street of the cross, it is peaceful and peaceful.
The sellers of souvenirs are waiting for the buyers.
The water supplier is familiar with modest tourists from Russia.
Yes, they are the Russians who have been here before.
The Christian Catholics have taken an inexpensive and light-weight cross for sale. Now they are depicting the way of the cross.
There will be no dispensation, only a photo to remember.
Memories now for the rest of life.
And the freed from the cross will take to the starting point some Arab performing the duties of Joseph Kirinyanin.
Jerusalem is in miniature. On the shelves, the symbols of the three great religions are peaceful.
Everyone is waiting for their buyer.
If the street does not lead to the temple, why does it need it?
The street of Via Dolorosa leads to the greatest temple of the Christians, the temple of the Holy Sepulcher.
Soon it will be the 20th century, as the cross of Jesus was carried on the streets of Skorba.
The weight of that cross was then passed on to the whole people.
Hundreds of crosses on the walls of the temple of the Holy Sepulcher, the autographs of the Crusaders.
Only during the time of the Second Crusade, when the Crusaders broke into Jerusalem, the knights cut off all the townspeople, including the Christians.
Today, 90% of the Christians in Israel are Arabs.
But most of the Arab population of the country, of course, worship Islam.
In one place, only in Jerusalem, there are about 40 Muslim temples.
The famous Arabic saying goes, one prayer in Mecca costs 10,000 prayers, and one prayer in Medina costs 1,000 prayers, and one prayer in Jerusalem costs 500 prayers.
For the Muslim world of Jerusalem, Jerusalem is the third most sacred city.
Muslims believe that with the Jerusalem temple mountain, the prophet Muhammad ascended to the sky, wearing the
crown of his head, but having made sure that the Jews would not turn to his faith, he ordered the Muslims to pray in the direction of Mecca.
Three religions have been arguing for centuries, whether openly hostile, or peacefully living with each other.
But they do not agree on one thing. Here, in this land, in this city, the beginning and the end of everything.
The Jews, Christians and Muslims believe that at the base of Jerusalem lies the cornerstone of the universe.
The creation of the world began with it.
However, the Jews and Muslims believe that it lies on the temple mountain, and the Christians placed the cornerstone and the center of the world under the temple of the Lord's tomb.
And at the end of the day, when the time of the last battle of good and evil and a terrible judgment will come, the Messiah of God will come to Jerusalem.
Through this ancient cemetery, along this very road named the road of the Messiah, he will pass on a white horse.
Through the golden gates, the Messiah will enter Jerusalem to free the city of David.
Perhaps they are opposed to this, and maybe just so that the enemies do not penetrate the city from behind, the Muslims hastily sealed these gates with stones.
One way or another, there is no way without good. The Messiah's lies will not pass, and for the present, there are no winter obstacles.
Under the ancient Jewish prophecy, with the coming of the Messiah, the Jerusalem temple will be restored. That is when the ultra-orthodox will take off their mourning clothes and dress in white.
We will live, we will see. More precisely, we will live, we will see. It is said in the book of the prophet Daniel, and many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth will wake up.
Some for eternal life, others for eternal scolding and humiliation.
The dead will be resurrected and will follow the Messiah to the temple mountain, where the judgment will take place in the new temple.
The Muslims believe that on these gates Allah will hang the scales and will weigh the souls of the dead. What is to be, is not to be mentioned.
And while this donkey is patiently on duty on the oil mountain, not knowing who it may be, he will fall and be taken to the temple mountain.
How important and responsible his role is, what watch he carries on his post number one. The tireless tour guide recounts the scenario of this beautiful legend a thousand times, reminding tourists that life does not end today.
The tireless believer reads the prayer a hundred thousand times, I believe in the complete faith in the coming of the Messiah.
And despite the fact that he is slow, I will still wait for his coming every day to come.
Who will be the Messiah? The Jewish king from the family of David, or maybe it will be the second coming of Jesus or Muhammad.
Probably everyone recognizes his own in him, and he will be above the human disputes and disputes, and he will make peace with everyone, for the great words of the prophet Isaiah are said about the coming of the Messiah.
And he will judge the peoples, and he will teach many peoples, and they will put their swords on the aral and their spears on the garden scissors, and he will not raise the people to the people of the sword, and they will not learn to fight anymore.
And he will judge the peoples, and he will teach many peoples, and they will put their swords on the aral and their spears on the garden scissors, and he will not learn to fight anymore.
And he will judge the peoples, and he will teach many peoples, and they will not learn to fight anymore.
Here you are at home, do not hurry, watch as in the depths of the soul grows the cut through thorns, the tears will flow like poems, the Lord will forgive you your sins, and again you will be made of dust.
In the wall you lie down with your cheek, and listen to the rustling of peace to the dry soul, breaking the road, you are again at the eternal stream, you are again at the beginning of existence, you are again at home, thank God.
Here you are at home, do not hurry, watch as in the depths of the soul grows the cut through thorns, the tears will flow like poems, the Lord will forgive you your sins, and again you will be made of dust.
In the wall you lie down with your cheek, and listen to the rustling of peace to the dry soul, breaking the road, you are again at the eternal stream, you are again at home, thank God.
In the wall you lie down with your cheek, and listen to the rustling of peace to the dry soul, breaking the road, you are again at the eternal stream, you are again at home.
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