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THAT YOU MAY TELL THE NEXT GENERATION THAT THIS IS GOD,
OUR GOD FOREVER AND EVER."                                        PSALM 48

 

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Explore Jerusalem's Soul

 
Are you traveling solo to Jerusalem and want every minute to matter?
 
Would you like to find the venues where you can quietly be transported back in your imagination to the time of Jesus?  To David?  To Abraham?
 
Are you a camera buff and would like to return from Jerusalem with a collection of stunning and exotic photos that no one else has?
 
Are you an ardent culinary adventurer eager to sample spicy Middle Eastern food?
 
"Gila's 2009 Guide:  Explore Jerusalem's Soul" will help you choose the most meaningful "off-the-beaten-path" sites to experience (or share with your fellow pilgrims if you are a tour leader) on your free day.  You'll have phone numbers to check opening and closing times.  Gila's very detailed directions will lead you right to the front door.  And if it's locked, she'll suggest how to open it.
 
"Explore Jerusalem's Soul" describes the top ten lesser-known churches worth visiting to give you an opportunity to sample Jerusalem's religious diversity.  Gila's guide leads you to each church when it's open, orients you to that particular denomination and its history and gives you a suggested reading relevant to the
theme of each church.
 
If you are bold enough to ride the public buses with the locals to some out of the way places, then "Explore Jerusalem's Soul" gives you explicit directions to reach the sites and suggestions for biblical study and reflection.  If you want to take advantage of every free moment in Jerusalem to explore its soul, Gila's guide gives you a funky suggestion of what to do at 4.30 a.m. and at 5.30 a.m.  Both are completely safe, yet exotic.
 
Gila's Guide:  Explore Jerusalem's Soul is full of up-to-date, insider suggestions to the top ten places to meditate on the Bible, ten little-known churches worth visiting, the ten most rewarding roof-top views and the top ten places for Middle Eastern food -- altogether 40 sites in Jerusalem that most tourists never visit.
 
Gila's Top Ten places to meditate on the Bible tells you:
  • The best place to read about Abraham's "almost" sacrifice of Isaac
  • The best place to read about the "Messianic Mountain"
  • The best place to read about Mary and Joseph losing Jesus after his "bar mitzvah"
  • Where to find a ring-side seat at the "end of days" to watch the magnificent spectacle of the resurrection of the dead
  • How to open the private garden of Gethsemane
Gila's Top Ten little-known churches worth visiting tells you:
  • Where you can walk through the "eye of the needle"
  • Where the "true cross" was kept for safe-keeping before it was lost in battle
  • Where you can hear an organ with Spanish trumpets
  • All about Veronica
  • The location of the "other" Upper Room
  • Where to find a collection of khatchkars
Wouldn't you like to see these places at your own leisure and know how to find them?
 

Nebi Samwil

Roof-tops in the Christian Quarter

Huldah Gates and the Messianic Mountain

     

Church of Mary Magdalene

John the Baptist

The Pasha Room

 
 
Gila's Top Ten most rewarding Roof-Top Views tells you:
  • Where 195 steps lead you to the best view over Bethany, Bethpage and the Mount of Olives
  • How Charles Gordon identified the place where Jesus was crucified
  • The one place in Jerusalem you can't go alone and why
  • Where to overlook the Valley of Hell
  • Where Richard the Lion-Heart shielded his eyes so as not to see the Holy City
Gila's Top Ten places to sample Middle Eastern food tells you:
  • How to find the best falafel in the Old City and the proprietor's recipe which will make your mouth water
  • The place with the longest line of locals waiting to buy a bowl of hummus
  • Where you will be dazzled like royalty, enjoy Middle Eastern hospitality and have dishes sweetened by orange blossom water
  • The insider place for Knafe and other Middle Eastern delicacies
  • Where to go to taste the lentil soup that caused Esau to sell his birthright to his younger brother Jacob
All from a guide who has lived in Jerusalem for 30 years and has taken tens of thousands of pilgrims to see Jerusalem's hidden gems.  Includes directions, history, phone numbers, Bible references and even tips on how to obtain the key to open locked places.
 
Pick and choose among 40 sites according to your temperament, time frame, impulse and imagination.
 

"Gila, I just downloaded your “Explore Jerusalem’s Soul” guide and quickly read the first ten pages of it. It’s EXCELLENT! And a heck of a bargain at $19.95 USD!" -- Vic Paladini, Sierra Vista, Arizona

Gila's 2009 Guide:  Explore Jerusalem's Soul is a 46-page downloadable PDF (Adobe Acrobat Reader) guide.  It's formatted so it's easy to take along on your trip to Jerusalem.
 

"Gila, the download looks GREAT!  Simple and informative..." -- Ron H., Chapel Hill, N.C.

$19.95 PDF Guide "Explore Jerusalem's Soul"

 

 

 
Payment is by Paypal.  You don't need to be a member or have a password to order by credit card via Paypal.  After you order, I will email you the link so you can download the 46-page guide "Explore Jerusalem's Soul."
 
(If you don't already have the Acrobat Reader program on your computer, you can download it for free here.)
See Bible Teaching Tools for "The Slingshot that Killed Goliath."
See Holy Land Resources for books and audiotapes to make your pilgrimage ever more enriching.


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